those press conferences, and you would have expected a question about the mueller investigation. i don t know what to make of it. it s hard to think that it is going to be completed very soon because there was just this arrest and search warrants related to roger stone. so at a minimum, you would want to at least go through those materials and figure out if there are any additional charges that might, you know, that could be made now with the additional evidence. so it s hard to know what to make of it. i think most people in this country, and that includes, they don t want to hear it, but curious, did trump play ball with the russians to get himself elected, to screw hillary clinton s chances, to win the election, and in so, basically hurt our whole electoral system. will we get that answer for sure from mueller? will the justice department under barr or whitaker get us that information so we can all see the facts? you know, just the way
investigation to be done. so whitaker s statements today were both incongruous and potentially to the trump investigation. the dirty trickster spent this weekend blasting mueller s indictment of him, by the way, speaking to anyone who was willing to listen, stone made the television rounds to savage the special counsel investigation. today, stone indicated he would not cooperate with prosecutor mueller. are you willing to cut a deal with mueller to avoid going to trial? i don t answer hypothetical questions. i have no intention of doing so, however. natasha, this is the kind of tease we have been watching from this guy for decades. this is what roger stone does. he taps right up to the tip-toes right up to the edge of the cliff and dances on it for a while. he s been doing it all weekend. what s he up to, besides narcissism?
criminal counts, including obstruction of an official proceeding, witness tampering, and five counts of making false statements. today, white house press secretary sarah sanders, who held her first press briefing in 41 days, was asked if the president was considering a pardon for stone. here s what she said. is the president ruled out a pardon for roger stone? i m not aware of that. i haven t had any conversations regarding that matter. will you discuss it with him and let us know? i m not going to get into that at this point, but if need be, we ll let you know. just to follow up, can you guarantee the president won t pardon roger stone? again, i m not going to talk about hypotheticals that are ridiculous. today, mueller has accused six of trump s advisers or associates of lying multiple times to federal officials. raising the question of why they keep lying. the whitaker comment today comes moments before the house
what do you make of it? i think he s trying to get more donations to his legal defense fund. his supporters don t want to see him cooperate with mueller, and he needs money in order to keep this fight going. he also knows the more he keeps this fight going, the more famous he ll be. i do think, it s interesting the president now has to kind of dance this very, very fragile dance with roger stone, because if roger is intimating he might be willing to cooperate with robert mueller and he might be willing to talk about, you know, the associates on the campaign that maybe he has information about, then the president really has to be careful about what he says about roger stone. so whereas he has trashed michael cohen in the past, for example, for cooperating with mueller or for other witnesses who are indicating they might become rats, quote/unquote, he can t really do that with roger because roger seems to be a very fickle person. if he gets any sense that the president might be turning
extraordinary as i do that donald trump is tweeting today in defense of michael flynn, who is, i believe, an admitted felon, right? he copped a plea. this is a man who is an admitted criminal, and yet donald trump is using the power of the presidency and his twitter feed to still, to this day, defend him. i find that astonishing. you? yeah, i do too, and i will say that regarding michael flynn, what i find astonishing, here s a man who is still going and endorsing republican candidates. he s giving speaking you know, he s doing speaking engagements. his son is on twitter blasting the prosecution, blasting democrats, blasting mueller, blasting the fbi. i will tell you when i was a prosecutor, my witnesses, people who were cooperating on my side, were sticking with the government. i mean they were toeing the line. they were not speaking publicly. they were not out there doing a victory lap. it s really hard for me to understand. i think flynn got a very good deal. no one reading thos