A purge. Jessica schneider has been working on this. What are you learning . The president has phoned two u. S. Attorneys tonight telling them hes declining to accept their resignation. Those are the two acting Deputy Attorney general dana bente and rod rosenstein, up for Deputy Attorney general. We saw his confirmation hearings this week. As for the firings of the other 44, those came swiftly and abruptly. The people i talked with said they were flabbergasted this happen sod suddenly, no notice. It is normani for a president to want his own u. S. Attorney appointees but in this case the remaining 44 u. S. Attorneys who had been appointed by president obama, they had no notice and some like you mentioned found out through media reports. Others just from a department of Justice Press release. One source saying this could not have been handled any worse. Another one saying you dont just tell people to clean out their desks effective at midnight tonight, especially since some of those u.
Week after the Intelligence Community put out its report about the russian attack on the election. Less than a week after that report came out, there was a twoday long meeting that was held in the see she will islands by madagascar. It was a meeting in the shashs for a representative for Vladimir Putin and an envoy from the Trump Administration. According to the post, this reporting first week of april, erik prince maintained at the time of that meeting that was authorized to act as an unofficial surrogate for the president elect. He got that meeting and he spent two days in january in an island paradise meeting with a representative for Vladimir Putin. What did they meet about . What did they talk about . What took two days to get through . Why did they have to meet in this far away place . Who knows. Matters of mutual concern to discuss. Heres detail that carried forward to today. The person who set up that mysterious meeting in the islands in january, the person who set up what has
And the recusal but Jeff Sessions style. How could the man who said he wouldnt be involved in any campaign investigations put himself at the very certainty of this firing . A deeper look at that. The Trump Administration saying they may put a partisan politician in charge the fbi for the first time ever. Democrats also working overtime and saying if trump did make secret tapes, they must turn them over to congress. He should turn them over. To destroy them, it would be a vie lafgs law. If there are any tapes, they have to be turned over. If there are any tapes of this conversation, they need to be turned over. Now lets be clear. One of the strongest cases against donald trump has been made by donald trump. Former prosecutors noting the president s own words could even form part of the case of potential obstruction charges. Do you believe the president fired comey to interfere with the fbi investigation . The president s actions and his statement lends to that appearance. The difficulty
We know in retrospect that that inauguration took place against the backdrop of an open and active fbi counterintelligence investigation into the russian attack on the election that made that inauguration possible. And on the key question of whether the new president s campaign had been in on the russian attack somehow. We know looking back that it was happening in the background. That wearing happened on a friday, january 20th. The very next week, though, the whole thing started to shake and rattle within the first week we now know. The inauguration is friday. Theres the weekend. Then the first tuesday after the inauguration, the National Security adviser got interviewed by the fbi. When the fbi does that kind of interview, the agents who conduct the interview produce a written report about it. Its called a 302. Swearing in was on friday, then theres the weekend, then the following tuesday National Security adviser gets interviewed by the fbi. The consequences of that interview are st
Off the coast of kenya by madagascar. It was a meeting in the seychelles for a representative for Vladimir Putin and an envoy from the Trump Administration. According to the post, this reporting first week of april, erik prince maintained at the time of that meeting that was authorized to act as an unofficial surrogate for the president elect. His hosts at that meeting believed that to be true about him. He got that meeting and he spent two days in january in an island paradise meeting with a representative for Vladimir Putin. What did they meet about . What did they talk about . What took two days to get through . Why did they have to meet in this far away place . Who knows. Presumably they had many matters of mutual concern to discuss. Heres detail that carried forward to today. The person who set up that mysterious meeting in the islands in january, the person who set up what has basically been reported out as a back channel meeting between the trump folks and the putin folks, the g