pressure. just think about what s happened in the last day with on the one hand you have growing evidence of trump collusion, and it s not just this, by the way, i mean, the way that trump behaved with putin last week lends further credence to the collusion charges, and led people like jim clapper to say the russians have something on him. the case against trump and the russians grows stronger. at the same time, the republicans are going into overdrive to protect him, they re trying to impeach rod rosenstein, the deputy attorney general, the shameful attempt to obstruct justice on the part of house republicans. they re really putting themselves out there. that s why i call them putin republicans, because there is an element of the republican party that s really tying themselves to the mast, aligning themselves with vladimir putin, because they re doing everything they can to impede an investigation of this russian attack on america. it s really interesting, the hypocrisy that s going
than the russians are. if you think the last stop at nato and discussion about a german pipeline was some sort of a coincidence you would be mistaken. based on what you saw on friday in that hearing with peter. do you think we ll see accountability. tell us what you saw in the room. how was he? well, again, i didn t find him to be a credible or believable witness. he s the star witness in bob mueller s investigation if he brings russian collusion charges. again, already, there are serious conflicts twine his testimony and that of lisa page. from the accountability standpoint the most important thing is we don t see evidence of russian collusion yet this
andrew mccarthy doubts any collusion charges coming. there has been no discovery event. mueller would be accused of prejudicing manafort in the eyes of the jury without anything relevant. none of the five plea deals mueller has secured to date involve collusion. that could be a towel. what you do when you get a cooperator who has participated in a conspiracy, when he s the first one of the second one to come in and plead guilty and then you say oh, sure, yes there was a conspiracy with russia to commit espionage. i was in it. here s what i did. here s what president trump did. here s what paul manafort did. that s what happens in a normal case. it s not have mixing in ts case. mueller s team has told trump s team that the president is not a suspect and is not under
exhibits and testimony that have already been voluntarily provided to you by the white house and witnesses all of which clearly show that there was no collusion with russia and that no fbi investigation was or could even or even could have been obstructed. let s bring back the contributing editor for the free beacon and weekly standard. daniel, are you surprised by the arguments made in this lengthy letter by the president s legal team? it is very fascinating and interesting but not particularly surprising. look, i think on the one hand, it does i think reveal that what we ve kind of known, that president trump and the white house is not too worried about the collusion charges. that they suggest is not i mean, that of course is the basis of the mueller investigation, but that doesn t seem to be the real sticking point. what their concern is about this obstruction charge and what they are arguing about in this letter is that the president by virtue of him being the chief executive
already been voluntarily provided to you by the white house and witnesses all of which clearly show that there was no collusion with russia and that no fbi investigation was or could even or even could have been obstructed. let s bring back the contributing editor for the free beacon and weekly standard. daniel, are you surprised by the arguments made in this lengthy letter by the president s legal team? it is very fascinating and interesting but not particularly surprising. look, i think on the one hand, it does i think reveal that what we ve kind of known, that president trump and the white house is not too worried about the collusion charges. that they suggest is not i mean, that of course is the basis of the mueller investigation, but that doesn t seem to be the real sticking point. what their concern is about this obstruction charge and what they are arguing about in this letter is that the president by virtue of him being the chief executive, the chief of the executive bran