asks everyone to do every day, comment on an ongoing investigation into russian collusion? it was wrong when trump asked and wrong with comey did it. there was a legitimate reason to be concerned. but at the same time rosenstein knew he was being played by the president of the united states. but that s obstruction of justice. mueller s got that information. there was always a question of whether rosenstein needed to recuse himself since at this point he was going to be a fact witness, that time has come. one of the reasons i think mccabe s book is so significant is because so much of what we have seen throughout the mueller investigation is you have the president on his bull horn criticizing, constantly talking, saying things on twitter and elsewhere, and then these other characters just not saying anything, because they re abiding by whatever regulations or integrity they have in their jobs, whether it s robert mueller or james comey. we heard from james comey. now we re going to
they funded hush money payments as a campaign contribution to donald trump. there was a nonprosecution agreement that required them to obey the law for three years and that was too much to ask. now we re looking at extortion, blackmail, and revenge porn if is not ami doing this bad stuff, it is individual people that when push comes to shove they will find out what happened. it is easy to prove because they wrote it out. i like when we re in a place where you can say revenge porn in the 4:00 p.m. hour. the enquirer at this point is not a newspaper at this point, they re digging up information on trump s enemy and publishing
i want to know if you talked to president trump at all about the southern district of new york case michael cohen? senator, i mentioned several times i m not going to discuss my private conversations with the president of the united states. so yes or no, did you discuss with president trump anything about michael cohen? congresswoman, as i have expressed several times today, i am not did you ever have any conversations with the president about firing or reassigning any personnel, u.s. attorneys or others, who worked with the southern district of new york? with the president or anybody. anybody at all. did you ever have any conversations with anybody about reassigning or firing any personnel, including u.s. attorneys with the southern district of new york? congresswoman, i sit on top of the department of justice, as you mentioned. did you ever have conversations about anybody who works with the district of virginia, firing or reassigning,
fault lines. people who like donald trump will not believe a single thing in andy mccabe s book. people who don t like donald trump will believe everything. that s where we re going with a lot of this. there are few institutions and incredibly few people who can transcend that. maybe mueller is one but trump s doing his best. to me that s one way of saying that the people the president what the heck i thought i was short and to the point. that was a sound bite. the president sets the narrative already because these other characters are silent and by the time they speak, there s division. i m not trying to judge rod rosenstein in that moment but he was pressured, obviously, to write this memo. he had a choice in that moment. he could have said no, spoken up, been fired or quit, or gone along with it. i don t think understood the magna tud of wh magnitude in that moment. and comey talks about in the moment he should have said
his book the way that rod rosenn reacted in the events of leading up to comey and the aftermath. i should add we re seeing this now, mueller had this for a year and three quarters. so you can be sure, darn sure, mueller followed up on all of the logical leads related to this firing and story surrounding it, as any good prosecutor would. frank, let me read you a little bit more what he writes because it s very similar to the picture you paint of how you as in your role might view the trump operation. mccabe writes in his sharpest criticism that after firing comey, trump and the white house counsel don mcgahn acted like mobsters by in effect offering mccabe protection in return for loyalty. the president and his men were trying to work me the way a criminal would operate, mcgabe writes, recalling a meeting soon after his allegation against the