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Manafort Trial and Collusion as a Crime

Former Mayor Rudy Giuliani of New York City speaking to supporters at an immigration policy speech hosted by Donald Trump at the Phoenix Convention Center in Phoenix, Arizona in August 2016

In this politics day edition of River to River, host Ben Kieffer talks with Dennis Goldford, professor and chair of political science and Rachel Caufield professor of political science at Drake University.

Over the weekend, President Trump's attorney, Rudy Giuliani, changed what he has been saying about allegations of collusion in the Russia investigation and raised questions about whether collusion is a crime. Other topics of discussion this hour include the start of Paul Manafort's trial and hearings by the U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee into the Trump administration's policy of family separation at the border.

Katherine Perkins is IPR's Program Director for News and Talk
Ben Kieffer is the host of IPR's River to River