that he would walk in here, sprinkle some pixie dust and remind everyone who he is, and the stature he used to hold and bring this to a close. that s not how investigation kz work. maybe negotiate with the president. you can t walk in and tell a federal prosecutor wrap this up. when he was u.s. attorney, if somebody told him that he would throw them out of the office in an instant. you talk about him being at the yankees game last night. i heard people say he lost his fast ball. he lost his fast ball, change up. i m not into giving the trump team free communication. stop talking. he creates new problems every time he does an interview. you published the questions bob mueller has for the president. it seems like rudy doesn t have his arms around why cohen was of interest to bob mueller in the first place. and the fact that the other matters were referred to the southern district doesn t mean
go for. but i m not sure rudy is as well versed in all of these facts. me, too, i love talking to him. we talked about season two or week two, whatever episode we re in. michael avenatti is one of the figures we re in, season two, a regular on the show. we enjoy our conversations with him. he had to correct some of the information that was in his report, but he did detail, you know, the new development that brings us back to what frank figliuzzi described yesterday as this is what collusion looks like. he showed russian oligarch in a financial arrangement with michael cohen and that seems like the kind of matter that would still be very much of interest to bob mueller and additional reporting both of your papers that bob mueller wanted to know about other people that were doing business with michael, big companies like novartis and at&t. so bob mueller is still very much following the money. that s right. as much as became disclosed this
the justice department is worried that nunes will privately funnel this material to the president. so he knows how to prepare for an interview or how to react. these are not hard partisan questions. that until this year were settled norms on both sides of the aisle. this is the exact reason that paul ryan bears the chief responsibility, because he s kept devin nunes in a place where he can do exactly that. and i don t know that that s going to be enough to get around bob mueller. but it does provide the president a road map. we are going to sneak in one more break. then steve schmidt gets the last word.
question. do you support nunes. absolutely. it is an appropriate request. questions at the house intel committee are mixed in with questions a the senate intel committee because it puts more weight on, most people think the stakes are higher for bob mueller. you cover the justice department and the fbi. what does this do to the constitution of those buildings? the thing that nunes has done that has been done that has been helpful to the president was on the comey memos. they know the contours of the russia investigation. they know witnesses that have gone in and they know about the documents. theyston know what was in the comey memos. they knew if the president was going to have to answer a lot of questions he would have to answer a lot of questions about them. they were able to get the memos out. now the president s lawyers have a road map about what the contours of what mueller knows on that specific issue of the
documents for the special counsel and there is not, and he can t rush it. and mueller doesn t appear to be susceptible to that kind of rushing anyway. and rod rosenstein, i have to say i know him from maryland. he s a total straight arrow. he s a republican. and he s not going to be pushed either. i think he s made that clear over the last two weeks. so, the most stunning thing that to me came out of giuliani s mouth was that this was a play by rosenstein to steam roll the president. why even in their minds i don t know if you want to spend a lot of time there, but why even in their minds would donald trump s appointed dag have a strategy to steam roll the president? especially if you think back in the time line of when rod rosenstein appointed bob mueller, it was a week, week and like ten days after the president fired jim comey which rod rosenstein had signed off and recommended. rose e rosenstein was a member in good standing of the president s administration.