surrounding the president s comments. we turn to attorney robert rae, whitewater independent counsel. robert, the focus now is on the section of the u.s. code that reads, it shall be unlawful for a foreign national directly or indirectly to make a contribution or donation of money or other thing of value in connection with the federal, state, or local election. so, what the 11 was entertaining in that clip that we play it, would that be a trigger of the statute? i don t think so and i think it s clear that that s the case. you don t have to listen to me, this was an issue that was addressed by none other than bob mueller himself in connection with the june 9th meeting at trump tower involving trump jr. and wondering whether or not the dirge regarding hillary clinton constituted
including trump s own statement about make comments the following monday after the june 9th meeting. yet we don t know anything about that. that s the question. to me, at the center of this whole thing was a factual inquiry, independent of political interference. of what the actual facts of the matter are and i guess the question is the expectation i have is some laying out of the factual matter. it laid out a factual matter. i think that will definitely be in the report. just a chronall of all the evidence we have or has been discovered through the course of the grand jury investigation will be a can compelling read to find out about. i share nick s surprise that
want to turn your attention to jill wine-banks who has been us through this ride. department of of justice you were under. your reaction to what happened tonight. i was surprised it was a report. i thought mueller s report was going to be one indictment as a time as it has been and surprised there were no other indictments if that s true because there are so many loose ends out of the whole russia investigation. we don t really know what happened between the time of the gold stone enile don jr. where he loved it when they were getting all that dirt, which is the emails, up to the time it goes to wikileaks and there s lot that happens bebetween there. including trump s own statement about make comments the following monday after the june 9th meeting.
charges for lying to the senate committees was that he made a public statement that was characterized as a message to everyone else to get on board with the message that he was going to give behind closed doors. so michael cohen s testimony will be compared in an unredacted form with the testimony of others in an unredacted form and give us a lead on the connection, if you will, just as the roger stone piece will between russia and the trump project or the moscow tower project and trump himself. and i think that that feeds into there is like a three-part access point here it seems to me. there is the trump project in moscow, there is the june 9th meeting at which whether or not he had communications with don jr. who was also a witness, and the third part is what trump did to cover up that meeting and claim, despite what his son knew and had been disclosing that it was only about adoption. so i think there is a very
because that is going to go to what the president knew and when he knew it. and it may not go to illegality, but it will certainly go to things that could be found wrong in a political trial. that s right. and you and i have had a dialogue about cohen memorandum by mueller where cohen indicated that he socialized his testimony with the white house before he gave it. that was the false testimony before the congress, and if he socialized it with the white house and the white house in any way subborned it, in the way that president trump did with the june 9th meeting with junior, that is a very, very serious and easily provable crime. michael zeldin, thank you for putting your eyes and head to this very helpful, another big development. so another big story today. some democrats are open to