And how the latest trump sneak attack on obamacare doubles as a brazen attack on the rule of law. Obamacare is finished. Its dead. When all in starts right now. Good evening from new york im chris haze. The president today gave russian president Vladimir Putin a major return on his investment in the 2016. Calling for russia to be reinstated in the group of leading industrialized nations currently known as the g7. Whether you like it or not, and it may not be politically correct, but we have a world to run. And in the g7, which used to be the g 8, they threw russia out, they should let russia come back in. Because we should have russia at the negotiating table. Russia was expelled from the group in 2014 after invieding ukraine and annexing crimea in violation of international law. Since then, russia of course has been waging an information war against europe and the u. S. , which included its unprecedented aid tack on the 2016 election. We know the president was the beneficiary of the attack. But we dont know whether he made any kind of explicit quid pro quo deal with russia in exchange for their help. If he did conspiracy with russia in to 16 those comments today pushing russian interests on the world stage are the exact kinds of policy reversal that one imagines putin has long dreamed of. Whether or not they had a formal arrangement the president is effectively clueding in plain sight with the Foreign Government that helped elect him. Kinds like that time he asked russia to hack his political opponent. Russia, if you are listening, i hope you are able to find the 30,000 emails that are missing. I think you will probably be rewarded mighty leighly by our press. The president is clueding with russia out in the open. His former Campaign Chairman according to Robert Mueller has been clueding in secret with a suspected russian agent today the special counsel surprising everyone filing a third superseding indictment against Paul Manafort adding new charges for allegedly conspiracying with a an social tied to russian intelligence to obstruct justice in the mueller probe. That associate, russian citizen Konstantin Kilimnik was also indicted today. Now the 20th person to be charged by the special counsel. In a court filing earlier this week mueller alleged that many of the and kilimnik attempt attempted to tacher with witness in an attempt to cover up for their work in a prorussian party in ukraine. The intended coverup continued thou to this past april according to mueller. Manafort, who is now under house arrest could end up spending the rest of the summer in jail before going to jail. Kilimnik has disappeared, fleeing where else, but to russia. For more on the significance of these new charges by the special counsel im joined by harry san deck and ken. Describe the two mens relationship for us. Kilimnik, he goes by kk with friend started with manafort back in 2005. He was recruited from the International Republican institutes moscow office, where he had been fired, actually, depending on who you listen to because of suspected ties to russian intelligence even back then. But when he started with manafort, he actually started as a translator and gradually worked his way up becoming sbe gratd to manafort integrated into many of thes kiev operati operation. Kk was very much involved in this effort that manafort helped fund and implement to essentially buff the reputation of vick forrian kovic on the world stage at a time when he was under mounting criticism from the u. S. And from our allies for both his pivot towards russia, his corruption, and his prosecution of his former rival timeshenko. Kk was pivotal in executing that strategy. This is the first time that we have an indictment by mueller of a russian associate of an American Associated with the trump campaign, right. Yeah. This is the closest it seems to me that we have come to the two parts touching. Up. Thats right. I think its significant in part because of that. People are going to wonder why is somebody like this a close Business Partner of someone who President Trump would pick to run his campaign . And to the extent that people are looking for, you know, collusion, to use the buzz word, not a legal term right. This looks like collusion, although it is collusion after the election in 2018. But here we have someone who is now in russia who probably isnt going to come any time soon to face these charges, having conspiracied with Donald Trumps campaign manager. Ken, its remarkable to me to consider that given the legal peril Paul Manafort is facing, he is wearing two ankle bracelets, staring a the possibility of dying in jail thats, according to whats alleged in the indictment in the complaint document, running around taling to sub on perjury and cover up and collaborating with a possible russian intelligence agent. Check czech my sources teal me that manaforts close allies are trying to convince him to stop doing this. This is not the first time that prosecutors have called him out for working with Konstantin Kilimnik since his indictment. In fact they monitored nukes between them that tried to place an op ed under a ukrainians name in the kiev post, a newspaper in ukraine essentially trying to spin manaforts work on behalf offian cove itch as somehow pro european or pro western as opposed to pro run. Special counsel called him out on that and said hey this is a violation of the judges order that you not try to try this case in the press. After that, which occurred