Make a deal with the president . Bernie sanders joins us with his take. And partisan investigation. How Intelligence Leaders split over the russia investigation with democrats pointing fingers at the Republican Committee head. I think the speaker has to decide just as well as our own chairman whether they want a credible investigation being done. Is it time for a special prosecutor . Plus, the best political minds will be here with insights on what happens next. Hello. Im dane erin bash in washington in for jake tapper and the state of our union is dysfunctional. President trump had a major fail to repeal obamacare crumbled. Republicancontrolled washington is in blame game mode as the president tries to look forward and recapture the momentum he lost after a brutal week. One member of the House Freedom caucus told me that the president was not focused enough on the details. This morning President Trump went after them tweeting democrats are smiling in d. C. That the Freedom Caucus with
We learned a lot about loyalty. Inside politics, biggest stories sourced by the best reporters now. Welcome to inside politics. Im john king. Thanks for sharing your sunday morning. If youre President Trump and looking for a silver link you have to think that this week cant be worse than last week. With respect to the president s tweets about alleged wiretapping directed at him by the prior administration, i have no information that supports those tweets, and we have looked carefully inside the fbi. And this was friday. I smoke to the president just a little while ago, and i told him that the best thing i think to do is to pull this bill and he agreed with that decision. Trademark to say the least that after the new republican president failed at his first big legislative test a republicanonly effort to repeal obamacare he blamed the democrats. I think the losers are nancy pelosi and Chuck Schumer because now they own obamacare, they own it, 100 own it. With us this sunday to share the
To expand his wardrobe, somehow spend 655,000 on landscaping for his house in the hamptons. It comes as no surprise for anyone who has watched manafort operate but of course the legal system will make the final call on that. Paul manafort is just the first in a series of people in dc who are suddenly in deep, deep trouble. Who is next . Reading between the lines of the indictment and talking to a number of our own sources we think we have a pretty good idea of that. Todays indictment never mentioned Donald Trumps president ial campaign or the 2016 election. It only mentions russia in passing even though russian meddlingly was the pretext for the investigation. Manaforts efforts to lobby on behalf of pro russia groups in ukraine. It goes into great detail on the relationship between manafort and two groups described as company a company b in the indictment. Those companies are mercury llc led by former republican congressman ben weber and the Podesta Group founded by tony and joan podes
justice and the mueller investigation. podesta s lawyer wasn t trying to inform us of anything but to threaten us, to shut down our reporting on his clients. one lawyer said the podesta have used this tactic with people before, it s to use fear. we re not to paint a pretty clear picture of exactly what the podesta group was doing for years here in washington. let the facts speak for themselves. we re confident the mueller investigation will be revealing a lot more about tony podesta s lobbying practices in the near future. for a summary of all this, here is the one sentence cliff note to the whole affair. the chairman of one major presidential campaign colluded with the chairman of the other presidential campaign to secretly enrich a foreign adversary. that the happened, that s the swamp they told you needs to be
that was a bombshell announcement from the fbi director james comey, and on friday we learned that former trump campaign chair paul manafort and former advisers roger stone and carter page said that they would speak to the house intelligence committee about the russia controversies, and we re back now with the panel. congressman zeldin, i want to start with you, as a republican. do you think in all fairness that the american people had a right to know before they went to the polls that this investigation of the trump campaign had been under way for months? well, the investigation that was taking place was with regards to there were successful hacks into the democratic congressional campaign committee, democratic national commit, joan podesta s e-mails, and, you know. no, no, no. the fbi said explicitly that it was the trump camp, any possible connection with the trump campaign and russia. right, but the focus the reason for the investigation, the focus that have