one more way comcast is working to fit into your life, not the other way around. welcome back. the panelists here. hugh hewitt from the radio welcome back. the panelists here. hugh hewitt from the radio network and nbc news white house correspondent hallie jackson and david brook, columnist at the new york times, mr. brook, i m going to start with you. mueller one year in what is reminded today in the new york times, wow, there is a lot we don t know. that s true. i ve been a bear on this all along and my scandal meter is ten. i ve moved to three to four mostly when you ask was there collusion with the trump damp camp, i don t think there was the trump campaign and there are disorganized people to have actual collusion. what i think is happening and the roger stone phrase that i heard most clearly was the phrase extraneous claims, and if you have a white house prosecutor they might cross that.
a defense lawyer would never let his client go on television and make that type of a statement. that s what prosecutors like to call a prior inconsistent statement. if evidence comes to light that he was in fact involved in these sorts of things in a more willful or deliberate way than he acknowledges then we re looking at, i think, very good evidence that can be used whether we re talking about the congressional investigation or federal prosecutors to establish willful misconduct. mike, you ve covered more than one legally tinged political scandal in washington. what do you think of the, i guess, baffling conduct of these individuals? i mean, we are under a hundred days in and you have carter doing the repeat media tours. you have this dramatic letter from flynn s lawyer saying he has a story to tell. then you have manafort with the drip, drip, drip. where does this rank on your scandal meter? it s defitely top ten.