michael isikoff. the fbi agent who obtained text messages by lisa page to stop donald trump from becoming president. given the political firestorm that is raging all around him about this, are you going to expect what he says? and sure and i m sure he s going to have to testify in public. and interestingly on thursday christopher wray, the fbi director and rod rosenstein are going to be testifying in public before the same committee, the house judiciary committee. and that s going to be a really interesting session because you know where the house republicans are coming from on this. they are you know, they ve convinced themselves that the entire mueller investigation is, you know, fruit from a poisoned tree that originated by biased fbi agents, peter struck being the prime example.
convinced themselves that the entire mueller investigation is, you know, fruit from a poisoned tree that originated by biased fbi agents, peter struck being the prime example. andod rosenstein has been trying to walk a very fine line here. he s the guy overseeing mueller s investigation. he s the guy in charge of it. the house republicans are going to be coming after him to defend the mueller investigation. it s going to be really interesting to see how he handles that, how he responds to what s going to be hostile questions at that hearing on thursday. phil, listen, you have a unique perspective here because you have work would the fbi. so what kind of information can struck provide? he can offer some context. yore dealing with an investigation that involves hundreds of people. he made an epically stupid
the administration about the treatment of families lawfully seeking political asylum. they are not violating immigration laws but in some cases they re being separated too. all right. tharmg you for that report. senate majority leader is the latest high ranking republican to criticize the investigation. watch this. what i think about the mueller investigation is, they ought to wrap it up. it s gone on seemingly forever and i don t know how much more they think they can find out but if the ig is through, you know, why can t the mueller investigation finally wrap up? interesting. however, the white water investigation into president clinton though, that lasted nearly 3,000 days compared to less than the 400 days for the mueller investigation. on friday john brennan discussed
department s norm but that has nothing to do with the legitimacy of the mueller russia investigation. right. although it will be easy for sarah sanders and the president to combine those two events. remember, one of the main issues in the mueller investigation is did president trump obstruct justice by firing james comey in order to interfere or stop the russia investigation? the president from the very beginning has said he said a lot of different things but the subsequent justification for firing has always been, no, i fired him because he was incompetent, because he skewed up the hillary clinton investigation. this report gives him ammunition to say, see, james comey deserved to be fired independent of the russian investigation. let s remind everyone what
that memo is that donald trump had asked rod rosenstein to add russia to the memo, his own memo, that required the firing of james comey. so the fact that, you know, donald trump says this never has anything to do about russia, we heard it from his own words and now we have another corroborating source that it was said in another time. jamil, add this all together with the other kind of developments that we have seen this week. president trump, according to the new york times, asking jeff sessions to reverse his recusal when it comes to overseeing the russia investigation. bob mueller has this, he sees what and it means what for rod rosenstein. i think what the mueller investigation is, what does it say about what the president was doing, was there other things the president was doing to prevent the investigation from going forward. that goes beyond the alleged russia collusion issue. but it is relevant because if