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
jong-un, duterte. these guys seem to, if not have an actual affinity for thugs, dictators and strong men, they certainly don t have an aversion to thugs, dictators and strong men. they don t vana version from making money from thugs, dictators and strong men. are these guys just peas in a pod here, is that the difference between manafort and donald trump? basically until we find out something more concrete. it seems to me dispositionally, both of them are not constrained by any ethical kind of commitments outside of the pursuit of their own interest. and, and what follows from that is that they re willing to, shall we say, push up against the lines of what s legal in pursuit of they are self-interest. what s interesting about this case, it s a documents case. we see underneath all the connections that would make i think donald trump go apoplectic. dispositionally they seem to be two peas in a pod.