is she just coming to watch? to send a jolt of electricity and get michael cohen off his game, create more of a spectacle and get inside donald trump s head. danny, i want to ask you this question, just spell it out. the president s legal jeopardy here is what? why is it exactly that this is potentially more of an existential threat to the president than the bob mueller inquiry? i think the answer to that question is why is the president fighting so hard to avoid review of these privileged documents by the government. that s what the fight is about today. it s not about whether the government ultimately gets to those documents, it s whose eyes get to see those sets of documents and decide whether they re privileged or not privileged? and why, then is president trump now an intervener in this case? why take such an interest? why not allow cohen s attorneys to fight that battle? it must be so important to the president that this search warrant, the documents seized, are reviewed by
isn t one, but we just don t know about it. this is the purported place that we ve seen, and others have seen, where the special counsel is doing that. josh, do you know, were you able to uncover how long this teamwork has been happening? how long these two teams have been working on this together? and do we know which side initiated this? we don t know which side initiated it. in our reporting today, it happened over the summer. we know there were subpoenas issued by attorney general schneiderman in this case, this summer. and we also know the special counsel was impaneled this summer. my sources told me today the cooperation has been ongoing for at least a month. so my sense is that probably mid, late summer, could have been early summer. but about two or three months or so. josh, one last question for you. the way this fits into my understanding of what s going on with the mueller inquiry is paul
something that looks like it s about to happen but it s not done yet. so fair warning, we re going to be sticking a flag in that story tonight, cognizant there t s a t of other news going on, but i think it s important enough that we ve got to do it tonight. the justice department story is coming up. we also just got news about the robert mueller special counsel inquiry on the trump-russia investigation, pulling in someone new to testify before the grand jury that s been convened in that case. we ve got that news this evening. we ve also got some interesting news today about the president s eldest son being called to testify in the trump-russia inquiry. there s also some big breaking news from politico,.com, just in the past hour or so, about the course of the bob mueller inquiry. and a dramatic move that special counsel robert mueller has just made that may be designed to kind of do an end run around the
departure may have had something to do with the lightning, washington post report recently that the fbi for campaign paul manafort and whether robert mueller s team may have leaked the details of that search to reporters and, if so, did somebody get a really big demotion because they got caught doing that like? those are it s honestly who knows? all we have is speculation at this point because nobody will tell us. but this seems like an important piece of news, right? this is the first sign of the ship rocking over at the mueller inquiry. a lot of people in this country think about the bob mueller inquiry every day and think a lot of the future of our country depends on the quality of that inquiry. is something wrong at the bob mueller inquiry?
this point because nobody will tell us. but this seems like an important piece of news, right? this is the first sign of the ship rocking over at the mueller inquiry. a lot of people in this country think about the bob mueller inquiry every day and think a lot of the future of our country depends on the quality of that inquiry. is something wrong at the bob mueller inquiry? this is the first sign of anything seeming hinky. we want to know how serious it is and we want to know to the broader question whether the mueller investigation is having any serious problems. we don t know. we only have this provocative piece of staffing information. if you are out there and you know and you want to communicate with us anonymously, please do so. www.sendittorachel.com. just saying.