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about the expected indictment of an unknown person for unknown crimes at this point, but something stemming from the russia investigation. alex. that or he s just answering a question from our excellent nbc news reporter kelly o donnell. thank you so much. let s bring in democratic congressman ted lieu. a member of the judiciary committee. welcome, good to have you back on the broadcast. i want to talk about the president s tweets this morning on the dossier, on hillary clinton, all this renewed effort this week to try to steer the russia probe in this direction. is it far fetched to say that someone may have known this indictment was coming and thereby wanted to muddy the waters? thank you, alex, for that question. it s certain possible. let me first say that white house special counsel ty cobb is lying. americans are not stupid. the president had a full blown twitter meltdown this morning precisely because an indictment is going to be unsealed tomorrow and show that someone is go
methodic pace should comfort americans. look, it s nine months into the trump presidency, only five months after he took over the investigation. it certainly is a major step forward. does it surprise you at all it s happening now? no, i think that s a reasonable amount of time to bring your first case. when i think back, for example, to the enron case, i was one of the prosecutors on that case. it took a full two years before the senior executives of that company were indicted. but i think our first charges came about six to nine months after the beginning of the creation of that task force against some of the lower level people that were steps along the road. so i would liken this to a baseball team maybe putting a run on the board in the second inning or something like that. this is a first move, if in fact that s what it is, we don t know for sure yet. and you know, it could be in a white collar case, let s say somebody here is getting indicted and they re not interested in cooper