i can imagine a court saying a transition is different from a sitting president. you just don t want to open up every single email sent by transition members to each other to be able to be reviewed by a prosecutor without something any degree of probable cause. i think it was foolish for mueller not to take the precautionary step of seeking a warrant which he easily would have obtained. bill: you could find a favorable judge to get the emails tossed off. napolitano is saying if your f.b.i. is reading your emails and you go in for an interview and had no idea the emails were exposed you could be up against the wall and that was the primary point that the judge is making on that. well, every time i take my client in for an interview i demand to see what they have. what they ve subpoenaed so my client is not out there in the open or in the cold not knowing what they ve subpoena had. i also ask my client what
is assisting the transition team which is a governmental arm or unit, if you will. i don t see how any devices that may be used in conjunction with that entity for transition or governmental purposes would be private in nature. you know? in the event any of us are serving government and they are working on governmental devices, sending emails or text messages or anything relating to those functions, there is not an expectation of privacy there. so in the event the special counsel request emails pursuant it their investigation, looking to do their job involving transition members, transition officials with those communications, what they are, i don t see how that would be unlawful in any shape, form or manner. you could talk about issues of privilege but then the question becomes are they really privileged? in the event you don t know the aim of what we certainly know the aim and the focus of the special counsel s investigation, but where are they going, what
rather they did that to the general services administration to be doing that during the transition now any request to access that material data is supposed to go through the transition team but it claims that there were two letters to the agencies, not subpoenas but laptops and cell phones belonging to the transition members largely responsible for national security and policy issues. they were left completely in the dark but the transition teams are not immune from lawful search and seizure it is vital that these investigations of a procedural safeguard many have a
it s now clear that the russian intelligence operation which began during the campaign continued through the transit n transition, didn t end when the administration took office. despite the fact that the obama administration had publicly outed the russians for interfering in the election, the it s now clear that russian officials tried to contact hope hicks. so my question is whether the russian government tried to contact any other administration officials and if so, when. and the question i have is why, mike? because russia had communication lines with other trump transition members during the same time period we re learning. mike flynn was in touch with the russian ambassador and actions and jared kushner was reportedly trying to set up a secret channel with the kremlin. so why would russian operatives need to reach out to hope hicks? because this is what they ve been doing for generations. it was just pointed out, this is nothing new. you go back to the beginning of
taken to prevent further meddling in 2018? the fact that this happened and he doesn t accept it again and again and again, that to me is damning in itself. in court today, paul, prosecutors detailed calls made when i flynn in december 2016 to the senior trump transition team at mar-a-lago to discuss conversations with sergey kislyak. we know that the transition members at mar-a-lago that day were, reince priebus, steve miller, kellyanne conway, and kt mcfarland. cnn has learned that mcfarland met with mueller s investigations to answer questions. what does that tell you? mueller s going to know everything. this is the problem. i have been in the white house that was under fall investigation. here s the big thing. asymmetrical information. the investigative team knows more than you do. even a guy like michael flynn, a three-star general that ran the intelligence agency, he doesn t know what mueller has. he does now because he s cooperating. each one of these people is going to be ca