when he said democrats got what they wanted on substance. but the optics were a disaster. in terms of impeachment, was it always about the opt iics anywa? what was mueller going to say that changed the facts from in the report? i wonder what your take is on the impeachment. yeah, first of all, anybody who ever expected bob mueller to produce a charismatic exciting optically interesting hearing doesn t know bob mueller. this is a person who is not charismatic. who made it perfect clear that he didn t want to be there. and who is, you know, and going to basically said that he was not going to go beyond the four corners of his report. that he was going to answer questions, very minimally, if at
security bills yesterday. how concerned are you, former 2020 candidate, about the integrity of the 2020 election? very concerned. no hyperbole here. i see the threats every single day three floors below in the capitol in a secure room. they are very real. that was a call yesterday from bob mueller and we should yieun with previous threats to his country. thank you very much. the washington post is this, the failure to focus on election in the hearings reflect a broad impasse between democrats and lawmakers since russian hackers upended the 2016 contest with the exception of delivering $380 million for securities in states in 2018 with no strings attached. did democrats miss an opportunity yesterday by
justice department, when i was u.s. attorney and he had a lot more to do in that position. during the time he s been the spokesperson for the special counsel s office, no offense to him, but it is one of the easiest jobs you can have in public relations because he doesn t speak. he is a spokesperson that doesn t speak because the mueller team doesn t say anything, and they re as tight lipped as any prosecutorial agency you will ever see. as you point out, the fact he made a statement about these supposed allegations tells you something about how seriously they take them. i find it odd that this kind of effort would be undertaken a week before the election, but maybe not so odd. maybe it is understandable. i m curious to know what all of the facts are. you know, when things like this come fofrd, yrward, you want to you take a step back. not that i think anything untoward happened on the part of bob mueller, that would be astonishing to me, but it is odd certain women were contacted, one
mueller, doesn t know bob mueller. i don t understand why exactly she was pursued, why people thought if it is true that she would be prepared to say for relatively modest amount of money, ruin someone s reputation and put herself in the spotlight. it doesn t make a lot of sense to me, so i would like to see more facts come out. it is a very, very bizarre situation. let s talk about some of the other issues going on right now. the president just a little while ago on the white house lawn as he was leaving the white house to head down to florida, he said that he hasn t been subpoenaed by robert mueller and his team, but do you expect the report from the special counsel in the coming months without an in-person not a written, but an in-person interview with the president? i do. i think the prospect we have been talking for some months, wolf, after, you know, weeks after weeks and weeks and weeks, that the president keeps maneuvering through his lawyers a way not to have an in
there s no way bob mueller wanted this to get out there this way. i think it s probably serving a purpose. to pressurize the defendants. pressure on the defendants to do what? to give up information? to put pressure we talked about michael flynn and his son could potentially be involved if he doesn t play ball with this team? yeah, like the prosecutor said, i think that s probably a motive here. all right. i want to get to the jfk release now. is there any revelation there that surprised even you? no. alex, let s be clear about what happened on thursday. president trump got rolled. the media got played. and as senator grassley said, the cia wants to continue the cover-up. president trump got rolled. the cia and fbi were supposed to release about 30,000 pages of material on thursday. that was very clear in the law. they released about 2,000 documents of the 30,000.