records. they have tried to discredit him at every turn. but glenn simpson is still doing his work. he has a new book out with his fusion gps co-founder and fellow wall street journal alum, peter fritsch. the book is called crime in progress: inside the steele dossier and fusion gps investigation of donald trump. i ve read kind of all the books on this subject. i mean, not like there s a whole library of them, but there s a number of books on this subject. this is the one you want to read. let me just give you this. one part here about the mueller report just to give you a little bit of flavor. in the end, the mueller probe sidestepped the question that so unnerved fusion gps and christopher steele in the summer of 2016. was the president of the united states under the influence of a foreign adversary? as the dust settled on robert mueller s work and his desultory testimony before congress, several realities became clear. first the main lesson of watergate wasn t heeded. mueller d
in progress: inside the steele dossier and fusion gps investigation of donald trump. i ve read kind of all the books on this subject. i mean, not like there s a whole library of them, but there s a number of books on this subject. this is the one you want to read. let me just give you this. one part here about the mueller report just to give you a little bit of flavor. in the end, the mueller probe sidestepped the question that so unnerved fusion gps and christopher steele in the summer of 2016. was the president of the united states under the influence of a foreign adversary? as the dust settled on robert mueller s work and his desultory testimony before congress, several realities became clear. first the main lesson of watergate wasn t neheeded. mueller did nor or was not allowed to follow the money. there s no indication in his report the investigation looked at trump s taxes, outstanding debts, curious relationship with deutsche bank or long history of financing real estate proje
play out thus far, he s seen a number of reasons to vote against president trump, but none to impeach him. maybe that suggests politically speaking this process is good for democrats, because it allowing for the public airing of grievances against president trump, even if trump is left in office. on the other hand, if impeachment by the house ends with senate acquittal for the president, perhaps it emboldens him and gives him strength, as did the end of the mueller probe. go to my website, answer this survey question who benefits if impeachment extends into 2020? the president? or democrats? here to discuss is david axelrod, host of cnn s axe
thank you for joining me this evening. do we know who john durham has talked to and who he wants to talk to? william barr has traveled, been overseas to italy and elsewhere to piece together this investigation. bring us up to speed on what exactly he is investigating and what we know so far. i would be happy to, ayman. it s largely an investigation that s been kept in the dark. we ve been so focused on everything with the ukraine call and what the president has been asking for on joe biden that this is an investigation that the justice department announced right after the end of the mueller probe that instead of focusing on the end of that, they would actually be going back in time and william barr appointed john durham, u.s. attorney of connecticut, to look at the origins of the probe, what became the mueller probe. and so we can now report that john durham is expanding his staff. he s expanding his timeline. he is working very closely with william barr. and he wants to speak with
journalists in their countries. but ours face risk from those autocratic regimes and you count on the u.s. government to stand up for their journalists, to make sure they are safe. and what we re finding now is that the u.s. government is not the vafd cadvocate for a free p around the world as it was in the past. what we ve seen in the instance of the new york times is when the government was counted on to intervene on behalf of their journalists working overseas at risk, it couldn t necessarily count on this administration to come to their aid. it sounds to me like you worry the president doesn t have your back. he does not have our back. phillip bump, one of your reporter, wrote a piece at the end of the mueller probe where he noted that he thinks it landed with less of an impact than it would have had had there not be so much solid investigative journalism,