how long this will go on. you think? this, of course, is special counsel robert mueller s investigation into russian meddling. what the trump folks did in 2016 and what donald trump has done as we were just reporting in potential obstruction. now, if you judge by the geyser of new reporting about just one piece of this, michael cohen, donald trump s long-time lawyer, mueller has a lot more to chew on than many people initially knew. it was just two days ago that michael avenatti, stormy daniels attorney, dropped the bomb with that report outlining and alleging a slush fund run by cohen which saw money deposited by the likes of among others this company columbus nova with strong ties to a russian oligarch linked to putin plus at&t, plus a big pharmaceutical company, novartis. mueller s team questioned both those companies over the payments. that happened a while ago, we just didn t know about it until avenatti dropped this bomb. in fact, now that it s come out, neither of those compan
and what donald trump has done as we were just reporting in potential obstruction. now, if you judge by the geyser of new reporting about just one piece of this, michael cohen, donald trump s long-time lawyer, mueller has a lot more to chew on than many people initially knew. it was just two days ago that michael avenatti, stormy daniels attorney, dropped the bomb with that report outlining and alleging a slush fund run by cohen which saw money deposited by the likes of among others this company columbus nova with strong ties to a russian oligarch linked to putin plus at&t, plus a big pharmaceutical company, novartis. mueller s team questioned both those companies over the payments. that happened a while ago, we just didn t know about it until avenatti dropped this bomb. in fact, now that it s come out, neither of those companies deny the payments, but there s even more to this story. the drug giant ceo sending an e-mail to all staff saying, yesterday was not a good day for novartis
intelligence information whose life would be endangered if this information came out. it is so far beyond the pale of anything the department has turned over in the past that you kno know, there s no excuse for congress taking this extremist position. that s all on the norms and the precedent, as you say. then there s what it would actually look like if we unredacted this road map, this very secretive road map that rosenstein and mueller have. and i suppose the most responsible way to explore this is with the part that has been removed and unredacted, which is that he was authorized to go farther into manafort s history than just 2016. if that had been unredacted earlier, before manafort were charged, among the other problems we ve discussed wouldn t that be enormously unfair to paul manafort? isn t there a problem here, that this would be a wrecking ball to other people that mueller and rosenstein have not finished deciding whether they should even be charged? yeah, it s absolutel
so you support chairman nunes? absolutely. i think it s a completely appropriate request. meanwhile, the top democrat in the intelligence committee weighing in today. virginia senator mark warner saying, bombarding the justice department with document requests simply to create a pretext for firing or impeaching our nation s senior law enforcement officials is a blatant abuse of power that should concern everyone who believes in the rule of law. so we don t know exactly how rod rosenstein, mueller s boss, is going to walk this line, how he s going to do what he said, uphold a somewhat unpleasant part of the d.o.j., which is to tell congress sometimes you can t have everything you want just because you re demanding it when we have an open probe going on. we also know that today congressman nunes and trey gowdy went to the justice department to meet with rosenstein and then released a statement saying they had a productive discussion with officials from the office of the director
this request is perfectly appropriate within the scope of the committee s investigation. and i hope and believe and expect that they ll be complied with. so you support chairman nunes? absolutely. i think it s a completely appropriate request. meanwhile, the top democrat in the intelligence committee weighing in today. virginia senator mark warner saying, bombarding the justice department with document requests simply to create a pretext for firing or impeaching our nation s senior lu enforcement officials is a blatant abuse of power that should concern everyone who believes in the rule of law. so we don t know exactly how rod rosestein, mueller s boss, is going to walk this line, how he s going to do what he said, uphold a somewhat unpleasant part of the d.o.j., which is to tell congress sometimes you can t have everything you want just because you re demanding it when we have an open probe going on. we also know that today congressman nunes and trey gowdy went to the justice