historical document, something that they need to see in full, as opposed to some sort of abbreviated summary that could come from the attorney general. but secondly, there s a series of oversight investigations that you alluded to in the opening of the show including by the judiciary committee in the house but other committees as well, and they ve been seeking documents and receiving thousands of pages of documents from, you know, over 80 officials who have worked for or connected to the president. they will likely be seeking documents and interviews with many more officials in the months to come. and there s no sign of those investigations slowing down. in fact, they re ramping up right now. so that is a big concern of the white house. it s one of the reasons why the white house counsel s office has been expanding the number of lawyers there, to try to get ready for this. but they are not i don t believe fully prepared for the political war that is going to come this spring over both
the press had learned that he had had these meetings with a russian ambassador, a russian banker connected to the kremlin, and he had not put them on his security clearance forms. and very uncharacteristically he made a sort of impassioned argument to the president in front of people. i mean, jared s normal method of communicating with trump is to sort of corner him quietly, which really annoyed reince priebus, who was trying to manage the place. but this time in front of everyone he said to the president you ve got to fire james comey and here are three reasons why. the fbi doesn t like him, the democrats don t like him, and the base will love it. you know, steve bannon, you know, wily strategist, disagreed with him on every single point.
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we keep hearing of all these other tranches of misbehavior. what do you say to people? look, bob mueller is a man of integrity. he works hard. he served his country. i know there are a lot of people in the country, in the world these days who want to substitute a result they want, which is the arrest and imprisonment of lots of people they don t agree with, including associates and perhaps even relatives of the president. but it doesn t work that way. so i say you let mueller finish his work, accept whatever his results will be and the conclusions will be, and that s it. and i think we need to get back to basics and think about allowing a person of mueller s stature to make his determinations. and ultimately what s going to happen with respect to the president will be i think a political resolution, depending on what kinds of allegations are made if any with respect to the president s conduct. the people need to be a little bit patient. it may happen soon. it may not happen soon. the
at least five standing committees in the house of representatives. with all that as backdrop let s bring in our lead-off panel for this busy wednesday night. we are so pleased to welcome to the broadcast preet bharara, former u.s. attorney for the southern district of new york until he was freed up by donald trump to spend more time with his family and perhaps write a book. it happens to be called doing justice: a prosecutor s thoughts on crime, punishment and the rule of law. discussion to follow. philip rucker, pulitzer prize-winning white house bureau chief for the washington post. by coming on tonight phil has agreed to spend part of the last hour of his birthday with his friends here at the 11th hour. and we welcome back to our broadcast jill colvin, white house reporter for the associate press. mr. rucker, i d like to begin with you. first can you clear up the president just dropped nasty business transaction. he s talked about this before. part of why he feels mueller is c