what do you make of the fact that possibly robert mueller is working with new york attorney general eric schneiderman. i think it is a message. i was appalled by the pardon in and of itself. you are forgiving a contempt of court which cannot enforce judicial proceedings if it can t hold a witness in contempt or a defendant in contempt. and it was for violating civil rights. it s bad in and of itself. but i heard it definitely as a message, hang tight, don t worry. you may lose the fifth amendment privilege because i ll pardon your original crime. but i ll also pardon you if you refuse to testify. i think it was a very bad thing. i think it is a very good thing that the state attorney general is now involved because that is something the president cannot obstruct. and he cannot impede it because he has no power against the state. so that s that s a good thing. and i think that they should
impede a federal investigation. it doesn t say who ever in brackets unless you re the president, no president is above the law. and of course the firing was not the only basis upon which someone might investigate the president for obstruction. he osk took jim comey to the oval office and said please drop the investigation. is wasn t just the firing. there are multiple avenues to pursue with respect to obstruction of justice. michael they are pursuing multiple avenues. we know your last by line reported that mueller s team is interested in talking to senior trump administration officials. we have seen reporting that mueller is working with the irs. we learned last night that he is working possibly with new york attorney general eric snyderman to have state charges brought that can t be pardoned by the president. in your opinion what thread of the investigation are they pulling the hardest on? i think what we are seeing is a very aggressive prosecutor, especially on the manafort fron
one assumes about the moscow hotel in donald trump s moscow affairs. there s been questions in the past about special prosecutors before. what we had before is the prosecutors were appointed for an indefinite period of time and they had the ability to go on and investigate whatever he wanted. but based on the politics, what s going on in the country, mueller could investigate a lot of things for a lot of times and there would be few things to stop him. at the end of the day the acting the deputy attorney general acting as the attorney general because the attorney general recused himself from this stuff will have the say in
enlisting to help his team of investigators, and how they are working with president trump s lawyers. the wall street journal reports trump s legal team has met with mueller several times in recent months and even submitted memos to try to make their case to him. they report one memo, quote outlined why former fbi director james comey would make an unsuitable witness, calling him prone to exaggeration, unreliable in congressional testimony, and the source of leaks to the news media. another memo laid out the case that trump had the inherent authority under the constitution to hire and fire as he sees fit, therefore did not obstruct justice when he fired comey. trump s attorney says he has great respect for the special counsel and will not be discussing incremental responses. when the white house first announced the president was firing comey it said he was
was while he was working in the white house. and, of course, you know, this it is a very important moment in and of itself, but the question that, of course, it raises is, what s next? does he cooperate and does he have any information about other crimes, other activities, within the special counsel, robert mueller s investigation? you have been around and near these types of investigations, back when you were a working lawyer, jeffrey, so the fact that he is pleading guilty to this charge, a narrow charge, i m not saying it s insignificant, but it s narrow, does the fact that he is pleading guilty to this, tell you there is something bigger at play here? well, i don t think we can speculate about that. i think certainly a prosecutor doesn t accept a plea bargain without cooperation in all circumstances and the other question is, is he pleading guilty to the narrow crime of