last year, there were people around manafort saying knock it off, you dont want to be working with kk anymore. He on the radar of u. S. Intelligence. And here you are giving the special counsel ammunition for his case against you. Obviously, manafort ignored the advice. Have you ever had as a prosecutor, have you ever had a situation where you have a person out on supervised release engaging in this kind of activity . Absolutely. It does. That. It seems crazy. It may be crazy. You have got to imagine, ri if you are him, you have got to imagine like they are monitoring me, surveillingly, obvious has im not going to got away with it. The stakes are very high. They tell you at the moment you are released of the a judge or someone in the Clerks Office looks new the eye and says if you commit another crime while on release your bail is subject to revocation and you will winds up in custody. I have seen it. That. I can think of one case where someone was arrested driving 180 miles an hour on the george wash bridge. He went right into jail. You are not allowed to do this. You said people are telling him to stop. One of then is probable we list lawyer. Two things mueller has done, filed the complaint and the superseding indictment. Two ways to interpret that. They are ratcheting up the pressure and the other is they are exas per rated with this guy who wont stop breaking the law. Which do you think it is. Both, actually. They clearly want him in. This is done on the same day that manafort has to file his papers and opposition to the bail request. If you thought the government wasnt taking this seriously. They are. I think the lead story is that they need to convict him in order to cooperate. Hes clearly not interested in doing it now. They have signed up his soninlaw. They signed up his Business Partner and its not working they need to convict him. It seems clear he is not going to cooperate. What about kk, who has very interesting circumstances, fled from ukraine two russia. There is an allegation that essentially the ukrainians let him go as a tacit quid pro quo because they were trying to land an arms deal with the u. S. Government. Thats right. I mean the Ukrainian Government was really in a cross hairs of the Trump Administration partly because of manafort. Manafort was telling trump even during the campaign before he was sort of forced off in august of 2016, hey, the ukrainians are out to get you and they are using me in this evident to drum up this case against me to come after you. When trump was first elected there was thought there would be bad blood between the Ukrainian Government and the Trump Administration and this evident to essentially call off the dogs, to end investigations in ukraine of Paul Manafort. Right. Was seen as sort of an olive branch by the Ukrainian Government. And as part of that, Konstantin Kilimnik was essentially released told that he could go his own way. He went right back to moscow where he lives with his family in a house not far from one of the key airports there in moscow. And my sources the me, he is so unworried, i guess is one way to look at it, by these charges he doesnt even have a lawyer who he is working with right now. I dont think he is going to find himself in American Court any time soon. Ken, harry thank you for joining us. The president s Campaign Chairman was indicted today for conspiring with a suspected russian agent. The president himself was pleading russias case. He attended the g7 summit meeting with allies furious with the president over tariffs and other trade disputes. Before leaving he added fuel to the fire. Russia should be in this meeting. Why are we having a meeting without russia being in the meeting . And i would recommend and its up the them, but russia should be in the meeting. Should be a part of it. You know, whether you like it or not, and it may not be politically correct, but we have world to run. And in the g7, which used to be the g 8. They threw russia out, they should let russia come back in. Because we should have russia at the negotiating table. Joining me now, senator chris murphy a democrat from connecticut and member of the Senate Foreign relations committee. Letting russia back into the what would be g 8, do you think thats a good idea . Well, this is a pretty high roi for russian interference in the 2016 american election. They are getting a big return on their investment in that they have done absolutely nothing to deserve to come back into the g 8, in particular they have particular they have not moved one inch inside ukraine they got kick out because the g7 thought it was probably a pretty important principle to tell countries inside our club that you cant invade other countries. And that having been unchanged, they dont deserve to be back inside. But they paid a lot of money to try to get President Trump in to office, and they are getting their return on their investment today. Do you think i mean, what is your mental model or theory of that kind of thing . Do you think this is quid pro quo right in front of everybodys eyes . You know, who knows . I guess we are all going to wait to see whats in the mueller report. We will have a better idea of it at that point. Listen, he has gone both ways on russia. There are things that he has done that has been incredibly soft. There are a couple of moments where you thought he might be getting his act together in particular when he decided to transfer some weapons to the ukrainians. By and large, russia