heard from rick gates today? yeah. the trump response, this is part of the evidence that came out as part of the mueller report. they released the questions in writing that donald trump had submitted to the special counsel, and the, he said at the time that he had no recollection of the specifics of his conversations with roger stone, and that he did not recall talking about wikileaks and he did not recall any any early sign that wikileaks dumps were coming. now, of course, you know, in sort of legal terms those are what bob mueller would call weasel words. that they left just enough room that they do not directly contradict what mueller sorry what roger stone s trial told us where rick gates said that he was aware of a
where he did even suggest that he might only release a summary of the of mueller s report, which i think would be totally unacceptable to the house of representatives. and that would certainly lead to litigation between the house and the executive branch. but he has the power to do that? he seems to under the regulation. the regulation itself is pretty vaguely and oddly written. so it places a lot of power in the supervisor who is the attorney general. so i was certainly struck by the weasel words used in terms of the report is that a legal term? yes, that s a legal term. i went to a fancy law school. i learned all this stuff. but as for firing mueller i think it s really not going to happen. gloria, there was a lot of focus on this unsolicited memo that barr sent earlier to the justice department basically saying that the mueller investigation was fatally
of the of mueller s report, which i think would be totally unacceptable to the house of representatives. and that would certainly lead to litigation between the house and the executive branch. but he has the power to do that? he seems to under the regulation. the regulation itself is pretty vaguely and oddly written. so it places a lot of power in the supervisor who is the attorney general. so i was certainly struck by the weasel words in terms of the report. is that a legal term? yes, that s a legal term. as for firing mueller i think it s really not going to happen. gloria, there was a lot of focus on this unsolicited memo that barr sent earlier to the justice department basically saying that the mueller investigation was fatally misconceived. democrats pushed back a lot on
was going to occur, particularly with wikileaks. we re going to do a big dump and we re going to have all this information on hillary clinton e-mails. he then didn t have it. so it s not surprising. i think that what we see there is the lawyerly excuse the expression wiggle room put into this. no offense taken. lawyerly is not a bad word. wiggle room is not the word, but they would say to the best of my recollection. trump has said he s got the best memory of anyone in the universe. now we put weasel words in there so that he could do you agree mueller knows the answers to those questions? he certainly knows who that block phone call was he does? yeah. that s easy to get that information. and i think that s generally true. i mean, at this time in the investigation they re going to know most the answers. that s why we re seeing so many
excuse the expression, wiggle room, but would say to the best of my recollection, trump always says he has the best memory of everyone in the universe but now we put these weasel words in there so that he could he certainly knows who that blocked phone call was made he does. that s so easy to get that information, and i think that s generally true. i mean, at this time in the investigation they re going to know most of the answers and that s why we re seeing so many false statement problems. they already know those questions and they re testing the credibility of the people coming in. and most of those tests are being failed. senator santorum, you heard senator flake saying if he wants a vote on a bill to protect the special counsel, do you think that bill deserves a vote? no, i don t. number one, it s never going to become law. i don t understand what jeff