just because the mueller team handed over and rosenstein handed over the search warrant into cohen s house and lockers and everything to the u.s. attorney s office, if in the course of that search there are things that are relevant to the russian investigation like apparently there is with this columbus nova, uncovering of their payments, that will go back to mueller. so i don t think they re not either/or. they work together. daniel, talk a little bit about this is a tough one to explain, this effort to expose the memoranda. why is this important to new. this is important because it s part of an effort by the house republicans who are trump supporters to obtain a detailed memo outlining the mandate that bob mueller has. mm-hmm. and they have asked the department of justice directly, and the department of justice has said no because it s part of
and in the interest of the country, i think it s time to wrap it up. and i would very respectfully encourage the special counsel and his team to to bring their work to completion. those comments there by pence come as other trump allies continue their attacks on the russia investigation. washington post reporting tonight, congressman mark meadows plans to ask a federal financial watchdog to audit the office of special counsel mueller. the post says the planned request from meadows, quote, appears to be mainly calibrated to force the disclosure of a three-page justice department memo spelling out the authorized scope of mueller s investigation. meadows said he believed the audit is required under federal law and could not be completed without an unredacted copy of the memo written in august of 17 by, you guessed it, deputy attorney general rod rosenstein. this scope memo, as it s known in the trade, as turned into a
collusion but nothing more. and i would ask those house republicans who are clearly using making a partisan effort to undermine this investigation by exposing that memo potentially to targets of the investigation, to witnesses, i would ask that whether they would like to know if our president or other members of the campaign or the administration committed other crimes, perhaps such as bribery. is that not something that the american people would want to know? so the rationale is flawed, and therefore it seemed like a naked partisan political effort to obtain the memo. we know that devin nunes and others who are trump supporters have shared information with the president. so it s really a way to undermine the foundations of our criminal justice system and the investigation that s going on, and it should be getting more attention, and it should be getting more reaction. michael, what are you looking for next? i realize that a lot of this falls in our lap every day and we re in rea
without an unredacted copy of the memo written in august of 17 by, you guessed it, deputy attorney general rod rosenstein. this scope memo, as it s known in the trade, as turned into a major flash point between the justice department and a cadry of house republicans including memo other members of the freedom caucus who says that mueller has gone outside the bounds of his original charge to investigate possible ties between russia and the trump campaign. let s bring in our leadoff panel. michael schmidt, correspondent for the new york times. cynthia oxney, former federal prosecutor and a veteran of the
major flash point between the justice department and a cadry of house republicans including memo other members of the freedom caucus who says that mueller has gone outside the bounds of his original charge to investigate possible ties between russia and the trump campaign. let s bring in our leadoff panel. michael schmidt, correspondent for the new york times. cynthia oxney, former federal prosecutor and a veteran of the civil rights division at the justice department. and daniel goldman is back with us, former assistant u.s. attorney for the southern district of new york. welcome to you all. michael, you led the way today on this reporting on the giuliani matter. talk to us some more about this decision to, as they say, spend more time with his client. well, i think that there were concerns at the firm about giuliani. many law firms over the past few months, as the president has looked for lawyers, have discouraged their lawyers from representing the president.