mr. heck. director mueller, i d like to go to the motives behind the trump campaign encouragement an acceptance of help during the election. obviously, clear motivation was to help them in what would turn out to be a very close election. but there was another key motivation. that was, frankly, the desire to make money. i always try to remember what my dad, who never had the opportunity to go beyond the 8th grade, taught me, which is that i should never, ever under estimate the capacity of some people to cut corners and even more in order to worship and chase the almighty buck. and this is important because i think it, in fact, does go to the heart of why the trump campaign was so unrelentingly intent on developing relationships with the kremlin. so let s quickly revisit one financial scheme we just discussed, which was the trump tower in moscow. we indicated earlier that it was a lucrative deal. trump, in fact, stood in his company to earn many millions of
666 fifth avenue. correct? i m not familiar with those financial arraignments. also on page 162, where kushner companies it was asserted had debt obligations coming due on the company. harry prince, a supporter close to trump a supporter? a supporter? yes. he met in the seychelles during the campaign with the head of a sanctioned russian government investment arm which had close eyes to vladamir putin, correct, sir? yes. your investigation determined that mr. prince had not known or conducted business with dimitriev before clutrump won t election? i defer to that. yet prince, who had connections to top
i don t know the answer to that one. would it not indicate that if the statute of limitations on federal crimes such as this are five years, that a president who serves a second term is, therefore, under the policy, above the law? i m not certain i would agree the conclusion. i m not certain that i can see the possibilities that you suggest. but the statute doesn t toll, is that correct? i don t know specifically. it clearly doesn t. i just want as the american public is watching this and perhaps learning about many of these for the first time. we need to consider that and the other alternatives and all that we have. but i appreciate your response. earlier in questioning, someone mentioned that there was a question involving whether anyone in the trump political
published a report suggesting that a server at trump tower was secretly communicating with russia s alpha bank and i quote, akin to what criminal syndicates do. do you know if that story is true? do not. do not know whether it s true. so did you not investigate these allegations which are suggestive of potential trump/russia? i believe not true doesn t mean it would not be investigated. it may well have been investigated although i believe at this point it s not true. thank you. as a former cia officer, i want to focus on something i think both sides of the political aisle can agree on. that is how do we prevent russian intelligence and other adversaries from doing this again. after overseeing counter intelligence operations for 12 years as fbi director and then investigating what the russians have done in the 2016 election, you ve seen tactics, techniques and results of russian
conversations, mccabe in particular, accused of not playing it straight. would have thought that this would be right thing to do, obviously, because he was being accused of acting improperly. at the same time potentially having private discussions with the president. there s a brief time he was the acting director of the fbi even before he was acting director, he made very sensitive decisions about how the bureau handled the investigation into hillary clinton and also, as you mentioned, he was involved very early in the fbi s investigation of potential trump campaign collusion with russia. for him to later document his conversations with the president, not surprising and probably a wise thing to do. ken delanian, i want to return to the statement of andrew mccabe. this attack on my credibility is one part of a larger effort not just to slander me personally but to taint the fbi, law enforcement and intelligence professionals more generally, part of this administration s ongoing war o