Michael flynn. End the investigation. Im joined noud by ken dilanian with nbc news it, Natasha Bertrand who covers is the russia probe with the atlantic and jill winebanks, all three of you, i want to know what you make of these two witnesses being called, comey already and sessions very soon. And then the president. Chris, what i think this shows is mueller is accelerating sat ob struskz justice aspect of the probe. The three pillars of this investigation, it looks like the Obstruction Case is going down the track further and faster than the collusion and Money Laundering. Theres a lot we dont see but the obstruction witnesses we know who they are and what stories they have to tell. Its not a surprise that comey is a key witness. Whats surprising to me is its happening now and seems like its speeding up. Natasha, explain how you see what kind of a case mueller is going to make here with these hot witnesses now. It seems like ken said hes moving more quickly along the obstruction path.
So theoretically, you they he has taped people inside of the white house . He threatened comey. He said, you know, you have to watch out. He insinuated that there might be tapings. She said this about the interview that President Trump gave to Msnbc News Last year in which she discussed the firing. He was being prepped by hope hi hi hicks and thecomes team to say that the doj had come up with this memo so they could justify the fire thing of comey. And you were in on it, too . That is definitely a hope hicks Press Secretary Type of thing. So if thecomes team prepped him to lie to lester holt they prepped him everyday. Did you ask the question why we are lying . All the time. The answer was . This is how they do it. This is the Trump Administration. This is her assessment of the president s ability to do his job. They want to talk to her. Fake news. Laura trump, again the wife of eric trump, had this to say to sean hannity tonight. What an Incredible Opportunity she wasted. The presiden
about it. i do not expect it will go anywhere. i don t expect anyone will move to get rid of atkinson but again it is worth documenting that this is something that the president has said about people who are investigating him and this is been recurring theme. we saw it throughout mueller and here it is again. ask comey. maggie haberman, thank you. and tonight joining us ross garber teaching at tulane university and with us columnist kirsten powers and chief legal analyst jeffrey toobin. so jeff, the president seemz to think the inspector general works for and should be loyal to him and not surprised he has that opinion given the past. absolutely. just remember jeff sessions who was the attorney general and did the right thing in recusing himself from the russia investigation and the president
the first place with the whistle-blower s complaint, was that the inspector general had deemed it credible. so is this now off the has he raised this again recently, do you know? our understanding is that he has continued it at times talking about it. i do not expect that it s going to go anywhere. i don t expect that anyone is going to move to get rid of atkinson. but, again, i think it is worth documenting that this is something that the president has said about people who are investigating him, and this has been a recurring theme. we saw it throughout mueller, and here it is again. ask comey. maggie haberman, thanks. joining us, cnn legal analyst, ross garber, he teaches law at tulane university, his specialty impeachment law. also with us, kirsten powers and jeffrey toobin. jeff, the president based on this reporting seems to think that the intelligent community inspector general works for and
and you heard john solomon. help me out, senator. it sounds to me like a premeditatedmm conspiracy to commit fraud of the court to undo a first stop and then undo a presidential election, that s how i interpret it. mccabe also said without the dossier there would have e been no warrant issued against carter page. so mccabe says under oath it was outcome determinant. and everything you say about the garbage of the dossier is true, but this is when we t had mr. horwitz looking into this. and i cannot wait until he tells us what he found. sean: where do you go with this? you are the one guy that can bring them all in. and i really do hope, senator, that thebr people that did this were also involved in rigging the investigation into hillary. the evidence is pretty overwhelming that she violated the espionage act and then obstructed justice, from my little tv studio, the little that i know about these things. i ve been wanting to ask