testified behind closed doors that president trump did link military aid in a white house meeting in exchange for dirt on a domestic political opponent. on october 15th kent told the committee it was made clear to him that the president wanted nothing less than president zelensky to go to a microphone and say three things investigations, biden and clinton. he also testified he was cooperating with the committee s subpoena for documents but his personal notes never made it to congress because they were blocked by state department lawyers, a little obstruction there. on october 22nd ambassador taylor told investigators it was his clear understanding that aid would not be delivered until ukraine committed to an investigation of the bidens. he affirmed that if they don t do this, they re not going to get that. and when asked are you aware that quid pro quo literally means this for that, taylor said, i am. republicans have already made clear where their allegiances line and will do everyt
mueller and the special counsel s office investigation into russian interference in the presidential election. quote, house minority leader kevin mccarthy formally named the nine republican members of the house intelligence committee today, ending a weeks long delay that may have cost special counsel robert mueller valuable time to act on potential leads the panel could offer. democrats now in the majority on the intelligence committee had vowed that one of their first acts would be to authorize the release of more than 50 witness interview transcripts to special counsel mueller to aid in his investigation. members have said they had reason to believe some witnesses lied to the committee, something that has already led mueller to bring charges against trump allies, including long-time trump personal lawyer michael cohen and longtime trump adviser roger stone. now here is an interesting detail we did not have before today, before this report tonight from nbc news from mike
discovery process so far, what they say today is that that material that they ve obtained in discovery thus far, it has all of the sudden turned up in russia in altered form, doctored and then used for what appears to be a kind of disinformation campaign to try to publicly discredit the mueller investigation, using u.s. journalists as part of the ploy. what? this is from the filing. quote, on october 22nd, 2018, so this past october, the newly created twitter account hackingredstone published the following tweet, quote, we ve got access to the special counsel mueller s probe database as we hacked russian server with info from the russian troll case concord llc versus mueller. you can view all the files mueller has about the internet research agency and russian collusion. enjoy the reading. the tweet also included a link to a web page located on an
you can t make it public. you re only supposed to be able to use it inside the confines of this case. contrary to that order, what actually happened to that stuff they got through discovery is that apparently the stuff got sifted through. a bunch of those files got posted online. they got put in this online data portal, and then somebody anonymously claimed that they hacked that material out of mueller s office, and they were going to make it available to the u.s. public by shopping it to u.s. journalists. saying it was the sum total of everything that mueller has been able to assemble in terms of evidence on the issue of, quote, russian collusion. now i m not a lawyer. we ll get some expert advice from somebody who is a very good lawyer who understands these things to make sure we re grasping the real significance of what happened here and what s going on in this court case, but a, this is a surprise. like really? that s what s happening in this court case? and there are a couple of t
and the prosecutors say those thousand plus files were mixed in with lots of other files that they call, quote, totally irrelevant. and that s part of why the special counsel s office appears to be so miffed here, because what they re alleging is that this pretrial discovery process was abused in order to try to create a public perception in this country about what mueller had on russia collusion and russian interference in the election. this effort was to try to create a misimpression that mueller had come up dry, that the mueller investigation didn t really turn up any interesting evidence. quote, the dissemination of the link to the web page via a twitter message claiming to provide access the all the files mueller had about ira and russian collusion and the fact that the web page contained numerous irrelevant files suggest that the person who created the web page used their knowledge of nonsensitive discovery to make it appear as though the nonrelevant files on