the justice department giving someone in the room who acknowledges that this thing happened. they said it was sarcastically. our reporting showing otherwise. is this coming from contemporaneous memos. our reporting pulled on talking to a wide range of folks that were in the justice department at the time. what was going on is that mccabe was the acting director. that s a similar thing to what comey had done about his interactions with trump. this was seen as an extreme measure to go to to document what was very, i don t know how to explain it but an incredible time in what was going on. we have a statement from the
and the best evidence of it is comey never reported it. contemporaneous memos. you know how persuasive they can be in a court of law. contemporaneous. i d like to see the contemporaneous well, you will if there s going to be discovery because of any kind of trial. i m sure you don t want to get that far. no, we don t. but if we do, i would like to see if it was written after or before. i guarantee you it was written after. well, he says and if it was written before, he s got a serious problem. he didn t report it. i don t see that as a big problem. it is a big problem. help me understand. i m the u.s. attorney. somebody calls me up and says, fix the case. right. i write it down, and i bury it for four months. that s a felony. but you do not fix the case. yeah, but i the attempt to influence me is a crime. i m not a private citizen like you. right. or me right now. as a u.s. attorney, i would have to report that. i knew that. i reported. but it se
michael flynn s firing, because that involves what james comey alleges that donald trump said to him. you look at all of them. they re all interrelated to james comey, and they re also essentially the same way michael cohen was essentially wiretapping donald trump, right? he has his iphone and he s copying it. these contemporaneous memos that james comey say have probative value, which mueller clearly does. then mueller has this relationship with james comey that i find to then investigate the firing of james comey, when you lobbied barack obama for him to be your successor, there s something there s a problem with that. it does seem, though, that we don t really know i mean it s one thing for us to talk about the mueller investigation because of little leaks, things that have leaked out or things that have been ascertained because of court documents. we really don t know the vast iceberg that s underneath the surface. and that goes exactly to why robert mueller, to this point,
russian ambassador reportedly offered a lie stevenson not just propaganda, not just soviet press help to help him get the presidency, they also offered him russian money. what is the right thing to do in that circumstance? this was 1960. what s the right response? well, when adlai stevenson got home from that surprise meeting at the russian embassy, he wrote the whole thing down. he took a contemporaneous notes, contemporaneous memos of everything that ambassador had told him in that meeting. he wanted to document and memorialize that offer from a foreign power to help him win the presidency. quote, i made the following points to the ambassador. my thanks for this express of confidence. my thanks for this proffer of aid, but also my grave misgivings about the propriety or wisdom of any interinterference direct or indirect in the american election. i said to him that even if i was a candidate, i could not accept the assistance proffered. i believe i made it clear to him that i considere
press help to help him get the presidency, they also offered him russian money. what is the right thing to do in that circumstance? this was 1960. what s the right response? well, when adlai stevenson got home from that surprise meeting at the russian embassy, he wrote the whole thing down. he took a contemporaneous notes, contemporaneous memos of everything the ambassador had told him in that meeting. he wanted to document and memorialize that offer from a foreign power to help him win the presidency. stevenson wrote, quote, i made the following points to the ambassador. my thanks for this express of confidence. my thanks for this proffer of aid, but also, quote, my grave misgivings about the propriety or wisdom of any interference direct or indirect in the american election. i said to him that even if i was a candidate, i could not accept the assistance proffered. i believe i made it clear to him that i considered the offer of such assistance highly improper, indiscreet and dangerous