fact a wiretap is in place so be careful who you talk to. and those individuals have been criminally prosecuted for doing that. so what mr. giuliani is suggesting that the president should have been told about it, had he been told about it, that would have been entirely inappropriate and in fact might have given rise to criminal prosecution of the individual that tipped him off. i m sure the other members of the panel can disagree with me if i m wrong about that. julie ainsley, i want to center up on why are we having this conversation. it is because of the political implications of all of this. why is rudy giuliani arguing the president should have been told. you i think touch on this point earlier, this idea that they are essentially trying to undermine and say argue that the legal system acted unfairly, whereas right now we have no evidence here that that s the case. right. i mean they re trying to it is the same argument they had after the race, that there were things that
friendly to saying this is government misconduct if true. he says he is not fully aware of the details of this. he said he was about to call president trump to discuss the nbc news story. to figure out what s going on. he said that this could lead to a real evisceration, in his words, of attorney/client privilege, if an attorney was being wiretapped. so an angry reaction, defiant reaction from the former new york mayor. can i respond to that? yes, please. i find that incredibly ironic. i mean, this is rudy giuliani who served as the u.s. attorney for the southern district of new york for years during which i would dare to say there were thousands of wiretap applications made, thousands of wiretaps conducted, evidence procured, individuals charged, individuals conducted and sent to federal penitentiaries across the nation in response to evidence that mr. giuliani himself used by way of wiretap
that the southern district of new york has followed all of those procedures. and from all we know, there has been no violation of anyone s rights. what we need to do is wait and see what was intercepted and how is it going to be used. could i follow up to yes, please. excellent. it just occurred to me that not only is it not common practice in fact, it is unheard of for a u.s. attorney or assistant u.s. attorney to notify individuals that may be recorded on wiretaps. but it is actually illegal to do so because it could be perceived as potential obstruction of justice or interfering with an ongoing criminal investigation. in fact, there have been instances where individuals within rogue agents or rogue officers within law enforcement have tipped off exactly tipped off targets or others that might be recorded on wiretaps to tell them that in
melissa: i think from a legal perspective, we wouldn t know. these are the argument that you guys are having from a legal perspective, maybe people wouldn t have done what they did and maybe we would know about it. harris: that s what i m asking. the bottom line. the drumbeat that you ll see on some media outlets as well, this is all about president trump writing to fire mueller. so what i m asking is, can you shut that down or can you enlighten it? what does this do? does it do one thing or the other? howard: remember, mueller is not involved in any of these pretty came and we find out about the rogue agents, took them off the case and he is now looking at obstruction. i m not saying he has a case but here s the bottom line. there s been so much fears partisanship surrounding this issue, surrounding this memo that we are going to get the democratic counterattack, a lot of people following the details of the fisa court. they are going to wonder what the bottom line is here. i thi
referring to senator joe mccarthy who claimed high-ranking officials were soviet spies in the 1930s, the tweet refers to the fact the fbi released a statement warning about the memo s accuracy saying it might not be that accurate. folks on twitter sounding off. eve says you won t find any school named after comey either. you are speaking about the honest practice what you preach, chris says comey, you and your brand of rogue agents are the weasels and liars, can t you zip it and go away? we know why comey is probably speaking against this memo, it would affect his time as fbi director. four key elements against this and comey specifically has one of those involved. stephen king sorry for a lot of folks, they marked the train wreck and he is one of them.