Robert mueller henceforth shall speak for himself. At least we sort of got that word. Now this is only a Single Source report thus far, and you should consider that, but nbc news is reporting, according to one source dollar with the matter, that the Judiciary Committee in the house led by new york city congressman jerry nadler, according to nbc news that committee has begun discussions directly with Robert Muellers team about mueller himself coming to testify to congress. According to nbcs reporting previously, the committee has been trying to arrange muellers testimony and they had been discussing that matter with the Justice Department, assuming that the Justice Department could speak for Robert Mueller and would facilitate his testimony. There have been multiple reports and some scathing allegations from democratic members of congress recently that the Justice Department has been blocking that, that theyve been refusing to set a date for muellers testimony, theyve been slowwalking t
Lied to mueller. This that im holding here is the first mueller related indictment since the probe finished and this is striking for several reasons. Let me explain. First, this new indictment of prominent democratic lawyer dave craig touches on several of the biggest issues that mueller was investigating like Paul Manaforts illegal activities. Second, this shows that while mueller did not indict an lexicon spearcy, something weve been careful to report, there is sdny that we hear so much about. And then today d. C. Charging this case. Third, while President Trump has loudly and falsely claimed that the Mueller Probe was some sort of charge against republicans, this is a fight against white House Counsel greg craig and the charges that he hide to mueller about a multimilliondollar project that he was doing for guilty former Campaign Chair Paul Manafort. Indictments charging craig with basically concealing information about their work on this report about something that happen in ukrain
No. If no on page 180 of volume you wrote its synonymous with conspiracy as that is set forth in usc371. You said at your press conference and here today you choose your words carefully. Are you testifying Something Different than what your report states today . What im asking is if you can give me the citation i can look at the citation and evaluation whether it is let me clarify. You stated youve said within the report. I stated your report back do you. Collusion and conspiracy were not synonymous terms. Your answer was no. Page 180, volume 1 of your report it says as defined in legal dictionaries collusion is with conspiracy. Now you said you chose your words carefully. Are you contradicting your report right now . Not when i read it. You change your answer to yes then. No, no. If you look at the language im reading your report, sir, its a yes or no answer. Page 180, volume 1. From your report. Correct. I leave it with the report. So the report says yes theyre synonymous. We can put
him temporarily with matt whitaker who repeatedly and publicly have criticized the probe. the justice department ethics lawyers recommend that whitaker recuse himself from the russian probe as sessions had. he refused that advice. trump scolded whitaker for not reigning in prosecutors here in new york from charges against michael cohen that the president felt made him look bad. now we know that mr. trump s choice for permanent pick at the justice department, bill barr, is no fan of the mueller investigation either. seems the president wants an attorney general willing to limit the probe that directly involves him. he could be getting just that. finally the federal reserve, institution that oversees monetary policy is designed expressly to be entirely independent from the president and congress so it could do its job without political interference. now we learned that the president, unhappy that rising interest rates might threaten
last few weeks wanting to know why more wasn t done to control prosecutors from bringing hush money charges that implicated the president. whitaker is who president trump personally appointed to oversee mueller. trump passed over other high-ranking officials when he made the pick. though an ethics official said there s at least an appearance of a conflict of interest and would suggest whitaker recuse himself from the probe, whitaker isn t planning to do that. laura jarrett has more on that. reporter: new details on matt whitaker s role in overseeing the russia investigation. after he rejected the advice of justice department ethics officials who said he should step aside. whitaker, who has never been briefed on the mueller investigation, is expected to start getting updates now that he isn t recusing himself. however, whitaker was given a heads-up. the president trump s former attorney michael cohen would plead guilty before it was