that mueller has come up with the most enticing bits of information that made clear that donald trump and his campaign were pawns. including that donald trump were pawns, unwitting pawns, half witting pawns. that s going to be part of the mueller story. we know that, i think, from what lawyers dealing with mueller have told us. some things we hear from lawyers dealing with lawyers that are part of the joint defense agreement, with the white house is that these lawyers representing ohs in the case believe that trump has lied every step of the way. through this whole process and investigation. and that, too, goes to the question of obstruction. how does the obstruction fit with being a pawn? john, the argument made today by so many trump surrogates on this air and elsewhere, that all
every step of the way. through this whole process and investigation. and that, too, goes to the question of obstruction. how does the obstruction fit with being a pawn. john, the argument made today by so many trump surrogates on this air and elsewhere, that all of manaforts transgressions predated the trump campaign. clearly just based on the little we learned yesterday, the mueller team has ed to the contrary. that appears to be the case. not only for manafort, but apparently from gates. this information was turned over around the 16th of july was it. any way, they had a hard date on it and it was right in the middle of the campaign after he had emerged add the candidate for the gop. so i don t think that s going to work as a defense. having technical problem.
there never was, never will be. president trump on reports his legal team is preparing written answers to question from special counsel robert mueller and his team. sources saying those questions were tain to whether trump culieu colluded with russia in 2016. he makes the argument that the odds of robert mueller charging president trump with obstruction has become less and less likely. i want to bring everybody back in and bring in nick acerman in particular because you get a shout out with these. he says none of the allegations raised over obstruction fit in raised over obstruction fit in the underlying crime to which that obstruction is i don t think mueller would charge it unless he can prove the conspiracy with the russian government to interfere with our election by, one, just taking those two indictments that came down on the russian side, one has to do with social media, the other has to do with the break in to the democratic national committee. if you look at the scope of t