so what they re doing is trying to build a case for going into more intrusive methods. whatever they decided to do, which is kind of interesting because we don t see a title 3 application for going up on a wire, all you see is a pen register in this, is they either got what they wanted in this case or when they did the raid on cohen offices they got everything that they needed. so there is no indication that anyone in the white house orbit was being tapped. which is also a question we have to ask. probably special counsel mueller s very in tune with this. you d have to say there s no other way you can find this evidence unless i go for this method. it seems in this case they did not need to do it or at least we don t know about it at this point. jeremy bash, let s take a second and remind people choice of words here. the president called this a break-in of cohen s offices. rudy giuliani, former u.s. attorney, referred to the fbi as storm troopers. with that in mind, what stands out t
bret: now hearing about this referral. the coverage leading up to the mccabe firing takes a different perspective. i want to turn to rod rosenstein. whom told the president he is not a target of the cohen investigation. that s the one with the u.s. attorney in the southern district of new york of the personal attorney michael cohen. what about that? you can t be a target and you are a subject, but tomorrow you could be a target if they find something criminal? a lot i don t understand about that. the whole point of the search of the cohen offices was there might be a crime or fraud going on in that office. it s the only exception you can make to the attorney-client privilege. how could it be a crime or fraud that only involves cohen and come across mueller s desk and mueller is investigating the
tucker: that seems like ake pretty tenuous connection to news, just me. by the way, i think other channels have covered this exclusively since we started 28 minutes ago. that is all theynu have covered for this hour so far. i think there s a lot of excitement about the search of the cohen offices and so on. but the question that you still have to answer here is, what really is the underlying crime and doesn t rise to the level of something, for purposes of impeachment, or as the questioner at the briefing said, the possibility that trump will resign an interesting question. is anything about trump s behavior, reaction to any ofge this, suggest this is a man contemplatingin quitting? obviously, palpably not. tucker: i m not sure that he or anyone in the white house fully understands what would happen if democrats take the house this fall, as many polls suggest they will. it seems like the very top of
fixer. no question. atactic they used with the former campaign chairman paul manafort in his home in virginia. the reflections refrain from trump and his supporters since the start of the investigation, whenever charges have come up, this has nothing to do with the president. no connection to him. in fact, we know that is belied by the facts. here you have based on gloria borger s reporting that some of the documents seized from the cohen offices relates to stormy daniels and someone who is alleged to have an affair with the president and was paid out and the criminal charges, dealing with business dealings prior to the election but it is our reporting that mueller wanted to get information from them about the question of collusion. michael flynn, his crime, lying, some would say just lying about conversations he had during the transition before joining the president s national security team. so these investigations are connected to the president whether they lead to wrongdoing