is a good governance activist in washington who is a respected figure and had provided this name. a were toker clinton lawyer? he did at one point, i understand, do work for williams and connolly. if we are talking about credibility. right. i understand it s relevant background. in this case it was very short mention and we only talked in brief terms about what he is doing right now. so we didn t see all of that context to be necessary. but, i understand why you are bringing it up and i think it s fair. tucker: um-huh. just a short mention. of course it s the critical claim in the story/book. we left out some context it. turns out some people think it s relevant when a character destroying smear comes from political activists rather than from, say, ordinary citizens. you ought to be able to know that when you are reading the piece. the times disagrees though. they don t think you don t have a right to that context. of course these are also the people who took the trump doss
activist in washington who is a respected figure and had provided this name. he did at one point, i understand, do work for williams and connolly. if we are talking about credibility. right. i understand it s relevant background. in this case it was very short mention and we only talked in brief terms about what he is doing right now. so we didn t see all of that context to be necessary. but, i understand why you are bringing it up and i think it s fair. tucker: um-huh. just a short mention. of course it s the critical claim in the story/book. we left out some context. turns out some people think it s relevant when a character destroying smear comes from political activists rather than from, say, ordinary citizens. you ought to be able to know that when you are reading the piece. the times disagrees though. they don t think you don t have a right to that context. of course these are also the people who took the trump dossier seriously and buried the context in that. you know
go. after an interview, they come back, get on a call and say, rudy, you just made a major admission that hurts our client s interest. and to ben s point, lawyers and pr spokesmen in high-profile cases exist to clean up things their clients did or said, exist to put the best spin on it. they re not supposed to come out after the fact and be cleaning up things that they said. if you imagine david kendall, who s the williams and connolly lawyer who represented bill clinton in the whitewater and then monica lewinsky matter, coming out on television or in an interview with the new yorker and saying, actually, yeah, you know, he did have sex with that woman, miss lewinsky. you know, or i heard the tapes. then had to come out and say, actually, i didn t mean tapes, and by the way, if i seem to admit something, that s an unimaginable thing. that s the same role that rudy
emmet flood real lawyer. from a power house firm, williams and connolly, the kind you go to for a case like this. we should assume behind the scenes he s doing what any defense attorney woulddo, which is to assumehey re out to get your client and you have to protect your client. and he s thinking mainly about indictment after impeachment, impeachment is a concern, but as a defense attorney his main jo job is to keep the client out of jail. so, one thing he s looking expected i wouldn t say looking forward to, but expecting is a subpoena. because at some point now they re kind of playing around. giuliani especially. we re still trying to decide whether the president is going to go in voluntarily. at some point mueller is going to say, yo, what s up? just like that. yeah. then it will be subpoena time. so, i heard from chris christie who called me when another news organization reported he was being brought in to help the president with
team. barbara, on that point, i want to show a tweet from someone we all know and a colleague of peter s, maggie haberman. one person close to the white house sums up trump s legal strategy right now as two teams. there s the trump/rudy team and then there s the lawyers. elegant turn of phrase there, but do you imagine right about now emmet flood is really happy he moved all his stuff across town from his partnership in williams and connolly to a small office in the west wing? i imagine he s quite frustrated to see rudy giuliani out on television after he himself says he s only about halfway through learning the facts of the case. i mean, no lawyer should be out doing that and there could be some very significant consequences of rudy giuliani as trump s attorney making these statements on his behalf. those are statements that are binding on the party, on whose behalf you re making them. so, you know, he s not just some