something like that goes in terms of potential criminal charges, right? if that collusion and cooperation happened between the trump campaign and the russians, if it is provable, is it a crime? for u.s. persons to do something like that? maybe. i don t know. there s a lot of arguing about it. but i m not sure it s perfectly clear in terms of it being a prosecutable offense. it would certainly have a good likelihood of being an impeachable offense if it was a public official who did it. but consider who you would be counting on there to save the republic. yeah. but that s why the last point of investigation is important there. the possibility of investigating obstruction of justice. because obstruction of justice brightly, obviously, clearly is a crime. and we believe the fbi is investigating the possibility of that crime related to the russia investigation. we don t know for sure but we think they are. if they are of course they have a wealth of avenues to choose from.
seeminglyeccilable reports on what james comey did or didn t ask for the trump investigation right befo trump fired him. what we know is this, the day before he was fired, may 8th, fbi director james comey did meet with the leaders of the senate intelligence committee with republican chairman richard burr and democratic vice-chairman mark warner. the three of them met privately. it was just the three of them in the room. and here s where things start to splay out. in the meeting, it appear there s was a discussion about the pace and the progress of the fbi s inquiry into trump russia. it seems in the course of that discussion, director comey brought up the confirmation of deputy attorney general rod rosenstein in late april in a way that suggested or maybe gave the impression to the senators that the investigation might now proceed on a faster track. what we have since learned through our sources is that senators warner and burr relayed the basic content of that
quote do we have that? yes any matters that arose or may arise directly from that investigation. so we believe, we don t know but we believe that matters that may arise directly from that investigation may include the possibility of the trump transition, the trump administration, even potentially the president himself, trying to obstruct justice, trying to pervert or impede or stop the initial investigation into whether or not trump and his campaign worked with the russians. so the first thing we know the fbi is investigating, the russian attack on our election, we already know a lot about that as civilians, right? the intelligence community has put out two public reports on that, one back in october and an extensive one in january. the second thing that s definitely being investigated by the fbi, this possibility of the trump campaign helping the russians in their attack or cooperating in it, we know more and more about that possibility all the time.
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the nature of any links between individuals associated with the trump campaign and the russian government and whether there was any coordination between the campaign and russia s efforts. so that was their one and only public statement. and that means there are two things we know for sure from public information that the fbi is investigating. there is also another thing we believe they re investigating. as you just heard comey say, the two things the fbi confirms they re looking into are number one, the russians efforts to interfere in the presidential election, and number two, any links between the trump campaign and the russian government including the question of whether anyone in the trump campaign coordinated with the russians. we know those two investigations are under way at the fbi. after james comey was fired, those investigations started being overseen by the acting director of the fbi who they promoted to replace comey, andrew mccabe. and once the special counsel was appo