those assertions is designed to say but you can t even really assess it as obstruction of justice because he can t obstruct the law. so he is sing to congressional republicans you can t even impeach him for obstruction of justice. shannon: it s not like yesterday that people decided there had to be a p.r. component of the political fights they are waging here. that is as old as time. correct. i would also note that we are all sort of analyzing and granular detail the contents of the letter, the 20 page letter that went out in january, almost the entire legal team is gone now. you could argue that some of the assertions they made in there, they are obsolete which is why i am baffled why rudy and others would even indulge this conversation about self pardons. that s a distraction right now. it s getting way ahead of anything, and yet they sort of threw that chum in the water come or at least responded to the bait from the press.
investigate the leaking of cia agent valerie plane in 2003? scooter libby was convicted in that case, not for leaking but for lying to investigators. trump recently pardon him, something george w. bush should have done long before leaving office. do you remember who decided to appoint special counsel in that case? then deputy attorney general jim comey. whom did call me choose a special counsel? his old chum, patrick fitzgeral fitzgerald. it s all so incestuous. now he is a partner at my old law firm and he s representing whom? jim comey and his dealings with special counsel, bob mueller. that brings us to today where many of the same figures who have been celebrated by media elites are back at work using their position and their pedigree, and an ongoing effort to purge the country of
investigate valerie plame s name in 2003? scooter libby was convicted in that case not for leaking, but for lying to investigators. trump pardoned him, something george w. bush should have done before leaving office. do you remember who appointed the special counsel in the plame/libby case? then deputy attorney general, jim comey. whom did comey choose as special counsel? his old chum patrick fitzgerald. it s all so incestuous. now fitzgerald is remitting jim comey in his dealings with special counsel robert mueller. that brings us to today where some of the same figure are back at work using their position and pedigree in an ongoing effort to purge the country of president
allegation that trump tower was tapped, moving on to unmasking, moving on to allegations that jim baker at the fbi leaked things, uranium one, they have to come up with a new allegation every few weeks. it doesn t have to be founded because what can happen is, you start with an allegation, you move it into process a committee on the hill starts investigating or they put enough pressure on deputy attorney general there s an investigation. there are now the ig is looking at two separate things. they have to throw enough chum in the water there s a distraction from the constant drum beat of negativity. they escalate. congress has powers and they have constitutional equities and they ll have this meeting tomorrow and already telegraphing they re going to come out saying it s not enough. right. there definitely there was an attempt to set up this confrontation between the justice department and the president for perhaps the purpose of giving him an excuse to fire rod rosenstein. tha
they have always had is there continue to be, when bob mueller does his work, he s not leaking but new facts come out either reporters dig them up or they talk to people interviewed by the grand jury and we see new damaging revelations mueller might be looking into. they have to keep something else going which is why you saw over a year ago starting with the allegation that trump tower was tapped, moving on to unmasking, moving on to allegations that jim baker at the fbi leaked things, uranium one, they have to come up with a new allegation every few weeks. it doesn t have to be founded because what can happen is, you start with an allegation, you move it into process a committee on the hill starts investigating or they put enough pressure on deputy attorney general there s an investigation. there are now the ig is looking at two separate things. they have to throw enough chum in the water there s a distraction from the constant drum beat of negativity. they escalate.