Now theres a separate case against him in virginia. A lot of overlapping charges. What hes saying to the judge is that robert mule her no Legal Authority to bring these charges. Heres why. He says the special counsel regulations say that a special counsel is appointed to investigate a specific matter which in this case was Russian Election meddling. So the charges against manafort that have nothing to do with that, about his lobbying or ukraine and his efforts to hide the money according to prosecutors, thats beyond his original charge. Secondly they say when the Department Attorney general Rod Rosenstein said that mueller could investigate anything else that came that he became aware of as a result of the investigation, that was too broad because that goes beyond what the special counsel regulations allow him do. And secondly they say the Justice Department already knew about manaforts ukrainian lobbying and all those questions because he was investigated in 2014. So mueller cant say
Or Deputy Attorney general rod rosenstein. This was really a hoax created largely by the democrats. There has been no collusion. They wont find any collusion. It doesnt exist. Well. The two gentlemen you told me about, theyve been saying im going to get rid of them for the last three months. Four months, five months. And theyre still herer. Recent reporting suggests that amid all of this, the president is preoccupied as you can tell from that with the threat posed by the fbi raid on Michael Cohen. The Washington Post is now reporting that the raid deeply rattled the president and has distracted him from the responsibilities of his office. Trump was so upset in fact he had trouble concentrating on plans that were laid out for him that day by his National Security team about potential options for targeted missile strikes on syria. As nbc news revealed last week, that raid has diminished the prospect that the president will undergo questioning by mueller. The Washington Post further repor
And maybe Hillary Clintons emails. Weve got Jeff Sessions having already appointed a u. S. Attorney named huber in utah to look at the origins of the russia investigation. Weve got the Inspector General at the Justice Department looking at the origins of that investigation. And now attorney general barr fresh off of pounding his chest in congress and saying we need to stop using oat Justice Department for political purposes. He too has appointed somebody else yet another u. S. Attorney to look into the origins of that investigation. Meanwhile, we have no idea what the results were of that investigation. We have the no idea what the findings were of the Counter Intelligence investigation noose russia and its potential links with the trump campaign. None of that ended in the Mueller Report. This whole idea the president is going to demand investigations of the investigators, of his political enemies its not the dystopic future anymore. Were living through it. We got lucky in our booking
Broken way i read things be now, im thinking gee, rachel deserves another half hour. I should just let her take a half an hour of this real estate just to react to the story since you were leading theyre basically referring to what james baker told you friday night in na New York Times article. This is really moving now. And remember, weve got the Judiciary Committee in the senate led by Lindsey Graham who now says what hes going to investigate is the start of the russia investigation. And maybe Hillary Clintons emails. Weve got Jeff Sessions having already appointed a u. S. Attorney named huber in utah to look at the origins of the russia investigation. Weve got the Inspector General at the Justice Department looking at the origins of that investigation. And now attorney general barr fresh off of pounding his chest in congress and saying we need to stop using oat Justice Department for political purposes. He too has appointed somebody else yet another u. S. Attorney to look into the o