i don t have any inside baseball here but that mueller inherited whatever the fbi had done after the firing of mueller but before he stood up and i am quite confident that bob will cross every t and dot every i in coming to a conclusion about this, particularly with respect to the president which, obviously, is sensitive and politically explosive and all of that. you know, just days after comey was hired, trump met with russian s foreign minister. the russia ambassador, there s a picture. in the oval office. that s when he said firing nut job comey erased pressure on him. how would that resinate in the intelligence community? not well.
afghanistan in 1979, you look at the defense of annexing crimea because, in trump s words, it is russian because everyone speaks russian there, you look at the helsinki presser which ambassador mcfaul pointed out, you look at sharing classified information and saying, i m so relieved now that that nut job comey is out of the picture, so much pressure relieved from me, what do you see? this really goes back to the point that chuck made early on, which is that if you are investigating this situation and looking at it big picture, you re trying to figure out as an investigator is this president just extraordinary malleable? does he listen to whoever he hears from the most strongly and the most recently? or is there perhaps something more sinister here? we all know at this point mueller knows a lot that s not publicly known. if there s, in fact, some sort of a conspiracy around the election, is there a quid pro quo here and is the president repeating these sorts of fantasies not because
lie of the year. he won for a series of lies during the 2016 campaign. very good. somebody should send him an award. it s like winning the cy young twice. joyce, everybody is laughing about what he said to lester holt, but as this investigation moves down, it s going to be harder to prove collusion. it s going to be a lot harder to prove collusion. on the obstruction question, though, you look at what he said to lester holt where he talked about getting rid of comey to end the investigation. what sarah huckabee sanders said around the same time that he wanted the investigation to end. what he said to the russian foreign minister and the russian ambassador to the united states, where he said we got rid of that nut job comey, and the tweet where he said yes, i had to fire flynn, because he lied to the
say? people close to comey are telling nbc news on january 27th, during a private dinner, president trump asked comey if he would pledge his loyalty. and just a few weeks later on february 14th, sources familiar with an internal memo written by comey say the president asked him to shut down the investigation into flynn. and on may 10, the new york times reporting president trump told russian officials he fired nut job comey, which eased pressure on the russia investigation. alan dershowitz is a constitutional law scholar and professor emeritus at harvard law school. i know you ve been listening and following this all day. your thoughts? well, total misconception when you say that mueller somehow gave him clearance, or gave him permission to testify. let s be clear. as a matter of constitutional law, congress has more authority than mueller does to call comey. congress is a co-equal branch of government. it certainly had the power to impeach the president, therefore
with speeds of 250 megabits per second across our entire network, to more companies, in more locations, than centurylink. we do business where you do business. welcome back, headlines about the trump white house and trump campaign ties to russia have hung over this president s first overseas trip within 30 minutes or so of air force one taking off, going wheels win started seeing reports like this. the new york times, trump told the russians that firing nut job