want to enter a plea of guilty or whether you wish to go to trial in this case? yes, your honor, said pop develop louse. what is your decision? i d like to plead guilty, your honor. and are you entering this plea of guilty voluntarily and of your own free will because you are guilty and for no other reason? yes, your honor. joining us now, david frum, senior editor of the atlantic and joyce vance for northern district of alabama and professor at university of alabama law school. she announced on the evening before president trump s inauguration that she was retiring from the justice department after 25 years. joyce vance, i wanted to go to the particulars of the papadopoulos case. it seems to me this is the dead center of the investigation. this is someone who s been charged with lying to the fbi
parent. that s a change. that s a new one. that s always the objective. then it always gets hairy halfway through. let s talk about the forecast. today is a great lakes we have rain showers. snow showers. it s a little chilly. i wouldn t call it the worst forecast. it s not the best either. blue on the map shows you where the snow is. central michigan does have snowflakes falling. band of heavy rain. you can actually get lake affect rain. the case is here. cold air over the warm waters. not cold enough for a snow event. just heavy rain south of b buffalo. go throughout the day again, streamers hitting the lakes. most just rain showers. no accumulation for the snow. so let s get to the fun stuff. halloween forecast. you know, trees like this. i had one of these trees. the movie poltergeist where the tree comes through the window. let s get to fun towns. now i got their attention here.
guard last july when he tweeted his intention to reverse the obama era policy accepting transgender service members. then in august, the president signed a memorandum that required all transgender troops to be discharged by march. led to a lawsuit. yesterday s decision by a federal judge to block enforcement until the case works its way through the court. wrote the ban is not genuinely based on concerns. instead driven by a desire to express approval of transgender people generally. while the injunction allows transgender troops to join the military and relist does not funding for sex reassignment surgery. tomorrow marks six weeks since hurricane maria hit puerto rico. island is still struggling to restore power. contract with white fish energy is being scrapped among investigation. investigating the decision to
the cia. how does that look to the u.s. intelligence committee, the russian involvement for example. this is intelligence 101. the first thing the russians are doing is vulnerability assessment. for them the trump team is a target and determining what the vulnerability is. in this case it s easy. as dana was saying, the vulnerability is dirt on hillary clinton, whether it s approach to donald jr. or another advisor. they re going to say why don t you meet with, as we know, an attorney who spoke with don junior and then at the back end of this, there s a simple end of the story going to the departure of mike flynn to the administration. there s a cost to that kind of cooperation with the russians. we ll give you stuff but we want the relief of sanctions we know mike flynn left because of a a
papadopoulos pleaded guilty was also unsealed. and in that it lays out some of papadopoulos s cooperation, and the government said he had been providing what they called a roadmap into the investigation. they called it a roadmap and interestingly they called it a smaller piece of the larger investigation. i ll read, one of the prosecutors working for mueller, there s a large-scale ongoing investigation which this case, the papadopoulos case, is a small part. right. quickly. despite what you heard from sarah huckabee-sanders today, you can bet that the people who worked on that campaign are scrambling to try to figure out if they weren t the people, who were the people that went unnamed in the affidavit and indictment, who were involved in getting the e-mails and e-mailing one another about russia. he fills in all the blangs for him. they had an idea, they go to