Investigation would soon be winding down. However, there are signs to the contrary. Axios is reporting that, quote, members of Robert Muellers team are reaching out to former Republican National Committee Staff who were familiar with the digital campaign. The goal is to determine if the joint effort was related to the activities of russian trolls and bots aimed at affecting the american electorate. Ty cobb said all of the interviews with the special team are over. However, former colleague said i would be shocked if he was done with the inner circle. All of these indictments, guilty pleas and interviews could be round one. Joining me is Jonathan Swan with acti axios. Thanks to all of you for joining. Barry, the resident former prosecutor here, let me start with you. You have this report from the Washington Post saying that if
point is that its a question that a lot of people close to the situation are asking themselves is why did mueller allow for this prosecutorial vulnerability . Bec
they have pleaded not. on march 10th, russian hackers sent phishing e-mails in an attempt to compromise democratic party operatives tied to hillary clinton. within nine days they would have access to at least 50,000 e-mails of john podesta. in a meeting with the washington post on march 21st, trump announced members of his foreign policy team. george papadopoulos. he s an oil energy consultant. excellent guy. that very week papadopoulos met in london with a russian national and w ties to the kremlin. the volunteer e-mailed sam clovis and others telling them he had met with the russian ambassador and, quote, putin s niece who discussed a meeting between russian leadership and trump. he replied not to make any commitments and added great
that was in march of 2016. take a listen. george papadopoulos, he s an oil energy consultant, excellent guy. then after papadopoulos began cooperating with investigators president trump said, quote, few people knew the young low level volunteer named george who has already proven to be a liar. barry, let me ask you playing this out here because we re on sort of contingency speculation here, but if this does go to a scenario where flynn is saying if trump committed wrongdoing, somebody immediately around trump committed wrongdoing, the vulnerability he s talking about where flynn has admitted to lying to the fbi, if the trump argument with flynn implicating him, this guy is an admitted liar, he s cut some kind of deal with prosecutors to save himself, to save his son, he ll say anything to get off the hook, he ll say anything to get off lightly. strategically, legally how much success is a strategy like that
says about her fiance, george papadopoulos it was a volunteer position. he was the coffee boy. he was not a low-level volunteer in the trump campaign or a rogue agent who acted without approval. it was foreign policy adviser for the campaign. he helped those editing trump s speech on foreign policy. contact with high level officials of different countries. actively giving his input and insights in terms of strategies. and, of course, it was approved for any initiative. reporter: in march 2016, president trump named him as a top foreign policy adviser. george papadopoulos, he s an oil energy consultant. excellent guy. later papadopoulos met with the president and now attorney general jeff sessions where papadopoulos allegedly proposed setting up a meeting between
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