about russia, as his personal finances are not about russia. is donald trump wrong about that? well his finances are about russia. donald has been going to russia and doing business with russians since the 1980s, there are deals that don t appear to make any commercial sense whatsoever involving the russian, there s the ongoing effort by trump to suppress and prevent trial on the allegations involving the trump soho hotel and whether it was a big tax fraud, the money, the profits disappeared into an icelandic bank under the thumb of the oligarchs, and notice that donald trump is always attacking law enforcement, this didn t new. he was attacking anyone in law enforcement who went after him in the 80s and the 90s, mayor ed koch said trump should have served 15 days in jail. attach
everyone who then went up cooperating out of their own need. is that what they re looking for right now? yes. so michael flynn will be one star witness. paul month fort has got all these shady real estate actions with trump. you can be sure that mueller has all of the bank records from trump, manafort, everyone else who s involved. seen he probably is looking to flip manafort. plan fort was at this weird meeting with the russian operative with donald junior. he knows what happened there. he doesn t have the same kind of loyalty that trump junior might have. so it s going to be really interesting to see what happens at this meeting on wednesday. don junior testifies for the first time under oath. he s got to tell the truth. going to be able to ask specific questions about russia. it seems really difficult for folks involved in the trump administration to tell the truth, the whole truth about russia.
there s no question republicans would love for this to go away. for the most part what they re most concerned about is getting some bills passed and winning re-election. right? that said, i think that it s an open question whether this would actually go away. i think if trump fired mueller or the deputy a.g. and then mueller however that would work out, it would cause a massive political fire storm. i m not convinced that the washington press, the national media, democrats would let them off the hook that easy. and i think there s a concern among congressional republicans i talked to that this would end up just consuming months and months of kind of. still making it possible for them to advance their agenda. you would be among those that are covering it. you do have trump, his aides looking for leverage against mueller. you have this vote of no confidence from donald trump to jeff sessions. if he were to start i said gate
place that is going to be either embarrassing or lead to crimes. and so he s desperate. and frankly, the republicans haven t been all that strong. if they know what s best for them, i would suggest that mr. mcconnell and mr. ryan come out and flatly say if he fires mueller, they ll begin impeachment hearings. if he pardons himself, they ll begin impeachment hearings. that s the only thing to der ter him from moving ahead. if not he ll try to fire mueller and pardon himself. it doesn t bode well that republicans would send that kind of a warning to donald trump. this was on cnn. chris collins was on cnn on friday and he was saying that mueller actually shot stay away from trump. let s take a listen. i hope mueller wouldn t cross the line into tax returns and he should let go of the business things. the president is not subject to
he attacks koch. interesting he never attacked vladimir putin. he never attacks him but going back to the 1980s has had this sort of drawn to russia, and of course the 80s was when vladimir putin was still a kgb agent, and it s interesting, malcolm, what s being isolated now is we re getting dribs and drabs about what the investigation is about. right. the fbi apparently had isolated at least three individual sort of pieces of trump world they re looking at, trump s involvement in this soho hotel that david cay johnston just mentioned a failed development in new york he did with russian association, some have russian mobbish ties, the 2015 miss universe pageant held in moscow and trump s sale of a florida mansion he bought and sold for almost $100 million to a russian oligarch in 2008. what would the significance of that, let s pick one of them, the pageant. i wrote a whole book on this. you did. these are really easy things