course of our ongoing criminal investigation, we have secured either the account owner s consent or appropriate criminal process. president trump and vladimir putin appear to be gaining a close relationship. today the two talked for the second time in four days. first to these transition e-mails. what are the transition team and the white house saying about this? reporter: the trump transition team is making the case that robert mueller obtained these e-mails unlawfully. this winds down to a dispute between the general services administration and the trump transition team over who actually owns these e-mails. the general services administration provided e-mail services and support for the transition team during the transition, and as you mentioned, they used a dot-gov domain. they re maintaining these are part of the public record, they belong in the public domain, so they didn t really have any issues legally handing them over to the special counsel and
dismissing the claims. have you seen good cause to fire special counsel mueller? no, i believe based upon his reputation, his service, his patriotism, and his experience with the department and the fbi, i believe he was an ideal choice for this task. the fbi taking another hit on friday with president trump criticizing the agency s role in the russia investigation, once again casting a shadow of doubt over the intelligence community. joining me now is ned price, msnbc contributor and former special assistant to president obama. and richard painter, chief mouse ethics lawyer under george w. bush. gentlemen, thank you for being here. thank you. ned, talk to me about this new report coming from axios. what s the significance of the trump transition e-mails here? well, aaron, what s been reported so far is that bob mueller s team gained access to a cache of about 10,000 transition e-mails from the gsa. that s the general services administration, a federal government entity. now
late as november 30th, 2017 matter of fact and a colleague ghost writing an editorial in english regarding the political work for ukraine. manafort worked on the draft with long time russian colleague of manafort s based in russia currently and assessed to have ties to a russian intelligence service. the filing also says on the evening of november 30th, the government alerted defense counsel to the defendant s efforts and were assured that steps would be taken to make sure it was no longer going to be published. the special prosecutor s office is using the editorial in its argument against the agreement it made with paul manafort last week to loosen the restrictions on his bail. also, the new york times has obtained information from some trump transition e-mails concerning russia. the re mails from k.t. mcfarland and who other memberses of trump transition team talking about an outreach to the russian
special prosecutor robert mueller s office says paul manafort has violated a court order by ghost writing an editorial about his political work in the ukraine. according to court filing as late as november 30th, 2017 matter of fact and a colleague ghost writing an editorial in english regarding the political work for ukraine. manafort worked on the draft with long time russian colleague of manafort s based in russia currently and assessed to have ties to a russian intelligence service. the filing also says on the evening of november 30th, the government alerted defense counsel to the defendant s efforts and were assured that steps would be taken to make sure it was no longer going to be published. the special prosecutor s office is using the editorial in its argument against the agreement it made with paul manafort last week to loosen the restrictions on his bail. also, the new york times has obtained information from some trump transition e-mails
he can review the question. there s the fisa court itself. go directly to the fisa court and file a complaint. why aren t they doing that? this is like these other smears. it s a pattern. remember the transition e-mails. that was also a big occur if you have fell for a weekend but they didn t go to court when the trump team had concerns about it because they knew they would lose. and that s what s going on here. the president for once actually spoke the truth. he wants to use this memo as a blujen against the russia investigation and there s reporting he wants to go after rod rosenstein. i was about to say that, yes. i think we re missing big picture in this, you know, by releasing the memo it puts rod rosenstein, the deputy attorney general, he s in the cross hairs and i think we all need to have the perspective that mueller ultimately, he ll have his findings, right, and he will