you re involved at that point. you served briefly on mueller s team. that s how i came to know your name. should we the public understand the special counsel s investigation looked at this scary core question of whether the president was subject to influence or leverage by russia or any other foreign force? or was that the kind of counterintelligence investigation you re talking about before which is secret which we ll never know about which might in fact be ongoing? so it s really the former. my understanding and what the mueller report describes is that they were looking at criminal activity. so they were trying to determine whether there was a criminal conspiracy to engage in crimes against the united states. they did not look at the counterintelligence sort of relationships between members of the trump campaign. because that was a different investigation? well, it was the same investigation at the fbi. i think this was a prosecutorial choice made by the special counsel s offi
name. should we the public understand the special counsel investigation looked that this scary core question whether the president was subject to influence by russia or any other foreign force? was or that the kind of counter intelligence investigation you re talking about before, which is secret which we ll never know about which might be in fact ongoing? so it s really the former. my understanding and what the mueller report describes is that they were looking for criminal activity. so they were trying to determine whether there was a criminal conspiracy to engage in crimes against the united states. they did not look at the counter intelligence sort of relationships between members of the trump campaign. because that was a different investigation? well, it was the same investigation at the fbi. i think this was a prosecutorial choice made by the special counsel s office. but while it was still at the fbi the two were essentially one in the same. we were looking at both simull
skip to the good part with alka-seltzer plus. now with 25% more concentrated power. nothing works faster for powerful cold relief. oh, what a relief it is! so fast! we re back with lisa page, former fbi lawyer who has been a favorite target of president trump and his allies for two years now. ever since the justice department sort of inexplicably publicly released her personal text messages including messages critical of candidate trump and honestly of other political figures as well. lisa, i m going to ask you this in part because i don t many other people i can ask this and you can tell me if i m off base. but in may 2017 the russia investigation gets taken over by mueller.
mueller investigation than any other judge in the country. she s had a whole bunch of them. and at this sentencing for rick gates today she, you know, rips rick gates for thesity of his crimes, she praises rick gates for accepting responsibility for his crimes and become a wholeheartedly cooperator with prosecutors. indeed, he s agreed to keep cooperating with prosecutors in multiple ongoing matters even after his sentencing today. the prosecutors sent information to the judge about that today under seal because those are still ongoing legal matters that gates is helping with. and in addition to doing all that the judge who again has overseen all of those mueller derived prosecutions did this sort of remarkable thing in court today. at one point in the middle of talking about gates case and the law that sort of directs in terms of of what kind of sentence he should get and aggravating and mitigating factors arb at one point the judge just stops that part of the sentencing and says you
we were looking at both simultaneously. the special counsel s office as best i understand chooses to focus on the criminal aspects of that investigation. what were the circumstances of which you left the mueller investigation? i actually asked to just do 45 days. i had been out at the first briefing for bob mueller when he was first appointed. and he asked me to join the team, and andy was the deputy director or the director at the time and i said no way, i m not leaving. and andy said you don t say no to bob mueller. but i had young kids at home and had already gone through, you know, two years of extraordinary circumstances and very long hours and days. and i knew what a bob mueller operation looked like and so i asked to do a 45-day detail in return. well, it has turned into a hell of a change in your life. thank you for being willing to talk to us about it tonight. this is your first tv interview and i appreciate the trust it