Intervention in the election to tilted towards trump made him out of the notches. That enraged trump. The interesting and controversial thing is the involvement ofjeff sessions. He excused himself from the russia investigation because he was a key figure in the Trump Campaign and his involvement in the Firing Of Comey has raised a lot of questions and criticism from congress. He got flack for saying he had met the Russian Ambassador but had not mentioned it. Exactly. Lastly, trump dug his dug himself into a bigger codger mercy with a veiled threat to james comey that he might not leak because they might be tapes. That has set up a whole round of speculation about what kind of Taping System he has, good the comparisons with nixon get any more stark . You have Top Democrats in Congress Calling on him to release whatever tapes he may have. I think that this is getting very troubling andi that this is getting very troubling and i think, his credibility is under question. He has appeared to
This week a sacking in washington, a timely Election Leak in the uk, and Donald Trumps visits to the middle east and the vatican. Debating all of that are stephanie baker, from the International News Agency Bloomberg news, janet daley, Political Columnist with britains sunday telegraph newspaper, Jonathan Sacredoti from i 24 news, an israeli International News channel and Mustapha Karkouti from the dubai based newspaper, gulf news. Donald trump sacked plenty of would be Business Moguls on the Reality Tv Series the apprentice, barking youre fired to theirface. James comey received his dismissal as director of the fbi in a note. Getting rid of Tv Contestants doesnt have many consequences; sacking the head of the countrys key Crime Fighting agency when hes investigating those around you, well thats proving harder to forget. What was he thinking . He did not handle this well. He is not good at firing people. The messaging was incredibly messy. He tried it out and then various trump surroga
no one can totally satisfy a craving, quite like your wing nut. so the president is reportedly seething and privately referring to his former attorney michael cohen as a liar. cohen was sentenced to three years in prison despite word from the special counsel that he had helped with the russia investigation. all this comes a day after the president in an interview with reuters dismissed his campaign and transition s many contacts at least 16 by cnn s count as peanut stuff. phil mudd is here to break it down. phil, good evening. good evening. cnn has counted by our count 16 trump associate who s had contacts with russians either during the 2016 campaign or that transition including his son, his daughter, son-in-law is, campaign chairman and deputy chairman. it is the subject of a special counsel investigation.
according to the new york times. trump s commerce secretary wilbur ross was also an investor in the bank of cypress. it s the bank that former trump campaign manager paul manafort held accounts listed by the special counsel as part of an alleged money laundering scheme. vekselberg hosted an event answered by jared kushner and ivanka trump. the man on the rite, german kane. guess who his son-in-law is, alex vander swan. he reported to a low level security prison in approximate be pens on monday. test first person in mueller s investigation to be sentenced. he is serve thing time for giving false statements to the fbi over cooperating with witnesses. rick gates is cooperating with
over whether the trump family is profiting from the presidency. i m pretty sure we know the answer to that. yeah. the new york times reports jared kushner s family business, which he s not entirely divested from, get that, got huge loans from big companies after they had meetings, guess where, the white house. kushner, president trump s son-in-law is, of course, a senior adviser and is part owner of kushner companies. he stepped down as the ceo to take the position at the white house. the times reports he met several times last year with josh harris, who was advising the administration on infrastructure. harris is a co-founder of a private equity firm, apollo global management. in november, apollo lent $184 million to kushner companies to refinance the mortgage on a chicago skyscraper. apollo spokesman told the times, harris was not personally involved in the decision. that loan, quote, went through the firm s standard approval process.