randomly taken by some thief, they were taken as part of a russian intelligence operation. when that news broke on june 14th, it was not a subtle thing. it was everywhere. this was that initial report, russian government hackers 3e7b penetrated dnc. that started a lit any of reporting about this. u.s. officials say little doubt russia behind dnc hack. spy agency hacked dnc. fbi investigating possible connection to the linked dnc e-mails. it was everywhere. even if you can t read and sometimes watch the tv news, no matter what kind of tv news you were watching you couldn t help being expoed to this story, even if it s on fox. from the campaign trail the washington post reporting the russian government hacked into
it could take many, many months to get to the bottom of it. but even in if it s a charge against manafort or flynn or someone else, it seems there s so much new news all the time that it seems it would take a team of lawyers a long time to get to the bottom of it. but as i said, mueller does have a reputation of working with urgency and he has a team of 16 top prosecutors so they ve been working days, nights and weekends to get this done. thank you very much. i want to bring in the conversation matthew miller. he s the former spokesperson for the justice department. thank you for being here, i appreciate it. thank you. you heard the discussion i just had with barbara mcquad. you you ve seen the reporting that came out. i need to underscore that nbc has not confirmed this reporting tonight and as of five seconds ago when i last checked with the
was put in charge of this probe, which was just about six months ago, maybe that question was starting to come due. i want to know what your reaction is to that recent reporting and those concerns by people who were worried about the independence of the investigation. i think it s clear that everyone from the president to his allies in congress to the conservative media have been orchestrating a drum beat against the special council, which includes raises questions about his budget, whether he should be fired. and i think that shows nervousness on his investigation, where he might go, ha what he might find. if indictments come out, it means you re interfering with an investigation that a grand jury has found probable cause to charge someone criminally. it becomes a question of really it s obviously not obstruction of justice for congress to do that, but it
this is the first indictment, first set of indictments, we ll see when the charges are unsealed. and there are more to come. part of the reporting that cnn has done tonight which is more background rather than it is sort of some new fact that they ve dug up. the way they re characterizing their report tonight is that the deputy attorney general, rod rosenstein, who s overseeing all matters related to the russia investigation because of the recusal of attorney general jeff sessions, rod rosenstein as the person overseeing the mueller investigation, would he have had to see the proposed indictment? would he have had to have been informed about these proposed charges in order for the mueller investigation to have gone this far? technically under the regulations, he wouldn t have to see the indictment. it would be up to the relationship he and mueller worked out under the terms of the appointment. the appointment document itself is narrow, it sets out the things mueller can investigate
becomes, you know, blocking an investigation that as borne fruit. it becomes a more questionable activity after he filed charges than it was before. one last question for you, matt. one of the stories that we were planning on leading with tonight before this news broke was the interesting and unexpected news out of the eastern district of virginia, was that the attorney, dana boente, who has played a number of stand in roles, being brought on as acting attorney general, acting deputy attorney general, he s now the acting assistant attorney general on security matters, he announced his resignation today. that may be a totally separate matter from this, it may be absolutely unrelated. there s been some speculation that dave briggs because of t that dana boente hbecause of th job he had in the trump administration there s been some reporting, speculation that