Page 14 - Post Election News Today

Back and give some perspective of president trumps predecessors and their handling of russia and its leaders and you look back at that moment. president barack obama sitting down with-out going russian president and what he told him he would be able to do post election. here is that moment. bring this into the conversation. >> after my election i have more flexibility. >> sandra: of course, that was the president saying this is my last election. after my election i have more flexibility. >> i re...

>> we ask that question in the media, and im wondering if that is the wrong question because you almost feel like the media predicates the importance it puts on a story on whether that 30% cares about it or want. if trump voters dont care about it, it is not important. some things are objectsively important, right? is the media doing too much excavation of trump voters feelings, and if they dont care, then the media says, well, maybe its not that important because it wont stop him from being re-...

Trump was, does anybody know him, does anyone know anyone who knows him and were really keen to try to figure out who this president was and how you would be able to work with him or figure out what he was going to do or who you needed access to to some sort of sway over him, potentially. this doesnt surprise me this was going on. what is surprising is the amounts people were willing, apparently, to offer to a person who had absolutely no experience and no real claim to be able to say, okay, thi...

To this whole thing? >> why are you surprised the russians would continue this? >> were getting more evidence from it. >> what im saying is that nothing has been put in place post-election to try and stop any of this. theres no look at it. theres been no serious oversight from the hill. i guess they would say there has been -- >> today the senate intelligence committee reported out and i read it in your paper inside pages on the a section, but the fact is they talked about 18 to 21 states that w...

Further. theres a lot we dont know t. is not clear, you know, we are not clear in terms of the sourcing that we have and exactly when he learned of the payment. we know it was well before the air force incident, you know, but my sense it may have been long before that. i dont want to go beyond what we know. the at time he denied it, he knew before. >> when we say months, he knew a long time before, it could have been before or after the election. you are not trying to weigh in on the about or po...

He said its entirely possible because i was making decisions in an environment where hillary clinton was sure to be the next president, my concern about making her an illegitimate president by concealing that we restarted the investigation bore greater weight that if the election appeared to be closer or donald trump was ahead in the polls. with you i dont know. what this tells me is hes a political animal here. hes already assuming hillary is going to win and hes conduct an investigation in a p...

Because i was making decisions in an environment where hillary clinton was sure to be the next president, my concern about making her an illegitimate president by concealing that we restarted the investigation bore greater weight that if the election appeared to be closer or donald trump was ahead in the polls. with you i dont know. what this tells me is hes a political animal here. hes already assuming hillary is going to win and hes conduct an investigation in a public way to -- i believe affe...

Because i was making decisions in an environment where hillary clinton was sure to be the next president, my concern about making her an illegitimate president by concealing that we restarted the investigation bore greater weight that if the election appeared to be closer or donald trump was ahead in the polls. with you i dont know. what this tells me is hes a political animal here. hes already assuming hillary is going to win and hes conduct an investigation in a public way to -- i believe affe...

Donald trump and youre afraid of a report going to congress and say, well, i have these midterms coming up, why dont i have mueller subpoena me? well go to the courts, let the courts decide it and in a year ill sit down and talk to him. >> youll be how fast an expedited appeal to the supreme court can get through. but i agree, he thinks he can play this out and play this out and play this out but eventually hes going to have to go. the scary thing for him must be that this report he is filing is...

Overnight. so, if youre donald trump and youre afraid of a report going to congress in, say, july and you think, well, i have these midterms coming up, well, why dont i have mueller subpoena me, well go to the courts, well let the courts decide it and then maybe in a year ill sit down and talk to him. >> youd be surprised how fast an expedite can get through. i absolutely agree. he thinks he can play this out and play this out and play this out. but eventually hes going to have to go. the scary ...