uh-huh. because he, of course, is the president s hand-picked attorney general. and i think that was one of the reasons. barr understands that. that s one of the reasons why he put that in this letter. look, this is going to be mueller s findings even though he is the one providing this letter. jerry nadler has said this is going to be very brief. which is contrary to what we were anticipating. let s see it when we see it, but it could start a fight, because when he calls it a brief he s thrilled about it. if people want to know the whys of the story, if nadler sounds unhappy, as he said to dana this morning, he will do everything he possibly can to get out the mueller report. shimon, you were anticipating, a lots of us were
why did he capitulate? because there wasn t the case there to pursue that. also, let s not forget the mandate. the mandate was about russian interference in the election and whether there were any connection between the president and president putin. what is this going to say about the president? and will this tell us the whys? we already know no indictments, no obstruction, no conspiracy to defraud the government. will these conclusions tell us why? is it because you just can t indict a sitting president, or is it because you didn t have anything that was prosecutable and you felt you couldn t take it further? and maybe the reason they didn t do that interview is because they already felt in advance that perhaps it wasn t going to be fruitful and lead them anywhere they didn t already know they were going to go. i don t think we ll see deliberations here as to how they came to certain decisions.
applaud the nastiness by towards a hero by johnson so this is the new space, this is the new party. in term of where we go from here, we have to look at each other in the mirror and go this is us? are we now this america where these things are less important to us and less ra less regarded. and whys did the preside doe
gag order on the longtime trump confidant, after stone posted a photo of the judge on instagram, as you can see, what appear to be crosshairs behind her head. the judge saying no press releases, no blogs, no media interviews, no facebook, no twitter, no instagram, no snapchat posts, nothing about the case. that, of course, is the oxygen that keeps stone alive. and of course, on top of that, no statements can be made on stone s behalf by spokespersons, family members, or even volunteers. stone was arrested and charged last month in the russia investigation for obstruction of justice, witness tampering, and making false statements. kara scannell begins our coverage in washington. so a pretty dramatic and stunning day in that courtroom. you were there. it was, erin. the judge really took roger stone to task here. he took the stand to apologize to her, but she essentially took over hammering and was questioning him on the whys and hows he posted this and stone s
an interesting fact in and of itself. remember, paul manafort in the midst of this, as we now know in court documents and layed out in his trial, was in the midst of his own $65 million decade long money laundering scheme when he stepped into this role on the trump campaign. so why was this man who was so deeply in debt to russian oligarchs running this massive tax bank and money laundering scheme willing to work for free for donald trump? that has always been one of these interesting questions that we haven t heard and as susan is talking about his business partner, believed to be a russian intelligence asset, one of those whys that we re still waiting to see is mueller