what the point of all this is or what the point of the mueller investigation was and why we had to protect it so fiercely which i was on board for if, in fact, they think they already have all the goods on this and they are going to do a different investigation if the answer from mueller, it seems, might not be the one they wanted. that is what that reads like, not the other stuff, that could be a separate issue, but on the issue of collusion, yes, that is what that looks like, it looks like goal post moving. but if the mueller report doesn t come out and we don t know what mueller then why did we pay for that sucker? well, that s a good question. but you can hardly blame the democrats if bob barr refuses to let the mueller report see the light of day. i don t think we ve seen a ton of indication of that. we will see. we don t have an indication that he s going to send it all to congress in the public interest. the truth is that democrats don t know. if we look at it a sl
the same time. this can be really broad, this can be the result of elections that put democrats in power who now are trying to play catch up on congressional oversight, and the investigation itself can be the thing. you know, democrats could say, look, there s a lot to investigate here, and there is, there s a lot of questions, and maybe they never get to impeachment. maybe the point is to have a michael cohen show over and over and over again to raise questions about what the president has done, what the president is hiding and see if in a public airing there s some truth that is arrive at. mary katherine ham, it s not as if republicans when they controlled the house and there was a democrat in the white house, it s not as if they didn t launch many investigations and used their oversight power, you know, with gust stowe. yeah, elections have consequences and oversight is within their purview. some of this stuff can be totally legit, but with all eras of congress and investigation
ultimately had sway. there is a lot of lawyers discussing a lot of different things and eventualities and we are catching process in this reporting where somebody is checking things out. michael cohen s views about trump changed in particular in response to the way they started targeting him once the raid happened, once he got closer to cooperating. so, again, his level of righteousness increased as time went on and he s got plenty of credibility problems, that doesn t necessarily retract from whether or not he was telling the truth. he s coming back in week to congress. it s hard to know what stone has been left unturned and i don t mean roger. speaking of roger but this is in secret. so we don t i mean, it s somewhat to my surprise not anything as far as i m aware of his testimony before the house intelligence committee or the senate intelligence committee has leaked. true. so we don t really know what he s covered. can i ask you about roger
false financial statements to banks and insurance companies, you can hardly criticize the democrats for saying, wow, maybe we should look into whether there s bank fraud and insurance fraud since no one knew that before. right, and you have republicans who ran congress who were not interested in asking any of these questions, who were not interested in any kind of oversight which is part of a general pattern of even when they would say softly that they thought the president was off the reservation, they didn t do anything about it. so democrats are going to do that, they re going to assert it and it s also a hedge. if you have an incoming attorney general who says i don t know if the mueller report will see the light of day, i will have to follow procedures and we will have to see what s in the country s interest, then the democrats have a right to stand up and say, wait a minute, i seem to remember the standard of republicans when they were in an oversight capacity on benghazi or lo
president s orbit. wide orbit. lawmakers are tackling allegations of corruption, abuse of power. they sent requests for documents to 81 individuals and entities with ties to the president including two of his sons. the white house calls the move disgraceful and abusive. also new this morning, the wall street journal reports a lawyer for michael cohen approached president trump s attorneys and raised the possibility of a pardon. after cohen was raided by the fbi last year what s unclear is whether michael cohen knew about it because he denied it in front of congress. we ll talk to the rorter behind the story as all of this plays out. former white house lawyer ty cobb is defending the mueller probe. here s a piece. you can criticize the strategy. it wouldn t have been my strategy. i don t feel the same way about mueller. i don t feel the investigation is a witch hunt. i wish it happened on a quicker timetable, but it didn t.