of flynn among other things and asked director of national intelligence dan coats to intervene with comey to get the fbi to back off flynn. and trump asked nsa director mike rojjers to publicly deny the existence of any collusion with russia. the difference between this and nixon, the broadest possible brush here, nixon knew he had done a lot of things wrong that could have come out. lots of this rithings are on th record, i did digging myself through the archives, nixon told his people to go in and steal everything from brookings. he said to go in and go to the republican national committee and make it look like a democrat job, all on the tapes and nixon knew that could come out, all the dirty tricks, going after what s his name s psychiatrist. it was all there. so he had reason to play defense. we have yet to find the clarity of what trump is hiding. that s ekly right. it s looking increasingly as if there are not tapes. we won t see those. we won t have the type of concrete co
with rosenstein, when he wrote that memo in the first place about comey, which was very surprising to me to read that, because i ve known rosenstein for quite a long time. and i don t see him as sort of a political actor in that way. then to have him come up with that statement last night. then get undercut by trump yet again with this tweet today where he was saying that he is under investigation after all. something else is going on, the troops of the american regular order. the washington establishment of behaving themself, they re beginning to look very serious, feinstein is always reliable. dig zur bin is starting to look very good, lindsey graham. they begin to act like senators now. something trump does makes them sort of get spiffy with their job. he s making them want to be unlike him. right. right. at this point, you think everybody is updating their linkedin ij pa. it s dangerous. what is that like it s online resume.
about financial dealings and other dealings about the campaign and the transition. maybe some will pan out. maybe it won t. all of a sudden we have this very live case, which is what has caused the president to kind of flip out over this last week, which is a case of his own creation, his pressure on jim comey demandsing loyalty, pressing him to drop the case against flynn and enlisting others to drop the case against flynn and firing comey. which has not, it s not a lay down obstruction of justice case, but most prosecutors would be pursuing that to this point. walking filing cabinets all of a sudden. that s actually the way he did it. let s take a look about the investigation based on the reporting to date. when it comes to potential campaign collusion with russia, seven of trump s associates are currently under scrutiny. when it comes to potential obstruction, the president s conversations with three top intelligence officials are under scrutiny. trump asks former fbi director
during a meeting with the associate attorney general rachel brand number three in the department. rosenstein told her that he was here whether to recuse himself she would have to step in and take over those responsibilities. she gets to be robert bork. the pattern is clear, if trump decides he doesn t want to be prosecuted or investigated, thinks he s above the law, he starts peeling off these people, got rid of comey, threatened mueller and now going after rosenstein, he s threatening him today. more stuff from trump. well, it is evocative of the good old days. you work for the washington post. yeah. has a history in these matters. i can t remember that. on the saturday night massacre nixon ordered his attorney general to fire the special prosecutor, the attorney general refused, the deputy attorney general refused the person who carried out the order was robert bork the solicitor general. nixon had to deal with richardson but he let him
of this probe. comey believes he was fired because of the russia investigation. donald trump told lester holt he was fired because of the russia investigation. the question is, is that obstruction of justice and that s one of the things that robert mueller is looking at. this is nixonian. the president s tweet appeared to suggest rosenstein s role in the firing of james comey may compromise rosenstein s ability to oversee the special counsel s probe. tuesday rosenstein was asked whether that s a conflict of interest since he could become a witness as ken said in the potential obstruction case against the president. here he goes. you become a witness in this investigation do you think there s a conflict of interest there. i m not going to answer hypothetical questions and the reason is i am working with career professionals who know these rules and responsible for enforcing these rules and we are going to do the right thing and defend the integrity of the investigation. accordin