Page 9 - Background Stuff News Today : Breaking News, Live Updates & Top Stories | Vimarsana

Most determined and the most civically minded voters. how do you convince them that the country is better than doing better than that. right now people are very cynical about this country and about what it's willing to do and whether or not electing president obama was a statement about what the country is or about a moment when the country tried to be different but really fundamentally is not different. so it's a big question. we'll have it again. thank you very much for being here. >> thank you. before we go, a quick reminder, my latest book "the man who sold america." trump add the unrave...

But you know, this is a chance, an opportunity at white house press briefings for the media to really ask those important, specific questions and do so in an orderly way, not with the chopper whirring in the background and the president getting to pick out who he's talking to. so, you know, it's a bit of give and take there. >> "the new york times" has reported that grisham has a bit of a checkered past, i guess you could say. this includes a plagiarism accusation, two duis, including one in 2016. that really hasn't stopped her from ascending to this role. what can you tell us about that? >> i...

Appropriate ever and certainly never a justification for attacking anyone with a baseball bat." "the post" goes on to explain based in part on extensive divorce filings, patrick shanahan's own behavior in the immediate aftermath of the baseball bat fractured skull attack including him renting a hotel room where he hold up for days with his son while police were looking for him. joining us now is aaron davis, investigative reporter with "the washington post." mr. davis, i appreciate your time tonight, this is quite a scoop. >> thanks for having me. >> so you mentioned that mr. shanahan had been...

Investigative reporter with "the washington post." mr. davis, i appreciate your time tonight. this is quite a scoop. >> thanks for having me. >> so you mentioned that mr. shanahan had been discussing these incidents with "the post," with you since january. it's remarkable that you guys have had this reporting project in the works for all this time while when he was not long ago confirmed as deputy defense secretary, this never turned up in any of the documents that were handed over to the senate. senators say they had no idea. this apparently didn't pop in any of his background stuff that was ...

Manafort's lawyer when he got out of court yesterday did not say as many defense lawyers do, we will appeal this, we have -- >> considering all his options. >> we are evaluating our options which indicates they're thinking about a lot of things. i thought for a long time that manafort is playing the pardon game in part because there's no other sensible rational to choosing to have two trials. it only benefits the government and so when you start to see donald trump's tweets and statements about you're a good guy and he's treated unfairly which mirrors some of the statements he made about other...