is collusion or it feels like a lot of collusiony things. this isn t that. this is one of their toughest prosecutors weissmann saying under oath that this is still going. i put that to you in contrast of what you hear from some trump defender, and i think some knowledgeable legal folks have been saying this before this new piece, which was well, if this is all they have on roger stone that. don t have him on conspiracy. they only have on obstruction. walk us through how this goes seemingly in the other direction. so this is robert mueller. i was bay area native for a long time. robert mueller has a great reputation. he is a very, very careful prosecutor. and weissmann is a very careful prosecutor. so building a case like this requires time. it s incremental. it s not just here is a smoking gun and we re done. so we re clearly, carefully building a case, and there will be these little slivers. it doesn t seem like much at all. it s sort of impressionism. when you get up close, you r
unpopular with most people. he had the very poor performance on wednesday. that was a poor, poor performance. he was grandstanding all over the place. he is a showboater. that same comey that the president didn t like, history has stressed him into the probe where weissmann works. and comey was quite public at the time in his praise for weissmann. i d like to thank andrew weissmann, deputy director of the enron task force who is standing around the room some place. i want to thank and congratulate andrew weissmann, let me thank the enron task force, in particular andrew weissmann, t head of the enron task force. he and his brilliant team were in houston today where their harsch hard work continues. you can you see weissmann off to the side while comey talks. he often avoided those microphones. that hard work as comey put it led to some hard calls like whether prosecutors should single out just bad employees or indict entire companies. now that s controversial because if it send
the federal investigations have ensnared many of donald trump s most senior aides, and as prosecutors probe deeper into the remaining senior aides, as well as the people at the trump org, some of the names that are left in both worlds are obviously donald trump s own family. now many prosecutors are actually especially cautious when it comes to splitting families against each other in a probe, but not this one. the hardball federal peruse andrew weissmann, many call him mueller s legal pit bull, and some of trump s most enthusiastic legal defenders have tougher words for weissmann than even for his boss, bob mueller. i ve called mr. weissmann the poster boy for prosecutorial misconduct. he has chosen his jack the ripper like leader andrew weissmann. guess what? weissmann is a legal nightmare. weissmann, guess what? he is a legal tyrant. andrew weissmann is a very, very powerful weapon in the
government s arsenal. i don t like andrew weissmann heading this prosecution. that was trump s former lawyer. he doesn t like it. well, that brings us to tonight s special report, the reason why team trump fears weissmann, and what it actually says about the future of trump s family and how the probe may reportedly look at people as it draws to a potential close. so let s get into it. weissmann known for tough and sometimes controversial tactics. lately trump allies have seized on, for example, this new fooj of roger stone s home rage to try to impugn this investigation. it was a weissmann that first deployed a predawn raid on manafort s home in july 2017. with absolutely no warning, fbi agents showed up before dawn to search the suburban washington, d.c. apartment of paul manafort. raiding a home in the middle of the night is an indication of a very serious criminal case and criminal investigation. the justice department
guidelines require agents to pursue evidence by the least obtrusive means possible. sending armed agents to his door in the middle of the night is not the least obtrusive means possible. weissmann honed his hardball strategy in one of the most far-reaching, aggressive and controversial prosecutions in modern american law, the enron investigation. that probe was high stakes because president george w. bush had deep ties to that texas energy company. so his doj tried to show there would be no favoritism. so they appointed a special task force run by the fbi director at the time bob mueller. that was bush s proof this was going to be a tough probe. and then mueller needed a point man to show it was going to be a tough probe, and he chose weissmann to lead a, quote, elite team of fbi agents and federal prosecutors to investigate and prosecute any crimes related to enron. now what was true then is very relevant now in the mueller probe. picking weissmann meant you would get very tough pro