suspenseful element to the weird case of mike flynn, right? but it also means the case of mike flynn is not a historical case. it s not over. the reason mike flynn features so prominently in volume 2 of the mueller report, it s about his contacts with the russians in volume 1, but the dangling of that pardon to him, in volume 2, that is described as one of the potentially criminally obstructive acts by the president. if the president is now going to grant flynn the pardon, that means the obstruction investigation, the president potentially being implicated in that, trying to affect flynn s cooperation, trying to affect what he might say to investigators, trying to interfere with any investigation that flynn might otherwise be helping with, well, that makes the obstruction issue live once again. at today s open hearing in the house intelligence committee on the counter intelligence implications of mueller s report, there was further light shed on the counter intelligence implications of
available, as manu reported last night. they came over to the justice department, they ve seen at least one document. the tricky part is going to be the fact that nadler has requested a whole bunch of notes that former white house officials have taken and also fbi interview notes, known as 302s with some of the witnesses in the mueller investigation related to the obstruction issue. and so the white house may have a chance to look at those documents before any lawmakers get a chance to and if that happens, they could exert executive privilege over the documents and try to block members of congress from seeing that. obviously, if that happens, democrats are not going to be pleased and will end up back in court, which is exactly what predicated today s issue, jake. all right, laura, we re also expecting a press conference from top democrats after this vote is finished. manu, this is all happening as democrats continue to be divided on whether or not to proceed with impeachment. you spo
a man who cannot literally cannot tell the truth. at one point in the book, steve says i described steve as saying, i cannot tell you how many times he has looked me in the eye and lied to me. yet, he s still devoted to him in some ways? well, he s still it s a weird devotion. it s love-hate, or it s, you know, repulsion, attraction. you know, remember, steve made donald trump president, donald trump made, transformed steve into a voice in the world. back to the obstruction issue. the reason i was asking if you think steve bannon thinks the president obstructed justice, because you write bannon saying, never send a marine to do a hitman s job. and he s talking about robert mueller. and i wasn t sure what that meant. i think i can explain. did he want mueller to catch him? i he doesn t want he didn t it depends, i think,
yet, he s still devoted to him in some ways? it s a weird devotion. it s love-hate or it s in you know repulgs, attraction. you know, remember, steve made donald trump president, donald trump made, transformed steve into a voice in the world. back to the obstruction issue. the reason i was asking if you think steve bannon thinks the president obstructed justice. you write bannon saying, never send a marine to do a hit man s job. he s talking about robert mueller. i wasn t sure what that meant. it made me wonder. i think i can explain. did he want mueller to catch him? he doesn t want. he didn t it depends i think on the moment of the day. sometimes he wanted museum tore catch him? i think sometimes he believed he would catch him. it was inevitable. you know, but what he literally meant, it s really interesting,
this relationship, they real there was no relationship between the special counsel s office and the department of justice. when you think about it, when you see how things are starting to play out now, you have to wonder, well, what were these communications between rod rosenstein overseeing the investigation and the mueller team? it would seem like there wasn t a lot of good communication. they were surprised, the attorney general said that he was surprised by a lot of what mule der and that they asked what do you want redacted? mueller never got backed to them. they were surprised by the fact that mueller never came to a conclusion on the obstruction issue and left it to him so this tells me there was certainly poor communications going back and forth and it could be a trust issue in the end in that the mueller team wanted to keep this independent so they weren t telling the department of justice. you mentioned the attorney general stayed they were surprised that robert mule der