In an investigation that implicates either me or my campaign because youre my Attorney General. Its my Justice Department and whats more, you can be a hero to conservatives if youll investigate my vanquished rival. When we meet with parliamentarians from emerging democracies we always urge them when you win an election, you dote seek to jail the losing side. Here our own president of the United States is trying to do exactly that. How big a deal is it fundamentally . Well, its a big deal in this respect. Its further evidence of a corrupt intent on the president s part. Further evidence that he may have violated the law by obstructing justice in the firing of comey. But in other efforts, as well. One of the other disturbing signs we saw just today is the president s announcement that hes going to pardon someone who had violated Campaign Finance laws by surreptitiously exceeding limits. It looks a lot like a message to Michael Cohen who may also be
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happen in the mccabe case and it s exactly what will happen with bob mueller s continued investigation of the russia matter. i just really hope that we don t fall for donald trump s trap that we don t start saying you know what? he s right actually. doj and all of this is just a bunch of political hogwash because if that happens, then we re in real trouble. barbara boxer and jake sullivan, illuminating. thank you for being with me. next the president now floating a pardon for a man found guilty of some of the crimes that could be facing some of his closest inner circle. the unmistakable signals donald trump is sending with his pardons in two minutes.
coming out of the justice department as pertains to these kinds of investigations? well, this is exactly the kind of trap that trump is trying to catch the entire country in. because he s trying to so discredit the basic institutions of our democracy, whether it be the fbi or the department of justice or the press for that matter. and he wants us to question whether any of this is real. so that if it ever lands at his door, he can say this is all just political. so i believe that at the end of the day, that we currently have a department of justice. at the moment. we ll see how long this lasts that is capable of making credible, serious decisions about prosecution. and that s exactly what will happen in the mccabe case and it s exactly what will happen with bob mueller s continued investigation of the russia matter. i just really hope that we don t fall for donald trump s trap that we don t start saying you know what? he s right actually. doj and all of this is just a
sent out there. dropped everything else he was doing. it was a priority. go out there and interview the guy who made that call. and what they found out apparently is this is a guy who just happened to see it, took a screen shot of it, and called it in, which is the right thing to do. didn t know who he was and this was in mississippi. i have seen the bureau criticized for not calling the broward county sheriff s office. well, how would you know? i mean, how would we know? we didn t call the pima county sheriff s office or king county or genesee county or erie county because we didn t know who the guy is. is that a real name? is that an assumed identity? these are all problems. there isn t probable cause to go much deeper than that. we have to be careful we don t fall into hindsight bias where we know all this which is a well-known psychological phenomenon of beginning to think that once we know the outcome of an event, that it s more predictable than it actually was before it happene
king county or genesee county or eric county. we don t know the guy. is that a real imname or assumed identity. we have to be careful we don t fall into hindsight bias where we know all this which is a well-known psychological phenomena of beginning to think once we know the outcome of an event that it s more predictable than it was before it happened. there is a lot of that going on as well. yeah, i understand what you re saying. but there is certainly a lot of evidence there. and we ll put it up before i let you guys go. this is one video showing the shooter engaged in target practice oud his barkyard. hue knew that. i m just showing it to you. so i m saying i agree with you. i m sure that is happening. but there was. yes. someone had to shoot this and had to see it must have been one of his neighbors. thank you greg, oliver, wes i appreciate your time. 17 students and teachers died