statement that trump had the irs and other federal agencies investigate two federal officials involved into the case of his campaign ties to russia. quote, president trump questioned whether investigations by the internal revenue service or other federal agencies should be undertaken into mr. strzok or ms. page. i do not know of mr. trump ordering such an investigation. it appeared, however, that he wanted to see mr. strzok and ms. page investigated. kelly s statement was filed thursday in connection with lawsuits, lawsuits we have covered on this program, brought by mr. strzok who was the lead russia investigation and lisa page against the justice department for violating their privacy rights. that s when the trump administration made public text messages between them. like so much of what we now know about the trump presidency, this revelation was found, where do you think? in notes taken by one of his own staffers, likely sitting in front of the resolute desk, listening to
well even with people that might have agreed with trump on other things. the first step i think is just making this case vigorously and then really pressing this in the senate and speaking to the urgency of getting these vacancies filled. because that s not necessarily going to be something that claire, mitch mcconnell, i want to bring you in on this. he could be accused of a lot of things but he can read a poll and the republican position on abortion is out of the mainstream of the kinds of voters he knows he needs to win if he doesn t want to remain in the minority and the republican positions in attacking the military as ben just pointed out are very unpopular. not just with independent and swing voters but with a lot of republican voters. what is your sense of how this got to this point now for military readiness is very much impacted? got to take a deep breath. tuberville is a child.
position with respect to the government s request for a firm december trial date. if you remember, there was sort of a placeholder by the judge of august. everyone understood that s a placeholder. everyone said we would like a firm december date. the defense is supposed to respond today as to their position. this will be a real test of judge cannon as to what she s going to do. second, there s been this last-minute attempt by walt nauta to put off the first preliminary conference for this friday in a filings that i think were pretty thin in terms of merit. this will also be a test of judge cannon and how much of a backbone she has to get the case moving. this is a pretty standard hearing that was she ordered to have this friday, which is just to discuss how they re going to go about scheduling and handling classified information. so it s really a pro forma thing done in cases where there s classified information.
statement that trump had the irs and other federal agencies investigate two federal officials involved into the case of his campaign ties to russia. quote, president trump questioned whether investigations by the internal revenue service or other federal agencies should be undertaken into mr. strzok or ms. page. i do not know of mr. trump ordering such an investigation. it appeared, however, that he wanted to see mr. strzok and ms. page investigated. kelly s statement was filed thursday in connection with lawsuits, lawsuits we have covered on this program, brought by mr. strzok who was the lead russia investigation and lisa page against the justice department for violating their privacy rights. that s when the trump administration made public text messages between them. like so much of what we now know about the trump presidency, this revelation was found, where do
jeff sessions to investigate hillary and comey. he had to be stopped from doing that by his white house counsel at the time. it s a harder thing to uncover. you know, it s more difficult to penetrate, but i ve always thought it was more significant because it was trying to use these sacred powers, the ability to investigate, prosecute against the enemies. i mean, i think there s a large body of evidence by the end that he used the pardon power to excuse his political allies, that he had the durham probe investigating the investigator, some of the same people he sought to investigate and punish with the irs and doj. it s just amazing that a full picture hasn t emerged yet. all right. no one s going anywhere today. when we come back, we are expecting an important filing today in the other investigation, the classified document investigation and case against the twice-impeached,