then we beat the nra by having universal background checks and o outlawing high-powered machine guns. recipients of the documents request include people from the trump foundation, the trump organization and trump s businesses. also among the recipients? the president s 2020 campaign manager brad pascal, and the gatekeeper, allen weisselberg. the goal? to find the president s attempts to obstruct justice, what the committee calls abuses of power. the white house this morning says yes, it has received the committee s letter and will process it through the white house. he says the committee will work carefully and that means to slow
bigger than just personal profit? it s the notion perhaps, nicolle, that what you re covering up is actual assistance from a foreign adversary to assist the campaign and get trump elected. to me, that s a plausible explanation for people jeopardizing their freedoms repeatedly, lest be be labeled traders, at the hands of a foreign adversary. so this was floated to me towards the end of the year. watch and wait for them to say he was a businessman, of course he was doing watch for the defense to become the thing they denied because the truth is worse. again, they re not even denying because they ve now plieaded guilty to these contacts with russia. they now have this web this is a campaign whose defense to collusion is we couldn t collude with our press office. that s what brad pascal and jared kushner say when asked if
going to make suckers of us, we re going to withdraw from the world, we re going to build a wall, we re going to be america first, we re not going to use the old architecture of alliances we ve had since world war ii. i think if he has a philosophy, and i m not sure that he does, that would be it. but i think more than that his philosophy is personal survival. he views the other strong men in political positions around the world like erdogan and xi and even kim jong un as fellow heads of families in new york. i mean, his analogy is to the mob in new york. and he will talk to them. he will talk to his own personal family. i think if i were to tick off a list of the people on the inside right now it s stephen miller, it s brad pascal, who s going to be the campaign manager, it s jared kushner, it s ivanka trump, it may even be melania. it will be kellyanne conway, and that s pretty much it.
it s brad pascal, who s going to be the campaign manager, it s jared kushner, it s ivanka trump, it may even be melania. it will be kellyanne conway, and that s pretty much it. otherwise it s outside people and fellow autocratic leaders he s talking to. eugene, how does that line up with the reporting you guys have been doing at the wshtd wsht? well, it seems true. the reality is the last individuals who will be standing in the white house when this administration ends, whenever it ends, will be family members. it won t be some of these experts and generals that trump listened to and became acquainted with on television news because he values loyalty and these aren t people who have proven loyalty to donald trump. and it s very fascinating. when he announced these new replacements, singing their praises i think voters are now hearing him and not believing them with the depth that they maybe did once because they don t have confidence that these people will remain in the white house
shannon: when you call the number on your screen, you will be asked for a donation. which is not surprising, that is normal. you ve got to raise a lot of money. you have to raise a great deal of money. it is tough for billionaires to raise money, especially guys who say how rich they are. the president hasn t had trouble raising money before, and he will have plenty of money because republicans get that sweet, sweet pac money. the billionaires line up and it comes at a higher cost than their grassroots money because you have to make, promises and do things, but he will have enough money. what he is really trying to do and by the way, one a side, brad pascal must be very confident, because if you were his campaign manager, would you start in the first? shannon: short, the smirking guy from herman cain. he looks good here, and does not look like a smoker. a very distinguished. that is brad, because you are saying, this is my campaign and i am doing it. but anyway, what the trum