Point out that a lot of people called us the carrot and stick policy. They are getting the fable wrong, because the boy tied the carrot to the end of the stick and held it in front of the donkeys nose in order for the donkey to move ahead. He never had the donkey with the stick. One other point harris this donkey might get hit. Is that your point . Not with a stick, a baseball bat. One other piece of news, john kelly, the Chief Of Staff who was thought to be on the way out, calling him battle and Everything Else in the sun, the president the day after his one Year Anniversary of Chief Of Staff and asked him to stay on through 2020, and john kelly said that he will stay on as chiefs of staff. Harris in Case People Were Tuning in with regard to iran, not to make anything light, but the president has really gone tough with rhetoric, and now the opportunity, the timing, their economy is in deep trouble. He says that i know things are tough, maybe you have time to talk. Do not miss some of that, it is gamesmanship as we know. Great to see you, thank you. Meanwhile a key democrat is going after the president over the idea of meeting with iranian leaders. Congressman john marinetti, just on this program a member of the house Members Service committee saying we could have another helsinki. We saw what was happening when he was able to meet with putin without any preconditions and an open Press Conference, we still do not know what those two hours of private discussions were. He must think that he is a genius, because if he thinks he can pull off a meeting with the Supreme Leader of iran without any prior discussions, good luck. Harris more reaction now bringing in republican Congressman Darrell Xo of california sitting on the Foreign Affairs committee. Great to see you today, so you saw congressman who you may
know. Also from california, saying that to that this would be without preconditions, Secretary Pompeo says that they would work to do some things ahead of any talk. First of all, there are preconditions, the president has to meet with a decisionmaker, somebody who is really empowered to make a deal, otherwise it would not be worthwhile. And that is understood, we already have all kinds of work leading up to this including a failed deal and john, bless his heart, he is part of the progressive left, he totally thinks that we should still be in this unenforceable deal. So that is fine, he has a very intelligent man. He just happens to be wrong on the question of do we need a better deal and how do you get one, the first way you get one is you begin having a dialogue with the country since 1979 for all practical purposes has had no dialogue with the United States. Can realize if we want to fix syria and help the israeli Ed Palestinian situation and fix the carnage in yemen, we have to go to the source that is iran. Harris some Breaking News, forgive me as i looked down, this is read all over the associated press, Facebook Incorporated says it has removed 32 pages, accounts from facebook and instagram because they were involved in Coordinated Inauthentic BehaviorFacebook Says it is early in the investigation and they are looking at all facts, what is happening right now . It is a good place to start, they will end up with a New York Times being removed for their activities. [laughs] but the fact is there is a tremendous amount of deliberate, if you will false front activity. This may be specific to russia or some foreign entity, but i
and you say. Mark is a friend of mine, he has read into more detail than i am. Harris he said that he and his staff were just briefed on this. Vice chairman of the Senate Select committee of intelligenc intelligence. He like senator feinstein or democrats who put a lot of time and effort into this. I will take their statement as accurate. And there is no question at all, the evil empire may be smaller, but russia is still a doer of bad around the world and a supporter of bad things. Including, right candidly, go back to the syria iran situation, without russia, iran would not have the power to do what they are doing. There is no question behind the closed doors, we know that we have to continue to treat russia just like we did during the cold war, which means that you meet with them, but you trust verify every step of the way. Harris im about to invite one of your colleagues across the political aisle. I want you on the record, are you concerned about november and
the Midterm Elections with what we are learning today . You know, i am always concerned that the media, especially new media can be misused. We have had robo calls two decades ago that were false and misleading in president ial elections in the midturns. So i do want to see the efforts to make information more responsible, to be honest, if the candidates voices are heard, i think that the voters make good decisions. One of the problems with Campaign Finance reform for years is that the candidate has the least ability to be heard and the outside money and influence continues to grow. Harris that is interesting, i am reading senator warner along with the minnesota democrat, john mccain from arizona, introducing the honest ads act to prevent this sort of thing. Any other legislation that is cooking that you can tell us about . I think that we have to take the gloves off of candidates who take money and are recognized as
