said, a mixed report. not a good one given the different ways she found that essentially mueller prevailed on at least three of them. she also goes on to say that this means the office of special counsel is to longer bound by its obligations under the plea agreement, including the promise to support a reduction of the offense. that doesn t mean she won t take into account her own judgement when making the ultimate decision on sentencing. that s up to her. it s not up to mueller. she says this doesn t address whether the defendant will receive credit for his acceptance of responsibility. he may receive some reduction. overall, she has found that he did lie on those issues that he list out. the three of the five issues. the judge jackson on the two two out of the five she says the office of special counsel failed to establish by a preponderance of the evidence that on october 16, 2018, defendant intentionally made a false statement concerning his contacts with theed aminute strag. ev
of the comments she made about bowling green. doesn t mean she won t be on television, she will be on with jake tapper, but there s questions about credibility given the pattern of misstatements in the past. no big surprises. spicer trying to be rather subdued in the wake of snl. the secretary of homeland security john kelly is speaking about the news media, listen to this. yesterday president trump suggested that the quote very, very dishonest press doesn t adequately report terrorist attacks. do you believe that statement? i think the press gets does the best job responsible press do the best job they can to get the facts straight but of course they will go with the story that s what they do it s
it you watch sean spicer every day, you just saw general kelly, they have got a tough job here because on the one hand they re trying to channel the president of the united states. particularly shawn. he knows the president is watching which normally doesn t happen with briefings, but he knows he s got an audience he wants so at the same time he s trying to be the shovel brigade here. the tweet is pretty clear, if it s pretty clear, does it mean that the judge is to blame if god forbid there s a terrorist attack in this country, or is it the media, is the media to blame therefore if there s a terror attack in the country, the media is to blame? this is a president who is trying to deflect rather than shoulder the responsibility.
other members putting out these falsehoods. even if she was just misspeaking, she was causing people to be afraid. one more point about cnn. she was offered the state of the union, cnn declined to have her on the network today. i thought that was very notable. doesn t mean she won t be on in the coming days. it s not a totally freeze out of cnn but it does seem a form of punishment, an attempt by the white house to punish news outlets that does not favor. if the goal is to starve cnn of ratings, i can tell you it s not working. let s look at snl last night. we got to watch sean spicer. let s watch this clip and talk about it. okay. we ll do a couple questions. go. glenn, new york times. boo, go ahead. yeah, i wanted to ask about travel ban on muslims. it s not a ban. i m sorry. it s not ban. the travel ban is not a ban which makes it not a ban.
secretary called the designated presidential successor will not attend the inauguration, ready to step in if something happens. but it won t be a trump cabinet secretary since none of them have been confirmed yet. it will be an obama appointee. no word from the white house on who that will be on friday. does the line of succession switch to the new president s lum at noon? in the inauguration you have two lines of succession, one for the obama administration, which is still in place, and one which really won t be in place until donald trump is inaugurated, comes into office actually formally nominates and the senate confirms his people. you might end up with the president from the prior administration because of the tragedy. reporter: and by noon friday all of president obama s secretaries are expected to resign. john kerry would be the first cabinet secretary in the line of succession, but he s out of office by noon. donald trump s pick for secretary of state, rex tillerson, may n