trump? there s no mystery here. he wanted an attorney general who would be completely loyal to him. he felt that president obama and eric holder, his attorney general, had someone who was on the team who was loyal and would protect the president. a misreading of that relationship because there is a natural independence of a justice department and certainly of the fbi, why an fbi direct torp h dictor has a ten-year term so they re immune from politics. in this case he wanted someone who would be loyal and he wanted this investigation to go away. in all those case thads you js t mentioned, the white house counsel, corey lewandowski who was a total supporter of trump, and more recently in matthew whitaker who had been critical of the president on television which know doubt got him the job in the first place, they all said that s a little too far, mr. president, you can t do that. and that is, i think, shocking,
between t muss between the president and him. and his chances to discredit the fbi and the mueller investigation. i really want to know what are the basis of that is. but one of the things that s true, what we do know based on what the president said and his actions is that he has tried to undermine law enforcement. he actively sought to undermine an investigation because he didn t like the direction in which it was going. the question is why? all these questions as to why he acted this way and appeared to potentially obstruct justice really is what s so troubling. you know, the law fair blog calls that obstruction might be the collusion here. why he was doing those things to undermine the investigation? was it in some way collusion with what the russians wanted there? andy mccabe going out of his way to say he doesn t know whether the president is a russian asset, but he would not say anything about the president s
been attacking the rule of law, who have been attacking law enforcement. and so to hear someone who ran the fbi stand up for them in ways that people who are currently occupying those positions, perhaps can t because it s sort of awkward because they re still in office. i think for those people, it can be empowering. and also, david grego, one o top guys at the fbi thinks it s possible that the united states president is a russian asset. i mean he didn t say whether he met an accidental asset or an intentional one, but that that s a jaw-dropping statement. yeah, that s really the way to put it. it s so explosive. you really want to be careful with it and, you know, you want to understand what the basis of that investigation was. i mean, for him to say that he is a controversial figure already because of why he was fired because of some of his statements and the ana muss
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briefing the gang of eight, the top lawmakers, house and intel, mitch mcconnell, chuck schumer on the same day that mueller s appointed. he goes in, does a briefing with rod rosenstein where he lays out white fbi has opened four case files on four individuals connected to the trump campaign. and then the book explains additional steps were taken that he explained. he doesn t say what those additional steps are, but yet in his interview yesterday with nbc he says that he told the investigators that they had essentially opened the investigations into the president. no one said anything, no one objected, no one pushed back. so on the one hand you might say, well, for people on the president s side who were saying this is some sort of coup, seems like it s not a very good coup if they were all there and said nothing. on othter hathe other hand, whe asked about it again last night on nbc, whether he told them about obstruction he said i don t want to talk about it