has gotten everything they wanted. Of course what they want in addition to being back inside the clubs is for the u. S. European Club to break up. This is a particularly great 24 hours for russia because not only is trump saying that we should just ignore what they are doing in ukraine and let them back in, but also this division between the United States and europe that continues to grow bigger and bigger, you know, that essentially predicts that our set of sanctions against russia arent going to be able to hold together either. And thats good news for the kremlin, too. What is your assessment about where things are with respect to the other g7 countries right now as we enter this summit . So its interesting. As i was talking the our european allies and traveling through europe in 2017, you know, they were freaking out. Their partner was literally walking away from the table. They didnt know how the deal with him. 2018 is different. The European Partners are just moving on. They have decided to make different plans. They set up a Defense Initiative inside europe where her going to start planning and procurement outside of nato because they are not confident trump is going to stay inside nato. May krone made it clear that if the president of the United States doesnt want to stay in, they will make it the g 6, they will make economic plans and long term strategic plans without us. Thats what i think is happening inside europe today is that they are just making decisions to do things without the United States. Thats bad for our economy. Bad for our national security. Its great for countries like russia. Do you think this is temporary . I mean the big question is me, is this a techer tantrum or even if you give him the benefit of the doubt a sort of clever negotiating tactic, he is going to blow things up and then they will come to some tariff agreement on dairy in canada and pose for a smiling photoon. What is your sense of how real the rift is. I think its real. For the duration of the Trump Administration its permanent. Really . I think thats why i spoke to what the europeans are actually doing. They are not just launching tweets. They are actually setting up new entities that are designed to go around the United States. They are doing trade deals with other countries besides the United States to hedge their bets. So they are betting that this disruption will last the entirety of the Trump Administration. And i think they are probably making a smart bet. Whats the to someone that says well fine let them do it, i think its sometimes hard to when you talk about the post world war ii order and all of these International Institutions and the u. S. Being at the center of it, yadda yadda, it can feel airy and abstract and remote. What do you say to someone who says let them do whatever they wanted. He is standing up tough forus even the they think the president is acting parly what does it matter either way . Lets think about it in two wears. First visavis russia. As our unified resistance to russias invasion of ukraine atrophies its going to be hard to keep those together if we are at war like this. It sends a message to autocrats that they can start to erase borders without consequence. Second lets think about the, et cetera there to the United States. That continues to be a terrorist threat that frankly is not likely to come straight from syria. Its likely to come through europe. So our counterterrorism operation and our communication with European Countries is probably the most important set of relationships to actually get safe. Information to keep us so as european Law Enforcement agencies are taking readouts from their governments that the United States isnt interested in cooperating any longer that actually makes us less safe in terms of that threat. So there are real practical consequences for the world and for us as this relationship starts to fall apart at the seams. 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Just hours after disdelivering his appeal to reinstate russia into the g7 he arrived in quebec giving the notion in a americas closest friends have become a nuisance. He complained Prime Minister trudeau is being so indig gnat. He has apparently grown tired with theresa mays School Mistress tone. The president will leave quebec tomorrow morning before scheduled sessions on climate change. A fact that may not mind tbothe french president. Joining me, evelyn park as who over saw russia as secretary of defense. And carolyn corn flu. Karen, let me start with you. Two ways of viewing this. I asked senator murphy. One of those tell per tantrums or negotiating tactics or are we seeing a genuine structural shift in alliances, which is it . I think it is the latter. I disagree with the senator a little bit because im not sure that the europeans can go it alone without us. I think macron is bluffing a little bit. The u. S. Is really the leader of this club. We built this club. And its really an own goal that we are sitting here blowing it up. And i think it takes a lot of nurturing to keep these together. The president seems to have this idea that we are supposed to make money in all of these clubs, to, the g7. Thats like thinking that you are going to make money in your neighbor. We are the biggest house in the neighborhood. We have an interest in a strong fire deputy. If somebody elses house catches fire it is bad for everybody and especially bad for us. Thats a good metaphor for these kinds of strateg