might not ask for it. he doesn t want to set a precedent, but it would be crucial, wouldn t it, for bob mueller to know what happened to the best of his knowledge, to know what the interpreter says occurred, you know, if the president is going to leave one of those meetings and call the new york times , hey, putin is telling the truth, let me tell you why? right. burr senator burr is complicated. he s really tried to keep his head down from all of the politics going on. rereally do have to commend him on this. him and senator warren have had a united front. his statement was unfortunate. it s the best take on it. taking a step back, my sense is that the senator does not want to have a crisis over what the meaning of executive privilege is. he s probably happy to have mueller do that. there s a lane for the senate which they re doing.
picks up the phone and calls the new york times which he ostensibly hates and he argues vladimir putin s case that putin was falsely charged. the times report comes as the man in charge of the senate s investigation says he is not asking for notes from interpreters who were in any of the five face-to-face trump/putin meetings we know of. chairman burr telling manu raju, no, he is not asking for the notes. will mueller have any of the notes including one where trump was literally the only american present. it was only putin, putin s interpreter and president trump. sarah murray is out front. calls new york times and makes putin s case after meeting with
mueller has a bigger mandate, counter intelligence and criminal mandate. so i wouldn t make too much of what burr said though i think it was unfortunate because he shouldn t be making those legal conclusions. obviously it is important someone know. in fact, to my point, we don t know what mueller knows. god knows the senate is not asking for it. we hope the senate has it. there s only two things left. in it you said either trump goes down in history as the world s, quote, most famous useful idiot or that he is, in fact, a russian agent? yeah. i said given what we know, it ll almost be more embarrassing for the president if it turns out that he s not a russian agent because simply then we re left with a situation where the president has so compromised our
why and make sure it doesn t continue to happen. that s why we re focusing on the election machines in particular. that s one of the areas i think we are most vulnerable to, and why we have to redouble our efforts in that regard. let me go to glen on this. how good is this after east months of looking at, is the dozenier, especially with regard to the alleged behavior in the hotel? i think on that end, nobody knows. and there hasn t been any new reporting on and the bottom line is, we re not going to be able to determine anything until all of these investigations are concluded. and i presume that s what burr was talking about. the one thing i will tell you, the time period that this took place, april the april, may, june time period in 2016, the clinton campaign was borderline freaked out by the notions that russians were casing them, russians were tapping their phones, i had numerous conversations with them at that point in time where they expressed that anxiety in the most ex
donald trump s campaign aides and russian operatives, which is notable that jeff sessions is playing a role in that given the fact we know he pledged to recuse himself from anything involving the russia investigation. the white house appoints an acting fbi director s comments just a matter of days ago saying there were in his words no effort to impede the russia investigation. chris? ann, let me go back to you. i wonder what you make of this by burr who obviously is a key person, as we look at this russia investigation. and he s saying the burden is on the the new york times. yeah, i mean, i think that we don t know the whole of what burr said here, but i mean clearly that will be the impulse among trump supporters and probably many republicans in general just to say, look, here s something that the new york times said happened. but we want to see it written down. the answer to that will the