white house or president obama. so, you have no evidence in this case. you have no records, no phone calls, absolutely nothing of any sort and, yet, you supposedly reportedly are investigation the president? and furthermore supposedly this scope memo that outlines whatever mueller is supposed to be looking at, if the new york times story is to be believed from last friday night a friday night news dump, if that s to be believed then that means somebody leaked pieces of that scope memo to the new york times. we still have yet to see it here in the congress. sean: john unioner has been investigating. i don t know if you have seen this heed line in the new york times. mccabe tries to reengage christopher steel after comey was fired and they have a transcript supposedly by bruce ohr showing the fbi went back to steel between comey s firing and mueller s appointment. now we also know that there
annexed primary. no one went to investigate the obama white house or president obama. so you have no evidence in this case, you have no records, no phone calls, absolutely nothing of any sort, and yet you supposedly or reportedly are investigating the president? furthermore, supposedly the scope memo that outlines whatever mueller aspires to be looking at, if the new york times story as to be believed from last friday, if that is to be believed, that means that somebody leaked l pieces of that scope memo to the new york times. we still have yet to see that in the congress. sean: john huber supposed to be investigating that, working a long time, we could use an update. i don t know if you ve seen this piece,ow the headline is mccabe s fbi tried to reengage christopher steele christopher steele after comey was fired. they have a transcript supposedly by bruce ohr showing the fbi went back to christopher steele between comey firing at
law, this is a senate function of the advice and consent that the fbi in recent decades in our history has lent its resources to but it s the senate ball game to control. they do plenty of their own investigations. when you hear this stuff, we had no fbi in this country until 1908. how did the senate ever confirm anybody for the first century? i was glad to see the president kind of bring it back to where it belonged. also when he addressed your question about the scope memo, he basically said he wanted to hear with the senate would have to say about it and what they would want. the bottom line that i think the president underscored is the democrats wanted this investigation. they got the investigation. then they turned around and said it wasn t good enough and all these conspiracy theories about limitations and they didn t do nearly enough in christopher wray the fbi director came out today and said it was done by the book according to standard
collusion with donald trump or the trump campaign the sooner the public finds that out, the better off we ll all be. maria: where does this leave the special counsel congressman? as a former federal prosecutor yourself what is robert mueller doing? what is he going to have to do in the coming months? well part of what he s doing is still a mystery and a source of frustration to some of us in congress because we ve only seen of order of pointing robert mueller we haven t seen the second scope memo that rod rosenstein signed in august of 2017 and so when folks say let robert mueller do his job i m all in favor of that but we need to know what his job is and so it seems incredible to me the members of congress with oversight responsibilities at the department of justice none of us have seen that scope memo so it s hard to comment on that with respect to robert mueller. i am one that has not questioned
as spygate. you mentioned the so-called, scope memo that gave robert mueller the special counsel the authority to investigate and what areas he would be able to investigate in. here is what giuliani told sean hannity last night. i want to see the documents which trey gowdy has never seen, which is outrageous. i m not going to let my client testify. the president of the united states. even if he wants to without those documents produced. if and when we find that this was handled appropriately, and there is some evidence on which they could base that is phony investigation, we have him testify. john: you might take that is a high bar that mueller would have to leap before giuliani and the president and jay sekulow, his other attorney agreed to an interview. you are right. they are setting a high bar. giuliani spent an hour with the president last night and said they talk frequently on