to jared and manafort. they do lineup at times. lit man, tie this all together for us. we sit here all of us one week after the stunning indictments last friday of 13 russian nationals. since then two more individuals have been well, one more has pleaded guilty, another has been indicted in the mueller probe. just pull back the lens a little bit for us and tell us where you think we are here at the end of february. okay. well, let me start with jared kushner because there s a big difference between proving a guilty charge, a criminal charge beyond a reasonable doubt in front of a jury with abby lowell defending and figuring out whether there is a security risk. security risks are usually adjudicated in several months. if you have some troubling information, that s enough. there is not the same burden of proof and rights for that person. so, i think probably the white house has already processed sufficient information to give grave doubt as to his ability to handle classified info
i wouldn t necessarily draw a straight line from sam nunberg and jim comey, for instance, to rick gates and paul manafort. what we ve seen from the special counsel as the submarine surfaces from time to time, is that there are many different aspects to the case. i imagine that continues to be true today. and let me ask you, larry lit man, you wrote a piece before today s guilty plea about mueller s momentum and you wrote, there s greater cause for hope this week than last that the full contours of the story, whether it involves actions that are sinister, bumbling, criminal or unwitting, will in due time come clear so long as robert mueller stays on the job. what from your vantage point, from your sort of what you see with your experience, what is your analysis of both the pace of these indictments of the things that are now becoming public at a quicker pace since the new year, and what is your sense of where this