weisman. >> thank you. [applause] good evening, everyone. my name is jonathan weisman. you probably know that. you bought your tickets or you came here, made your way after last week's snow day. but i say my name because it has sop meaning that i never -- some meaning that i never really thought thought about. it sounds jewish. [laughter] for most of my life, i didn't think very much about that, that i had a jewish-sounding name. i grew up in a moderately jewish household in atlanta. i grew up in a very reformed synagogue. i was bar miss9 v.a.d -- bar miss sad after the -- [inaudible] i thought it was normal that my -- had an electric arc, that the door came down and the lights came on. and we also had a christian choir that was ensconced behind curtains so it would sound that much more angelic. i went off to chicago for college, and the only interaction i ever had with hillal at northwestern was an argument my senior year with the rabbi over the two-state solution versus the canton solution. i'm not going to go over that right now because, as i say in my book, i think

it doesn't matter the supreme court overturinned weisman mueller's pitbull 9-0.ow often does that happen? it doesn't matter that four executives went to jail for a year because of weisman and the fifth circuit court of appeals overturned their convictions. it doesn't seem to matter the courts have excoriated mueller's pitbull weissman for withholding exculpatory evidence. and that they exclusively donated money to obama, hillary and the d.n.c. why would robert mueller hire a guy like andrew weissman with that atrocious track record? why was he appointed? the anxious is it was a fishing expedition and an effort to get trump from the beginning. a federal judge courageously standing up to this totally out-of-control witch hunt in what is the biggest or the single biggest beat-down i have ever seen in my life by a judge. during a federal court hearing over former trump campaign chair paul manafort's years' old conspiracy charges. this goes back 13 years. a u.s. district judge, named t.s. ellis iii utterly rebukes the entire special counsel investigation and telling a

>> i'm sure andrew weisman could come up with a reason that the deal they did for some reason goes against wire fraud or something like that. i'm not an expert in these laws. >> you also mentioned who was aligned with whom. it's a lot of pressure on donald trump and the white house. probably more than he's felt in his private life. i want to play something that was raised earlier in the broadcast about this whole son-in-law who's disposable thing. here was that clip. >> ivanka trump, i think i would get on my charger and go right into the offices with a lance. what about the son-in-law? talked about him. i guess jared is a fine man. but men are, you know, disposable. but a fine woman like ivanka, come on. >> what's happening there? because you know these people. who is cohen aligned with and what does that tell you about who's turning on whom? >> i think the president of whom i haven't spoken to in a very long time, from what i've heard he realizes that his son-in-law caused a lot of problems for him. as people like me were saying from the very beginning. he tried to skirt financial laws i

people whose lives have been severely and harshly impacted by robert mueller and his pit bull andrew weisman'sch hunt. witgood to see you all. let me ask you all a simple question. i turn to you, carter, first. were you spied upon? did a spy approach you? >> i'm not sure, sean. there are two parts of the fake dnr report january 2017. first is hacking. we know i have been hacked, eventually. >> i want to make sure people know. this is the trump campaign associate. this is the guy they used the clinton bought and paid for phony dols dossier to spy. rob rosen steve rosenstein signy then they knew it was lies. >> absolutely. the other thing is fake news propaganda which led to the phia warrant. >> why didn't ty say t the fbi spring of 2015. why didn't they say -- you never met trump, right? >> never. >> why didn't you say this guy went to russia, we are worried about him? >> there's nothing to d it. >> why were you in russia? >> gave a speech. >> you didn't get paid for it? >> no. >> it's been reported you are a double cia operative. > >>> you cooperated with your country? >> absolutely. >> for th

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tonight we have jonathan weisman who is the congressional editor and deputy washington editor at the new york times. his previous novel is called "number 4 imperial lane," and the book we're speaking about tonight is "semitism: being screw in the age of trump." -- being jewish in the age of