the recent flurry of subpoenas would seem to indicate a special counselor smith is doing anything but winding dow that investigation today, trump s director of national intelligence, joh ratcliffe, testified before th january 6th grand jury i washington d.c.. federal investigators migh want to talk to ratcliffe about, among other things conversations he had wit donald trump in which th former president pressed ratcliffe to investigate conspiracy theories regardin voting machines. now trump had tried an ultimately failed to block ratcliffe from testifying. and radcliff is part of a before - trump advisor and speech write stephen miller the washington post also reports that smith s other criminal investigation int trump s handling of classified documents found at mar-a-lag well, that is coming right along. but that is not actually the legal headache that donald trump is focused on today. today, trump was deposed for a
play along with the game. trump may also be hoping the report brings the investigation to a close, but former u.s. attorney preet bharara who ran the southern district of new york says he expects more to come. it may be coming to an end, but i keep seeing conflicting pieces of evidence. sort of like things are not what they seem. on the one hand, andrew weissman, top deputy, is leaving. there s lots of people who are reporting who i presume have decent sources and are very smart who say it s rwinding dow. then on the other hand you have rick gates whose sentencing has been postponed yet again. for the fifth time. the fifth time. that makes it look like the work of the special counsel is not done. another apparent area of concern for the president is this man, the house judiciary committee chairman jerry nadler of new york. he s leading one of several congressional investigations. more on that just ahead. and as we mentioned, trump also lashed out at arizona senator john mccain