replace him and 16 other people, the guy he put in in the southern district of new york is someone whose a member of the trump transition team and someone whose a law partner of trump s close friend rudy ghoulian knee. kirsten released a statement in opposition to that appointment of rudy ghoiulianigiuliani s la. home state senators traditionally get a say in appointments in their state for judges and prosecutors. if kirsten doesn t want that u.s. attorney in the southern district of manhattan, that would mean that appointment doesn t happen. now in the eastern district of new york, that s the prosecut prosecutor s office that accidently reportedly been say subpoenaing bank records and supports the nominee to run that office but the senator hasn t weighed in on that one. this is potentially an issue for the trump administration with
clinton foundation. that s the real russia scandal. investigating and decided that the real scandal, that they really want to look into is that system people inside the fbi or worked on the special counsel s team are people that privately expressed political opinions of wide-ranging interests during the campaign. which is something that fbi agents are absolutely allowed to do. it has been republicans in congress who have aggressively p pursued the story line trump and russia and intervention in the election, the reports themselves are somehow terrible. it s bad they exist. and when christopher steele handed them over to the fbi because he s concerned he stumbled upon evidence, that somehow tainted the fbi, as well. and so a year ago tomorrow when the intelligence community put out the assessment about russia
and lindsey graham have finally found someone they think should face criminal charges in the russian attack on our election. they said today that they would like the justice department to consider bringing charges against the one person who actually called the fbi when he found out that russia was trying to play a role in our election to help donald trump. we count more than 19 different people associated with the russian government that made contact with people associated with the trump campaign or organization while donald trump was running for president. several of these 19 different russians provided explicitly information that they were there, they were making contact to provide russian government help for the presidential election to the trump campaign. but nobody associated with the trump campaign ever reacted to any one of those by calling the fbi. even after the fbi warned the trump organization to be on the lookout. there is only one person we know
election to try to help trump and hurt clinton, after that came out, multiple congressional committees, even in the republican led congress expressed alarm and started full scale investigations into the russian attack and into the crucial question of whether or not the russians had american confederates who knew what the russians were doing or who height hamight have been involved at the time. that strtarted basically a year ago with the assessment. today after multiple committees in the house and senate spent a year investigating and talking to witnesses and subpoenaing documents looking at these very serious allegations about russia, today for the first time, 364 days since the intelligence committee s assessment, today for the first time, congress made a criminal referral to the justice department deriving from its investigation into the russia matter. republican senator chuck grassly
these important jobs and why. back in october, we learned that president trump had been personally interviewing candidates for federal prosecutor jobs in jurisdictions where his family and business and campaign have key interests. two of those key districts are places where they suddenly announced new appointees, the southern and eastern districts of new york, home base for the trump organization and jared kushner s family real estate empire. well, this week, home state senator kirsten through a penalty flag on one of those appointments in the southern district of new york, which is home to trump tower and the trump organization and not incidentally basically every bank and financial institution trump has ever done business through. the previous prosecutor in the southern district of new york was pete who had been assured by trump he could keep that job but then he, too, was suddenly fired in march with the rest of them. well, on wednesday, trump installed a new u.s. attorney to