Asking for it skirts a line that may not be illegal. Accepting it is a whole different ball game.

that- if I'm remember correctly- Republican Congressional Candidates also reportedly used some of the Wikileaks DNC info dump material in their campaigns.

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And lawlessness.

I think most media is seeing this.

...other networks. I think Trump got owned.

and, instead, just let him show his ass

Sooner or later Chump is going to admit he silently listened in on the Russian meeting via speakerphone.

I'm actually surprised he didn't admit it today, but he can't wait to tell the next reporter. That's Chump's idea of owning reporters, as if he's the only one who knew something or he thought of it first. Chump was close to hanging himself today and Stephanopoulos just kept quiet and let him do it.

He could have responded, "Then you're ok with the Steele Dossier, right? And since you're ok with it, why are you asking Barr to investigate it's creation?

I find that George does this quite often in his show 'This Week'. He'll ask a question of a Republican, do a half assed follow up question (playing at asking the tough questions) and then just move on even if the question or the 'follow up challenge' wasn't answered.

That seems to be what he did with his interview of Captain Tiny Hands...

You've got it backwards. The fact that Stephanopoulos got Trump to make that admission was brilliant. The president just said he'd willingly take help from a foreign country to win the 2020 election. Stop and think about that for a minute...

Trump had every intention of saying he would take foreign help if it were offered and wouldn't necessarily call the FBI. It wasn't an admission cleverly prompted by Stephanopoulos. It's what Trump wanted to tell the world, and it serves him well to do so.

If Trump and his team hadn't been caught dead to rights by Mueller eagerly accepting Russian help in Trump's election, then, yeah, he would now be saying it's wrong to accept foreign help and the FBI should be called. But Trump isn't really "only" saying he would take Russian help in the future and that Wray is wrong about that being wrong. More to the point for him, Trump is cunningly implying that his and his team's past behavior wasn't wrong and, most importantly, that he never thought it was wrong.

Trump got that payload delivered. It's not great for him that he felt he had to go on the record saying something as nutty as what he said. But it's better for him that he be thought to have a ridiculous idea of the propriety of taking foreign help than it is for him to be known to have known it was improper and to have done it anyway.

But that's what he and his team did. They did something they knew was wrong. That's "mens rea." That's damning.

I believe you are mistaken. Trump is a delusional narcissist who has no idea what the Constitution and laws of the country require of the elected officials. Nobody but tump would have made such a stupid error. But it is only one in a long string of unforced errors he's made due to hubris and the support of a craven GOP Senate majority. One more step towards impeachment and indictment.

Who knew DT would actually tell the truth!?

He's trying to inoculate himself and (at least) Don Jr. by, effectively, lying and saying that he doesn't think collusion is wrong.

by a high school journalism student. He's been choking since Clinton's haircut at LAX.

Kept feeding Trump more rope, as it were, enough rope to hang him.

from the Iranians and Chinese? Why didn't he throw it back in his face? No way Trump would've said it would be okay for a Democrat to get help from a foreign power.

And it boggles the mind that actual lawyers are advising him otherwise.

spent with Trump. More of the interview is set to air Sunday at 8PM on ABC.