so i have never thought that the special counsel s report that he provides to the attorney general is going to be a full report that explains everything related to the overall investigation. instead, what i thought it would likely be is more of a prosecutive memo and a declination memo. it waialae out, here s all the things we the office of the special counsel investigated. here s the crimes, the potential crimes we identified. here s all the elements, here s the facts that line up with those. here s the cases we took forward. and then potentially here s certain cases that we determined we could not take forward for whatever reason. that s the type of information that i think the attorney general would not declination information in particular, would not want to take forward to the congress. but i do agree that if he submits such a summary of a report, if he really condenses things down, that congress will either call the attorney general to testify, they could call the
information, every part of it, not just your report or anything like that, but everything, because it s our constitutional duty to understand what happened. and if mueller excuse me, if barr files something that is a small report or a brief report and redacts all the information that jeff is talking about, i think congress will be, you know, have to ask for everything and boy, that could be pretty damaging to the president. carrie, it s also possible that barr doesn t provide congress with a full report, can the house just ask mueller to testify or subpoena the report from the department of justice? i think that s likely. so, i ve never thought that the special counsel s report that he provides to the attorney general is going to be a full report that explains everything related to the overall investigation. instead, what i ve thought it would likely be is more of a prosecutive memo and a declination memo. in other words, it will lay out, here s all the things that we,
public administration of justice and confidence in it be protected. here s where i think if barr did something like that it s actually counterproductive. remember hot happened in watergate, which the head of the house judiciary committee actually said to the special prosecutor, leon jaworski, who was a modfrl the special counsel regulations we drafted, the house said to jaworski, please give us all your information, every part of it, not just your report or anything like that. but everything, because it s our constitutional duty to understand what happened. and if mueller excuse me, if barr files something that is a small report or a brief report and redacts all the information that jeff is talking about, i think congress will be have to ask for everything, and boy, that could be pretty damaging to the president. carrie, it s also possible that barr doesn t provide congress with a full report, can the house just ask mueller to testify or subpoena the report from the department of
will be to find them, but we gotta. i still want to believe with everything that has happened that there is something called justice. and, anderson, we know that jussie smollett says that he wants justice for whoever did this, and now of course he s charged with making it all up. the question for a lot of people is was there any word on motive. chicago police saying he lied to them and they started to have a lot of doubt as the story began to grow and doubt started to come out. he still hasn t gone to talk to them. they wanted to speak to him about his phone, his phone records. he wouldn t give his phone and then he gave them some redacted records which wasn t enough to him. but he did talk to abc where he doubles down on the story. apparently police looked at that very closely in considering their next move and they had questions about things that
this week? how about the saudis? the one thread that is absolutely consistent with trump s behavior is that he wants sanctions blocked or lifted on vladimir putin, on russia. and for putin, this is absolutely essential because despite putin s swaggering today and his state of the union address, threatening the united states, promising the sun and the moon and the stars to the russian people who are getting inpatient because they re not getting the sun and the moon and the stars, putin above all wants those sanctions lifted. trump has really tried his best to lift them on russian oligarchs corporations. he slow rolled congress again and again. and putin, again, using an ased like trump, you don t expect the asset to do everything for you. you focus on what you really want. and putin in the long term wants the russian superpower, a more powerful army, but it comes down to money. in the immortal words of that