told the special counsel, i imagine with more detail and under oath. but describing that meeting about michael flynn, he said he felt he is asking me to drop the criminal investigation of his now former national guard adviser. based on the folks you speak to, how serious a conversation, how seriously is mueller looking into that? i think that s a very important part of what mueller is looking at as far as the obstruction of justice part of this investigation. but i think if you look at it, you also start looking at a pattern, right? you look at the other one-on-one dinner where he essentially he has already told comey the president has already told comey that he is going to stay on as fbi director. he has a tenured term after all there was no expectation he was going to leave. then he starts being transactional. but it turns into a bit of a shakedown, at least the way comey describes it. if you they d with the context of the other bleegt meeting whe
between a representative of vladmir putin. there was carter page, this guy papadopoulos who was doing various things for the russians. now we still don t know whether these people like papadopoulos and carter age were instrumental members of the trump campaign or whether they were guys trying to do make themselves known. and so there s still a lot of work that needs to be done. but this does start to solidify a picture, which has been sort of hanging out there for a while. we also know is that george papadopoulos was offered stuff. you know, these russians he was speaking with offered him dirt and apparently e-mails from hillary clinton. we know that donald trump jr. was offered stuff, dirt on hillary clinton before that meeting whe meeting. based on what you know of how vladmir putin and russian intelligence works, these offers, what do you see in them? well, so vladmir putin had an