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Strategic focus was to try to warm relations and do a reset. it wasnt until after crimea they said maybe this reset isnt work, and some of the sanction they put in was after the election in 2016. it was a wash. was obama some sort of a hawk in. howie: they are saying the president should have come out and addressed the widespread choreographed russian attempt. the press thinks its the presidents rest rick which is fairly friendly to putin. emily: there is a lot of coverage of the rhetoric as the...

Howie: president trump drew media criticism when he slammed. the media, democrats and fbi and insisted he had been tougher on moscow than obama. fact checkers gave that three pinocchios but acknowledged obama didnt do much until after the invasion of crimea. and reluctantly signed that sanctions bill the by congress. jonathan: re torically its absurd to say trump has been tough on russia. but he gave ukrainians military assistance, and the notion of recasting barack obama as some sort of a hawk ...

The trump campaign, right up through that time when hes having the mad scramble to try to get his hands on millions of dollars in cash, he was in debt to russian interests to the tune of about 17 million including $7.8 million that he owed to a charming fellow named dapaska. right before manafort joined trumps campaign, manafort was in hawk to this guy for nearly $8 million. now part of this scheme that was described in yesterdays indictment is that sometimes manafort and gates would call someth...

Associated with shell companies associated with blah blah blah but disentangling it, what it looks lick from bank records, up until the time manafort joined the trump campaign, right up through that time when hes having the mad scramble to try to get his hands on millions of dollars in cash, he was in debt to russian interests to the tune of about 17 million including $7.8 million that he owed to a charming fellow named oleg deripaska. right before manafort joined trumps campaign, manafort was i...

>> certainly, thats exactly right. he has spoken in the past of other people in terms of their wealth. wealth impresses him. it means that this person is successful, this person can get things done in his mind. thats an inkdicator he wants t hire somebody. but to go back and look at that article from last year, the idea that paul manafort was working for free when he had money problems, why was he working for free? what did he think he was going to get being campaign manager for donald trump, wh...

Article from last year, the idea that paul manafort was working for free when he had money problems, why was he working for free? what did he think he was going to get being campaign manager for donald trump, what was that going to do for him given the money problems he had and who was he in hawk to? that would be the russians and some of the pro-ukrainian figures. that raises questions that make it about the russia probe and not just about his personal financial misdealings. theres nothing in t...

>> it begins to pierce the idea that the manafort and gates thing have nothing to do with the russia problem. whats playing in this indictment is manafort and gates were deep in hawk to putins ally in ukraine. they were in a desperate financial situation. and in the middle of a financial situation, paul manafort agrees to take a volunteer charge as head of the trump campaign. so the question is who is a person, defrauding banks, should become a volunteer in the campaign, what was this about? i t...

It seems for manafort whos 68 years old, you can stack up sentences that are life sentences. >> the penalties on fraud way stiffer than tax evasion. but the way it works in federal court as im sure you and lots of folks watching the show, theres a sentence guidelines range out there that gives a range for what somebody does. but the range for paul manafort is going to be in the double digits, its a long prison sentence, a long prison sentence for anybody. >> ron cliklain? >> it begins to pierce ...

Donald trump personally chose the finalists, not the judges. how about that for a scoop? >> as they often say, all roads lead to miss universe. jeffrey toobin, thanks so much. joining me now josh dawsey from the post, caitlin huey-burns from realclearpolitics. josh, you cover the white house, watch them like a hawk. when things delve into the family realm, when you start asking questions about jared kushner, when reports start to arise that the special counsel might be focused on that, typical...

Person next to you is working no jobs and on government assistance and earning more than you are which we have not been able to find that example. but the attack on the welfare state has begun. >> conservatives who wanted -- who knew the tax reform package was going to be deficit funded wanted some sort of deep cuts afterwards. the spending bill last week has made them furious. they talk about trying to sort of fire up their base with this welfare reform which is, you know, food stamps. theyre n...