that s what they want to do. they don t want to focus on the key thing that the u.s. was attacked and donald trump and his associates interactions with russia before the campaign while this was going on. they just need to make it look messy. and get 15% to 20% look messy and get 15 to 20% of the public to turn off to it. indictments, my favorite line tonight, as was said earlier, indictments cut through distraction. malcolm, then in that case, reclarify for us again from an intelligence point of view, because it is not the case that there was just sort of an equal spraying of assistance to the democrats and republicans and russians were indifferent, if not according to the republican side more amenable to hillary clinton winning. from an intelligence standpoint, it s quite clear who they favored and what they did, right? that s ludicrous. this was reported on by the new york times earlier this year. u.s. intelligence had information that was collected by either our collections op
i m dismayed by is that it s one thing for people who are partisans of the trump administration or who are republicans and see it as a job to defend the president to say, you know what in this collusion thing didn t happen. what russia did was terrible. we as americans are against that. don t try to drag donald trump into this. don t try you re saying he was involved to understood cut his election. he won his election fair and square and what the russians did is something separate. i can understand republicans making that case. yep. if that s what they believe. what s started to happen now the white house in particular is really trying to get away with saying that the russians did nothing wrong and doing that at the same time that rex tillerson is dissolving the sanctions office in the state department. that the white house issi drags its feet for sanctions against russia for what they did in the election and protecting yourselves the department of homeland security, d.o.d. and o
say. and sara, that is the question as we get news and nbc confirming we expect an in indictment on monday, is who is the special counsel shaking the tree for? who does he hope to flip? who does he hope to fall out of that tree, if you will, to help him in his case? well, one name that we ve heard over and over again repeated in this context is paul manafort, that there has been pressure on people close to him, subpenaed. we have heard through reports that paul manafort was even warned by mueller team to expect an indictment. so it would be entirely unsurprising if paul manafort was subject. but we have no idea. we know there are a number of people. number of people providing documents. so we really could see just about everyone. but paul manafort is probably one of the likely figures that you ll see face an indictment. but not for collusion, but work he performed before joining the campaign.
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