berman yesterday. she writes, except the record shows he had the evidence in 2007. remember the 53-page indictment, the phone records, the trash pulls, the flight manifests, the witnesses who work forward epstein. is there new evidence? here he says that there is. i ll defer to julia on this. she s done masterful reporting on this throughout the story. doesn t seem as if there s nothing substantial just yet. acosta is mounting his own defense here. we re seeing a pr campaign. his tweets. we ve seen others defend him. the president in the oval office backed him up. but again, if pressure continues to mount, there s a number of democrats already who, of course, have called for his resignation. do republicans follow suit? if they do, that may be difficult for the president to stand by acosta and, again, if this just becomes a distraction, if it takes away from what the president wants to talk about, in particular the economy, in which acosta with the jobs portfolio is such a key part of
professors, scientists, academics that were in his circle. but because they flew on his plane quite frankly or moved in his social circles doesn t necessarily mean that they were involved in anything illegal. so i think that we have to wait and see how deep this goes as far as this sex trafficking operation goes. but there are certainly many people right now who are probably a little nervous that he s been arrested. so let me ask you, those flight manifests, do they not only reveal the passengers but do they reveal any of those high profile named people actually going to his island? yes. of course. i mean, we know that bill clinton was going to you know, on his plane. we know that there were bill clinton was going to his plane to the island? you know, i yes. we know he was on the island if he wasn t on the island directly
when in fact it s clear from flight manifests and messages he has been there. he had this meeting, and then he met in new york just months before that in that other meeting at the happened at the four seasons with jared kushner that you point out. this is key not because necessarily this man will be charged and he s going to be the next shoe to drop, but because it really shows what mueller s looking into and his connection, of course, to both sides of this, to the trump orbit and to the united arab emirates. i will say that they are denying this saying they re not under scrutiny. but you don t know if you re under scrutiny by mueller. nel wants you to know that you re under scrutiny. matt, let me go over to you because your reporting talks about something else, what s going on inside the doj and names involved in this. looking at andrew mccabe and james comey and others. talk through what you re finding. so the inspector general i m sure everyone remembers issued a
willingness and eagerness to receive it. where we should have explored further his communications we could have subpoenaed those logs, his travel logs we know he went to paris weeks before election day. we don t know who he met with. same thing with michael cohen. i don t understand why the president s son and his lawyer are over in europe just weeks before election day and we could have subpoenaed their travel records, their hotel logs, their flight manifests to figure out who they were meeting with, why they were abroad right before the election. bob mueller, i hope he and his team will find this if we allow them to do it. talking about the president and the tweet that he is going to hereby demand d.o.j. investigate this informant, this spy, he says, in the trump campaign. and that s apparently going to happen because the white house and d.o.j. and the fbi have come to a deal to look further into it with the ig. you said this is obstruction in broad daylight. if that is the case, i
recessi investigation is now headed? they had to know that these people were coming into the u.s. through flight manifests, which means they re specifically targeting at least the two russians who came in, the two oligarchs. that means they already have information potentially about this money coming into trump s campaign. there is some deep investigation that would precede this type of stopping and questioning when someone comes into the country. it is hard for us to know what it is. but this all goes back to this initial question of did the russian government or people closely associated, like the oligarchs with putin, did people from another country influence our election, which, of course, is illegal to make campaign contributions, to hack e-mails and try to help the republican campaign, for example, that would be unlawful in our country. how concerning should this be to the white house at this point, if at all? i think it should be particularly concerning because keep in min