Is not the truth. Is that just misspeaking or part of a campaign of deception . Its time to go deep. Lets get after it. In an on the record interview with reuters, the president says that he could run the probe himself if he wanted. All this coming after his biggest tweet storm yet about mueller and word that his white House Counsel cooperated with muellers probe more than trump might have known. Here to discuss that and much more, former Attorney General michael mukasey. Judge, good to have you as always. Good to be with you. So if you were to hear that the president has decided, im taking over this probe. Im taking it over. What would your reaction be . I would shake myself and wake up. Just a dream . Yeah. Can he, or should he not . I i have no idea whether he can. I cant believe that he can. Hed have to fire mueller in the
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and the weissmann assigning them to contact the foreign government to get dirt on the president s former campaign manager. that was just a few days before mueller was appointed, after listening to sidney, after seeing what i ve seen happened with the manafort abuses, the president should look at seriously pardoning all these folks caught up in mueller s web and the deep state web and the obama web, you name it. the abuse of power, the prosecutorial abuses are he should be freezing the flynn prosecution and investigating what went on there. jason: matt, i was lost when talked about the deep state, they would just laugh at you. but now here we are today. all this evidence the mountains of. you have people like nadler and schiff, saying all this is
and then weissmann assigning the journalists to contact the foreign government to get dirt on the president s former campaign manager. that was just a few days before mueller was appointed, after listening to sidney, after seeing what i ve seen happened with the manafort abuses, the president should look at seriously pardoning all these folks caught up in mueller s wel and the deep state web and the obama web, you name it. because the abuses of power, the prosecutorial abuses are legion, and if i were attorney general barr, he should be freezing the flynn prosecution and investigating what went on there. jason: matt, i was sometimes mocked if i talked about the deep state. people in the beltway we just kind of laugh that you. but now, here we are today. all this evidence the mountains of evidence. you have people like nadler and schiff, saying all this is
generalists to do this? and the weissmann assigning them to contact the foreign government to get dirt on the president s former campaign manager. that was just a few days before mueller was appointed, after listening to sidney, after seeing what i ve seen happened with the manafort abuses, the president should look at seriously pardoning all these folks caught up in mueller s web and the deep state web and the obama web, you name it. the abuse of power, the prosecutorial abuses are he should be freezing the flynn prosecution and investigating what went on there. jason: matt, i was lost when talked about the deep state, they would just laugh at you. but now here we are today. all this evidence the mountains of. you have people like nadler and schiff, saying all this is
part of the sentencing record. which kind of seems like refrigerator poetry that s beside the point. i mean, what they re what they re telling the judge here is no, urn with, court order sh mort order you can t see that. and this is kind of wild for a few reasons, right? first of all it makes you wonder who is overseeing the flynn prosecution at the justice department has that changed? also, judges orders are not optional. when a judge orders you to do something no matter which side of the case you have to do what the judge says. that s the point of a judge. they decide all things about a case. full stop prosecutors in particular usually try to avoid running afoul of a judge, particularly a judge they might have to appear before lots of times in the future. on its face it s a bold move by prosecutors here to refuse to turn over documents the judge explicitly asked for. but it s also kind of hard to wrap your head around why prosecutors say the calls between flynn and the russian