in part, because the president and his allies were spinning it, but then when you pull out individual pieces of information, like that voice voicemail, they look incredibly damning. there s a bunch of stuff in here, and we talked about moments you felt had not gotten enough attention. marcy, you called attention to this lewandowski moment that s in the report. which has not gotten at lot of attention. according to lewandowski, trump asked him, basically, to bring a note telling jeff sessions to give a speech that would say the following. this is while they re investigating what we know is a breach, you know, this hack by foreign adversary to tip an election. now a group of people want to subvert the constitution of the united states. i m going to meet with the special prosecutor to explain this is very unfair and let the special prosecutor move forward with investigating election meddling for future elections, so nothing can happen in future elections. this is an attempt to shut down
portrait. 66 60 grand for this. who would do such a thing? mr. trump, of course. mr. trump directed me to find a bidder to purchase a portrait of him being auctioned off at an art hamptons event. the objective was to ensure that this portrait, which was going to be auctioned last, would go for the highest price of any portrait that afternoon. the portrait was purchased by the fake bidder for $60,000. mr. trump directed the trump foundation, which is supposed to be a charitable organization, to repay the fake bidder, despite keeping the art for himself. so donald trump scammed the donors of his scam charity by scamming that auction, then kept the painting of himself, which sounds about right. it brings us to this. this rabbit balloon animal went on auction this week and sold for an enormous amount of money
judges. you have to start looking into the people that he has been appointing. start to put scrutiny on them, as well. yeah. there is a bigger thing that s at play, and democrats look through everything in a pinhole. don t you think that i think part of the fear, right, is just the basic fear, which is that, like, it would be a big, bloody fight that would hurt people. meaning impeachment. yeah. meaning, like, when you get into a fight, you re going to get punched. right, right. you re going to get bloodied. if you look at impeachments past, it was bad for the republican congress when they had andrew johnson. it was bad for the republican congress with bill clinton. we never got to it with nixon, but that s the fear. they re going to give up this capital they have. right. there are a lot of democrats who say and, look, i believe this fully if a bully comes after you, you punch the bully in the face. right, right. so i do think that s actually very important.
congress. wall street journal reports that the privilege claim could prevent mueller from getting into any details about the president beyond what is in the unredacted report. in an interview with trump tv earlier today, attorney general bill barr reiterated that he wouldn t have any problem if mueller testified. you re okay with him testifying? absolutely. he works for you. yes. under you. yes. or did. what seems to be the hold up? jerry nadler said this week it will happen soon. perhaps it happens in june or not. do you have any information on that? my understanding is that chairman nadler is talking this over with bob mueller and his staff and trying to schedule it. so you expect it to happen? i have no reason to think it won t. here s the thing, whether or not mueller does testify, there is a good argument that there is more than enough incriminating, damning information publicly available right now for the democrats to move forward with
impeachment proceedings against the president. they don t need mueller to testify. they don t need the unredacted mueller report. what happened yesterday was a perfect example of this. think about it about a second. a federal judge unmasked michael flynn told the special counsel of multiple instances where he or his attorneys, quote, received communications from persons connected to the administration or congress that could have affected both his willingness to cooperate and the completeness of that cooperation. in other words, a federal judge unmasked the fact they had been tampering with the witness, michael flynn. here s the thing, most of that was already in the mueller report. it s an extremely damning piece of information, about the president s minions acting like mobsters. in fact, it is so damning, let me read it to you again. from the mueller report, because it is literally a transcript of the president s own lawyer calling flynn s lawyer in an attempt to interfere with the co