job. the president says he wants to sign off on the hit job. the justice department and the intel community says it would be extraordinarily reckless to do so. they say it would shed light on this investigation despite the fact everybody else says that this is misleading as getting information from, oh, i don t know, 1 million russian bots on twitter. congratulations on your story, by the way. that was a great story yesterday. yeah, that was incredible. but this is such a hand fisted setup to undermine rod rosenstein so they can fire him so he can appoint somebody who can fire mueller. it s all about treating the justice department as an extension of the trump tower security force, right? that s how the president views the nation s law enforcement agency. what we have been seeing here for the past few months is an effort to wind up and prepare to disengage from whatever the mueller probe finds, to discredit it and give the party its own set of reasons for backing away from it. we
have been explicitly warned that what you do could be extraordinarily reckless. i know, mika, they re all panicked. even ken starr came out over the weekend and said he would consider the impeachment of donald trump because his continued lies about this investigation. you know, they have him dead to center, by the way. i won t say people s names. i don t want to give them any more options. but people saying this weekend in op-eds that donald trump hasn t committed obstruction and there s no way he should testify. it is a joke. donald trump fired the fbi director because the fbi director would not ignore a federal crime that donald trump was aware of that his national security adviser made. and after firing that fbi director, which every president has the right to do, but after
significantly, ultimately, than his lifetime role as a corrupter of the american system that he would be accused of helping foreign power subvert american democracy is a fitting coda to his life story. joe, again, you know, this is there s two issues here, one of following the money and the other potentially obstructing justice following the money. yeah, frank, thank you so much for being with us. this is a remarkable piece. thank you. i would prefer to talk to you about how liverpool has the habit of shocking man city and then collapsing which we ve done two years in a row but the piece is so important we won t have a chance to get to that ch. but you take a look at manafort s darkally complex influence in the washington lobbying game and what struck me
so this is at the end of the day all about paul ryan and kevin mccarthy engaging directly or indirectly in a political obstruction of justice attempt at an independent counsel and they are using devin nunes to do that. of course, devin nunes is where he is because paul ryan put him there and paul ryan can stop it today if he wanted to. but these same republicans who were so concerned about hillary clinton s misuse of classified information and talked about it for a year and a half, wrote about it for a year and a half, rattled on about it for a year and a half, couldn t to rattle on about it on their cable news network so they can avoid donald trump firing fbi directors and committing obstruction of justice, they re now ignoring our intel community and donald trump s own justice department saying that it would be extraordinarily reckless to release a memo that is cherry
he didn t have, going to the white house being spoon fed. he s discredited himself. he s recused himself from the russian investigation and yet here he is in the middle of the russian investigation. paul ryan if you re listening or somebody in your staff is listening and i know they are, listen, the intel community, the justice department said it would be incredibly reckless to release this memo. go back and see all the things you said about hillary clinton and her server, all the things i said about hillary clinton and her server, all the things republicans said about hillary clinton and her server and how she mistreated classified information. hillary clinton never had a letter saying if you do x, then that will lead to y which will subvert american national security. paul ryan, devin nunes, kevin mccarthy, house republicans, you