paul manafort was dealing with russia basically did you ask him to? we didn t really know about that. but, it doesn t mean just because we understand where they re coming from, doesn t mean they are not challenging for the president to remember exactly what took place and who did it. steve: sure, but, look, by putting out all those questions and, of course, of the way he answers every question, then there is a question tree. if he says yes. you go to this question. if he says no, you go to this question. it could take two days of testimony. 12 hours in all. nonetheless, i think somebody from team trump, you know, leaked this out. just to show that mr. mueller is out to get him. there s a trap. don t do it. and the president doesn t have to. brian: i just don t get that message. it doesn t look like it looks like. steve: it s a trap. brian: almost every lawyer looks at this and says if he is my client, he doesn t sit down for this. ainsley: right. brian: too much chance for perjury. i
something. it doesn t look like a selfie. it doesn t look like he says he took that photograph. and then he says in a statement that the photograph was not because it was like out of context or something like that. he is vehemently denying everything, which falls in line with your point. except that there s three women. it s the two ex-wives and then a girlfriend that he lived with who reached out according to reporting, who reached out to the ex-wives because he was abusive to her and she was asking them because they were the only people she could turn to who would understand. i believe the quote was, how do i escape it? it was like he could go from being the nicest person to a monster in a matter of minutes. that speaks to how people and kind of the silent suffering that a lot of domestic abuse victims suffer from that i think is so important, which is why shows like big little lies on hbo was so critically acclaimed because of this story line where you think someone is l
making things up. and so the fact they should give it a lot more credence than they would if it was something they overheard or someone made up some gossip. the other thing is that photograph actually looks like an official police file or something. it doesn t look like a selfie. it doesn t look like he says he took that photograph. and then he says in a statement that the photograph was not because it was like out of context or something like that. he is vehemently denying everything, which falls in line with your point. except that there s three women. it s the two ex-wives and then a girlfriend that he lived with who reached out according to reporting, who reached out to the ex-wives because he was abusive to her and she was asking them because they were the only people she could turn to who would understand. i believe the quo wate was, how i escape it? it was like he could go from being the nicest person to a monster in a matter of minutes. that speaks to how people a
that, you know, we re kind of going over the same thing over and over again, but steve king, the congressman from new york, had this idea on how the president can right his ship. i think it s important for the president to fire steve bannon. he should go. when he said the other day when he was saying he hopes the democrats use race as an issue, a winner for republicans, that to to me is exploiting the racial issue. that can t be allowed. petr king says fire steve bannon, but is that a real possibility? it doesn t look like the indications are that s not going to happen and of course for a variety of reasons there, but one thing you have to look at, if you re donald trump, from his perspective, strategically and politically, you look at the media empire that steve bannon basically holds sway over, do you want to fire him and then potentially set him loose to run that media empire again and run your presidency into the ground. there are a bunch of other factors at work. there a
president obama s measures? and that uncertainty is the reason why the obama administration, when they were working on this, trying to make it public and trying to tell congress, they want to make it hard for trump to come in and roll back anything that they do or roll back sanctions. so make it publicly hard for him. lindsey graham told you yesterday that 99 senators that s the thing, it s not just trump versus obama on the russian issue. it s trump versus certainly the intelligence agencies and the entire u.s. senate, a republican senator told me. it doesn t look like it looks like rex tillerson is moving into better territory than maybe when he first came out for his confirmation. that said, he s the one with the russian sort of shadow on him. so we ll see how his reaction plays into trump s reaction plays into tillerson s confirmation hearing. you mentioned this.