after we learned this from this senate testimony? do you think that they have all this information? do they potentially have more? oh, absolutely. it is one of the great mysteries, what does mueller have. clearly, for example, he s got the ability to find out if there is a blocked number who controlled that number. i mean he s also going to get into the big question that this meet being raised, it showed the trump team was willing to accept help from the russian government. they thought it was coming from the russian government, incriminating information about hillary clinton. the question of the whole investigation is what else what other meetings did they have, what other potential help did they accept. we know that a campaign aide named george papadopoulos was approached with an offer of e-mails, hacked e-mails. what we don t know is who did papadopoulos communicate that over to, what other contacts there were with russians. we don t know it but robert mueller is developing a pi
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
turned over in the past that you 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 absolutely right, ari. one of the things at the department of justice, one of the rules is you don t talk about investigations, you don t share the product of
hit with felony charges by robert mueller in february. none of the russian individuals who were charged by mueller have responded formally to the fact that they ve been hit with these felony charges, but one of the corporate entities that was charged, a company that is owned by a russian oligarch, that company actually hired american lawyers who did file a response to the indictment. what these american lawyers have filed for is tons and tons of discovery, which is legal speak for oh, okay, if you re going to prosecute our client, you have to show us your evidence. you have to show us what you ve got. well, the first hearing in this case is scheduled for tomorrow. the basis of the mueller filing trying to delay tomorrow s hearing was basically twofold. mueller s prosecutors were saying we re not sure that these lawyers are even going to show up. we re not really totally sure that these lawyers actually represent this russian company. but meanwhile, you 000 should know that what they ve
this would never happen again. it has happened more than 200 times in 5 years. dianne feinstein and a new generation are leading the fight to pass a new assault weapons ban. say no to the nra and yes to common-sense gun laws. california values senator dianne feinstein friday, prosecutors working for robert mueller and the special counsel s office went to federal court in d.c. to get a continuance, basically an extension in the case against 13 russian individuals and three russian businesses who were all hit with felony charges by robert mueller in february. none of the russian individuals who were charged by mueller have