was legally appointed as special counsel, you heard that right. trump s lawyers argued that the attorney general s ability to appoint smith was comparable to the power of a shadow government, she questioned whether that was a realistic assessment but as we came to expect, she also displayed distress of the prosecutors. also the new york times reports that federal judges in south florida advised cannon to not take this case when it was assigned to her last year. cannon of course, refused. and here we are, we have to former federal prosecutors here to break it all down. legal analyst kristi greenberg, she s a former deputy chief for the southern district of new york and senior writer for political magazine, ankush khardori, welcome back to both. kristi you described the meeting as a meeting that could ve been and email. have you ever been to a meeting and you re sitting there wondering why are we here. this could have easily been resolved with an order, the question is basi
Chris Hayes discusses the days top news. Posing as a romanian hacker. It is a good rule of thumb. It is a good rule of them, and you know, i think, you know, one way or another, they are looking at something serious about roger stone and that seems to be coming to a head. So they are using this collaterally to attack the investigation itself. You know, stone has said that he knows he is going it be or he thinks he is going to be indicted and he is preparing for it. He has had a falling out with nunberg, how do you think he is preparing himself for this . Well, he certainly doesnt seem worried but that is kind of within his m. O. But i mean, they are certainly closing in on him even with Kristin Davis testifying to the grand jury shortly after she was interviewed by mueller, i think, you know, clear indication that
they are looking to bring charges against him and similar to manafort, might be unrelated to russian hacking or collusion. And it cullould be something ins past and that is w
Chris Cuomo asks the tough questions to newsmakers in Washington and around the world. Appoint him. If hes a superior officer, the senate has to confirm him. And hes not really being supervised closely by rosenstein. Hes basically given free rein. Hes indicting Russian Foreign agents. He has a specific mandate. Rosenstein reviews it. Weve seen that decisions have been made to parse out Different Things that mueller started looking at and then went to the Southern District so that, you know, theres been a judiciousness in terms of what he can do. I dont see why you think thats a clear question. Well, no. It is because in terms of the supervision, Rod Rosenstein basically does not effectively control the actions why not . Well, because you see that there has been no limits on rosensteins on muellers jurisdiction and authority. He is now going after manafort, which is has nothing to do with the russian investigation. But in the mandate, it says that things that arise from it. Sure. And it
We have to wear these goggles because the ashes coming off of there so fast, the winds are speeding up so much right now. This is the problem every afternoon here. And theres no end in sight right now. Theyre expecting these red flag warnings to continue. Stephanie, thank you. Stay safe. The news continues right now. I want to hand it over to chris and cuomo prime time. Chris . Thank you, anderson. I am chris cuomo and welcome to prime time. A roger stone confidant is facing a Contempt Charge in the Special Counsel probe. Is this about hiding the truth . His lawyer says, no, its about exposing it. Hes here to make the case to you. And looks like trump wants to give himself another tax cut. A rule that is good for him and people like him, not so good for the rest of us. One of the architects of the original trump tax plan is here to test it. And as charlottesville braces for the return of White Supremacist marchers, trump calls out wouldbe protesters. The problem is hes talking about nf
Chris Hayes discusses the days top news. Sam nunbergs public meltdown after receiving a subpoena in march. He was implicit. He did not want to incriminate his mentor. Roger stone is like my father. I am not going to go in there for them to set up a case against roger. After all that nunberg did testify with the grand jury. Ultimately, mueller wants to indict roger. I think this indictment, he is going to have a sexy charge, conspiracy to defraud. My opinion as i said to you, roger conspired against himself and not the russians. Muellers team has continued to subpoena witnesses linked to stone. Kristin davis appeared before
the grand jury just this afternoon. Stone associate randy. Stone is the vivid mentioned. Quote on or about august 15 the conspirators posing as guccifer 2. 0. There is other evidence that stone could have colluded with agents including his own claim of having been in touch with wikileaks. In regard to the october surprise, what is your point on that. And every reason