he s promoted the groundless allegation that it was hillary clinton, not his campaign, that colluded with russia. he said the spells counsel was meddling with the elections and propigated the conspiracy theory that cnn, tipped off, presumably by authorities, to the arrest of roger stone. rrs all of this is to discredit the special counsel the moment the report is released. they file a new mem oo in the case of rick gates, having already delayed his sentencing on four occasions, both mueller and gates are requesting another 60-day post ponement, saying he continues to cooperate on several ongoing investigations. a member of the house oversight committee and a staff writer at
were not and it caused a bit of a frenzy. julian assange incident comes to mind. it may be that mueller has already filed it with the court the court is going through it just to make sure there s nothing that s going to end up in the public record that shouldn t. so it may be that we won t see the mem oo until perhaps monday. we have talked about manafort endlessly on this broadcast, always with the shadow oand what some of the former feds say is almost like a hidden enemy they re arguing against in court. the notion, the possibility of a presidential pardon. how do you think you can see donald trump when he s asked about manafort try to calculate his response other than always saying he was with us for a very short period of time. how will donald trump s thoughts and words perhaps be educated by this going forward? i don t know how the
the attorney general is the purseen that makes the judgment and that s what the job entails. and betsywoodrough with the daily beast. it sounds like he s not going to do it, no matter what this ethics board has to say in the matter. chris, he s not going to recuse himself. he saw what happened to the lasts person that recused himself. that s why congress should do all it can and just pass legislation protecting mueller. there is no shortage of lawyers in america, no shortage of conservative lawyers in america. can t we find one that didn t meet with donald trump to join the defense team against mueller and one that didn t send a mem oo about the illegitimacy of the mueller probe?