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hunter, and the burisma energy company. when giuliani says that vice president biden removed shokin to protect his son, hunter biden? is he right? it s [ bleep ]. from first word to the last word. did people here in ukraine, investigators like yourself, anti-corruption activists, think that shokin was doing a good job that he was effective? absolutely not. shokin was corrupt, ineffective prosecutor. it was international partners of ukraine that shokin was a disaster, he had to go. he was intimidating investigators in his office. biden was pushing for someone who be more aggressive, more actively looking into burisma and other companies? that s correct. giuliani is rewriting what happened. shokin was a prosecutor who was widely viewed by experts as being a holdover from the pro-moscow yanukovych era, who
administratively. that s when you saw senior chief gallagher and his attorney this morning talk about going to the special operations command and having a conversation. they ll try to ward that off. bill: you have watched this closely. you think the jury got it right? i m always loath as a former military judge or prosecutor to say whether they have it right or not but the jury s verdict should be respected. the military justice system worked here. the prosecution did a terrible job. i think the prosecutor was inexperienceed. you could tell that from a lot of different angles. the immunity deal that went south. the medic who testified who wasn t impeached properly. i m not sure an experienced career prosecutor would have even brought these charges in the first place, bill. i just don t think it would have happened. if it was we would have seen a lot more. i don t think they had the umph to convict him.
congress mueller is done and the justice department never said no to anything he wanted. there is another paragraph describing the report that mueller sent to barr summarizing as the regulations require who mueller prosecuted and who he declined to prosecute. it s in that paragraph barr says i hope to give you the principle conclusions mueller reached by this weekend. it s possible and in fact quite plausible to read the letter as saying when he says principle conclusions, he means that narrow thing who was prosecuted and not. there could be a lot of very interesting material in who wasn t prosecuted and was investigated but how much of that we re going to get we don t know, alex. so, you know, i m in a position to say i don t know what we re going to get and when but it seems like we ll get something later today. you do make that sound really good, though, pete williams. here is a question.
to make the transcripts of our witnesses fully available to special counsel for any purpose, including the bringing of perjury charges, if necessary, against any of the witnesses, but also to see the evidence that they contain and help flesh out the picture for the special counsel. we also really immediately went to work in reaching out to private institutions to lay the foundation to get records as soon as our committee is constituted. is there anybody in specific you have in mind when talking about somebody who may have committed perjury before your committee? are you talking about donald trump jr.? ru talking about michael cohen? are you talking about roger stone? you know, i don t want to go into enumerating particularly who i have concerns about, but i do have concerns about certainly multiple witnesses. and i think bob mueller, by virtue of the fact that he has been able to conduct this investigation using tools that we didn t have on our committee, meaning compulsion, is in