and they tried to manay ed tiede campaign, through agents of influence. do you think it s possible if they re going to want to find out if manafort was a russian plant? is that one of the questions they want to answer? they re going to want to know if there were ties between paul manafort and russia, whether they were financial or otherwise, that caused him to in effect do russia s bidding. and whether wittingly or unwittingly doing work on behalf of the russians. and did trump know about it, did he know what manafort was doing, and did he know what flynn was doing and when he found out about the investigation why did he try to it s always this sort of incomp tense defense. is that a legal defense, we
this is on the obstruction piece of it. comey s memos are also on the question of what was russia doing and who responded. what did they say? they re going to want to go back and ask those people on how russia conducted its election interference as well. and, margaret, back to the president s defense. is there a feeling now within the white house, do we know, that the lawyers and it seems like it s dowd who is the new addition here, who is not the flamboyant not, not the one going out there doing press conferences and going as a guest on television shows, who may have gotten control of this. do they feel in the white house that dowd actually has control of the president now in this investigation? well, there has been a real firewalling or really attempt to firewall both the white house, you know, don mcgahn and the president s advisers from the legal size and at the same time this addition of jay sec ykulowd
have because it establishes a written record that comey was making at the time that they can use to then interrogate other witnesses, compare their memories of what happened to what comey had written down at the time, which is probably the freshest recollection of any of these incidents. so it s really helpful for them to fact-check as they go forward. what do you expect after they get the memos, when you re building an investigation like this? there are these basic building blocks you want. where do you see them moving them after they get the memos because they ve now read those memos? so after you ve read the memos, you re going to want to go back and interview the people mentioned in the memos. this is on the obstruction piece of it. comey s memos are also on the question of what was russia doing and who responded. what did they say? they re going to want to go back and ask those people on how russia conducted its election interference as well.