sit s report. our correspondents and analysts will have full coverage of the day s top stories. the president s nominee had the justice department and oversee the mueller probe is making it very very clear he intends to be his own plan. he will stand up to political pressure even if the president asked him to do something. he says he won t do it. he wouldn t even fire robert mueller unless there is good cause to do so. democrats raised concerns about a memo he drafted raising questions about the obstruction element of the investigation and barr was on the defensive he tried to explain it was a narrow scope memo. it did not detail how he views this investigation going forward. i will not be bullied. today attorney general
which would then go to another obstruction element. so it s really important for donald trump to be admonished that maybe they need to put a muzzle on his fingers. we know that s not going to happen. a federal judge in manhattan ruled that donald trump and michael cohen can t do that at the first bite of the apple. that s not going to happen and we know there s been a submission of proposed names for a special master to determine whether these are or not. but cohen s team overplayed its hand this week to hide behind the attorney/client privilege, to use it as a shield is an issue especially when you have
he knows he is in the crosshairs of this, particularly with the obstruction element. and he is still determined, according to those that he talks to somehow find a republicans to find a way to out , make this investigation go away so that he is not further burdened by it. do you remember that red line, john dean, that he set back in july when he told the new york times they cannot look into my finances. they should not be looking into my finances. that was a month after he tried to fire mueller. that s right. and he is no position to draw red lines, or his staff. mueller is going to decide the scope of his investigation. he can always go back to the deputy attorney general who is his superior in this instance because of sessions recusal and get broader authority if he we understand from testimony before the house judiciary committee by rosenstein that indeed he has done this. he has constantly been in touch
cals of this investigation are around members of his own family. those closest to him and his business organization in this campaign organization, doesn t mean that they are going to be found guilty or even indicted, but this investigation has touched and surrounded the people he s closest to and now himself. he knows he s in the cross hairs of this, particularly with the obstruction element and he still is determined according to those that he talks to to somehow find republicans to find a way to out them, make this investigation go away so that he is not further burdened by it. do you remember the red line john dean he set back in july when he told the new york times, they cannot be looking into my finances. that was a month after he tried to fire mueller. that s right. he s in no position to draw red lines or his staff. mueller is going to decide the
hillary clinton. that was why the investigation was opened in the first place. the obstruction element only came later when the president fired the fbi director who was investigating his campaign for that alleged collusion. of course, this is this was always going to be top of mind for bob mueller. and i think that bringing in emmett flood is significant for another reason which is that whether he worked in the george w. bush white house, he detail mostly with executive privilege issues. that indicates they re going to take a new approach maybe to fighting off a potential interview with mueller by limiting the scope of questions or limiting the topics that he can cover by saying no, no, no, those covered by executive privilege. problem with that so much of what mueller is investigating is collusion. that goes back to the trump campaign and the communications that occurred in the summer of 2016 and the fall of 2016 which, of course, would not be covered by interviexecutive privilege.