Commentary, newsmaker interviews and panel discussions. Commentary, newsmaker interviews and panel discussions. Completely debunked the campaignrelated charges. Lets take a look. The general counsel for the clinton mob family, lanny davis, he had his client pleaded to two counts of criminality that dont exist. These Campaign Finance violations all over tv saying implicates the president directly. Re first, lets back up. It is a guilty plea. It is a plea bargain between ale prosecutor and a criminal. A criminal who doesnt want to spend the rest of his life in prison. That is not precedent. That applies only to that specific case. Nobody cites Plea Bargains for precedent. Thats number one. Number two, just because a Prosecutor Says that somebody violated a campaign law, doesnt make it so. Hes not the judge, hes not the jury. We didnt adjudicate anything. It never went to court. Thats number two. A Campaign Expenditure under our
federal Campaign Laws is an expenditure solely for campaign
bloodletting, by the way. you had a president who was threatening these people. talking about executing a spy and the whistle-blower and the people who fed the spy information are his people. right. and you don t think he s going to go into the white house and try and line up a firing squad and figure out who are the people who talked to the whistle-blower? i mean right. this is going to be a real problem in the white house. to bob s point, i think it s worth worth amplifying this a little bit. bob, correct me if i m wrong about this, most white house counsels are involved with national security more than people know in the sense that there are legal decisions that have to be made about actions that may be taken by a president or, you know, direct strikes on terrorists, for example and in this case if you re raising the spector of an investigation it s quite possible that not just underlings, but that the white
here.ng in one year, 2009, alone, they say in the book that james comey was paid $6.1 million just for working for them and this was on new important spy information. i m not suggesting anything necessarily is nefarious but it s never been disclosed and that robert mueller was at the fbi and signed off on that 6.1 in that one year, there s five other years, i don t know how much he got paid. also got $6 million of a hedge fund. that s an awful lot of money it seems to me. these guys were leveraging their government positions, according to the book, to enrich themselves and the company and the private sector they were working for. it s very much the same arguments i make in my book of how they were leveraging their relationship with each other for a long period of time, which is why this is a conflict of interest. for mueller to be investigating the president on a case in which
about what they had been told to here by moscow and what they told moscow, what they carried out here under moscow s orders. we also learned all this spy information about their spy information. to further the aims of the conspiracy, moscow center has arranged for the defendants clandestinely to communicate with the russian federation. they have use the secret methods used below, radio grams and steganography. steganography. that must be a dinosaur related code. you go to the museum of natural history. under the hoof. as it turns out, steggen nothingraphy it is an actual spy thing according to the fbi this steegen nothingraphy is the process of secreting data in an i think.
national security. it s not good for the country. welcome back to hardball. that was former cia director panetta reacting to the war of words between president-elect donald trump and the u.s. intelligence community. once he s sworn into office in three days, president trump will need to rely on these agencies for spy information to execute policies, and that requires both sides to heal the rift. cia director john brennan explained why he s taken such offense at trump s criticism of the intelligence community. quote, we don t expect our information and our assessments to be swallowed whole. it s when there are allegations made about leaking, or about dishonesty, or a lack of integrity, that s where i think the line is crossed. but in an interview in this network today, on this network, james wolsy, former adviser to the president-elect, said that brennan should tone it down. well, he s going to be the