involved in some of the evidence against him because it has to do with the president s legal representation because he was on that team. i mean, in the wildest fantasies about this insanity that we are living through in the trump presidency, nobody would have ever claimed that a guy linked to the kremlin and to russian organized crime would somehow get installed on the president s legal defense team in the russia scandal. but apparently, that s where we are. i mean, the wall street journal did just publish picture from lev parnas private instagram account, and in fact, there he is at the celebratory dinner that the president s legal team held the night that william barr said the mueller investigation was over and that mueller report would have nothing in it. you can see from the picture that he posted, there s rudy giuliani, oh, there s jay sekulow. this is lev s instagram. this is the trump legal team, including lev who s also working for firtash who s under indictment and linked t
essentially have to concede that he would be he could be investigated. and that was the rhetorical problem. that was the strategic problem that mr. trump s lawyer had today. i m not i don t mean that as an excuse for him. i think it s a ridiculous argument, but i think that s where he found himself. i mean, how about we all just learn through the mueller proceedings and all of the legalese that we all had to wade through in terms of the mueller report and the arguments about why the president was not described as having potentially committed a criminal offense, wasn t the whole idea there that mueller and his team accepted the premise from the justice department that the president would not be indicted but that did not preclude them from investigating the president which they did quite probust ro in fact, mueller says in his report we re free to investigate a president. in fact, you know where that comes from? it s pretty interesting. we keep talking about these olc, office of
telling the court that manafort, despite this plea agreement, despite his cooperation pledge, he repeatedly lied to those prosecutors he was supposed to be cooperating with. he didn t give them any useful information they could use for other prosecutions or for the broader mueller inquiry. in fact, those prosecutors told the court that manafort used his supposed cooperation agreement to help other subjects of the inquiry who were possibly in prosecutors cross hairs. specifically, they said he back channeled to the trump white house information about what mueller s investigators were asked. what they were looking for. what they were zeroing in on in their investigation that might be particularly relevant to the fate of president trump. because of manafort s duplicity and his lack of cooperation, he ended up getting lots of years in federal prison. we, the american public ended up getting no insight at all into the stuff that you might think prosecutors wanted him to come clean about wh
federal trial and reduced his time in prison. he said he would cooperate napt should have really helped him. he only said he would cooperate. he didn t actually go on to really cooperate with prosecutors. prosecutors would soon be back telling the court that manafort, despite this plea agreement, despite his cooperation pledge, he repeatedly lied to those prosecutors he was supposed to be cooperating with. he didn t give them any useful information they could use for other prosecutions or for the broader mueller inquiry. in fact, those prosecutors told the court that manafort used his supposed cooperation agreement to help other subjects of the inquiry who were possibly in prosecutors cross hairs. specifically, they said he back channeled to the trump white house information about what mueller s investigators were asked. what they were looking for. what they were zeroing in on in their investigation that might be particularly relevant to the fate of president trump. because of manafor
for that guy could also be part of the president s legal team? at his defense of the russia investigation? what? i mean, lev parnas in court is saying there s going to be executive privilege issues involved in some of the evidence against him because it has to do with the president s legal representation because he was on that team. i mean, in the wildest fantasies about this insanity that we are living through in the trump presidency, nobody would have ever claimed that a guy linked to the kremlin and to russian organized crime would somehow get installed on the president s legal defense team in the russia scandal. but apparently, that s where we are. i mean, the wall street journal did just publish picture from lev parnas private instagram account, and in fact, there he is at the celebratory dinner that the president s legal team held the night that william barr said the mueller investigation was over and that mueller report would have nothing in it. you can see from the picture