reporting would suggest that maybe this crew was in fact trying to maintain control of this plane as it descended. we know there s some reporting out there that perhaps the pilot had said he d try to make it to the nearest airfield. if they managed to get this down in an orderly descent down to the sinai desert, we don t kno. so the issue is for investigators to try to piece it back together again. speaking about that, tom, we know that the airplane was going at about 400 knots and it slowed down to 95, which you re talking about. when they re looking for clues from the data controller what are they looking for specifically? what could have gone wrong in the flight that would have made a possible computer glitch, a flight wire issue, what are the specific things they would be looking at to see what made the airline actually slow down as it was descending? i think they have to look at engine performance. if that is what they are if that s in fact the situation,
plusses, plus he ll have the expectation game going for him. people with all these gaffes are going to think he ll get blown away in the debates and i don t think he will. this is not going to be an easy election, despite all of the gaffes, except if people think he s not presidential. the american people want a president who is presidential. has mitt montaromney let that h out of the barn? i don t know. goene robinson, we don t kno if mitt romney let that dancing horse out of the barn or not. this is like you going into half time, you re 2, 3 points behind, you go get a drink at halftime and say we re going to win this thing because we know if we re playing this b and we re still
reported to us that the fire not extinguished just yet, but it is still burning. this is very interesting, rick, that they are saying that his let ter is there. well, it is interesting that these two things came together. first we had the report that you had with jeanne meserve saying they now officially can say not one or two, but many irs offices here, ap we don nd we don t kno had direct dealings in this building at one time or another, but we can confirm that he has had problematic dealings with the the irs according to his own word in a letter we can confirm was left behind by him in a website that and we have confirmed this, administered by him. so, obviously, the whole thing comes down to serious issues. anything about family? no, it says very little about family, and i was taken aback by reading this, because we filed original reports, and would you tell me, because i have been
and you better not try and subpoena the president and i m told my sources tell me that they believe he doesn t want mueller wants to avoid a subpoena of the president but we don t kno for sure, so what they are doing and i believe directed largely by the president and the mouthpieces rudy giuliani, what they are trying to do is send these signals to mueller that if you try and do this stuff f you try to subpoena us, we re ready. and you know, mueller has read the memos. we re not quite sure if he responded to this memo. but, now they re saying,well, now the american public has it and they know our arguments, so it s there in politics. we talk about prebuttals, this is the delivery of that. and making their discussions with mueller almost public. yeah. whoever leaked that 20-page memo to mueller from the legal staff the then lawyer john d for the president clearly was trying to send a message to the pres supporters.
whether or not there are tapes or ana? athena jones, thank you. cnn political analyst and columnist for the washington post, josh rogin. cnn legal analyst and former federal prosecutor who has worked closely with the special counsel, robert mueller, michael zeldin, and an attorney who helped prosecute watergate, philip allen lakuvara. is there any way to definitively know whether the president is being investigated? no. in a word, no. the work of the special counsel should be done privately and confidentially and that the leaks are leaks and that we can see where gho, but we don t kno now that the president is under investigation for obstruction of justice because mueller hasn t said it. and until mueller says it, we don t know it. and as athena pointed out, jay sekulow, the president s lawyer, may not know it, either.