That the president has been acid wously denying for more than a year now, that there was a in fact a major russian operation to interfere in the 2016 u. S. Election. And, you know, the Intelligence Community has been saying for a year now that they have high confidence that that is the case. And here you have the u. S. Department of justice and a grant Ju Grand Jury saying they can prove that beyond a reasonable doubt in a court of law, using admissible evidence. And that, you know, is a Rod Rosenstein today was extremely careful not to offend the president and make sure that no americans were witting participants in this plot. But that is a remarkable factual repudiation of the entire
he was very careful to stay within what is alleged in the indictment. But he did make a point on several occasions of saying that no americans are accused of participation in this. And i do think that was probably aimed at the president in a fashion that allows the president at least until such a time as
team are appointees of this president so that makes the whole situation even stranger. but i think i m not so sure there s a conflict necessarily for deputy attorney general rosenstein, i think at least initially he will it will be his dilemma in terms of responding to whatever demand the president may issue tomorrow. but i think part of that dilemma is the fact that arguably, a demand for such an investigation is a demand for a political investigation in and of itself. and again, in my experience with doj, and at the fbi, the department simply doesn t do politically motivated investigations, so to the extent that the deputy tone general and the doj sees this as a politically motivated demand, that poses real problems for the department. and all of this related to the probe of russia, how russia may have influenced the
advantage or donald trump and the disadvantage of hillary clinton. as concerned as donald trump and as concerned as he is about the appearance that he had help in the election, all the rod rosensteins saying there s no allegation of witting u.s. involvement in this will not erase the top line from this, which is, you know, the premise is true, there really was a russian is conspiracy to affect the election to the advantage of donald trump. ben, the indictment names three different trump campaign officials. do we and as you and i are in agreement that deputy tone general rosenstein was making abundantly clear that these indictments today do not allege