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Paul Manafort And The Heart Of Collusion

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News, News Commentary, Politics

4.66K Ratings

🗓️ 18 February 2019

⏱️ 42 minutes

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Summary

Virginia Heffernan talks to Danny Cevallos, criminal defense attorney and legal analyst for MSNBC, about Paul Manafort and the theory that Trump is not the top of the Mueller investigation. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

The deputy attorney general offered to wear a wire into the White House.

0:05.6

The point of Rosenstein wearing the wire into a meeting with the president was what?

0:12.4

What did he hope to obtain?

0:14.7

I can't characterize what Rod was thinking or what he was hoping at that moment.

0:19.6

But the reason you would have someone where a concealed recording device would be to collect evidence.

0:26.7

In this case, what was the true nature of the president's motivation in calling for the firing of Jim Comey?

0:36.2

If you're talking about this as a coup, it is a coup that necessitates the involvement of half

0:39.9

of the people that Donald Trump appointed the cabinet and Mike Pence coming on board saying yes,

0:43.5

you should be removed from office. Right. We're a democracy. People enforce the law can't take it

0:48.4

in their own hands and was this an attempted bureaucratic coup? I don't know. I don't know you're

0:54.5

telling the truth, but we're going to get to the bottom of it.

1:01.1

Hello and welcome to Trumpcast, I'm Virginia Heffernin. So it seems that Andrew McCabe,

1:06.0

the former deputy director of the FBI, gave a tell-all interview to 60 minutes.

1:11.8

And he said the president was a sharp dude of high principle, a world historic wizard at leadership,

1:17.6

beloved of all for his kindness, openness, deep compassion, and steadfast moral commitments,

1:23.6

both to the constitution and to a meticulous personal code of conduct.

1:29.2

Okay, no. Really, McCabe admitted that the Department of Justice, while he was there,

1:33.9

considered the president catastrophic, an emergency, and his desperate presidents call for desperate

1:40.0

measures, McCabe said the crowd at justice discussed ways to bring the cabinet around to ejecting

1:47.1

Trump as non-composmentists under the 25th Amendment. So the 25th Amendment established as the idea

1:54.5

that the vice president becomes president when the president is dead. But what if he's kind of dead?

2:02.3

The amendment makes provisions for that. President Garfield's 80-day coma before he died, and

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