before the house oversight committee, and he will undoubtedly be asked under oath whether, whether he knows trump campaigns are involved with russia or not. is unbelievable. i m glad you pointed out something that i didn t really see a whole lot of places today, which doesn t take away the manipulation issue which as you say all candidates try to do. and that s why places like fox news, we don t use a lot of poles. we only use the poles that we know we can rely on in campaign. he couldn t even do it. couldn t get him into the first hundred and he failed on both accounts. and if you call 700 times, you move up the list. whether you call it rigging or manipulation, and say my guy or gal is at the top. michael:1. thought, i will run
against trump campaigns, former chairman paul manafort, who s in jail. what do you know? so there was a glitch in the court filing that was made yesterday that allowed us to read redacted portions of the filing. and it showed the special counsel has alleged that paul manafort reached out to a business associate and shared polling data about the 2016 election. the business associate constantine kalimnik described as a russian-ukraine political correspondent. he has denied connections. they say manafort is suffering from depression and anxiety, using a wheelchair, prison conditions weighing heavily on his state of mind and memory. they said manafort doesn t have the chance to review records and refresh his memory before his special counsel memories. it is fair to say that mistakes and failed recollections are common between the government and cooperating with its, they write, noet notifily no identifiable patter to mr. manafort s purported
ended the president was informed about that. so unless there s evidence that has yet to be released publicly or that i m missing, it doesn t yet take me to the president being a public liar in a provable abuse of office sense or a kol usive relationship between the trump organization or the trump campaigns and the russians. it s not a good day as a public relations matter but as a legal matter, which is my focus, i don t see where this is terribly incriminating of the president. i welcome that perspective. mark, what do you think of what michael s saying? you know, we were chatting a second ago. you say there s a larger issue at stake. well, i think michael s right. there s not specifics in the court documents that cite exactly where the president might be in legal peril in terms of actually lying. we have to also layer it, though, on this other issue,
actually as you just said and mia intuitive before we heard it, and we re getting all this sound. everyone is going through his archive, his record. he was talking about the appearance of impropriety. you have a president here who said what he wanted would be someone who would not be protected. that is an elicit goal in the first place. let s listen again to rerack to whitaker the new acting attorney general on why one should recuse. the reason he recuse himself is not because there is anything for him to hide. as it relates to the trump campaigns and ties to russia. as a lawyer if there is an appearance of impropriety, as soon as the outrage from the left occurred, he knew as a lawyer that that is an appearance of impropriety, because there are people suggesting he did something wrong, it s a conflict, he has to recuse. and what matt whitaker knows because it s been public is that many people in the public
two parties are very politically polarized between conservatives and liberals and, you know, one name that hasn t come up here is senate majority leader mitch mcconnell who is not clearly expressed interest in getting behind senator jim lanford s idea to reduce to go only 8 hours, why would that be? i think senator connell would like to have be able to use this sort of process if he s in the minority to block the democrats from running the government as well. remember, when obama was president, they did a lot of imposition of things of statutes, regulations affecting energy, finance, labor laws, trump campaigns govern comes in and rolls all of that back and puts people in bureaucracy, push ideas that are resisted by the democrats. you come with gridlocks here with appointees to the government.