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Speaker 1: Alex Wayne Are a white House editor for a Bloomberg News.
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Speaker 1: A shake up in the Trump campaign again, Right, go ahead.
Speaker 1: Paul Manafourt, the campaign chairman, resigned today, the day after
Speaker 1: Trump layered over some some new executives to to help
Speaker 1: run his campaign. Uh, and the day after damaging report
Speaker 1: was published by the Associated Press essentially alleging that Manaford
Speaker 1: had had violated federal law and the violation would be
Speaker 1: related to his work for a pro Russian party in
Speaker 1: the Ukraine. That's right, the the AP. Uh. It's interesting.
Speaker 1: The APE has been reporting on this story for a
Speaker 1: while and their leads have gotten increasingly aggressive. They sort
Speaker 1: of they sort of the previous stories hadn't really asserted
Speaker 1: that that Manafort had violated the law. They've been a
Speaker 1: little bit cagy about it because they don't think they
Speaker 1: were sure. Today's Today's story or the story that published
Speaker 1: last night, flat out said that it appeared that Manafort
Speaker 1: should have registers a foreign agent for Ukraine and did
Speaker 1: not tell us about this. In the context of the
Speaker 1: changes in the Trump campaign with the appointment I believe
Speaker 1: of Stephen Bannon, the had the executive from Breitbart News
Speaker 1: and also the polster Kelly and Conway as the campaign manager. Yeah,
Speaker 1: you know, Trump had had created this kind of what
Speaker 1: looked like a fairly unworkable leadership situation where where he
Speaker 1: had all of these people who generally kind of had
Speaker 1: campaign manager titles. So it makes sense that that one
Speaker 1: of them had to go. And since since Bannon and
Speaker 1: Conway are the new ones, it's not surprising that Manafort
Speaker 1: would step down. It's hard to tell how much of
Speaker 1: this Ukraine stuff influenced Trump's decision. I'm not sure he
Speaker 1: cares much at all about that. What is Mr Banion's
Speaker 1: reputation within the ranks of the Republican Party such as
Speaker 1: Paul Ryan, Representative and the leading Republican in the House,
Speaker 1: flamethrower thorn in their side? Um, he's he's a headache
Speaker 1: for establishment Republicans. He had he had reporters from his
Speaker 1: his News organization earlier this year go to go to
Speaker 1: Paul Ryan's home in Wisconsin and make a big deal
Speaker 1: about the wall that surrounds Ryan's house. Uh as kind
Speaker 1: of a ploy to pressure Ryan to to back Trump's
Speaker 1: proposal to bill a wall in the Mexican border. So
Speaker 1: he's not a popular guy among establishment Republicans. Well, this
Speaker 1: hurt Republicans who are running on the ticket with Trump,
Speaker 1: meaning congress people, congress men and women, and also senators.
Speaker 1: Depends on whether Trump loses. I guess he's uh, he's
Speaker 1: still well behind in the polls. I don't he gave
Speaker 1: an interesting speech last night, or he made this kind
Speaker 1: of vague apology for some of his pastorate marks didn't
Speaker 1: specify which ones. He didn't specify who he was apologying
Speaker 1: to apologizing to exactly, but it was It was definitely
Speaker 1: a change in tone from Donald from the Donald Trump
Speaker 1: we've seen previously. A lot of people think maybe this
Speaker 1: polster prompted that change. It's um, it doesn't seem like
Speaker 1: something that that Steve Bannon would have pressed for. But
Speaker 1: if he continues down that path, uh, perhaps he starts
Speaker 1: to peel off especially Republican too who have abandoned him
Speaker 1: for for Hillary Clinton. Perhaps they go the other way
Speaker 1: as as a new Donald Trump emerges in the campaign,
Speaker 1: just give you about forty seconds here. The Clinton campaign
Speaker 1: and the Clinton Foundation explained going on there. The foundation
Speaker 1: announced today that if Hillary Clinton wins the presidency, it'll
Speaker 1: stop accepting foreign in corporate donations. UH. This is supposed
Speaker 1: to mitigate some of the ethical issues that have been raised.
Speaker 1: There's a lot of thinking that that donors have given
Speaker 1: money to the Clinton Foundation merely as a way to
Speaker 1: cray favorite with the Clinton's I don't see it really
Speaker 1: relieving Hillary Clinton of those ethical of this ethical cloud.
Speaker 1: I think probably the only solution is to shut down
Speaker 1: the foundation altogether. Interesting. Thank you very much. Alex Wayne
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