work, he was out there talking about fbi matters without disclosing it, then comey comes in and testifies, and leaves out a material fact, a fact that people would have wanted to know when it came to evaluating his decision about leaking this information through mr. richmond. you know, if there s going to be credible leak investigation, it has to be more than just about this leak of the memo through richmond to the new york times, which was inappropriate and led to the mueller investigation calling that whole thing into account. because you can bet that given richmond s role at the fbi, and mueller s close relationship, this wasn t the first time likes like this occurred. i think that s the open question. melissa: okay. why did he decide to use richmond at this point. did it just come up with the idea out of the blue? i don t believe it. i believe there are prior likes and it needs to be investigated. melissa: okay, but looking at this one in particular, if he
question, what other payments were paid and to who. it s going to be tricky. but it s plausible he had a monthly take care of issues check he sent to michael cohen that, may be the story he s going with now. the thing that concerns me he could have done this sooner, should have gotten to his lawyers sooner to allow them to walk this back. thank you so much, robert driscoll, appreciate your time n addition to his revelation about the stormy daniels payment, sto storm rudy giuliani slams the mueller probe saying it s desperate to make a case and could be trying to trap the president into perjury. giuliani also lays out the parameters for a possible interview with the special counsel saying he would push for it to be two hours long and want the questions in advance. we have given them 1.2 million documents, didn t fight with it.
distract the presidency, part of the process, when the plaintiff went to court. so, all of those things, guiliani is very familiar with. the important thing for people to understand, is that you have unlimited ability to distract the president if we allow it. what we have to do is ask the question how many of these questions could be answered by appropriate staff. you know, your previous commentary had to do with the retainer. a person who s worth $10 billion or $11 billion, pays somebody a retainer to take care of small problems or distractions and so on, in business, can you imagine now as the man responsible for the safety of the free world, denuclearizing two peninsulas, how can we not say you know what, mueller, give the questions to staff, let them try to answer as many as are appropriate and give you answers, and come back to us with a tight request for that which only the president could answer.
for things row lated for example to the firing of comey, as rudy guiliani said, comey should be prosecuted for his known unlawful leaking of documents, his leaving government with documents, the same as hillary clinton did. these are areas in which comey should be the target of the special prosecutor if he wants to deviate from his original mandate. here s the point that senator blumenthal didn t hit that i will hit. entering ontries intering ontries are the way to get answers from busy people not targets of an investigation, who you don t want to have, quote, take the fifth, interrogatories. these questions leaked by mueller or somebody around him, these are questions in some kisses appropriate to hand to rudy guiliani as the president s lawyer, to have the appropriate ones answered, and it would be reasonable for him to answer it. that also minimizes the