solicitor general and no prosecutorial experience and compared to bob moouler who has been a professional prosecutor all of his life. and so you can see that starr really didn t have the experience, background to make a lot of the critical judgments about what he was doing to do, and what he shouldn t be doing, and how far to the take things, and that is reflected in some of the most controversial decision s, and the most controversial decision of all was of course to get involved in the lewinski matter in the first place. he had been appointed to the investigate the land deal, and whitewater, and that investigation dragged on for years, and then the lewinski thing came along and to the surprise of many, and including myself at the time ken starr jumped on it. michael isikof is in your
checking in with rod rosenstein, appointed by donald trump, the deputy attorney general. ken starr faced a lot of criticism when he got from whitewater to monica lewinsky, saying bob mueller might be going outside his original mandate, but he has checks. i think bob moouler ueller i finding out information that is leading him back to the attorney general. he s an officer of the justice department. under the regulation, rod rosenstein is a man of great honor and just absolutely impeccable integrity, and can say don t go there. that s what drives the president nuts. for all the talk of this, you know, deep state or mueller running rogue, these are trump appointees who have to check everything bob mueller does. and will they, right. i think the president there oftentimes has liked what ken starr said. i don t know how much comfort he ll find in the fact it s up to rod rosenstein to put the
were people thinking? how much indifference, how much stupidity, how much arrogance is required not to recognize what is going on here and take steps to prevent it. may have been massive nighivity, fareed, but that has implications, too. 30 seconds, collusion is not quite a legal term. this is partly a political. but is there a deeper legal this places the trump campaign in? any time you have charges against people close to the president is unclear how close papadopoulos was. he may not have been particularly high up. that s a problem. that s a legal problem for the president. not just a political problem. and the people who thought bob moouler was on a fishing expedition. he has shown in bringing three charges against folks that he is aggressive, thorough, quick, and he s far from finished. pleasure to have you on. thank you. next on gps what kills
former prosecutor. some call this meeting a smoking gun. do you see really at this point with what we know any evidence of criminal wrongdoing here? absolutely. so christopher ray, the fbi nominee s confirmation hearing last week. he was asked, what should you do if are you a politician and you get a call from a foreign operative about asking for help, if you need help. he says the fbi nominee says you need to call the fbi. the fbi investigators federal crimes, national security breaches. with potential federal crime here had to do with company faw. it s against the law to solicit from a foreign national. so the questions would be, does this opposition research count as a contribution and does what donald jr., manafort did count as solicitation? i think bob moouler has a critical case to make they are