i think is revealed throughout both the papadopoulos situation where he lied during an fbi interview when they warned him that lying is a federal offense, as well as throughout the manafort indictment that indicates lying in a whole host of other contexts. nick, what leapt out to you? we can talk about manafort and gates. but i want to talk about papadopoulos. what leapt out to you? what leapt out to me is he started cooperating in july. this was kept quiet until today. to me, that says that they had him out there playing dial a crook, calling people with a wiretapped phone, meeting with people, wearing a wire. there are all kinds of people. look how many different campaign officials were mentioned in that information. not by name, but simply by position. and if i were the prosecutor, i certainly would have sent him out with all kinds of stories about being pressured by the
really spending his remaining active years in federal prison, not a good proposition. when you look at the team that robert mueller has assembled. for example, andrew wiseman, he s expected to be an expert on colleagues. the go to guy when it comes to appeals cases. greg andreas who once managed a justice department program, targeting illegal foreign bribery. if you have papadopoulos as a cooperating witness, what do you have him doing? if it were my cooperating witness, don t forget, he started cooperating in july. i d have him start playing dial a crook and meet a crook, wearing a wire, so he could get people to basically admit to all the stuff that he s telling the government. he would be trying to cooperate and get as much evidence as he could for the government, so that he gets the zero years in prison that he has under the federal sentencing guidelines.
manafort indictment that indicates lying in a whole host of other contexts. nick, what leapt out to you? we can talk about manafort and gates. but i want to talk about papadopoulos. what leapt out to you? what leapt out to me is he started cooperating in july. this was kept quiet until today. to me, that says that they had him out there playing dial a crook, calling people with a wiretapped phone, meeting with people, wearing a wire. there are all kinds of people. look how many different campaign officials were mentioned in that information. not by name, but simply by position. and if i were the prosecutor, i certainly would have sent him out with all kinds of stories about being pressured by the fbi, being subpoenaed, what do i tell them, what do i do? and i ll bet anything that they ve got a whole array of tapes that have already been made, and there are a lot of other people in muller s sights.