as soon as i heard cpac had invited her.pac has not been covering itself with glory in recent years. last year they invited milo yiannopoulos. brian: why did you go then? mona: because i wanted to speak up to them directly. brian: what has happened since then to you? mona: i received a tremendous amount of support from liberals. i received a lot of support from conservatives who say i do speak for them, and that they are sorry there are not more. and i have received some angry, some angry, furious responses. but that happens. brian: anybody cut the column? mona: not that i know of. brian: when did you personally decide to be anti-trump? mona: it was not a decision. it was just, from the time that i was aware of him in public life, i thought he was a repellent figure. back when i was living in new york, i remember him parading on the tabloids his adventures with his mistress while he was married. i am still pretty old-fashioned about, about behavior. by the way, this is something that i hope to talk with feminists about, to s

the fact cpac invited her was a disgrace. >> you plan that? [laughter] >> not exactly in those words and yes, i have something to say. >> what triggered that? the knees of -- the niece of -- >> as soon as i heard cpac invited her -- last year, the invited milo yiannopoulos. >> why did you go? >> i wanted to speak up to them directly. received a tremendous amount of support from liberals. i received a lot of support from conservatives who say i speak for them and they are sorry. angry responses. that happens. >> anybody cut the column? >> not that i know of. >> when did you decide to be anti-trump? >> it was not a decision. the time i was aware of him in public life, i thought he was a repellent figure. [laughter] , in i was living in new york remember him parading on the tabloids, his adventures with his mistress while he was married. i am still pretty old-fashioned about behavior. this is something i hope to talk with feminists about. aboutshould be together what a proper way to treat women is. it should begin -- marry men -- married men shou

you are at cpac. let's watch.video clip] i am disappointed in people from our side for being hypocrites about sexual harassers and abusers of women who are sitting in the white house, who bragged about their extramarital affairs, who brag about mistreating women. rcause he happens to have an after his name, we look the other way. readys a party that was to endorse the republican party, endorse roy moore for the senate in the state of alabama, even though he was a credibly accused child molester. you cannot claim you stand for women. and put up with that. >> of this is a really interesting point. there has been this -- woman in the back yelling "it's not true. could you hear that? mona: i could. i should say my rough guess is 35 to 40% of the audience was with me and was applauding. but there were a good number of people who were livid and very angry, saying it was a witch hunt, that he'd been framed, that it wasn't true. they seemed to believe that. brian: how much did you think about that before you did it? mona:

this year for daring to call out her own party and president on the issue of values and morals at cpactive political action conference, and i spoke to her from washington. mona charan, welcome to the prime minister. >> thank you. so as a real conservative, i want to ask you what you are hoping for and what you expect in terms of naming the next supreme court justice? >> i'm hoping for someone who will not be a lawmaker. the supreme court has taken on far too many law-making roles and that properly belongs to congress and the president, and so i'd like to see a return to the more traditional and modest role to the court where it doesn't make policy, but it simply rules on constitutionality and fairness. >> so, of course, there are a lot of decisions that could fall into that, a lot of cases and particularly when it comes to anthony kennedy. he was always called a swing vote, but he was very reliably conservative and he was the one that put over the top citizens united and you know the whole idea of money and politics. we have the idea of gay marriage that he sided with and also, of cour

the nra is the largest sponsor of the elections in congress as well as sponsor of the cpac conferences. again, a little broken english from her but this was all part of this plan. it was an e-mail she sent to paul erirksckson. this was an infiltration plan. >> exactly. that was very savvy insight. the way -- the goal here was to change the republican party's attitude towards russia. traditionally hostile -- >> but it was sort of the john mccain view of russia is what they assumed all republicans were. >> and the way to do it was through the nra. who has more influence with republican members of congress especially than the nra. they spend more money, they're the most powerful special interest group. so the idea was butina sets up this russian gun rights organization to forge this alliance with nra members as a way of influencing the republican party. >> let's go back to paul erickson. >> yes. >> she's been now romantically linked with him. i guess they lived together in south dakota perhaps or shared some sort of -- >> right. apparently not totally willingly on her part but she felt t

