moby claims he's been doing the behind the scenes bidding of of trump figures in a recent interview he said friends and contacts within the cia had asked him to promote certain ideas online including the alleged collusion between the president and russian and the reason for that because moby house a more significant presence on social media. managed to make a few friends in the intelligence community and so they passed on some information to me and they said like look you have a big you have more of a social media following than any of us do can you please post some of these things just in a way to sort of put it out there from the man himself last february moby wrote a lengthy post on instagram after what he described as a meeting with friends from washington d.c. and that he sees it's safe to say trump was being blackmailed by the russians that's a quote he also called the u.s. leader an incompetent president controlled by foreign governments. and crabtree is the publisher of talk forty dot com political talk show host as well he joins us live in the program hello to you brian what w

mobi is out there traveling through the smaller streets or narrower streets in the germantown section you lot of cars maintains have sincerday they are kind of parked in with the plows coming through andhing the snow off side. a lot of streets are covered slushiness there slippery again a lot of work to do although the state of emergency has been lifted. cityre closed in philadelphia t code homeless is in effect. it will be slow on the rails and septa is making adjustments jeanette reyes joins us the 69th street transportation center in upper darby. >> reporter: good morning matt this is a two-part what mother throwing our way. yesterday it was the snowfall today the ice. septa is warning c going to be a slow-go this morning. came the snow, now comes the after several inches of eted the area resorry remplets -- subzero temperatures are concerned. snowplows were out during the snowfall. it was a slow-go on buses too conditions. septa announced it will be operating on a saturday schedule today for the regional rails and though buses trolleys, norristown high speed line and subway are we

. >> bret: ahab got the moby dick of tax reform. >> if the economy is roaring though we were -- the waycans predict, they are going to be in a much better position. that said, the past three midterms have seen the party and white house lose double digit numbers. they are heading into headwinds, no doubt. a.b. is right. a lot of those districts, trump is going to be a real drag for people but it's too soon especially in the senate to be assuming the republicans are going to lose control. >> bret: you mention the comparison. seats, gains, lost. some states like california, state and local tax issue and tax laws factoring in for republicans. >> it's also just moving left. california provided the entire margin of popular vote victory for hillary clinton. in this last election. this is really bad news for republicans. a lot of republican strategists thought issa was a goner anyway. he barely won. popularity going down. they were really surprised by ed royce. they expected him to win his seat. they didn't get any warning of it. that's one more thing they have to fight and i think if you talk

we just threw a line in the water askand moby dick came bac. we didn't know what to do with it. they were not expecting to find out what they found out when they started this investigation into donald trump. page 7 question, what were you asked to do? answer, it was an open-ended look at the donald trump's business career, how much he was wo worth, how he ran his casinos. it was a broad unfocused look which is the way we do our business. page 23, at the very beginning of this project, one of the first things i pofocused on was his relationship with felix sater alleged to have ties to organized crime, an organized crime background. over the first phase we had information the company he was associated with was engaged in elicit financial business activity and had organized crime connections. we sort of more broadly learned that mr. trump had long-typeime associations and seemed as if during the early part of his career he had connections to italian mafia but during the '90s became associated with the mafia. that developed to the point it wasn't a speculative piece of research. it

"let's see here, 'moby dick. call me ishmael.' that's a funny name for a whale. the end.tory. pretty funny. they should call that-- i tell you, tech call they should call that 'ishmael dick'." >> jon: oh! hey! hey! >> stephen: and when asked to grade trump's first year, 39% of voters give him an "f." what? no! shut up! if you give him a failing grade, he'll have to repeat the presidency! ( laughter ) ( applause ) clean that up. the poll also let people freestyle a little bit with some open-ended questions, and in these, the two words most commonly offered to describe trump's first year were "disaster" and "chaotic." well, those are the two most common words that i am allowed to say cbs. in these answers, of the 43 words used at least five times, 25 words are negative, ten are positive and eight words are neutral, such as "interesting" or "different." ( laughter ) "interesting" and "different" are not neutral. because that's how you describe your cousin's one-man show you got dragged to. "well, brian, that sure was... interesting. really different. where did you get that m

simpson put it to the committee, quote, we threw a line in the water and moby dick came back. with me now, adam davidson, staff writer at "the new yorker," who's written extensively about donald trump's business dealings, and betsy woodruff, report for the daily beast, who has a piece up right now called "fusion gps: kremlin purged suspected spies after trump dossier released". let me start with you, betsy, with about what jumped out to you from the transcript that we got. >> the piece of this i found most fascinating right off the bat is what we wrote that article about. one thing glenn simpson told investigators was that after the dossier was publicly released, so presumably after buzzfeed published it, though simpson didn't mention buzzfeed, after that happened, there appeared to be a purge in the kremlin. simpson said he didn't think anything of his sources were part of that purge, but he did believe some folks who were sources for the united states intelligence community were actually purged, as a response the kremlin had to this dossier. and by purging, simpson meant fol

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"let's see here, 'moby dick. call me ishmael.'that's a funny name for a whale. the end. happy story. pretty funny. they should call that-- i tell you, tech call they should call that 'ishmael dick'." >> jon: oh! hey! hey! >> stephen: and when asked to grade trump's first year, 39% of voters give him an "f." what? no! if you give him a failing grade, he'll have to repeat the presidency! ( laughter ) ( applause ) clean that up. the poll also let people freestyle a little bit with some open-ended questions, and in these, the two words most commonly offered to describe trump's first year were "disaster" and "chaotic." well, those are the two most common words that i am allowed to say cbs. in these answers, of the 43 words used at least five times, 25 words are negative, ten are positive and eight words are neutral,