The Attorney General was questioned for several hours by muellers Team Last Week on wednesday, according to a source close to sessions. Former fbi director comey, he spoke with investigators last year. The interviews, we know, focused on two things. First, russias meddling in the election. And second, whether or not President Trump obstructed justice since taking office, especially as it concerns his firing of james comey in may. Jeff sessions and james comey, they are of key interest. Sessions for his meetings with the Russian Ambassador during the campaign, and of course the fact that he was involved in the firing of james comey. Of course, as for former fbi director james comey, he took many notes that hes talked about, about his interactions with the president , and of course the Special Counsel will be interested in comey expanding upon those. The president weighed in on sessions interview on tuesday. Are you concerned about what the Attorney General told the Special Counsel . Not
Investigation would soon be winding down. However, there are signs to the contrary. Axios is reporting that, quote, members of Robert Muellers team are reaching out to former Republican National Committee Staff who were familiar with the digital campaign. The goal is to determine if the joint effort was related to the activities of russian trolls and bots aimed at affecting the american electorate. Ty cobb said all of the interviews with the special team are over. However, former colleague said i would be shocked if he was done with the inner circle. All of these indictments, guilty pleas and interviews could be round one. Joining me is Jonathan Swan with acti axios. Thanks to all of you for joining. Barry, the resident former prosecutor here, let me start with you. You have this report from the Washington Post saying that if
point is that its a question that a lot of people close to the situation are asking themselves is why did mueller allow for this prosecutorial vulnerability . Bec
It was about the velocity of the year and the events. Lock him up alternative facts. No. Russia did not help me. Yeah. Thats him. Mr. Rosenstein is your testimony today that you believe bob mueller is a person of high integrity. Is that right . Yes. And i think that bob mueller ended up at number one with us because hes already indicted or put out for former Trump Campaign officials one, a form other National Security adviser and he heads into 2018 with the fate of the presidency in his hands. Just been told weve had cameras on us while having this conversation the whole time. Thanks very much for joining us. Good night. This sunday looking back at 2017 and ahead to 2018. President trump. Did he keep his promises . I will be the greatest jobs president that god has ever created. The tax relief will be concentrated on the working and middle class. I will be president for all america. Well look at promises made, promises kept and promises broken. Plus, the 2018 political landscape. Democ
Youd actually expect all the candidates to be pretty aggressively hawkish on russia, particularly after russia had just invaded one of their neighbors. But it was interesting. In that senate primary, that Republican Senate primary in 2014, this one primary candidate, the local talk radio host, he really went the other way. He called himself a former Pentagon Expert on russia and he told radio iowa that, quote, pushing the russians out of crimea is not a realistic option. He said, quote, i think a lot of people, im not sure they understand the history of russia. You go back, you know, 1,500 years to the foundation of the russian empire. It actually started in ukraine and was evolved out of that. This whole issue is about as russian as it gets, meaning russia should be allowed to take parts of ukraine. Thats russias business, not anybody elses. And this candidate apparently felt pretty passionately about it. He went on in some detail,
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