i think the question is whether or not there was any obstruction of justice. i think there s a significant question about that. i think when people look at it from a legal standpoint, you can t charge him with firing the fbi director. that s within the president s purview. as far as we were the first organization to report they were looking at the president s statement, in the crafting of the statement when it first started to be reported by the new york times that there was this meeting at trump tower. it was being focused on as far as what did people know, not whether or not the president was obstructing justice. he was not obstructing justice when he was crafting the statement. it s whether or not the president knew, whether other people in the white house knew, what they knew about that and what they were trying to get out through that message or not get out through that message. i think there is a question about whether or not there was any sort of an obstruction of justice
relieved when it comes to on strugz a obstruction and conspiracy, most of them have transparency in the u.s. attorney s office in d.c. and my question, julia, how much more are we going to see in terms of actions from the other districts? we saw just the other day paul manafort get sentenced. and the day he gets sentenced in d.c., he also gets hit with another indictment from attorneys or prosecutors in new york. yeah, let s just look at the time line for court hearings for the rest of this year. we know in just a couple months, we ll see rick gates, paul manafort s deputy, we know he was a key cooperating witness in this. no more lingering over that whether that will lead to more indictments from robert mueller because that s over. but then we have in november, the trial of roger stone which could bring up a lot of embarrassing moments for this president and his campaign. we ll also be looking at the
kama lla harris. leann, this is not an issue that democrats ran on in 2018. the mueller report or the mueller investigation. kind of an open question how democrats are going to use it for 2020, considering all of the other issues at top of the mind for voters. what are you hearing there, both from the candidates and from the voters? is the mueller report something that is being talked about among people attending these political rallies? katy, so this is the fourth event that we are at with book er today. people are just starting to stream in. it s going to start any moment. and so far, booker has not voluntary talked about the mueller report, although we do ask him about it at a barbershop earlier today where he said the mueller report should be relieved and he also called for mueller to come before the committee to testify about the report and the investigation.
congress for them to decide what to do about it. it looks like representative swalwell is putting his eggs in that basket in light of no further indictments piece of the puzzle. i was asking tom in the commercial before land, if this is it. you say this is it. with respect to russia. here is the thing, and this is really important. it can be very hard to bring curveball charges and sustain criminal charges through convictions. it s a high burden. the question here or a question to be answered is, should the president have been engaging in this kind of conduct? should a presidential campaign have been engaging in poor conduct? there s two different questions. what can you charge criminally versus what is appropriate for the people running and leading the country. that bar for appropriate behavior has changed over the years. that is what congress will be assessing. it s their oversight duty to find that out. i ve got to get going. thanks to you guys, elliot, charlie as well a
a little precedent in terms of providing 302s, basically the fbi s internal notes. a lot of those, if not all of them, were handed over, investigative summaries were handed over. for the justice department to say, well, in this investigation, hey, wait a minute, we can t do that or we can t share that, a little question whether or not they re going to be able to establish that in this case. grand jury, entirely separate matter. that s up to a judge. that s a whole separate container. we know robert mueller used a grand jury. we ll have to see what s in that container versus what are in their own internal notes. let me go back to congress and to charlie. you had the representative, eric swalwell last night on tv. here is what he had to say. no further indictments which means not don jr., even after i love it memo, really? not jared, not manafort or stone for working with the russians.