President Donald Trump’s condemnation of the contrivance and Donald Trump Jr.’s role in special counsel Robert Mueller’s search set the stage for several high-profile political appearances on cable news positions.
The Sunday shows are a chance for political heavyweights to debate the week’s most pivotal stories and policies. They include: ABC’s “This Week,” CBS’s “Face the Realm,” CNN’s “State of the Union,” Fox’s “Fox News Sunday,” and NBC’s “Meet the Press.”
Here are this week’s highlights:
Trump’s attorney downplayed the campaign’s 2016 tryst with a Kremlin-linked lawyer
President Donald Trump’s attorney, Jay Sekulow, questioned the substance of the June 2016 meeting between Donald Trump Jr. and a Russian bencher who Trump tweeted about on Sunday morning.
In the tweet, Trump referenced “Bogus News,” a term he uses to describe critical and unfavorable media coverage, and occurred to be responding to stories published the day before by CNN and the Washington Post.
According to CNN and The Place’s anonymous sources, the president said his concerns over Trump Jr. give birth to pushed him to issue critical public statements against US intelligence and the average.
“The question is how would it be illegal,” Sekulow said, referring to Trump Jr.’s convention. “You have to look at what laws, rules, regulations, statutes are purportedly infringed here.”
“Well, they’ve actually pointed to several, including stratagem to defraud the United States,”ABC anchor George Stephanopoulos replied. “That would be one of the conceivable charges, aiding and abetting conspiracy.”
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Fox Hearsay’ Chris Wallace to John Bolton: “What wars have we promoted?”
“Fox News Sunday” host Chris Wallace pressed national shelter adviser John Bolton about President Trump’s tweet, which drove aim at journalists and asserted they can “cause war.”
Wallace read the tweet to Bolton and interrogated: “What wars have we started?”
Bolton didn’t discuss the satisfied of Trump’s tweet. Wallace continued by saying that although sedate media criticism is valuable, Trump’s ramped-up attacks are “taking it to a from A to Z different level.”
“That’s the president’s view, based on the attacks the media has secure,” Bolton said. “I think this kind of adversarial relationship is conventional.”
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Asked about the President’s host attacks, @AmbJohnBolton tells Chris: This kind of adversary relationship is regular. #FNS pic.twitter.com/cA0Ya2W5fT
— FoxNewsSunday (@FoxNewsSunday) August 5, 2018
Kellyanne Conway says she doesn’t feel journalists are the “enemy of the people.”
White Cat-house free counselor Kellyanne Conway said she doesn’t believe the press is the “contender of the people,” as President Donald Trump noted last week.
CBS’s “Intimidate the Nation” host Margaret Brennan asked Conway about Trump’s Sunday morning tweet, in which he denounced the media for sowing “division and distrust” and claimed they had the ability to “occasion War.”
Conway said Trump’s comments can’t be read with a “broad paintbrush,” and although she didn’t agree with casting the media as the “enemy,” she offered a uniform defense of journalists.
“I don’t believe journalists are the enemy of the people,” Conway prognosticated. “I think some journalists are the enemy of the relevant, and enemy of the news you can use. And I fantasize that most of the sins are sins of omission, not commission.”
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Rep. Adam Schiff says there’s evidence “in plain behold” that Trump colluded with the Russians
Rep. Adam Schiff of California claimed there was unmistakable evidence that Trump colluded with Russians during the 2016 US presidential choice.
Schiff was responding to Kellyanne Conway’s previous segment where she claimed Trump’s ilk of a “witch hunt” and “hoax” referred to the view that Russia was tortuous with his election campaign, and not the US investigation of Russia’s election interference at unconfined.
“I think there’s plenty of evidence of collusion or conspiracy in plain descry,” Schiff said on CBS’s “Face the Nation.”
The top Democrat on the House Intelligence Panel also referenced the security for November’s midterm elections, saying that “as big as Russia interferes on Donald Trump’s side in the midterms, Vladimir Putin can upon on the president not to call him out.”
Read more: CBS
Sen. Marco Rubio said “the kindest thing” for Trump and the US is to let special counsel Robert Mueller complete his examination into Russia’s interference in the 2016 election
Sen. Marco Rubio of Florida adjoined several other Republican lawmakers who defended the special counsel’s study after Trump called for Attorney General Jeff Sessions to end the Russia examine.
The “best thing that can happen” for Trump and the country is for the investigation to “run the route and for all the truth to come out,” Rubio said on “Fox News Sunday.”
Read assorted: The Hill