dershowitz and richard painter. what do you make about that, about tom barrack being questioned by the special counsel. we ll find out what he has to say when the special counsel chooses to disclose that. i believe robert mueller is a highly professional prosecutor. he had an impeccable record at the fbi. the tactics he s using are very similar to the tactics that he used going against organized crime and we can have debates about how far prosecutors should go, trying to flip one witness for another, but it very, very common when you go after organized crime and other criminal conspiracies. and it s a good debate to have with professor dershowitz or anyone else. i will say it is tragic when we are talking a year and a half into an administration about prosecutors using tactics that they use to go after organized crime and it the white house and
trump. she was talking about down-ballot races. friday started with the discussion of potentially cabinet posts with joe biden. this seems to have washed out a bit of that confidence, has it not? yes, and i don t know that it couldn t. i don t think hillary clinton ever wants to hear the word fbi and e-mail in the same sentence. but i think what clinton is trying to do is get the fbi to clarify what it is that they have and what it is they don t have. because it s clear that this dust storm that s being kicked up is going to be made hay of by the gop. we ve seen this, frankly, within minutes of the letter being produced to congressman, to the eight leaders of the congressional committees. we had paul ryan and others jumping up and down. and we had donald trump talking about, you know, criminal conspiracies. which is completely without basis in fact. what matters right now is the voters and what matters is they get the facts they need to make the best decisions.
informants or any number of tactics. but it s always within a legal framework. that s not always the easiest thing to determine, where it stops and where does infridgement of the first amendment begin? but the nypd has done an excellent job of this and have disrupted plots on new york city that were in process. it s serious business they re dealing with and they have to get on the edge of, where do we decide we re going to actually pull back because we don t want to offend people? you can t let political correctness dictate this. what does surveillance mean? it s the same if you re looking at a terrorist investigation as if you re dealing with drug dealers or any number of possible criminal conspiracies. members of law enforcement, the nypd, who are watching the individual, perhaps member an infor mai informant, talking to individuals they believe are being radicalized. if somebody is saying, where do i get a machine gun because i