abouthe during the 2016 election as somebody who kept showing up at conservative political events, cpacna prayer breakfasts, nra meetings, conventions. she met with nra leaders when they went to moscow and hosted them. and it struck a lot of people as odd. what is this woman doing here? she was extremely flirtatious. n contact to maint with a lot of influential republican lobbyists, activists. she had this very close relationship with this guy paul erickson, conservativ activist in south dakota. but what really got my attenti was the alexander torshin connection. alexander torshin, who you mentioned, was a deputy governor of the russian central bank. putin. a close ally of most importantly, he was under investigation by the spanis national police for money laundering. in facte he had th ties to this organized crime money laundering gang in spain. the spanish national police had him on wiretaps -- >> he was goingo be arrested. >> they were going to arrest him. he was referred to by the organized gang leader as el padrino, the godfather. they were all set to arrest him when he was going t

joining me to discuss, cpac chairman, matt schlapp. will ask you a quol up question to my questioning of chairman nunes. he believes the president should intervene and declassify information because the fbi and the department of justice are simply playing games with congress. and, you know, congress has been pretty impotent up to this point. what do you think? >> i like the idea. this whole question about russia collusion, the mueller investigation and what happened with the fisa courts, i think the american people deserve to see the straight facts. i'm not sure congress can get it. i think it's fair charge back to the executive branch. the taxpayers should know. >> they should know. it's been an ongoing battle where you have someone like tom fitton and people who have to go to court to get more than congress has. let's talk about 48 hours from now when the president gets on national television and announces who his pick should be for the united states supreme court. let me preface this with a number of thoughts. ronald reagan was able

through my role as children council and cpac i develop developed the deep understanding of the system in the key challenges we are facing. the challenges are an ec work force in crisis due to low wages and the challenge that san francisco families have to afford cave so that parents can work and the children are prepared for school. i am thrilled about passage of prop c. i have been works with the partners to identify the key questions to be considered in decides how the new funding should be deployed. it will play a major role in the consideration of questions and development of the prop c plan. i would welcome the opportunity to bring my expertise and experience to the discussions as a member of the keck. thank you for your consideration. >> public comment. any members of the public wish to comment please come forward. seeing none public comment is closed. supervisor yee. >> the last time we appointed somebody to the oece you was difficult also. having so many good decisions to make or good possibilities. i don't know what it is, one of these days it will get easier. i know what is

i think they're referring to the nra, and a cosponsor of the cpac conference and other events.as trying to make inroads. i understand that you don't find her memorable, but are you concerned about the midterms, has the trump administration taken nef measures to stop the infiltration? >> i think it is a big mistake that obama didn't try to stop it. >> i believe that mike pom may owe, jeff sessions, and the team will do everything they can to make sure the russians don't have an impact on our our elections. they never got into our voting systems, you have to give them high marks for creating that chaos. >> i would give putin's government high marks for creating chaos if you look at the fact that it resulted in a special council and we're all still talking about it -- >> that's the part that you think is most chaotic? >> yes, i think what is most chaotic is the russian government tries to. >> that is what you object to the most? not everything that happened with facebook? not all of the -- >> i have a problem with all of it let's look at what they did and the money they spent. aft

joining us right now, matt from cpac and the american conservative union, chris stirewalt and jessica tarlov, author of "america in the age of trump" and a fox news contributor. good to have you here. >> thanks. >> trish: goodness. it's been quite a week. quite a week. you know, when you look back over the course of events beginning monday, of course, with the press conference in helsinki and fast forwarding 24 hours later to the president saying i misspoke and now he's inviting vladimir putin here to the states. do you think he's going to push forward on to something new and different next week or how much is the media going to get entrenched in this story that they're running with right now? >> michael cohen helped him out. >> trish: yeah, we'll get to that. >> on that one. that will be a little palate cleanser. a story like this is like when a python eat as rabbit, it -- you can see it moving through the system as it goes along. that's the way this is. it will depend on how the administration can finally stop correcting the record. they have to get to a place, figure out what they'