speaking with that money should be able to in fact get their messages out, so at the same time if he wants to stop the outside groups, i very much want to as i leave congress say that letting the candidates have more access is the best thing in the world. We need to get back to that basic that hearing from the candidates and not from the thirdparty groups is the right answer. I look forward to working with john mccain and mark warner and the others on sensible reform that would do that. Since i never have to run again, i think my interests are perhaps less criticize. Harris congressman darrell issa, thank you very much. As the news is breaking today it is great to see you. Brad sherman who like congressman darrell issa sits on the Foreign Affairs committee, great to see you today. This is big news with facebook. Your take on the 32 pages for that inauthentic behavior, what is being looked at that you know about . Well, russia is interfering and they are continuing to interfere. We cannot minimize it. I think that my colleague at first analogize these pages to the New York Times, they are not the New York Times. They are putin. And we have not sanctioned russia for its interference in our 2016 election. We have sanctions on them for their own abuses of human rights, but we have not done anything to stop them to make it plain and draw the Line In The Sand that they better not interfere in the 2018 election and in fact, that is what they are doing. Harris i was under the impression from reporting on what i have read that the sanctions were upcoming, is that not the case . We have not done it so far. We did not draw a redline in helsinki. And unfortunately on a party line vote, the republicans rejected Spending Money on Vote Tabulation security. So a lot of people are going to wonder whether their vote was counted in the United States. Or counted in st. Petersburg. Harris that is one element, but these ads, facebook saying that it is in the very early stages of the investigation. In the Coordinated Inauthentic Behavior. Still trying to get an idea of what that means going forward. Im hearing the words kremlin and russia, the vice chair mark warner had mentioned, he said, my team and i, his staff has drilled down on this, they have been briefed. And now this from representative adam schiff, the Ranking Member of the House Committee of intelligence could todays announcement from facebook demonstrates what we long feared that militia foreign actors bearing hallmark of previously identified russian influence campaigns continue to abuse And Weaponize Social Media Platform to influence the u. S. Electorate. One needs to be done in your estimation at this point . Does the federal government step in . There is resistance because we want freedom of speech. We want freedom of speech, russia, they have people that can switch to that right now, that is what the russian speaking with their own voice, admitting that it is russia. But when they pose as americans on facebook, it is up to facebook to get them off. But more importantly, we saw a cyber attack on the dnc. When we saw the theft of files from the Democratic National committee by russia, and russia has yet to be sanctioned for that. That is a problem. We have not drawn a Line In The Sand, but instead kind of embraced putin as an ally of sort, that is a problem paired with and we do not spend money on Vote Tabulation security, we endanger our democracy and weaken our country. These are the steps that the government has taken, and they are the wrong steps. Harris i dont want to go down the rabbit hole, but the file and computer, has all of that been made, have they been turned over by the dnc . In those democrats that said that they were hacked . I know that the dnc is cooperating with all federal investigators, so i do not think that you blame the New York Times, i do not think that you blame the victims of this cyber burglary. I think that you blame russia and a Foreign Policy that does not punish or deter russia or even insulate our Vote Tabulation system from further russian attack. Harris absolutely russia is a wrongdoer, and meddling might be too soft of a word for what facebook is finding out that they are doing now. Inauthentic behavior coordinated, but i ask the questions about the dnc files and Computer Files and what not, because it helps to be able to see what happened. For your time, i thank you very much for coming on. Look forward to coming back and talking about north korea and iran. Harris congressman, thanks. A heartbreaking scene in california, 16 active wildfires now raging across that state. Engulfing homes, destroying some of the scenic locations they are. A live report