expenses not a loan, so is wasn t illegal and trump wasn t required to disclose a payment. you know who is not buying that? the government s top ethics official who released a letter to rod rosen tine in connection with the disclosure. he asserted the office of government ethics had concluded the payment made by mr. cohen is in fact required to be reported as a liability despite trump s claim and added that rosen tine may find the disclosure relevant to any inquiry you may be pursuing. that s something. indeed, according to david apple s predecessor, the let ser tantamount to a criminal referral. oge reported the president to doj for potentially committing a crime. joining me now, georgetown law professor, neal katyal. the legal significance of the president putting this in writing and the referral by oge. they re both huge. this is a big deal.
nowhere seemingly pardoned scooter libby. that would be the former bush administration official convicted of lying about a leak of classified information to the press. also today, theive specter general for the justice department released a report criticizing andrew mccabe, the deputy fbi director whom the president fired last month. interestingly, the report looks pretty favorably on comey s conduct. the president who again according to multiple reports is raging posted this. doj just issued the mib kak report which is a total disaster. he lied, lied, lied. mccabe was totally controlled by comey. no collusion all made up by this den of theebs and low lives. on top of all that, reports the president is about to move to fire his deputy attorney general. that would be rod rosen tine. those reports seem to be accelerating the moves against him seem to be accelerating. it has reached the point that rosenstein is now actively telling con if i can ts he s
he didn t just fire comey because he felt like it because he can as president but that he did it in an intent to actually obstruct this case and to try to move it away from him. in this case, we want to see how mueller may be moving forward. we know these are four areas. there could be other areas. this was really what was overlapping. i was hearing these four areas. we know that mueller is someone who follows the book. he s going to most likely accepted a report which would be confidential to rod rosen tine. he would have to make the decision whether or not that goes to congress, whether or not it goes public and as brett was laying out, whether or not congress would move forward with impeachment. right now mueller is trying to gather everything he can to make this as hard of a case as possible. we know he has findings on these areas. we don t know what they are. there could be a scenario where he finds that some of the findings are actually excup
statement, an explanation like the basic facts. and sean spicer was left standing by the bushes. just turn the lights off. no cara for a moment. let just relax and enjoy the night, have a glass of wine. they deliberately didn t tell the press office because they thought the press office would leak it. this was at that moment when he was hugely mistrustful of his own staff. at first a memo mo written by deputy attorney general rod rosen tine was given as the justification for the firing. hosen stein has been the top official overseeing the russia investigation since jeff sessions we accused himself last march. that many recusal infuriated president trump who reportedly saw it as disloyal. he had expected a certain measure of personal loyalty from sessions which is now how the u.s. government is supposed to work. what prompted that study? have to ask the deputy
telling associates the memo could help discredit the investigation by exposing anti-trump bias in the fbi, could and could give him a pretext to fire the man deputy attorney general rod rosen tine and allow him to replace rosenstein with a trump loyalist. it s going to be showing misconduct on the part of top people at the doj and fbi. you re going to see a need for a change to certain practices up there. there s going to be a need for a change of certain personnel towards the top. memo emerged from the office of trump royalist and intel chair devin nunes who obviously has not read the classified intelligence upon which it was based. the top democrat on that committee adam schiff says the memo leaves out crucial information and is purposely misleading. the fbi itself, the fbi, is the federal bureau of investigation in the executive branch which is run by donald trump, it echoed the sentiment of adam schiff.