you can t deal with someone like that. that said, some people speculate that the president was prepared to blow up the infrastructure talks all along pointing to a placard apparently prepared in advance of his rose garden ceremony highlighting the $35 million and 675 days that special counsel mueller spent on his investigation. this morning sarah sanders explained that sign s availability. the placard had been printed weeks ago. if you look at the president s twitter feed he twited the same graphic on april 20th. it is not like this was some new talking point or new moment. the president is angry aurnd churning it out on twitter this morning. the democrats are getting nothing done in congress. all their effort is a redo of the mueller report which didn t turn out the way they wanted. congress heads home for a week long memorial day recess after today. time-out is badly needed.
a former fbi official who helped over see parts of the russia investigation defended the bureau s actions. we were concerned about what was going on here. and those events didn t just happen in a vacuum. we were looking at what russia was up to generally and the threat they posed. we were looking at what they were trying to do with our election. we also saw trump revisit history today concerning his former national security adviser michael flynn. flynn is still awaiting sentencing after pleading guilty to lying to investigators to conversations with russia s ambassador. people tied to congress and to the white house tried to influence flynn s cooperation deal with mueller. well, just today trump posted the following on twitter and full disclosure, this one seems designed to take up our time and waste our breath because it was so immediately and provably wrong. he wrote the following, it now seems the general flynn was
a really bad situation. treason means long jail sentences, and this was treason. usual friday stuff there. but about the same time the washington post posted an interview. government power was used to spy on american citizens. barr also talked about his newly launched inquiry into the origins of the russia investigation with fox news saying it is necessary because special counsel mueller s work did not cover the possibility that officials may have abused their power. he was looking at whether or not the trump campaign had conspired with the russians. but he was not going back and looking at the counter intelligence program. can you tell us what the steele dossier had to do with this? it is a very unusual situation to have opposition research like that, especially one that on its face had the number of clear mistakes, to use
was up to generally and the threat they posed. we were looking at what they were trying to do with our election. we also saw trump revisit history today concerning his former national security adviser michael flynn. flynn is still awaiting sentencing after pleading guilty to lying to investigators about conversations with russia s ambassador. people tied to congress and to the white house tried to influence flynn s cooperation deal with mueller. well, just today trump posted the following on twitter and full disclosure, this one seems designed to take up our time and waste our breath because it was so immediately and provably wrong. he wrote the following, it now seems the general flynn was under investigation long before was common knowledge. it would have been impossible for me to know this, but if that was the case, and with me being
the nefarious title of spying. that belief is getting new support from his hand picked attorney william barr. this was trump s message early today and we quote, my campaign for president was conclusively spied on. nothing like this has ever happened in american politics. a really bad situation. treason means long jail sens sentences, and this was treason. government power was used to spy on american citizens. barr also talked about his newly launched inquiry into the origins of the russia investigation with fox news saying it is necessary because special counsel mueller s work did not cover the possibility that officials may have abused their power. he was looking at whether or not the trump campaign had conspired with the russians. but he was not going back and looking at the counter