report at the conclusion of his witch hunt when he writes the stupid report. it usually grand jury information is kept secret. and remember, only prosecutors get to make the case to a grand jury. in other words, there is no defense case before a grand jury. in america you can t indict a ham sandwich. i will keep you focused on this case as arguments are set to begin next month. meanwhile we have another setback for anyone breathlessly hoping and praying for mueller to find the trump-russia collusion that we have not heard to this point. the attorney for michael cohen, our old friend lanny davis, he s now backpedaling on his claim that donald trump knew about the now infamous 2016 trump tower meeting. this is a big deal. davis is now saying that he should have been clear and now he cannot confirm that information that he had once confirmed. cnn fake news reported this raises another important question. is michael cohen really being served well in this case by his
but first, what are your thoughts on this? for this hamstring the mueller folks at all in terms of what information they are actually allowed to release? i think therese did a great job summarizing the state of the law. the department of justice is right, the judges don t have int authority. it s generally considered sacrosanct with a few exemptions like the one he mentioned he is to exist under the independent counsel statute. but the special counsel, and what we need to keep in mind as congress does obtain subpoena authority for grand jury information and actual impeachment proceedings. so there is that issue. i think that one of the things that bob mueller needs to be concerned about besides the issue of whether the public you will be allowed to give
i don t want to comment on anyone posing resolutions. if anybody was voting on me, though, you would think they wanted to know the truth before they voted. and if you wanted to know about all the things we re doing to comply with congressional subpoenas and document requests and all the many inquiries we get, you wouldn t want to talk to just me, you would have to talk to the dozens of folks who are working diligently every day trying to comply with these requests. i m happy to take whatever blame you want to assess, that s one of my jobs, but if you want a true understanding of what we re doing, it would take a very long time. as director wray averted to, when you say 880,000 documents, it s a lot, but it still sounds just like 880,000 documents, but you re actually talking about collecting documents throughout the organization and then reviewing them to make sure there is no grand jury information, to make sure you re not exposing any informants, to make sure you re not exposing an
and there are calls throughout the country, if you want to build trust and respect between police and communities, and if you want to foster relationships where it could be relied upon, and police could be relied upon and grand jury investigations could be relied upon, and everything needs to come out. from a legal perspective, what you will hear from police moving forward is just that, and it happened earlier, and it s not relevant to the events that occurred, and of course you need to release it, everything is relevant in the investigation, and it explains what happened in the store. it s not about otherwise protecting the police or protecting michael brown, and it s about giving the community and more specifically, a grand jury information that would they could rely upon in making a decision, and so why to your question, victor, are we seeing it now, you can t answer that. we should have seen it then, because it goes to what happened. everybody has a right to know what happened. a