almost nobody has actually seen the underlying classified information. he s asking people to trust his understanding of the information. right. then, you know, take that public. so, he certainly isn t representing his central valley constituents or californians, who care more about health care, jobs than this latest conspiracy. instead, they wrote, he is doing dirty work for house republican leaders trying to protect donald trump in the russia investigation. nunes is in a safe district. he is not at risk of losing his seat, right? what is the sense you get from talking to your team in california about what voters think about this. we spent time in his district, and people really like him. he is a local guy. he comes from a farming family in a farming kmucommunity. he made good. got to congress at a young age. very ambitious. very successful. there is a ten point
negotiated. any interbranch dispute gets negotiated. congress can pull the funds of the agency if they don t want to comply, but they can use deliberative process, privilege and other things to try to hold it back. that s always a fight that happens. so there s news about rick gates lawyer, julia. the a.p. reporting also that mueller s team has postponed the sentencing of michael flynn. why are those two things significant? sentencing of michael flynn, the postponing means that maybe michael flynn has more information to get over. we know that he really only pleaded to just a very piece of all of the information that we believe that mueller s team has on flynn, so it might be that they re getting more from him before they move to the sentencing phase. on gates, we can remember he was the business partner of paul manafort. the fact that his lawyers are leaving maybe means that they have gotten to a point where they feel like they can no longer defend their client. there s been a lo
informant said there was a secret society inside the fbi holding these secret meetings. then he walked that back, if you remember, and we ll play it to refresh your memory. the term secret society comes from strzok and page. i had heard of a group of people within the fbi holding secret off-site meetings. so that s the backdrop of this request from ron johnson. given that, do you see anything unusual about this, that senator johnson is asking for this, particularly those names, comey, mccabe, that are on the list? i don t think it s unusual, but i think it s to further the narrative, right. that s interesting. they re worried about was there political influence at the top levels of the fbi and doj in both the clinton investigation and eventually moving to the trump investigation. so he wants to kind of put out a drag net and get all those e-mails and see what else he can find. does the doj have to turn those things over? is there anything compelling them to do that? the
those agencies are taught to think about. in this case there are people who think that the president isn t thinking about the institution of the white house. frank, final thoughts to you? yeah, so look, there s a short-term strategy here to aim it at rosenstein and get rid of him and maybe mueller, but there s a plan b strategy here, which is seed the public, the sort of public opinion. if this heads towards impeachment, the president needs the public to think that everything is tainted. he needs the public to call their congress members and say don t impeach because we don t trust this or that. so there s a long-term kind of jury pool tainting going on here. frank figliuzzi, nick ak er ackerman thank you for joining us. it s not just the shadow of the groundhog thing that s over all of this. at the gop retreat there s also the shadow of this memo hanging over sulphur springs, virginia. they want to be talking about policy and midterms. instead, they are talking about what we e
is because a guy named eric canter was just thrown out of congress. eric kanter the highest ranking jewish republican ever in congress. at the time he had to leave congress he was the only jewish republican in either the house or the senate. he was thrown out of congress by his own party. and the only jewish republican in either house of congress will now be replaced in his leadership position by david duke without the baggage. if you want david duke s oen take and i ll add mit, i m sure sure you do but he calls this the steve skalise lynching. a textbook example of how these zio-media lies. in case you re not up on your white supremist lingo would be a