Office of president of United States and will preserve, protect and defense the constitution of the u. S. Except where nobody gets killed or robbed. His point is basically that a crime is a crime is a crime, correct . Exactly. I think you see through georges tweet a commonality, again, between he and i. Even though we come from very different sides of the aisle, but a common belief, a core belief in the rule of law in america. And thats a belief that Rudy Giuliani himself shared as a prosecutor. I dont think he was only putting murderers behind bars. There are whole Statute Books being enforced every day. And it would turn our nation upside down to adopt giulianis new position. Thank you very much. I now hand it over to chris cuomo. Thank you, i am chris cuomo. Welcome to primetime. We have new information tonight. The Special Counsel wants more answers from the president of the United States, and he wants them in person. The president s legal team said it was open to more questioning,
flynn. even if both sides agree, the former national security adviser shouldn t do much, if any, time. it s interesting. mueller said flynn was committed to his false story. he s saying to the court, don t buy this. that he was set up. don t buy he meant to lie. he meant to lie. he lied a lot. we caught him. that s the real deal. why is this important? because it shows how mueller and his team view lying. all right? nothing about the way the interview was arranged or conducted caused the defendant to make false statements. that s another quote from the filing. mueller s own filing shows the fbi tactics didn t sit well at the time. we know sally yates wasn t happy and some people whose names were redacted argued about the decision to interview flynn. and the fbi said he didn t feel he was being deceptive. the special counsel says they may have thought that, but it didn t change the fact that flynn was lying and admitted to it. it s all fodder for cuomo s court.
buy this. don t buy he meant to lie. he meant to lie. he lied a lot. we caught him. that s the real deal. why is this important? because it shows how mueller and his team view lying. all right? nothing about the way the interview was arranged or conducted caused the defendant to make false statements. that s another quote from the filing. mueller s own filing shows the fbi tactics didn t sit well at the time. we know sally yates wasn t happy and some people s whose names were redacted are upset about the decision to interview flynn. the special counsel says they may have thought that, but it didn t change the fact that flynn was lying and admitted to it. it s all fodder for cuomo s court. here s where i find it so interesting. this is the first window that we ve had where we see how mueller thinks about lying. now, i took the time to go back and read his report on the nfl and how they dealt with ray rice
they are doing their job and they are giving you a warning because it is their job to do this, and that sally yates wasn t coming to them out of any partisan irk but she was coming to them to say look, you have a problem here. and she came to them, to use your metaphor of the category 5 hurricane, three times after president obama warned of said hurricane to the incoming president himself. let me move on to, dana, you covered, you all really have, covered capitol hill for years and years, on this whole question about you have essentially these 13 older white gentlemen, essentially you know where i m going with this. essentially tasked to come up with the senate s version of this health care bill which i don t know how much these men know about menopause or maternity issues or obstetrics or you name it but when sean spicer was asked about this, he almost acted like he wasn t even
department diplomats signed a memo voicing opposition to trump s immigration executive order, his spokesman said they should find a new job. i think they should either get with the program or they can go. reporter: and when the national park service retweeted a photo comparing trump s inaugural crowd size to president obama s in 2009, trump personally called the acting director to complain. sally yates wasn t the only high-ranking doj staffer who went out the door at the justice department. when she left, cnn is told by a source that matt axelrod, the principal associate deputy attorney general who served as sally yates right-hand man, left as well. we weren t able to reach alex rod for comment. the significance of the situation is that it s not just about the president firing sally yates because he clearly had the power to do it, but it s also about the highly critical language that was used in the public statement from the office of the white house press secretary. thank you v