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i ve said that to sarah huckabee sanders. i ll continue saying that. the war started when steve bannon at cpac said the press was an opposition party and the enemy. it s wrong. i support the president. you don t have to be on side on every single issue. i don t believe in litmus tests. i think he s done a very, very good job. his speech away from the rhetoric about the press was very good last night. what about the idea that no one that people are telling him to drop this rhetoric and he s not listening. is this why you wasn t in the job longer? he dupoesn t want to hear this advice? i made a mistake and got fired by john kelly for that mistake. i bear the accountability for that. i m telling you that the most loyal people, your most loyal employee, your most loyal staff are offering you constructive advice and telling you balls and strikes the way they see them as
opposed to just acting. i would encourage people in the west wing if
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laws that have been violated here. not only did comey and his confederates use what they knew was a fact document, the dossier, it was being pushed by the overs, and christopher steele and glenn simpson, they knew it was phony but they used it any way as an excuse to try to destroy trump, damage his candidacy, remove him from office after elected. in so doing they violated fbi regulations and importantly they perpetrated a fraud on the fisa court. that s abuse of power, which is a felony. it s also perjury, because they swore for the veracity of the document when they presented if to the court and cover-up since then is obstruction of justice. there are a variety of crimes. i lay them all out in the book. you do it well. sara i ll go back to you. you know this christopher ste e steele, who is the spy who got information from russia, who got paid by hillary and the dnc in
the mueller campaign, sara makes a great point and the
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posing as a romanian hacker. it is a good rule of thumb. it is a good rule of them, and you know, i think, you know, one way or another, they are looking at something serious about roger stone and that seems to be coming to a head. so they are using this collaterally to attack the investigation itself. you know, stone has said that he knows he is going it be or he thinks he is going to be indicted and he is preparing for it. he has had a falling out with nunberg, how do you think he is preparing himself for this? well, he certainly doesn t seem worried but that is kind of within his m.o. but i mean, they are certainly closing in on him even with kristin davis testifying to the grand jury shortly after she was interviewed by mueller, i think, you know, clear indication that
they are looking to bring charges against him and similar to manafort, might be unrelated to russian hacking or collusion. and it cullould be something ins past a
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sam nunberg s public meltdown after receiving a subpoena in march. he was implicit. he did not want to incriminate his mentor. roger stone is like my father. i am not going to go in there for them to set up a case against roger. after all that nunberg did testify with the grand jury. ultimately, mueller wants to indict roger. i think this indictment, he is going to have a sexy charge, conspiracy to defraud. my opinion as i said to you, roger conspired against himself and not the russians. mueller s team has continued to subpoena witnesses linked to stone. kristin davis appeared before
the grand jury just this afternoon. stone associate randy. stone is the vivid mentioned. quote on or about august 15 the conspirators posing as guccifer 2 .0. there is other evidence that stone could have colluded with agents including his own claim of having been in touch with wikileaks. in regard to the october surprise, what is your point on that.