be a suggestion they were trying to have the true audience be mueller and his team. one would hope mueller and his team are probably much more well versed in this than certainly the nonmedia savvy trump campaign team was, but mueller already knows this. jason, this gets to an essential legal question here. and i should note it s not just michael wolff s book of this air force one meeting crafting a false statement of what that trump tower meeting was about saying it was about russian adoptions when we know it was about dirt on hillary clinton. from a legal standpoint, if a president crafts a false statement about this with his staff members present and then taking part, from a legal standpoint does that constitute instructing subordinates to lie? what it constitutes is instructing subordinates to try to not provide fourthcoming
truth. mueller s objective here is to figure out whether a crime has occurred and whether or not someone has impeded his ability to do that very thing. part of the inquiry will be if somebody is saying i d like you not to disclose the truth even though we know the fbi probably already had the e-mails in their possession and the e-mail trail that said this was not just talking about adoption, it s more than that. and can we go back? let s keep the facts in order because we were told in that pressroom in the beginning there was no collusion, no contact with russia. then there was limited contact and then yes somebody else had contact. now you ve had two people who have pleaded out and two others been charged. and also go back to it what the president himself as a
comey. at this point his term is unsalvageable. they called for sessions to step down. the democrats are sort of stuck in this position of trying to defend jeff sessions to keep him there because they re worried mueller will get fired. i don t think they can imbibe jeff sessions in this job any longer. we can t trust christopher ray, the head of the fbi, rob rosenstein to do their job and act honorably and stand up to the president. it s important, though, if you go to the hill today and you were talking to people, that s exactly where they re at. we don t want sessions but it s six and a half or a dozen of the other. the problem with this administration is there s no viable path for sessions at this point, he may stay. let me jump in really quick because we talk talking about this notion of comey dirt, who asked for it.
not necessarily. there s a chance he may have stayed. let me finish. so what s clear is that he acted based on the guidance he was given by the career lawyers, whose job it is to give suggestions in these scenarios. and what has he done despite that sphhe didn t recuse himself but gone about trying to please donald trump. i m sorry, but the spokesperson at the justice department who s denying it, she s been caught denying things that have been proven true in the past. they deny everything. what we do know according to the article mueller is looking at all of this, and everything is a piece in the puzzle as you well know, laura, including that first statement that statement aboard air force one. al wolff rights in the book he thought that statement was it led one of mr. trump s spokesman