the white house has made it clear to the fbi that agents are not limited in their expanded background search. translation? so we have two interpretations here. either the white house is caving and they re moving beyond this narrow scope that we ve been reporting through the weekend. kind of sounds like it, from what the president has said earlier today. that s what it sounds like. and i think they re probably updating their messaging on depending on what he just told the entire world. if you look at that press conference, which is fascinating, he went from saying that, you know, yeah, they can do whatever they want with the caveat, what is within reason, to now it appears according to the reporting that they re letting the fbi take those handcuffs off, actually do a thorough investigation. we ll see if this is just spin or if this is a new avenue of investigation for the bureau. what are you thinking? i think that s the case. any limitation, whether it s four witness or 24 wi
but let s let the city council figure out whether the building is on fire. that can t happen. as has been said, having the best law enforcement investigative agency in the united states finish what they started. they started the background investigation. take the handcuffs off. let them get to the bottom of it in an objective, nonpartisan way. am i thrilled about the notion of fbi agents investigating a high school incident 30 something years ago? no, i m not. but it s moved well beyond that, into a situation where the nominee has categorically denied doing this. so now it goes to the heart of his veracity. and credibility. overlapped with what we were discussing before the break. i wonder if you have a question for frank since we have his fbi expertise. yeah, in terms of how an investigation be conducted, and i ve had the pleasure of being investigated by the fbi for the southern district of new york. would you imagine going and trying to find any additional
covert war with us. we can t sit here and whistle past it when targeting it. rob: are using we should learn to fight dirty away the russians are. we are litigious on how we operate. we need to take the handcuffs off and let them do their job. the greatest capabilities in the world, we don t employ them, this is a situation we need to fight back, we can t just sit there and continue to be targeted just because bombs are not going out in the street and gunfire doesn t mean we are not being attacked. if we let this happen we will see some issues further down the road. our cyberwarriors can be unhinged and do their job because that is how they know how. rob: a dangerous drug used to tranquilize elephants. 5000 times more potent than
voices, the people who have kept the president in line, and bringing in people who are very pugnacious, who will allow him to bring this fight to mueller. he wants the ability to testify, something that john dowd tried to convince him over and over again not to do. something that john dowd tried to work out some kind of a situation where the mueller team could provide written questions to the white house, that they could then carefully work out the wording so that the president himself wouldn t have to testify. the president said he wants the handcuffs off and he wants to bring in someone not like john dowd, but like joe digenova, who can allow him to go talk to mueller. this is someone joe digenova, who said for a long time that he thinks the fbi has based its entire investigation on a conspiracy, and that he should really be able to go testify. another piece of this about mark
to testify. the president said he wants the handcuffs off and he wants to bring in someone not like john dowd, but like joe digenova, who can allow him to go talk to mueller. this is someone joe digenova, who said for a long time that he thinks the fbi has based its entire investigation on a conspiracy, and that he should really be able to go testify. another piece of this about mark cassowicz, he could be playing a larger role. this is someone the president has known and trusted for a long time, who wanted that really pugnacious approach from the beginning, but phased out over the summer when they tried to go towards the white shoe approach. there s talk he could be playing a larger role, because the president is anxious, i m told. he wants people like cassowicz to be around him, kind of feeding what he wants to hear. yeah. comfort level, which may not always equal the best representation. chuck, the reason you re here is because we don t have access to