If Putin likes Donald Trump, I consider that an asset not a liability.

He is someone who was doing Vladimir Putin's bidding.

So to be clear, Mr. Trump has no financial relationships with any Russian oligarchs.

That's what he said. That's what I think obviously the opposition is.

Hello and welcome to Trumpcast.

The show about the man who almost one year ago wrote a wave of WikiLeaks,

emails, bots, trolls and fake news to victory in 2016.

And who's been deflecting questions about Russia's influence in that win ever since.

I'm Josh King, author of Offscript Hosting Today's show as we watch the first tangible images

of Robert Mueller's Russia probe, Phil R.T.B. screens.

The surrender to the FBI by former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort on a 12 count indictment.

We now enter a new phase, the end of the beginning or the beginning of the end.

On another front, the drums aim toward the White House are beating a new rhythm

as the voices of John McCain, Bob Corker and Jeff Flake,

free now to speak their minds with their political futures out of the equation,

also indict the temperament and the fitness of the man living inside its walls.

Meanwhile, the president continues to tweet, his press secretary continues to spin.

And those facing a re-election months from now reckon with how to straddle the fence

on an increasingly uncomfortable perch.

Which message wins out, the voices of fading mainstream Republicans,

or the voices of the Trump base, which upended Hillary Clinton's White House run a year ago.

Some of that future plotting may be coming as it did last year,

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