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she cozied up to powerful republicans attending campaign events and the cpac conference.events after establishing a gun rights group in moscow call right to bear arms. she hosted american gun enthusiasts in russia. one delegation included david clark. she began a romantic relationship with paul ericson of south dakota, a gop based operative 27 years her senior. in private communications, her moscow handler compared her to anna chapman arrested in the u.s. in 2010. the justice department has convinced the judge that she's a severe flight risk. shep? >> shepard: jen, thank you. let's turn to emily compagno. how serious are these changes against butina? >> they're extremely serious. the government in the court filing was clear this is not a sole subject investigation. the government said after this arrest, we will return to our investigation meaning there's multiple subjects. so it's important for viewers to understand that to stay tuned. because more will be revealed as well as potentially identification of these additional subjects. >> shepard: the details i thought were i

she attended campaign events and cpac.he hosted american gun enthusiasts in russia going back to 2013. one delegation included milwaukee sheriff david clark. she began a romantic relationship with paul erickson, a south dakota-based g.o.p. operative. butina's lawyer said the 29-year-old was simply a grad student at american university, adding his client did not flee after the fbi raided her apartment on april 25th, week after she testified behind closed doors in front of the senate select intelligence committee investigating russian election meddling. the top democrat on the house select intelligence committees has republicans on his committee blocked them from issuing subpoenas to erickson and butin butina. >> we, for example, have paul erickson on our list to be brought in. he was somebody who engaged in correspondence about using the nra as a back channel to the russians. we were not permitted by the g.o.p. in the intel committee to do that work. >> butina's next court hearing is next tuesday. bret. >> bret: jennifer gr

write in the book, she surprised a lot of people because she kept showing up at nra conventions, at cpacnces, at national prayer breakfasts and there were a number of people who kept wondering why is this woman always here? what is she after? is a republican lobbyist who she was sort of coming onto and this lobbyist was wondering what's going on here? why is this russian woman trying to befriend me in being so solicitous? >> martha: i wonder why! i wonder what she might possibly want! >> there's a serious part to the story, and out as her handler, her boss, and that's that guy alexander. he is a russian central banker, deputy governor. a high-level official in putin's party. and an accused money launderer. the spanish national police had wiretaps on him talking to the head of a russian organized crime gang leader in spain in which the leader is talking about him as el padrino. he's the real target. >> martha: he's the guy in the picture. good to see you. new jersey senator bob menendez has been plagued by scandal and now his new jersey senate race is looking like it could actually become

her efforts to infiltration the nra, cpac and the national prayer breakfast had been underway the past four years. she entered object a student visa to study at american university in washington d.c., not far from the russian embassy. she cozied up to powerful republican circles. in 2013, she began attending nra events after establishing a gun right's group in moscow. one delegation included david clark from milwaukee. she began a romantic relationship with paul ericson who was 27 years her senior. she complained to her moscow handler about having to co-habit with this american as part of her cover. her lawyer says she's not a russian agent and was a graduate student trying to establish a friendship society. he said she voluntarily appeared for eight hours before the senate select intelligence committee. dana? >> dana: thank you. appreciate it. any minute now, the white house is set to hold a briefing for the first time in more than two weeks. we'll have it live when it happens. president trump engaging on disputes across the group. we'll speak with joni ernst about the tariffs here in

another document talked about her trying to get close to cpac.think the question for all of these groups is how were they so vulnerable to penetration by a russian intelligence service, by russian intelligence agents, and is in the only one? that's the question here. we keep seeing in the mueller investigation and now in this case a broad russian conspiracy to influence and infiltrate american policy making through republican and conservative organization. you can't not believe she is the only agent. >> interestingly, this woman, mariia butin, was in vegas in july 2015 at a trump rally and she was able to ask the then-candidate, now president, a question and get him for the first time on the record opposing sanctions against russia. and then david cornyn writes in the book russian roulette, they would watch the video of this encounter and wonder about it. steve bannon raised with reince priebus. how was it this russian woman happened to be in vegas for that event, and how was it that trump happened to call on her? and trump's response, it was odd

