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This one is important. he was at the center of everything for that short period of time that he was on the campaign. but he really was at the center of it. he wasnt some peripheral figure. if anyone in the trump orbit has the capacity to collude with the russian government, its paul manafort. with the russian oligarchs and people close to putin. >> he was offering briefings to -- >> to deripaska who he owed a lot of money to. hes a very important figure in all of this. and muellers strategy work...

Everything for that short period of time that he was on the campaign. but he really was at the center of it. he wasnt some peripheral figure. if anyone in the trump orbit has the capacity to collude with the russian gfrkovernment, its pau manafort. with the russian oligarchs and people close to putin. >> he was offering briefings to -- >> to deripaska who he owed a lot of money to. hes a very important figure in all of this. and muellers strategy worked. mueller took old charges that had nothing...

Like several times. >> just imagine youre trump, jon. just -- >> yes, i do it every day. >> should have been the audio book. >> they should have brought you in for that. you read that quote. yeah, but -- sorry. >> we cant rule out that he pardons manafort, but i think hed want to see what happens first. >> impeachment. >> but ive given up trying to predict trump. this is a big development. but i dont think were -- i think democrats also need to wait and see. lets not get too far ahead of ourselv...

It goes. so far it hasnt made much of an impact in his standing in the polls however. >> jon, as far as his quiet manner is concerned, in your interview you said he spoke so quietly you were worried your tape recorder wasnt going to pick it up. >> thats right. we were sitting in an suv. there was a bag between us. and i -- i dont think ive ever had to do this where i am in a car and i have to hold my phone, my recorder like three inches from his face because otherwise the noise from the -- comin...

And i -- i dont think ive ever had to do this where i am in a car and i have to hold my phone, my recorder like three inches from his face because otherwise the noise from the -- coming from outside the car was going to drown out his voice. he was very soft-spoken. not a lot of eye contact. not a lot of smiles. yeah, so, pretty small personality in that situation. >> the mandatory reading tonight about the new republican front-runner in iowa, the political education of ben carson, jon ward, than...

Possibility that some of the right-wing folks in the conference are a little bit gun shy, you know, after the ted cruz shutdown gambit. there may be the atmosphere necessary for a bill, but i have to tell you, it still looks pretty difficult. >> right. sad times. but getting back to president obama, its almost a full year, jon, into his re-election and youve been talking about how difficult his presidency has been, specifically over the past year. if you compare it to recent presidents before hi...

Figure out, you know, how are they going to deal with that. i think as sort of things get worked out, as long as there are no more catastrophic problems, which is not out of the question, i mean, it could happen with price increases or people losing their insurance. i mean, that could happen. but as long as things go relatively normal, i dont see any kind of just bottoming out like you saw with bush. >> yeah, and theres a lot of cyclical aspects of that. jon ward, thank you for being here. >> th...

Thought. so people have talked about this a lot. the notion of they were kind of a fork in the road in the spring. do we want to run against him as a flip flopping phony or run against -- coreless, their pitch before, or do we want to cast him as a right wing radical. they seemed to and did make a decision to do right wing radical and one on throughout. i talked about david plouffe about this in may and he said were going do both when we have to. were going to say mitt romney there he goes tryin...

Lets bring back the panel. who started this politicizing of the courts, jon ward, who is to blame. obviously republicans are mad at president obama for acting like a partisan. you know, theyre shocked he is a partisan democrat. >> who started it? >> i mean, exactly. it is an age old. >> i think i was a little surprised to see his comments on monday. i think a lot of times my instinct is to say well, ill let wiser folks determine whether that was really as bad as it looked like to me, and seems l...

Executive order make some progress on behalf of american people, i think theyre happy its happening. >> presuming that the american people are paying attention. >> thats what i was about to say. everyone with no disrespect to my fellow now-ers, nowists, paying as much attention on this panel, theyre just not. the poll numbers with president obama, people are disenfranchised with this too much. he promised too much, hope and change and he got shocked to washington and it wasnt completely changed ...