killing black men, women and children. and who claim that black lives matter. hates the police. attacking actively the fbi law enforcement and bob mueller who is decorated navy veteran, vietnam and probably most respected fbi director in u.s. history, anyway. hearing the way that they are attacking him. is extraordinary. let s listen to in may. back when mueller was first appointed special prosecutor, this is how republicans talked about him. he is someone who is widely respected for his professionalism. he s going to conduct a fair and thorough investigation, of that i have no doubt. you couldn t have picked a better man to do the job. all of us are who know director mueller are very happy he s there. the justice department need to do their jobs independently, objectively and thoroughly. i believe the special counsel, which is robert mueller now, helps them do that. now this is how state media on fox has been attacking mueller lately. the day another story that
side of the aisle, thinking about people like trey gowdy, held many, many, many hearings when we lost americans in benghazi. not that these are the same, obviously each situation is different, do you see among your colleagues in the republican party any interest in holding the same intensity of hearings regarding this situation in niger? oh, it would be a shame if they did not. i mean, obviously this was a very tragic situation, a situation that should not have happened. and if they don t pursue this with the same intensity, the same passion, i think the week in question what their motives were in dealing with benghazi. indeed. congressman marc veasey, thank you for your time. thank you. coming up, latest on the russia gate investigation. stay with us.
are leaving no stone unturned. as of this week subpoenas have been issued for records of business transactions by former trump campaign manager pan manafort and former national security advisor michael flynn. and according to reuters, systems have also been oishld in connection with a june 2016 meeting between donald trump j his son-in-law jared kushner, paul manafort a russia lawyer with ties to the kremlin and other russia nationals. and the new york times reports that investigators have also asked the white house for documents related to flynn and have questioned witnesses about whether he was on the payroll of the turkish government while also working for trump. nbc news has not independently verified the times report. but while the investigation continues to develop, completely out of his control, donald trump increasingly finds himself boxed in on capitol hill as well. the united states senate with the full support of republicans, who until now generally protected trump at ever
finances are going to be the motivation or they ll look at finances to see if they can follow the traits and the mandate for the special prosecutor is not just the russia investigation but what comes up during his investigation of the russian interference. yes. so if he finds other things, he s got full jurisdiction, and i agree with the point by the way dershowitz was my law professor, too, family law, not criminal law. he should have stayed in family law. richard painter there is this looming possibility donald trump may try to get folks out of this or get his former campaign team and former national security adviser out of this with pardons. how do you think that that would go over if donald trump started pardoning people to try to extricate them from having to go before the grand jury or would that extricate from having to go before the grand jury? no, it wouldn t extricate them. once they re pardoned they can t plead the fifth amendment not to incrim nate themselves becaus
of the alt right right now where donald trump has said mcmaster is good with me and i m with him and all these guys that expected the same games they tried to play all along and moving that up the weird food chain of the alt right to fox and having it blasted out by fox and rush and all those folks, they thought that would keep working. and the grunts have put the praks on these things pretty hard. and the interesting thing about it is so you do have mcmaster who had not been able to dislodge watt in this case if people will remember who he is, he is one of the people to have agenda to leak to devon nun easy information trying to an secure the russia gate investigation and help trump out and exonerate him on this charge that president obama had wire tamd trump tower. you do have to ecosystem now, the daily caller putting out a headline everything the president wants to do mcmaster opposes and they claim that they re citing former national