investigation. he then has lunch with jared kushner and chris christie. he says you re wrong it s not going to end the investigation. a few hours later, quite clumsily takes another step that he thinks may end the russia investigation. i think it casts his actions with comey in an entirely different light. in 30 seconds, can we assume that has been part of a whiteboard time line in the mueller office? they may not have known about the christie conversation. because it was just revealed today. although i think he may have earned himself an interview with the special counsel. but i think now you look at the president s time in office and now you have this series of actions. he apoints an a.g. whoa thinks will end the investigation, he recuses himself. he fires flynn toned the investigation. that doesn t work. he pushes comey, that doesn t work. he fires comey, that doesn t work. and then he spends the summer after that casting about, trying to end the special counsel investigation. i
all except rosenstein who signed fisa and comey letter. no collusion, so they go crazy. here to talk about it, cynthia oxney, a veteran of the civil rights division at the justice department. matthew miller is back with us, former chief spokesman for the justice department. cynthia, i ve wanted to hear you out on this. your response to trump s demands and your response of what we know to be the rosenstein response so far. well, i feel like i m watching my second hockey game of the night. in this hockey game, it s the old philadelphia flyers of the 70s, the broad street bullies at the white house beating up on a doj farm team. and apparently no ref showed up, and the doj team is standing around whining, and meanwhile the broad street bullies are beating them up in scoring. this is a terrible thing that rosenstein has caved. i do feel sorry for him, especially this morning when
special agent clint watts weighing in on this news the deputy a.g. rod rosenstein asked the doj inspector general to review claims that the fbi had surveilled the trump campaign somehow for political purposes. as we reported, the move came after the president demanded an investigation over twitter this weekend. legal experts are worried that this is a dangerous new benchmark in an area of obstruction. the rest of us can plainly see this president s public war with all things justice department-related from the boss, jeff sessions on down. this is from a month ago. quote, much of the bad blood with russia is caused by the fake and corrupt russia investigation headed up by the all-democrat loyalists or people that work for obama. mueller is most conflicted of all except rosenstein who signed fisa and comey letter. no collusion, so they go crazy. here to talk about it, cynthia alksne, a veteran of the civil rights division at the justice department.
for. cynthia, the inspector general is not nothing. you ll seldom meet an inspector general who goes to work in the morning who says, boy i don t police up any wrongdoing here today. when they re concentrating on you in the justice department, it s hard to think of anything else. and this is a very respected inspector general. the fact that this has been added to his plate, that isn t what bothers me, and i think what bothers me is that i m just afraid at some point there won tiwon t be anything there won t be a way to stand up to trump. and we re approaching that. part of it is because over the last year, every time trump attacks, nobody does anything. i mean even when he attacks sessions and makes fun of him, sessions doesn t stand up to him. when he fires comey, sessions says nothing. hopefully i mean it would have been nice if there were some reps, which would have been the republican leadership. and they aren t even participating in the game. that s what worries me.
justice and the fbi. that was our friend and contributor and former fbi special agent clint watts weighing in on this news the deputy a.g. rod rosenstein asked the doj inspector general to review claims that the fbi had surveilled the trump campaign somehow for political purposes. as we reported, the move came after the president demanded an investigation over twitter this weekend. legal experts are worried that this is a dangerous new benchmark in an area of obstruction. the rest of us can plainly see this president s public war with all things justice department-related from the boss, jeff sessions on down. this is from a month ago. quote, much of the bad blood with russia is caused by the fake and corrupt russia investigation headed up by the all-democrat loyalists or people that work for obama. mueller is most conflicted of all except rosenstein who signed fisa and comey letter.