he said it was coordinated carefully. you won t see daylight between me and the president. pointing to trump s tweets in support of what he had said. giuliani was brought on board the legal team to publicize trump s message that he had not been treated fairly. hillary clinton had received better treatment from investigators. and james comey should not be believed. he was also tasked with negotiating with the special council s team over a possible interview with the president. giuliani up ended the strategy last night according to sources. his comments poured fuel on the stormy daniels case, which is a focus in the new york based investigation of cohen, not a case giuliani is a part of, anderson. want to bring in the panel. from a legal standpoint, you think the most significant thing that giuliani said is about the importance of the timing of
characterize as earn appropriate asks to the justice department. for better or worse, the justice department has said yes. they demanded and i had an opportunity to review an ec. which was how the original investigation was established and they demanded to see the fisa, the full fisa applications for the wiretaps that became so controversial. ordinarily the department of justice would say, no, we re not going to show that to you. it s part of an ongoing investigation. and i can t get inside the deputy attorney general s head, but in this case, the deputy attorney general said fine, come take a look, i m not sure that s a good precedent for the justice department, that s what happened. these guys have gotten access to a remarkable amount of information about an ongoing investigation, and they re asking for more and more and more and more so they can do what they ve been doing for a year now, which is try to cast aspersions on this
and conscious of the fact that their bosses boss has a dark interest in the outcome of the work that they are doing. so the pressure being placed on the department of justice now is outrageous. i m a member of congress, i understand the importance of oversight. i understand the importance and let me harkin back to something else, steve bannon and stories, which by the way they are fuse to do, with ridiculous claims of executive privilege. we re talking about an ongoing investigation here, and they re demanding information about an ongoing investigation, harking back to, you know, what many consider jim comey s mistake, discussing prior to the election, the investigation of hillary clinton. you know, on the stormy daniels issue, all along, michael cohen and his supporters said there was nothing political about a payment to her opinion according to rudy giuliani s comments to fox news, that may not be the case. do you have any doubt that this was linked to the election,
those things are fine. you may have missed it, he said something that i thought was quite remarkable. he said the president of the united states can t be subpoenaed because he can t be distracted. well, the supreme court has never said that, i tell you what, you got a president of the united states that is distracted by everything. he s distracted by fox news, golfing. the he s the least best president too try to put before the supreme court and say, this guy can t be distracted. he can t be not distracted. there s an open question as to whether a grand jury subpoena can be served on the president. that s an open legal question. it s pretty close to a closed issue. i think. not in materials, but in 1997, the supreme court said in the paula jones case, bill clinton made all these same arguments, i m too busy, i have national security concerns, the supreme court said, too bad, you have to give a deposition. now, the courts always say the grand jury investigations are more impor
campaign finance disclosure. today sarah huckabee sanders was put in an odd spot she was asked if president trump filed a fraudulent filing, she said, i don t know. the idea that michael cohen has this portfolio of this kind of situation that he has free reign to deal with, and access to i guess in this case, he did have access to cash. a retainer from the president, to deal with the stuff, he doesn t have to tell his client what he s dealing with or if it s been resolved. if that s true, think about how terrible it is. i am such a bad person, i have a big bucket of cash and someone to hand it out to get me out of trouble. i think that s normal. it s probably illegal. but if it s not it s still terrible. i remember when rudy giuliani was a force to be reckoned with, this guy was bad i mean, he was