she had gone to cpac, the big republican convention, and they just want to make funny videos of republicans doing funny things and i was not hard to make -- >> would you if you working in television, queen a television for taken would you take away her job and would you have taken with roseanne said job? >> i grew up in a time when there was extreme censorship of television. you had three networks and things were really pretty policed and pretty anodyne. i was thinking about this, i used to think when i was a girl sexuality, the cmos go to dark. i remember when it's coming of age, we're going over to the dark space were no windows what's going on. it seemed oppressive and it was oppressive but i think for parents and families there was a sense there some universal code of decency to which these people in hollywood, there some connection between somebody living a life and having a family and turning on the television. there's some connection between the people who make a monitor this television and the people trying to like have a tv show on at the end of the day. >> you are free-speech abso

she had gone to cpac and they wanted to make funny videos of republicans doing funny things.hat was not hard to make. >> would you, if you were queen of television, take away her job? would you take away rosanne's job? in aam 56 so i grew up time where there was extreme censorship and television. you had three networks. things were pretty anodyne. i used to think when i was a girl, sexuality in a scene would always go to dark. when i was a girl, i was like, we're going into the dark space, where nobody knows what goes on. it wass a repressive and repressive, but for parents and families, there was a sense of some universal code of decency to which people in hollywood, there is a connection between somebody living a life and having a family and turning on the television, there is some connection between the people who monitor or make this television and the family who were trying to television show -- on the end of the day. i wouldn't take her show away. >> would you take either show away? >> it is tough. there is a difference between cable and the networks. ?s that showing ho

but her efforts to infiltrate top levels of the republican establishment including the nra, cpac anderway for the past four years. she entered the u.s. to study. she koz edoka up to republican circles and went to nra events. she hosted american gun enthusiasts in russia. one delegation included milwaukee sheriff dave clark and began a romantic relationship with a gop operative. in september 2016 she sent an email obtained by the f.b.i. quote, we have only two is the an advisor team on russia for a new president. in a series of direct messages via twitter to her russian handler on election night quote, i'm going to sleep. it is 3:00 a.m. here. i'm ready for further orders. she was arrested sunday. her lawyer said in a statement, quote, maria is not an agent of the russian federation. she has offered repeatedly to answer any questions the department of justice has. in 2015 she flew to las vegas to ask then candidate donald trump a question. >> i am visiting from russia. so my question -- >> good friend of obama, putin. >> my question will be about foreign politics. if you were elected

bannon declared war on the media at cpac in 2017, that's a disaster for the president.ress yourself. >> sandra: the tweet this morning number two, fake news media is going crazy writes the president this morning. they make up stories without any backup sources or proof. many of the stories written about me and the good people surrounding me are total fiction. the problem is when you complain you just give them more publicity. but i'll complain anyway. is that still the case with this president? >> you know he will complain anyway. the nature of who he is. i have had bad stories written about me that i haven't liked and some of it has been very untrue. but having said that, going from an adversarial relationship and disagreement and recognizing there are bad actors in every industry, especially politics and having a war declaration is bad. once you are in a war declaration you have the nonsense going on in the press room and air force one with the press and let's dial it back. i think we can do that. smoke a peace pipe, get the information out there fairly in a balanced

cpac and theyto would you, if you were queen of television, take away her job?ould you take away rosanne's job? time where you a had three networks. things were pretty anodyne. sexuality a girl, would always go dark. when i was a girl, i was like, we're going into the dark space, where no one knows what goes on. for parents and families, there was some universal code of decency to which people in hollywood, there is a connection between someone living a life and having a family and turning on the television, some connection between the people who monitor this television and the family for turning the tv show one of the end of the day. -- who are turning the television show on the end of the day. i wouldn't take her show away. >> would you take either show away? >> it is tough. there is a difference and cable -- orks -- is that showing in cable networks -- is that old i am?ow >> 8-tracks. click,d turn them over, click. i would fire both of them. >> but you are a free speech to list. -- absolutist. thatdon't know if extends to a commercial enterprise. we have a br