effectively tonight. jessica schneider, thank you for that reporting. two legal analysts, paul callan and robert mueller s special assistant at the justice department. you wrote a piece entitled roger stone must have made mueller really angry. that s your takeaway from the way the arrest went down on that early morning raid. why do you see it that way? why do you think the message was that mueller was trying to send? the raid itself was unusually aggressive in a white collar criminal case. usually when the lawyers are speaking to the prosecutor, they arrange for a voluntary surrender when a decision is made to prosecute. here you had flap jacketed agents raided his house in a predawn raid. i think it was because mueller was fed up with stone threatening a witness, randy cedico who suffered repeated
moving forward and apparent bias movement inside an agency or organization. my question is, if they felt so confident to do these things that they are being accused of, strzok, and page, it couldn t have just begun, right? are they practiced in a more wider culture, if you will, that allows it to have a question mark what do we know? this goes back to comey s leadership, and mueller s leadership before. we have been litigating against the fbi for 20 plus years at judicial watch. one thing that has always been consistent is arrogance, illegal secrecy, and contempt for the rule of law. they think they are not accountable, and as a leadership level especially, they just have complete contempt for anyone outside the agency or within the agency that attempts to tell them to maybe follow the rules and do what s right. in this case, you are exactly right.
you have the leadership of the fbi, who thought they could get away with illegally targeting a candidate for president of the united states. mccabe has been fired, come has been fired, mr. strzok has been fired, and frankly, what i think needs to be done is we need to hold mr. mueller accountable for what went on here. these are the cops that made mueller s case. without strzok, without page, without the illicit activity related to the dossier, without the illegal targeting of carter page, in my view, you wouldn t have a mueller investigation. every other investigation marred by this would be shut down. i don t understand why congress doesn t take more of a leadership role, here. certainly, the president s highlighting mueller s corruption, or the corruption of the special counsel investigation. someone has got to call what is going on here for what is actually happening.
and we re learning today, laura, that robert mueller s team has interviewed witnesses and interviewing people involving donald trump s long-term personal attorney, michael cohen. what does this scrutiny tell you? it really goes back to the porn star, stormy daniels. i know her real name is stephanie clifford or something like that. but it goes back to that. because, remember, he admitted recently that he made a personal payment. he said it was unrelated to the trump campaign or the trump organization. but he himself just decided because either he was an altruistic person or just really wanted to give away $130,000 to somebody and did so just of his own accord. that raised a lot of red flags and suspicion, because it seemed as though he was acting on behalf of somebody else. why? because he said he was merely facilitating a transaction. when he used that word facilitated, it made mueller s team say, well, obviously you were acting as a go-between. so a go-between who and someone e
organization. but he himself just decided because either he was an altruistic person or just really wanted to give away $130,000 to somebody and did so just of his own accord. that raised a lot of red flags and suspicion, because it seemed as though he was acting on behalf of somebody else. why? because he said he was merely facilitating a transaction. when he used that word facilitated, it made mueller s team say, well, obviously you were acting as a go-between. so a go-between who and someone else? and to remind people of what happened with john edwards and not reporting different disclosures and different in-kind contributions and the what not. and it makes sense that mueller s team would investigate this very thing. because it has so many parallels of what happened with john edwards. one of the. people on the federal elections commission at the time john edwards was having an affair with and talking about flying