from one of the hardest hit areas. And it is day one in the trial of former Trump Campaign chairman Paul Manafort. Nothing to do with anything with the russia investigation. This has to do with him not paying his taxes paid and a whole lot of money, 60 million, stay close. The judge has a very strictly instructed no mention of Paul ManafortsTrump Campaign. This trial obviously centers on matters that have nothing to do with the campaign. Dont. Ill take that. [cheers] 30 grams of protein and 1 gram of sugar. New ensure max protein. In two great flavors. Mitzi Psoriatic Arthritis tries to get in my way . Watch me. mike ive tried lots of things for my joint pain. Now . Watch me. joni think id give up showing these guys how its done . Please. Real people with active Psoriatic Arthritis are changing the way they fight it. Theyre moving forward with cosentyx. Its a different kind of targeted biologic. Its proven to help people find less joint pain and clearer skin. Dont use if you are allergic to cosentyx. 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Facing 32 counts and an indictment including charges of bank and tax fraud, nothing to do with the russia investigation, peter doocy live outside the court horse in alexandria, virginia, clipping along, peter. Inside the courtroom you are not allowed to have any electronics, so information takes a few minutes to get out, but we got word that the judge
is hoping to have a jury seated as soon any minute. He said as soon s1 oclock, just a few minutes ago, most of the morning so far has taken up just interviewing a potential pool o, and part of that process is reading through a list of 35 government witnesses that would testify against manafort, and asking the jurors if they know any of the witnesses, the former Bernie Sanders strategist paul divine, but nobody says that they had a conflict, so we could get an Opening Argument in a trial that does not have anything to do a secret Back Channels to moscow and more with the secret Bank Accounts containing about 60 million that the irs never knew about. And then were discovered when the Special Counsel investigated members of the Trump Campaign. And even though Paul Manafort was only a part of the team for five months, he was present for some particularly interesting meetings to the mueller team
where russians offered up dirt on the clinton campaign, and thats kind of Association Open him up to scrutiny. Although, the judge in this case, Cs Alice Challenge the prosecutors back in may saying that he thinks that financial charges are just drawn up to put pressure on Paul Manafort to turn on trump and offer up some goods about rushing connection, but one of manaforts attorneys said that there is not going to be a deal like that, that 18 different charges that were read to the court today are all financial, they include falsifying tax return, bank fraud, conspiracy to commit to bank fraud, but no conspiracy about rigging an election. Harris peter doocy, thank you very much, we will bring the back as news breaks from there, joining me, john yu, Deputy Assistant general under the former
president george w. Bush, also a law professor at the university of california at berkeley, great to see you today, john. Was palmolive Paul Manafort sen time if the charges are against him . Oh, yes, harris, he is registered not registered as a foreign agent, and he could spend five years in prison, maybe more. Harris the witnesses that we know about, 35 of them, what are the things that did they would be asked to talk about with regard to Paul Manafort . If you look at the indictment to that muellers team filed, they are accusing him of tax evasion, may be money laundering, so part of that will be was manafort Hiding Assets and intentionally trying to move cash around to avoid the irs and the treasury department, what was he doing when he was spending millions of dollars on things like clothes and rugs and
houses . He was living a lavish inside the swamp lifestyle, but was he diverting the cash to other things . Harris this was not just a couple of years ago, this was not just before the Trump Campaign looked at him, and there have been many critics who support the president to say, you know, there needed to be a bigger team around the president. All of that aside, the types of behavior that you are describing are illegal with huge sums of money. So i ask you about the timing, the burst of investigation that we have seen since he was coordinated or working for the Trump Campaign. What do you make of it . It is a great question, harris, and it puts a spotlight on what he is really up to, because these charges as you say have to do with conduct well before manafort worked for President Trump. So if you look at muellers perspective, he is trying to
either put pressure on Manna Manafort much like they put pressure on flint to turn state evidence and cooperate, or they might think that the ukrainians are somehow acting in concert with the russians and they have a vulnerability with manafort and someho