you here tonight is i feel like we are as a public, as a country are in this moment where we re now seeing a lot of evidence, a lot of serious allegations about potential criminal behavior by the president and we re all taught to believe that when that happens, impeachment proceedings follow. if there is compelling evidence that a president committed crimes while in office but in this case there is this law enforcement aspect of it outside of the i m peop of the impeachment process and i want to know should people expect there will be a law enforcement response to potential illegal behavior of the president or is that off the table? i think they should. the big thing yesterday is almost cultural. it s not squarely legal. what i mean by that and i m as guilty as anyone. i keep thinking mueller, mueller, mueller. mueller is the center of everything. wh what we saw with cohen and the real estate deal shows there is other investigations. there is a lot of potential law
katyal. the reason i wanted to have you here tonight is because i feel like we are as a public, as a country sort of in this moment where we re now seeing a lot of evidence, a lot of serious allegations about potential criminal behavior by the president. and we re all taught to believe that when that happens impeachment proceedings follow. if there is compelling evidence that a president has committed crimes while in office. but in this case there is this law enforcement aspect of it outside the impeachment process that is proceeding apace. and i guess i want to know if people should be expecting that there will be a law enforcement response to potential illegal behavior by the president or if we should see that as off the table? i do think they should. i think kind of the big thing yesterday is almost cultural. it s not squarely legal. and what i mean by that is, i m as guilty of this as anyone, i keep thinking mueller, mueller, mueller, mueller is the center of everything. what w
trump campaign is still unclear. the document also gave no indication whether president trump was aware of manafort transferring the data and didn t specify how kilimnik might have used it. we do know manafort and his deputy rick gates asked kilimnik to give it to the uen cran oligarchs, who financed russian-backed political parties. george vance, let me start with you on this, how can something like this potentially or could it potentially implicate the president more broadly having hired paul manafort, having him run the campaign, or is that connection not strong enough for that to be an issue? i think the short answer is we don t know. mueller likely has a lot of information that s not publicly available but it s pretty interesting to me manafort, whose best protection here would have been to tell mueller s team everything that he knew, that was his one guarantee of getting favorable treatment at sentencing, there was something here that was so important that he had to protect it.
get a lot more direct answers than before. and that is because as this investigation has unearthed more information and more time has evolved, more information has come out, more answers have been given and especially as i think we re about to receive some there s some indication mueller will come out with something some time soon, there will just be enough out there. i think many republicans, myself included, didn t want to jump the gun. you want an investigation to unfold. i always found very interesting now some democrats are asking should trump be impeached? and many democratic members are saying what republican members have for the last nine months, let s wait for the mueller report to come out. to answer your question directly, i think you ll get more candid answer from republicans but i think that will also be likely because more information has just come to the fold in the past several months. all right. we shall see. ryan costello, katty kay, julia ainsley, jeremy bash, jo
run the campaign, or is that connection not strong enough for that to be an issue? i think the short answer is we don t know. mueller likely has a lot of information that s not publicly available but it s pretty interesting to me manafort, whose best protection here would have been to tell mueller s team everything that he knew, that was his one guarantee of getting favorable treatment at sentencing, there was something here that was so important that he had to protect it. i think that certainly could have been other people who knew what he was up to. jeremy bash, what do you make of this manafort development? how important do you think it is in this broader context? we were talking off camera about other things you think play into this narrative this week. i think in terms of the manafort convenientment, look, if the information was public polling data, they wouldn t have to share it in the sensitive channel. they could have read it in the