his role as the lead prosecutor for robert mueller in the trial of paul manafort. mueller s spokesman who is no comment replies become a running dark joke among the washington press corps would not even confirm mr. andre s order from shake shack. talk about how locked down, how locked up the mueller probe is, even during their first trial. absolutely. and we even got word from the press officer for the special counsel, peter carr, that not only would no prosecutor or bob mueller not be speaking after this trial, but they likely would not be issuing a statement or press release which is very common for prosecutors offices after the conclusion of trials. they are taking the vow of silence to a new level, but you can also start to see the wear and tear of this trial on them. right before we were read the jury note a couple hours ago, you could look at the prosecutor s face and greg
guest at the westin hotel, in flip-flops and white notre dame t-shirt waiting for a delivery from shake shack. it would be unremarkable save the lead, robert mueller in the trial of paul manafort. mueller s spokesman who is no comment replies become a running dark joke among the washington press core would not confirm his order from shake shack. talk about how locked down, how locked up the mueller probe is, even during their first trial. absolutely. and we even got word from the press officer for the special counsel, peter carr, that not only would no prosecutor or bob mueller not be speaking after this trial, but they likely would not be issuing a statement or press release which is very common for prosecutors offices after the conclusion of trials. they are taking the vow of silence to a new level, but you can also start to see the wear and tear of this trial on them. right before we were read the
the course of the last six months or so, the support for the mueller probe is, is just a little down. the trend lines are in the president s direction right now. and as much as, as he s, he s not winning the argument exactly. but it s the case that the unrelenting drumbeat of attempts to try to discredit bob mueller, discredit the justice department, discredit the fbi, they are taking a toll. so you wonder why rudy giuliani is doing the things he s doing. he feels emboldened. because like him or not, absurd as he is, ridiculous, unhinged, dishonest as he is, all of this, this pounding that he s done, the president can point to small movements in the numbers that are headed in his direction on that front. and that s a cause for concern for those of us who want to stay with bob mueller. sam, we have two different forces at work. as we saw in the numbers. democratic energy, interest, enthusiasm up. but you also have the president s approval rating, which had been mired in the 30s,
is the very reason these committees are traditionally bipartisan, that you don t have this breakdown that we have right now where according to a member i talked to, who has read both memos, both the republican one that the fbi doesn t want released and the new democratic one, that they actually remarkably talk directly past each other. they don t directly address the same issues. they talk past each other, which is not the job of congress with regard to oversight. it s to do it in a way that is actually impactful, not political. again, it points to the fact that the mueller probe is you could say this memo seeks to undermine. it s really the only serious investigation in town anymore because congress has become unable to get out of their partisan and despite what speaker paul ryan says, which is this memo talking about big mistakes at
i said soon. we hope that is the case. in large part because we know that the facts are on our side. there was no collusion and we are looking forward to moving forward and hoping you guys can, as well, and start focussing on some of the things we feel the american people would rather the conversation be turned towards. i want to ask you one thing about one of the prosecutors on bob mueller s team. the plea here for mr. papadopoulos last month, he hinted at the possibility of more to come in the investigation. he said the mueller probe is, quote, a large scale ongoing investigation of which this case, the papadopoulos case is a small part. so given what he said as an officer of the court, are you disagreeing with anything that he said in his remarks during that plea hearing? maybe his references and looking more to come between