that s what cnn reported in april of 2016. excuse me, 2017. and that s also what the new york times previously reported in april of 2017. so all of a sudden now they re trying to walk back that genesis of this investigation and switch it to papadopoulos. if they d really believed that national security was at risk or there was some collusion i ll double check this, professor, but i don t believe that we reported that that was the basis for for this, but i ll double check it. actually, you do. i looked at it today. i believe it s april 17th of 2017. i ll look it up and i appreciate that. john dean, just quickly before we go, i mean, do you believe this investigation is in its conclusion phase, as the president s attorneys seem to be indicating? no, i don t if. i don t. i think it s very early in the investigation still. we know the prosecutor is going to be around for at least one very serious trial. so he s going nowhere. and that will probably be at
like to see it. all i ve heard about it is innuendo. look at the timing here. on july 7th, carter page goes to moscow to give a speech at a university. on july 19th, this is 2016, steele submits a salacious dossier to the fbi about some sort of quid pro quo being discussed between page and russian oligarchs. submits that to the fbi on july 19th. about a month later we have the fbi going to the foreign intelligence surveillance court to get a wiretap, essentially, to get surveillance of carter page. and this is all based on a dossier which, by the way no, it s not. you don t have proof of that, professor. you don t know that. that s what jim comey has suggested. that s what cnn he never said that. that s what cnn reported in april of 2016. excuse me, 2017. and that s also what the new york times previously reported in april of 2017. so all of a sudden now they re trying to walk back that genesis of this investigation and switch it to papadopoulos.
most people did not heard of papadopoulos until summer or fall. she was not a major part of the campaign. he is certainly playing a larger role than a coffee boy. i don t think his plea deal reflected on the white house. he was never someone who was that important within trump s orbit. we are hearing from this report that he apparently edited the president s foreign policy speech as a candidate back in april of 2017. that s one more peg involvement of the campaign. james, i am curious to get details of papadopoulos revelation that the russians had dirt on hillary clinton came during a night of heavy drinking. no, i don t think that impacts the credibility. again, these are all pieces, as paul mentions earlier, these are all pieces lead investigators
from onen halftime or look oppenhim or lack. i want to complement melissa francis. in april of 2017, this is what she said. as i watch other networks where i know there are predators throwing stones at us i sit there and wait for their time to come. remember she worked at nbc also. cnbc. because the other managers and the other networks know who they are and the talent and the people working their know, too. the more people who hear from other people stories and feel empowered to say something the better. tucker: i spent four years there and i had that thought virtually every day as i watched people who probably shouldn t be throwing stones cast them. i can t control myself. how would you fill if you are billy bush tonight fired from nbc for the crime of standing next to donald trump when he said something vulgar? this is why i think there is a lot of people who are genuinely surprised.
go ahead, spoil yourself. the es and es hybrid. experience amazing. this summer the senate judiciary committee conformed a woman to be u.s. attorney, a woman named jesse liu. there was one very interesting detail. in march and april of 2017 i attended formal interviews of the justice department and interviewed with representatives of the white house counsel s office and then i met the president. you what now? that caught everybody s attention because a candidate for u.s. attorney, candidate for federal prosecutor meeting with the president before he nominates her? that s weird. it s not illegal but that s definitely weird. now this week politico reports that the president has also met with two other potential candidates for the role of u.s. attorney, one who is a potential