indictments and two guilty pleas and it looks like mueller is closing in more and more and he s moving up the letterhead. this is the national security adviser to the president of the united states. access to every piece of intelligence coming into the united states government. and i just want to read one piece of the filing. a very senior member of the presidential team directed flynn to contact officials from foreign governments, including russia and source tell us that very senior member is jared kushner, the president s son-in-law. if you re the president of the united states, general flynn has flipped, you know your son-in-law has been interviewed at least once. you know this investigation is continuing. that this is as close as you can get. the question now is, forgive the watergate cliche, what did the president know and when did he know it? i think a very important thing you said, jared kushner interviewed once. i think actually twice. cnn reported that some time at the
investigation. our prts prosecutors will conduct a fair and expedition thorough investigation. in addition to performing our own investigative work, the department will conduct a complete review of the material gathered during the local investigation. as we mentioned the justice department is conducting a civil rights investigation into the death of michael brown in ferguson, missouri. legal experts don t expect charges to come out of that probe because of the high legal bar in a federal civil rights case such as this. it may also be tough for feds to charge new york cop pantaleowise with a crime as well because they have to prove he acted willfully to deprive garner of his civil rights. they have a successful track record of prosecuting police officers of civil rights charges, two of the four lapd officers acquitted in the beating of rodney king were subsequently conducted of violating his civil rights, federal charges there. the officers served three years
we don t know of any nonpublic record names. but here s the thing and this is what really ties it all together as a single unified prosecution, that is they are all involved in this. they all have a fingerprint or more somewhere in this, which is what our sources are saying all wraps up into a conspiracy to cover up. so it s the classic watergate cliche, not the crime, but it s the cover-up. this is in terms of once this thing comes to light last september or october everybody is doing this and they are doing this with e-mails and talking about this and what do we do now? how can we facilitate this and who can do this? it starts that week of the shutdowns. it s not just two months later or a month later. it starts that week, that s when the cover-up began. the other thing everybody has been wondering, we have all of
hands. in terms i m curious about the timetable and brian was sketching out a sar toshcenario get indictments in january and talk about starting to go to trial and some people pleading out or whatever, this is basically something that would stretch into the next year, january 2016. obviously right around the time of the caucuses. is this something we can pretty much count on being a cloud for all of 2015 over chris christie? i think so. there s no exact timetable. did paul fishman know there s an election coming up and governor christie might be a candidate? of course he knows that. under the department of justice guidelines he s supposed to act like he doesn t know, ignore that, not consider the politics, just consider whether he thinks governor christie committed a crime. brian wice, if you re with chris christie s people, is there anything you can do? can you go to the u.s. attorney,
journalistically, is there any justification for taking that approach? some people argued in journalism ethics professionals and professors argued when you re investigating let s say a mugging or crime or something, you don t necessarily go and try to get the mugger s side of the story. in this situation they weren t necessarily naming accusers by name but they were naming an organi organization, the fraternity. the reporter of the story reached out to the fraternity to the local chapter and national chapter and they couldn t confirm or deny it. she says that they were very comfortable that they knew that these people existed. but that s a lot different than what we saw in this story. it was painted as almost a true narrative and there wasn t also any indication in the story that they weren t actually able to fully contact the people involved. and actually, if you look at the story, it almost seems like all of the version of the events we re getting come from this woman jackie and he