blindsided. even if you had significant problems or questions about the dossier, you might want to tell the president of the united states, look, this is what s circulating. there s a separate issue that the president, for obvious reasons, isn t raising. that is what does this dossier have to actually do with the investigation? robert mueller we know has acquired financial records, e-mail records, phone records, interviews. those that combination of information has led to four indictments and two guilty pleas. yeah. none of those four indictments has the dossier cropped up. those guilty pleas included people who said, admittedly in front of a court, that day lied to the federal bureau of investigations. so the president s trying to mix apples and oranges. yeah. he s trying to get us to focus on the dossier. the indictments so far don t have anything to do with that, jim. and the investigations whether it be the special counsel or the hill investigation, house and senate int
they took it seriously, the other question you never want the president of the united states to be surprised or blindsided even if you had significant problems about the dossier might want to tell the president of the united states look there is what is circulating. there s a separate issue president is not raising, that is, what does this dossier have to do with the investigation. robert mueller acquired financial records, e-mail records, phone records, interviews, that combination of information has led to four indictments and two guilty pleas and in none of that has the dossier cropped up. the guilty pleas 5d mitted to lying to the federal bureau of investigation. the president is trying to focus on the dossier but the indictment so far have nothing to do with that. and the intel committee is part of the investigations, the dossier just a small part of the investigations. yeah.
out, that we re very much in an exploratory mode trying to piece together what people did, where they were, who they talked to, in most cases we have accessed e-mail records, text messages, phone records voluntarily. usually when you get something like that voluntarily, somebody s probably going to tell you the truth when they answer the questions, but the reason that we can t definitively answer some of your questions today is, we will take everything that our staff has put into transcripts and we will test that against every piece of intelligence and other interviews that we ve done to suggest that we ve done that to everybody thoroughly would be misleading you. so let us go through that process. i will assure you if somebody has come in and not been truthful with us, we will catch them on that and they will come back and that will be the subject of great intensity on our part. questions for both of you. based on the work done so far,
that other staffers have been wired by the special counsel, robert mueller, to record conversations. how realistic do you think that is? these guys are squirming at the end of a hook, wolf, but they re squirming for the wrong reason. i think they re like their boss. they re watching too much tv. i would not be worried about wires. i d be worried about other things. don jr., when he lied about his meeting with the russian lawyer, he initially claimed it was about immigration issues. turned out it was about hillary clinton. that wasn t a tire tap. that was an e-mail chain. these guys have to worry about years of e-mail records. they have to be worried about interviews. people on the prifrry of this conversation are going to tell them, don t lie to a federal investigator. finally, wolf, you got to worry about flips. if the fbi says you re going to be charged with a federal crime, that person has to be careful about whether they want to go to prison or whether they want to talk about wha
senator chris coons of delaware. good to see you, as always. what do you hope to learn when donald trump jr. appears before your committee tomorrow? jake, what i m folk ugcused the future public hearing where we ll be able to hear donald trump jr. and potentially other witnesses testify under oath in public. one of the things i hope to question donald trump jr. about in that future public hearing is why he was unsurprised, at least according to the e-mail records, when he was told there was an effort afoot by the russian regime, the putin government, in trying to assist his father in winning the presidential campaign. i would suppose that elicited a more surprising reaction than he took. i think it suggests he may have known more about the russian efforts than he so far has led