official at the doj leaving last week. now you re saying that nunez should be scrutinized for that. that goes to my final question, should he be fully recused at this point from any russia probe? i thought that he was, but clearly he s still signing subpoenas or refusing to sign them and that obstruct this is case and that makes it especially difficult. and as you recall those transcripts that were made public, it was my understanding that he refused to acknowledge that they didn t work with the white house to develop that memo. we covered that a lot. i mean you made news, whether you meant to or not, because i know it was in the transcript, not the most exciting place, it wasn t like a press conference, but we covered that, what made you ask that question of nunez, what made you say that it s easy to claim coordinating with the potential suspects of their probe? he s supposed to be an independent investigator, i have
you call say maybe he was hoping this book proposal wouldn t leak. but book proposals are sent to dozens of publishers, right? uh-huh. which is all over new york media. so it s a ticking time bomb. so from the trump white house perspective, we re talking about stormy again, why? because of your ace lawyer. if the president wasn t defending men who are accused of beating up their wives, right now we re being investigated for the russia probe, this story would be all over the news, it wouldn t be brought back and you wouldn t be one of the very few people actually covering it. this is a huge story, and it gives us an opportunity to repeat the timeline here and express the timeline of stormy daniels. she came forward to the press exactly one week after the access hollywood piece came out. and when she was paid one month before the election, she stopped talking about media outlets. at best this is an affair, but
reporter you know where i m going with this. that matters a lot because the source of the funds and their accounting could spell the difference between whether this was a private legal payment which means then the voters can hear about it and care or not care, fine, or a me tension violation of federal election law, jim. right, that harkins back to the john edwards scandal. if this were about ari melber or jim moret, we would be brought up on charges. my concern is that this is just the saga, the scandal of the week, right? i m curious why trump s own lawyer says he wants to clarify this unfortunate saga. he s bringing it up again. it s not unfortunate. either there was a relationship or there wasn t. he paid her off or he didn t. it s straightforward. this could be federal election commission violation. that s another interesting part. jim and liz plank who covered the story with us before, thank you both. i have something else special on