and this adversarial country was trying to meddle. what i m trying to show is yes, the russians are interfering, why aren t we working together? why aren t democrats working together with republicans to stop this instead of trying to create it looks like an unending smear campaign will congress overwhelmingly vote for new sanctions against russia, including yourself, but wasn t it the president, president trump who has actually not implemented those sanctions? so talk to me about that effort. why is it the president undermined that effort that was collectively by congress to try to punish russia for trying to interfere in democracy of the united states? the sanctions and the objection from the trump administration are coming from secretary of state rex tillerson dealing with certain aspects, not with the cyber issues going on with russia.
michael nine with michael flynn. he may potentially have some documentation that could be very damaging to the president. how worried should the president be about michael flynn s cooperation? i don t think the spector of michael flynn will go away. he is someone who was there at the beginning of the campaign through transition into the actual white house. he was involved in all these issues. they should be nervous. based on what we know right now. and remember, he is still on the hook. he has every intention to keep cooperating. just because he is found guilty of one count of lying to the fbi doesn t mean there won t be
you could do it. it won t be effective. they probably already know every single answer. there won t be an investigator and ask one question too many and have the truly open ended. if they re curious people. the goal is to narrow down on what they already know. to box somebody in. it is very important to think about this. obstruction of justice may in fact be part of their inquiry. but they re trying to figure out why you are obstructing. what crime did you not want us to see, we can t just pretend it is what did you in the aftermath. the focus is beyond that. why do you not want to us look in the corner the of room? what is there, donald trump? . we think we might not a lot about this investigation and we don t. what mule and his team knows right now is a ton of information that is not widely known and will be used as they go to this next level.
and susan, what did you make of what the president had to say there, both in comments about mueller, confidence this is not going to land with any sort of revelation of collusion or any kind of wrongdoing? what did you make of what you re hearing? it would do the president well to remember that the investigation into president clinton was about a real estate deal and it ended up in a blue dress. you don t get to choose where an investigation goes. he may say there was no collusion and there may not be, but that doesn t mean there won t be other things come up. we ve already seen four indictments, two guilty pleas. so the president can talk about what he wants. he keeps saying it over and over enough, it s going to be true, but that s not the case. so ashley is exactly right. the white house team is very nervous. the president gets very uncomfortable every time there is a story about what mueller is looking at, and they should proceed very cautiously. listen, this is a battle
is meet to me with a president who has decidedly rocky relationship with the previous u.s. administration. talking about the president of the philippines. it has been an eventful time for the president to reduce size 10, 11 days plus as we continue to watch his arrival here in all the other big names as they make their way here. i should point out this comes after the rebels up in vietnam just ahead of course another gathering here another economic summit. this time the association of southeast asian nations and clearly we are talking a great deal about trade, security cooperation and increased economic ties in the region. this gathering is hosted by president duterte of the philippines, outspoken critic previously in particular president obama who you may remember chastise the philippine leader for his human rights record. the country s foreign secretary told me this afternoon in the past doesn t mean there won t be a bright future ahead for the two allies.