prosecutors usually do to inform people before they are about to indict them. we re not usually in the business of saying, we re about to come arrest you, i just wanted to give you a head s up, maybe it s different when it comes to the president and they re operating in a different way, that s not the typical way the prosecutors tend to act, i would be surprised if there was some true groundbreaking tid bit that the president had heard from his lawyers that would cause him to start tweeting about this. he heard something, i m out of time. jim, i want to ask you something. you were there at the federalist society. does that room have respect for robert mueller? of course that room has respect for robert mueller. he has a stellar reputation. no question about that. i ve never been on here criticizing robert mueller. he has a job to do, he s doing this job. it becomes a political process down the road, once the mueller report is issued, gloves come off. that doesn t make him unhin
the only place they have to battle is in congress. so it turns out to be a political fight at the end of the day, and the president is gearing up for that. except for those seven guys that wound up getting guilty charges, right? those seven guys, jim. that was taken care of in court, mostly with guilty pleas. and then you have all the forms. having nothing to do with the campaign whatsoever. that s not true. the manafort issues have the manafort issues have nothing to do with this. the others had to do with perjury and other things. related to the campaign. the perjury relates to what they were saying when they were interviewed. during the campaign and about the campaign. the perjury had i don t believe it had anything to do with any facts associated with the campaign. there were no charges against anyone associated with any conduct that went on during that campaign. that s a fact. not yet. you overstated what they mean, though. it s not like it s only a
to ever read too much into these tweets. who knows what it is that actually set it off. i mean, prosecutors did file a letter saying that gates was not ready to be sentenced, saying he still had more that he needed to contribute to the investigation. maybe it was something as simple as that. which would indicate that there s more still that the special council s team is doing. it could be the questions that the president and his legal team are looking to answer. as we heard from the president s attorney today, you know, there was a whole section of those questions that they found gave them some pause and were legally troubling for them. it easily could be the questions that really got under her skin. what s your insight, jim? it could be the president gearing up for a political fight. i think the president sees this as a political battle, there s going to be report that goes over to congress. congress is going to have to do something with that report, the democrats are certainly go
investigation s inner workings. raises questions. what s the new acting a.g. going to be. what s he telling him about mueller, he has access to all of mueller s movements. we know trump s been working on answering some of mueller s written questions with his lawyers, is that proving to be something he didn t anticipate? rudy giuliani gives us a window of understanding into that. he told the washington post, some of those questions ye ate create more issues for us legally than others. meanwhile, mueller s legitimacy was just backed up in court by a trump appointed judge, so there are lots to dig through with our legal experts. jim shultz and barrett burger. great googly moogly. look at the outfit that jim shultz has on. get that banner out of the way. that is a fetching tuxedo. is that just for me, or you have something else? i m coming from federal society tonight.
thank you. i want to bring in our cnn legal commentator jim shultz and our national security analyst and former secretary at the department of homeland security. i want to start with this new tweet from the president asking why obama didn t do something about russian election attack. but at the same time, saying it s all a big hoax. james, how can the president continue to defy the unanimous conclusions of his own intelligence agencies? i think senator lindsey graham said it accurately this morning in his television interview when he said the president frequently con flats the issue of collusion with that of russian s meddling in the election. i think what the president is getting at today is the collusion issue. he denied the collusion ever occurred as it related to his campaign. that there hasn t been any evidence shown. that he s not a target of the investigation, that there has been no showing or any evidence that there was collusion. on the other hand, there is all