it will be less leaky than the investigation has been up until now but very aggressive and will move as quickly and as far as he can possibly justify. you ve work would him. in bearing and demeanor and even his physical height, he could be comey s father. in addition to the way he is viewed within fbi and justice. and i like the paternal notion because he is someone i was thinking about him when i came out here. if you locked all the republicans in one room and all the democrats in another room which isn t too dissimilar in how they function and they d both if you did a talent search. both lists would have him at the top. they actually pick someone revered by democrats and republicans. i first met him because after 9/11 george w. bush took all of his briefings in person.
will he have the power to look at trump s tax returns? if he has good cause to believe that the tax returns provide an evidentiary trail, then the answer is yes. if it comes down to a case we ve been talking about the learning curve. about donald trump being new to all things presidential. if it comes down to something like what we witnessed, you can t reference the russia investigation and fire the director of the fbi. the first time i heard the expression ignorance is a law of no defense, i was a young driver and i ve never forgotten it since then. is there any defense for a president in front of a special counsel who didn t know the rules of the road?
congress it itself would still be in some sense a partisan exercise made up of republicans or democrats and appointees of those parties. into helping your team or trying to get the other team which is not always conducive to finding out information. i ll pause there. let me ask a follow up. haven t they chosen the one guy who is physically almost the giant comey is and is a looming presence over american law, justice and the fbi? well, you know before the president fired comey, i didn t expect that to happen either. we are sort of in uncharted territory here and the sense of things that could happen in theory but we don t think will happen because it would be
one week ago trump visits. images beamed around the world. thursday trump says he was going to fire comey no matter what. friday trump suggests he has tapes of private conversations with comey. saturday potential fbi candidates are paraded in front of the cameras. trump met with four candidates today. sunday golf. monday trump it turns out shared highly classified intel with russians. yesterday the comey memo saying the president asked him to make the flynn investigation go away. and tonight we have been covering the reaction to the department of justice appointment of a special counsel. in short, this will decide the future of the trump presidency. that has been made clear by our guests so far tonight. we have one more. john meacham is here to put all of this into perspective as
and he will be a formidable prosecutor. he brought to trial the russians living in the united states among americans. he basically outed them. he knows this file. he is going to be a very tough special counsel in this case. matthew miller, in the meantime, how do we explain the story that came out on the new york times tonight, the headline trump team knew flynn was under investigation before he came to white house. who do we see about this and how do we process this? it s stunning. i can tell you in the obama administration, someone under active criminal investigation by the fbi couldn t even get hired for a staff position, let alone the most important secrets. the first questis about the white house counsel. did he take it to the president? and if so was he over ruled by