counsel. 20,000 pages of white house documents have been provided to mueller. 1.4 million pages of documents from the campaign. 37 witnesses from the campaign and the white house. their cooperation has been extraordinary and it s worth mentioning it s been extraordinary in the face of allegations that are unfounded, baseless and evidence-free. the collusion theory is a conspiracy theory. harris: i want to press this notion that the president has probably seen the same pulling that the rest of us have seen and that is that the american people appreciate the fact that he would consider sitting down with robert mueller. that doesn t mean that it s left up to the president to decide that. that s why you have counsel the flip of this though is the grand jury could subpoena him. your thoughts. i would argue that first of all mueller doesn t have legal standing. something that apparently the president s legal team has offered as well or has conjectured that he doesn t have the legal stand
they should take this approach of extreme transparency on russia gate. it does nothing to protect the president from the activity against him and protects people like barack obama and justice department and fbi that was misused to target president trump. you know, barack obama the dossier is central to the russian collusion theory. it s collapsing and if it was central to the russian collusion theory. we have reports today quickly sean, barack obama was given the dossier. he was given the dossier. what did he know and why wasn t he been questioned about it. >it. sean: that s a good point. the grassley graham letter to rice today, monica crowlly, they want to know what was talked about on january 5th and susan rice note to self-just hours before they leave the white house. doesn t that seem a little odd that letter that she is ending out? yeah. look, the idea, sean, that any of these people in the executive branch under president obama,the branch
should take this approach of extreme transparency on this pressure gauge. there is nothingro to protect te president for most illicit activity against him. it protects people like barack obama and the justice department and fbi that was misused to targetre president trump. the dossier is central to the russian collusion theory. it s collapsing and if it wasus central to the russian collusion theory, we have reports today, barack obama was given the dossier. he was given the dossier. what did he know and why hasn t he been questioned about k it? sean: that s a good point. the grassley graham letter to rice, monica crowley, they want to know what was talked about on january 5th and what susan rice, a note to self, just hours before they leave the white house. doesn t that seem odd, that letter? she is sending out? yeah. the idea that any of these
enforcement effort. this is a political effort here. these guys really don t care about the underlying intelligence. they want to make a report that says the steele dossier is not to be credited because they are afraid of it being proven to be true because that sets out a relationship between the russians and the trumps that goes back a decade and sets the predicate for the relationship that forms the basis of the collusion theory. so i think this is much about sort of discrediting the steele memorandum as anything else. that s why i don t think they care about the facts. they don t need to read the facts. they know what they want to say. they know what their narrative is and they re pushing it out. the reason they with held the democrat counterreport, they want their narrative out there first so they can sort of assess if it was cement, they want it to set and have a counternarrative, but by then they re hoping that there s
that respect. if the contents of the document are libelist, if that s what he thinks, then he can sue the authors of the report. but i think buzzfeed as a news organization is pretty well insulated from that sort of lawsuit. it is the type of bluster we have seen in the administration with the threatening of lawsuits or lawsuits that don t actually go anywhere as a means of suppressing conversation, which is obviously problematic. can i add one thing, though, don, about this? fusion gps testimony which struck me is that in the dossier one of the theories that underlie how did the collusion theory come to arise was between the trump business organization and, you know, former soviet union states of the world. and bannon said remember in the fire and fury book this is all