mary tyler moore comes downstairs and asks her husband what s wrong. i don t know if i love you anymore. she goes upstairs and she s just there s something so moving to me about somebody who is so deeply repressed, cracking open. that s where the dam breaks. they gets struck by a truth she can t articulate. can t take it in. that s what that moment was about. then you look at some of these films of the 1980s, like ordinary people and like blue velvet. those films are explicitly about how things look are not the way they really are. you have to understand, this was when ronald reagan became president and the idea was that after all sorts of traumas, particularly watergate and vietnam, we healed, but as the public pronouncement is, we re good again, our movies are telling us, no, we re not.
to be called too publicly testified on capitol hill. that s according to people familiar with her thinking. so we will have more on this story later on this hour. this one does seem to be sort of cracking open. the deutsche bank/trump relationship has been sort of a flashing red light from the very, very beginninging, all of these investigates all reference illy turn into the follow the money investigations. almost all of the follow the money investigation seemed to find their way back to deutsche bank, and there s a op ed as well a this. but in general, this isn t the only thing churning. in general the day is turning out to be a busy day on the lie down with dogs/get up with fleas beat when it comes to this
now that this part of the story is cracking open, though, it is getting bigger and weirder almost by the hour. and the explanations we re getting from the people and companies involved are getting longer and more elaborate and more damning with each new iteration. so, for example, that detail about the $150,000 check that korea aerospace industries sent to michael cohen to essential consultants in november right after that company s vice president killed himself and their ceo was indicted in this giant corruption scandal, the news of that $150,000 payment to michael cohen at that time, it was first reported in these documents released last night by michael avenatti. subsequent to mr. avenatti putting that information out there, the washington post got to work trying to track down and confirm that part of the story, and a lot of other people had called them and initially korea aerospace industries gave everybody else who was looking for explanation a no comment,
history. right? but now the revelations that have sprung from the allegations about that supposed affair, that there was a business entity called essential consultants that was set up to facilitate that payment secretly, well, what s derived from that next piece of that story makes the stand of trees look like it s in a whole different kind of forest, right? now we re on to a financial story that pertains to the president, that pertains to his lawyer and this administration, and that pertains to the investigation into russia interfering with our election and the question of whether or not the trump campaign was in on it it. how did we get from the alleged affair to this really serious stuff? now that this part of the story is cracking open, though, it is getting bigger and weirder almost by the hour. and the explanations we re getting from the people and companies involved are getting longer and more elaborate and more damning with each new iteration. so, for example, that detail about