conversations. he went further than that. he gave an amendment to his testimony to the judiciary committee where he said i do not recall any discussions with the russian ambassador or any other representative of the russian government regarding the political campaign on these occasions or any other occasion. right. he did the do not recall, which gives you a little bit of wiggle room, as he knows, as a lawyer and also a former member of the senate judiciary committee. but it is still the fact that he didn t that he did that as part of his amendment to his initial testimony makes it hard to believe that he is just basically lying. let s remind people also, gloria borger, jeff sessions was not president trump s first pick to be attorney general. that job had been offered to rudy giuliani and turned down. giuliani wanted to be secretary of state. the job had been offered to chris christie, and he turned it down as well. i don t know how many other people were between those two and
prosecutor without extraordinary consequences on both sides of the aisle. i ve talked to a number of my republican colleagues who have already indicated they would be prepared to act. one of the problems that democrats and republicans have voiced in the past about special prosecutors are they end up investigating they re first tasked with looking into a land deal, and the next thing you know they re looking into whether or not president clinton had an affair with an intern. there are similar republican complaints about the valerie plame leak investigation, who leaked valerie plame s name. it ends up being a fishing expedition and there are very few people in public life whose lives can bear that kind of scrutiny. to play devil s advocate once again, so bob mueller, let s say, is looking into president trump s finances. we don t know if he is or if he isn t. what would an improper payment
obviously displeased with the president s pick, anthony scaramucci today insisted there was no rift between him and sean spicer or between him and chief of staff reince priebus. a seismic staff shake-up in the west wing. sean spicer out as press secretary after six tumultuous months. spicer submitted his resignation minutes after anthony scaramucci, a trump campaign fundraiser and new york financier accepted the job as communications director. i like the team. let me rephrase it. i love the team. reporter: scaramucci announced deputy press secretary sarah huckabee sanders will move into spicer s role. sarah is going to be the press secretary. congratulations to you, sarah. reporter: president trump asked spicer to remain on staff according to a white house official, but spicer decided to step down instead, a move that shocked white house staffers. a source familiar with the changes says the president has been pushing to add scaramucci
mueller to go so far. but the next person in line, rachel brand is a supporter of president trump. so the question is how do you move these pieces around to get what you want? and i m trying to think about how this president and how this white house is thinking, because yesterday before all of this came out, they were looking at the possibilities of what they could do this. is from my sources, republican sources telling me, what they could do with rosenstein. because they felt that he was allowing mueller to go further. and the president clearly does not particularly care about rosenstein right now as he blasted him in that new york times article as well. went after the attorney general, the deputy attorney general, the former fbi director, the acting fbi director, and bob mueller. dana? you know, i don t want to sound conspiratorial, but i think, you know, just speaking from experience and you all, the three of you have as much or more experience in watching kind of the anatomy
changing his forms, at least on the security side with respect to the russians. so i don t know what s going on here. but i assume that it s all there and that it s true. the problem is, with his form, as well as president trump s form, we do not get information about what s going on at the corporate level in these entities that they own and control. the corporate entity listed on the form can go and borrow money, from the chinese, the russians, or anywhere around the world or at joint ventures around the world, and you re not going to get that information on the form. and most of the activity in these business empires, both trump and kushner, is going on at the corporate level. so yes, we know he s in the real estate business, but we don t know where he s borrowing his money. we don t know who the various other joint venture partners are, because they don t have a contractual relationship directly with him.