flynn cooperated with mueller s investigators in the obstruction probe. and the president is making the false claim that he was never warned about flynn before bringing him on as his national security adviser. president trump on a twitter tirade. complaining against about the origins of the russia investigation and repeating unfounded claims his campaign was spied on. and tweeting, and this was treason. before taking new details with michael flynn. saying, quote it now seems general flynn was under investigation long before it was common knowledge. if that was the case and with me being one of two people who would become president, why was i thought told so i could make a change? but that s not try, several people, including president obama warned trump about hiring flynn when they met in the oval office according to a former obama administration. a couple months later, acting
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certainly been surprised at the amount of information that the attorney general has put forward. this letter that he wrote to congress and then certainly today a lot more information than many of us expected. and laura, we know all democrats are not satisfied with this report, especially on the issue of obstruction. we all remember, barr sent a memo to senior justice officials before he was nominated and confirmed as attorney general. and he was critical of mueller s obstruction probe specifically. remind us about that, and its significance. he was. it was a 19-page missive that he came up with apparently unsolicited back in june of 2018 before he was attorney general. he was just a private citizen musing around about obstruction of justice theories based solely on what he had read and seen on tv, apparently. and it s interesting. several months ago when this issue first rose and we learned that he wrote it, i can remember being at a press conference where the deputy attorney
it is a win for the president. obstruction is a little messier when you read this. however, bill barr, his attorney general, essentially exoneratinexonerates him. and rod rosenstein. who i was told is staying on as sort of a heat shield for bill barr. bill barr is this hand-picked attorney general who wrote a memo saying that the obstruction probe was fatally misconceived. so now this new chapter is a fight over disclosures from the report. the white house has been bracing for this. it knows the order of battle and is preparing for a subpoena fight with the democrats who have already threatened that. also, pardons. what is the president going to do? his attorneys have said that once this probe is over with, that is when he s going to look at pardons, consider them. you heard him today say a lot of people were hurt through this investigation, as shimon pointed out. raises the question, what s he going to do next? the whole issue of pardons clearly coming into focus. the president
things we know they were investigating, the trump tower moscow statement that the president dictated on air force one that was misleading. that was one of the aspects of the obstruction probe. as we ve been talking about, the case is made that the legal bar is so high to bring an obstruction case, for one, that that wasn t done. they also said that the constitutional consideration of indicting a sitting president wasn t a factor in making this decision. very significant information. and dana, you and i are about to get a phone interview with rudy giuliani. i hope so. i m trying to get him on text. you keep talking. we re working on that right now. he s going to call in. we re zbogoing to discuss all t and get his reaction to this news from the attorney general of the united states. i just want to make a point. for any defendant in any investigation, the fact when prosecutors come and say to you, well, we don t have enough evidence to show you committed this crime, it s a win. i
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