government and individuals in the trump campaign. and certainly financial relationships are part of those links. and a serious prosecutor wants to look at a whole series of financial connections over a period of time. so i think the notion that and the special counsel would be moving outside his mandate by looking at financial ties between the president, his family and his top people and russian related interest close to vladimir putin. that clearly is within his mandate and would not would be utterly pretextual to try to fire him for those reasons. is there anything that the president or the white house or his lawyers have raised in terms of objections to this investigation? they ve talked about political donations made by lawyers involved in the investigation, they ve talked about bob mueller having been a trump golf club member at some point. they ve talked about obviously this complaints about looking into financial matters and trump business matters. are any of the things th
officials and officials in the trump campaign. certain financial relationships are part of those links, and a serious prosecutor wants to look at a whole series. is there anything that the white house or his lawyers have raised wrartd to objections to this investigation? they ve talked about political donations made by lawyers involved in the investigation. they ve talked about bob mueller having been a trump golf club member at some point. they ve talked about obviously these complaints about looking into financial matters and trump business matters. are any of the things that they ve raised to your mind
government and individuals in the trump campaign. and certainly financial relationships are part of those links. and a serious prosecutor wants to look at a whole series of financial connections over a period of time. so i think the notion that and the special counsel would be moving outside his mandate by looking at financial ties between the president, his family and his top people and russian-related interest close to vladimir putin. that clearly is within his mandate and would not would be utterly pretextual to try to fire him for those reasons. is there anything that the president or the white house or his lawyers have raised in terms of objections to this investigation? they ve talked about political donations made by lawyers involved in the investigation, they ve talked about bob mueller having been a trump golf club member at some point. they ve talked about obviously this complaints about looking into financial matters and trump business matters.
mandate and would not would be utterly pretextural to try to fire him for those reasons. is there anything that the president or the white house or his lawyers have raised in terms of objections to this investigation? they ve talked about political donations made by lawyers involved in the investigation, they ve talked about bob mueller having been a trump golf club member at some point. they ve talked about obviously this complaints about looking into financial matters and trump business matters. are any of the things that they ve raised, to your mind, legitimate concerns or legitimate grounds for trying to undermine the investigation? not only do i not see them as legitimate, it s clear from the reporting that they are looking for a pretext for discharging him. first of all with regard to mueller personally. this is someone who is a lifelong republican who was head of the criminal division in republican administrations who