did an interview, the president does it all the time on twitter or just out there speaking, if they are free to continue to speak out and attack the russia investigation, which is essentially bob mueller s work? you know, i think mark said it very well when he called mueller s style anachronistic in the trump era. the report can speak for itself, but others are going to interpret it. and if you want your true meaning to come across you very well may have to come out and say you know, this is what i meant. now, the special counsel s not willing to do that. it s pretty clear he s not going to do that. and so i do think we re going to live in a world where others do interpret it and you have an attorney general who let s be let s remember, this is not the first kind of independent counsel previously that barr s had an issue with. when he was the attorney general the first time around, he called the independent counsel then in the iran contra case out of control and had lost all pers
it was torture that was illegal or the iran contra case. donald trump is setting up bad karma for himself and the people around him, because one day there will be a democratic administration and the constraints against investigating criminal behavior by the previous administration, absent any compelling reason, will be gone and it will be thanks to him. if he pardons someone, for instance, for criminal reasons to obstruct an investigation, i can tell you right now he will undergo an investigation by the next justice department, because the justice department spent years investigating bill clinton for that. so they ought to tread with caution here. yeah. i will note also hillary clinton s last day in office was in 2013. remember, the government turned over january 21st of 2013. statute of limitations is five years. it isn t even clear that they
personally, i m not anxious to hear these things in public. why? if people know they can interfere with bob mueller s investigation. to the extent there s too much testimony it can actually interfere with criminal investigations. we saw that in the iran contra case where the activities of the congressional committees that were investigating it to some extent interfered with the attempts to do criminal prosecutions related to that. also movement on health care today, shelby. this bill proposed by senator alexander, senator murray from washington state that would add the subsidies back into the bill including a number of other things as well. how is this bill going to be received by the white house? at this point it looks as if, well, yesterday today, not well received. yesterday, it looked like it would be well received. president trump s main promise has been to dismantle obamacare. and even before the bills failed in the senate to dismantle the affordable care act, president
sometimes it s just incredibly uncomfortable. and uncomfortable? incredible! he got the date wrong, he called the campaign chairman that they brought in to save them, heading into the they called carter page a hanger-on. he is a little bit of a mystery man, fine. but to call flynn a volunteer, as you know from your reporting, i m sure, they begged him to take a job in this administration. flynn wasn t looking for a job. what a credibility fumble. let s get to jeffrey. jeffrey, where does this leave what jumps out at you from all of this? the president is under investigation by the fbi. i mean, that s a big deal. i mean, ask bill clinton what it was like to be under investigation from kenneth star. ask george w. bush h.w. bush, what it was like to be investigated in the iran contra case. it can take over an administration. now, will it lead to any criminal charges against anyone? will anyone have to testify
but until you open up the e-mail, you don t know. metadata, you re saying markings without the content might lead them to believe these were unreader, mail. who sent it to whom, when it was sent, and you may eve haven t the subject line. but you don t have the content. let me ask you a casual question. have you ever seen anything like this? no. i don t think anybody has. to have a bombshell like this dropped in the closing days of a presidential election, in which we don t know whether it s significant or not, i should point out there have been instances, whether it s against justice department policy, whether in the closing days of a presidential election, 1992, lawrence wall, an independent counsel brought some in the iran contra case, but in this case, what s so puzzling and unprecedented about it is it s