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Cares. That itself was an interesting thing to watch at the time. President ial nominee absents himself from the Party Platform process. Interesting. But what was way more interesting than that, what was riveting and bizarre to watch at the time that we Couldnt Make Heads Or Tails of at the time was the Trump Campaigns one exception on the Party Platform. Even hope the they let this other stuff slide, that was very much not in keeping with trump and the campaign, they did decide to get up on the...

The latest Political Developments of the day and interviews with top newsmakers are featured. About it. Something directly has him spooked. But its caused him to make a tactical error, which is to come out and essentially throw his son and his soninlaw under the bus and say, yes, they were there to get dirt on hillary clinton. Okay. Joining jared and his son under the bus was jay sekulow, one of his last remaining tv lawyers other than Rudy Giuliani who may just have the tv part of that job. Let...

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Partys position on assistance to ukraine. >> manafort denied the campaign was responsible for doing so. >> everybody on the platform committee said it came from the trump campaign. if not you, who. >> it did not come from the trump campaign. i dont know who everybody is. >> nobody from the trump campaign wanted that change in the platform? >> no one. zero. >> republican delegates told national public radio that the trump campaign was involved in that platform change. we also know that russia exp...

U.s. policy stemming from opposition to his invasion of ukraine. and to the extent that manafort knows that and knows what people like michael flynn, donald trump, et cetera, et cetera, were doing in terms of bargaining and making promises to the russians during the campaign and during the transition, theyre going to be in some trouble around that. >> betsy, im glad youre here, too, especially on this story from politico. if you look at manafort and flynn and book ends to questions about conspir...

Youre here and im glad that youre here because i made a quick list, im sure you can make a longer one, of things that manafort could tell mr. mueller and his team about. the trump tower meet egg, the platform change, where it became pro putin, for the first time in gop platform change history. an offer to brief a russian oligar oligarch. hes been convicted of -- he was convicted of eight felonies. how useful do you think manafort could be to muellers team? >> i think narrowly useful. i think the...

Told npr the trump campaign was involved in that platform change. manafort also offering unconvincing denial when it came to trumps potential dealing relationships with russian oligarchs. >> mr. trump has no financial relationships with any russian oligarchs oligarchs ? >> thats what he said. thats what our position is. >> manafort was also in touch with a business partner maintained quote ties to a russian intelligence service throughout 2016. in terms of the potential areas here and we dont kn...

Not just the manafort trial. mueller isnt done with gates until hes done with gates. i have to imagine unlike manafort since gates was around after inauguration, he was around through that, he was around the west wing, he was around the white house. he was around the presidents kids, he was around senior white house staffers until the week before he was indicted. he has to be the person thats triggering, if not the president, some of the people around him. >> he was there at the start and he was...

Myself from any existing or future investigations of any matter relating in any way to the campaigns for president of the united states. >> all right. and what is certain to be an awkward exchange between mueller and the president, there are questions over the alleged order to fire the special counsel robert mueller himself. and finally, the fourth topic, its all about russia. the special counsel will want to know everything the president knows about that june, 2016 trump tower meeting and the p...

The key there is that the notion is that bob mueller is probing the platform change, and i will are say by the way as a political matter, and so we have been to our share of conventions, platforms are not typically considered the most important thing that happens there -- >> no, it is not. >> but if you are auctioning it off to the foreign government, it becomes more interesting, gene. >> that how you make a platform important and interesting is auctioning it off to the foreign government, and i...