wrapped up in this. hundreds of thousands of legal bills. roger stone could go away for the rest of his life. obviously, manafortt and everything he went through. most of this stuff has nothing to do with what the underlying accusation was. byron, you wrote a fantastic piece i don t know how you dash it off so fast tonight about the things we need to learn from what happened, who got things really badly wrong, why w it s important to note th. it s important to say we don t know what s in the report itself. but there are a lot of things we actually do know now and they affect some of the things that we heard about most in the last two years. the first thing that is not in the mueller investigation is, he did not charge anyone in the trump campaign or associates with conspiring with russia to fix the 2016 election. did not happen, no charges about that. he didn t indict some of the
he had $17 million insurance payment in 2005 for hurricane damage to mar-a-lago, but the associated press has found little damage of such large-scale damage. people get prosecuted for insurance fraud. it s a thing that happens in the world. it s interesting that that term jumped out in that article. yeah, i m going to have to give credit to my wife here, because she s been saying this for three years now. if we have seen so much evidence that trump committed some kind of illegality or crime in the run-up to the election, if we ve seen so much evidence that trump committed some kind of illegality or crime in terms of obstruction while he was president, what makes us think that he hasn t committed many, many, many crimes over his long and disastrous business career, right? and so at some point, and i think sdny is the right point, sdny has to start investigating actual crimes that happen at the trump organization, and you re exactly right to bring up this insurance fraud thing, because
we have seen small nsnippets frm certain individuals, their impression why the president was doing these things. it would be thinice to know fro mueller what it looks like when you have all of the witnesses together, all of the accounts coming from this different places but of the same period of time. even all mueller s report, there are other veinvestigation continuing. bernie sanders says he is running for president again. he is revealing what will be different this time. unden. when my mother began forgetting things, we didn t know where to turn for more information. that s why i recommend a free service called a place for mom. we have local senior living advisors who can answer your questions about dementia or memory care and, if necessary, help you find the right place for your mom or dad. we all want what s best for our parents, so call today.
right now for people on the trump team is the sdny. this is why i think he wanted burman to oversee this investigation. he was concerned that someone else would come in and start overseeing this investigation. that is where many people think most of the president s problems lie right now, is at the southern district of new york. and that investigation. we don t yet know where mueller stands on things, obviously. i think we re probably close to learning as things are starting, it seems, to wind down. the biggest concern this is what the story lays out in this investigation is that the sdny investigations, there are many there now, is going to go on for quite some time. something that is going to consume the president, especially once the mueller investigation comes to a close. the southern district of new york. it was in august, i believe, when it was revealed michael cohen effectively said that the president had participated in this scheme before the election
the course of investigations, trying to influence investigations, that s gone over two years. it s a very comprehensive look. it s almost a 5,000 word article you wrote in the new york times. what did you uncover in terms of the overall scope of the president s efforts to interfere in the michael cohen probe and elsewhere as well? we re used to so much of this. the president does so much of this publically. right? our investigation looked at a lot of his efforts privately. the scope involved getting senior officials inside the white house to try to lean on investigators. it had a very detailed account of his actions with congressional republicans to try to basically derail the mueller investigation, to try to show that the mueller investigation is, quote, a witch hunt. this is a very comprehensive strategy that took place over some period of time. you asked the white house to comment on your report. they didn t. but then we heard after your