The latest Political Developments of the day and interviews with top newsmakers are featured. Were not doing enough. Look at these five people. Heres the thing, john. There is a whole Cottage Industry of distraction folks. This is a distraction from x or distraction from mueller. Im not sure that was the case because there are a lot of fires happening now around this administration. The Robert Mueller, Paul Manafort, Special Counsel, Jeff Sessions fire series is one of them. There is also the election en r interference fire, big deal. I had conversations with folks on the other side of folks on capitol hill, both parties. One consistent theme i heard in relation to election interference, Leadership Starts at the top. I asked point blank, who do you talk to in the white house, who do you talk to in the administration . Nobody, we dont know who the point person is, we dont know what their strategy is. This is somebody who is at a high level over there. This seemed to be a way of the whit
you know, assessments to north korea to of course that moment none of us can forget when jaws were dropping at langly, that helsinki press conference when it looked like our president was compromised. there s just no question about it. something else in the new york times report, this happened in the summer of 2017. allegedly, one of president trump s lawyers also reached out that summer to the lawyers of two of his former aides, paul manafort and mr. flynn, to discuss possible pardons. the discussions raised questions about whether the president was willing to offer pardons for to influence their decisions about whether to plead guilty and to cooperate in the mueller investigation. talk to me about that, asha. i think this goes directly to what he just said, dangling this is obstruction. the president has broad pardon power. he can actually pardon someone, he can do the act. but to hold it out there as an
believe if only that existed, that s enough. what is of concern is if our focus of obstruction of justice may mask what i think would be high crimes and misdemeanors which is one word, right, helsinki. the notion and i think pretty provable at this stage that the president s allegiances are in question. and that is what that s why the obstruction of justice while important really are about this greater issue, which is the president continually supporting putin in everything from the, you know, assessments to north korea to of course that moment none of us can forget when jaws were dropping at langley, that helsinki press conference when it looked like our president was compromised. there s just no question about it. something else in the new york times report, this happened in the summer of 2017. allegedly, one of president trump s lawyers also reached out that summer to the lawyers of two of his former aides, paul
striking as you point out is, our top intelligence official doesn t know what happened and he can t be told. there is no way to interpret this it s not an oversight. the president hasn t had a chance to connect with coats and let him know what happened. he want it had to be a secret meeting. it s still a secret meeting even from the people who should be at the highest level of government to know what happened. that is an act of intent. what does one read in that act of intent on donald trump s part that he s still keeping this secret from dan coats and presumably others? i think this is why we had the series of announcements today because when i talked to friends either in government or out of government, current republicans who will just always vote for republican, that helsinki press conference was like oh, my god, is this a m manturian candidate? when you watch that press conference, everything that s been said about trump, you start to say, wow, what if this is true? we re ha
donald trump s putin summit has obviously yielded one of the most criticized weeks of his presidency. that s sure to bother a media obsessed leader. but there are reports trump thought he did well initially on monday and then his advisers and this ensuing media coverage moved him to walk back some of the statements. a lot of that we know. this week also marks something else though, the most high profile trump diplomacy, this big mission, since he has added someone to his team, former fox news president bill shine. fox was ground zero for hearing from the key players at the summit this week. note, both trump and putin went there for their first interviews. that means they entered an environment where the voices were largely pro-summit, or undercutting what was a lot of the rest of america s public criticism of that helsinki press conference. all this hysteria about this press conference. the president said, look, i could have said it better. i should have said this. and they act like