renaldo mariotti. maya, i begin with you and the notion that andy mccabe may have made a personal failure, a bad decision at work, which was the debate up until today, but whether this former fbi director himself should be charged with a crime over this. does this sound right to you? this sounds like politicizing the justice system to me. if you look at the allegations against andrew mccabe, which essentially boils down to, we were investigating whether or not you spoke to a journalist and revealed the existence of an investigation and then were less than forth coming with us when we asked you about it. violating internal policies and certainly giving that under oath, that we re going to take that, where even james comey himself did not make a statement that said that he did not have legal authority to reveal what he revealed, right, to the
narrator: join parents and experts at understood.org. a free online resource about learning and attention issues to help your child thrive. the house intel committee releasing its transcript with glenn simpson. i want to bring in laura cotes and richard mendez. and also renaldo mariotti. here s what the ranking democrat adam schiff had to say about the release of simpson s transcripts. he said, those transcripts reveal serious allegations that the trump organization may have engaged in money laundering with russian nationals, the same
privileged in the future. it s very overbroad, totally improper, they re going way beyond the scope. why are they being allowed to do it then, renaldo? because the republicans in congress aren t forcing their hands. and we saw it again today they issued a subpoena yesterday. it looked like they were getting tough with bannon, and now they ve given bannon a bunch of time before he comes in again so this way the white house can get its crap together and decide what executive privilege it wants to assert and this will probably die down by then. hope hicks and steve bannon both had their appearances, they had to push back again. renaldo just mentioned that, do you think president trump could have had something to do with that or maybe his attorneys? perhaps the attorneys did or the office of white house counsel. we re not quite sure. but it s telling, there s a playbook being followed. because if what ban anthonon s
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why is up to debate. he s certainly not a fan of cnn s coverage of him, but is that really what it s about? at&t s ceo says that at&t has no intention of backing down from the government s suit. . let s talk about this with brian stelter, and former federal prosecutor renaldo mariotti. good to have you here. let s make the case that the president doesn t watt this to happen. we know he doesn t, because he said it, october 22, gettysburg, pennsylvania, here he is. at&t is buying time warner, and thus cnn. a deal we will not approve in my administration because it s too much concentration of power in the hands of too few. a vertical merger. if you look it up on google, you ll see they don t get blocked very often. the president doesn t like this one. does he have a strong case?