Questions mueller would have to explore. we have no idea what he s concluded in that regard but whether or not there s a crime that occurs here, this would have to be a powerful narrative to send up to the hill and if people on capitol hill are interested in doing their jobs and considering whether this president has engaged in high crimes and misdemeanors, leaving himself vulnerable to blackmail from a foreign power, has got to ripping those bells. i have to come back to the reporting that the fbi opened a counterintelligence investigation into the president and your reporting doesn t suggest the conversations about trump tower moscow had anything to do with that. but when knit together with all of the incidents that you guys reported, the president s statements about nato, the president s conduct around firing comey and after asking him to see to it to let flynn go, it certainly is consistent with the kind of narrative that would have given the fbi at the highest levels those conce
This comes as a surprise to the president because he was there for most of this. that went on. he i mean, the story, you know, about jared, you know, intervening the day that he was going to name me transition chairman, the president sat through that entire meeting. right. none of this is going to be a surprise to the president. jared is at the intersection of so many of the flashpoints in the mueller probe. it was his advice to fire jim comey, thought that was a good idea. he sat at lunch with you on valentine s day. we with know from comey s public testimony, donald trump asked comey to see to it to let flynn go. and he said to you that this ends the russia cloud. do you have you talked to mueller about any of the interactions? no, no, no, i ve never been called by the special counsel. do you think after writing this you muight be? i don t think so. i don t think there s anything in there of any import on this. as i report on the lunch, they fired flynn because he lie
I hope you see your way clear to letting flynn go. remember? he said hope doesn t mean extortion. right? say he said something like, say it ended in january or in the winter. that could be seen as supporting perjury. by another person, a person on mueller s team, not as impeachable. and everybody s watching that. when it comes to mueller s decision to dispute the buzzfeed report is a bit of a rarity. what do you make of that statement by the special counsel s office in the way it was worded, that they said inaccurate and you re getting pushback from buzzfeed saying we stand by the reporting and are asking mueller for specifics in terms of what he s actually refuting. i ve covered mueller since fbi director and the spokesman since joining the justice department in 2007.
So although we don t know the entirety of the facts here, it seems what special counsel has told us is not that the buzzfeed report is completely inaccurate, but that some of its specifics, some of its particulars go a little too far. pick up on that point, virginia. which is, did the president, this is a president and his fixers who have gone back, had a history michael cohen trying to protect the president making hush money payments to alleged affairs the president had, does he need to lie explicitly and tell michael cohen lie for me in front of congress for this to be a crime? okay. we re talking about a very esoteric crime. and we asked splun eed someone under oath, it s every headline. this will bring the president down. not the russian agent, not obstruction, not asking comey to ask, to let flynn go, but this particular thing. look at what this is. it s something usually lawyers
Look at rod rosenstein, deputy attorney general that allowed mueller investigation to continue, one of the little-kno little-known, in that regulation was not obstruction in justice in firing comey or letting flynn go but obstruction of justice in mueller s investigation itself. everything he is doing at this moment to potentially affect the investigation counts. just very quickly remember what giuliani was doing and what trump continues to do is fight gloria mentioned this, fight a political battle, the impeachment argument. they re not really fighting the legal battle. i think they already know what s coming in the mueller report. jeffrey mentioned it. you will see that argument that trump made repeatedly over and over again on conservative networks and it will not be disputed. that s what they r trying to influence, facts be damned. more news we re following, including this. a mysterious woman who calls herself a seductress now has