Investigation would soon be winding down. However, there are signs to the contrary. Axios is reporting that, quote, members of Robert Muellers team are reaching out to former Republican National Committee Staff who were familiar with the digital campaign. The goal is to determine if the joint effort was related to the activities of russian trolls and bots aimed at affecting the american electorate. Ty cobb said all of the interviews with the special team are over. However, former colleague said i would be shocked if he was done with the inner circle. All of these indictments, guilty pleas and interviews could be round one. Joining me is Jonathan Swan with acti axios. Thanks to all of you for joining. Barry, the resident former prosecutor here, let me start with you. You have this report from the Washington Post saying that if
point is that its a question that a lot of people close to the situation are asking themselves is why did mueller allow for this prosecutorial vulnerability . Bec
agencies. mark meadows worked inside the white house, jeffrey clark at the justice department. john eastman did not work for the executive branch. how would you make that argument? it would be a more difficult argument. we might look and see if there s an agency theory that might apply. we haven t made any final decisions yet. reporter: what would the agency be? there may be some support i don t want to get into the weeds too much. there could be an argument that someone who isn t a federal employee, if they worked in connection with other federal officers, perhaps there s an argument. we might look at that. we haven t made a decision. reporter: won t that be a pretty difficult argument given he wasn t being paid by the federal government. he didn t have a taxpayer funded job. how could you lhow is there any stretch of an argument that he was working on behalf of the federal government?
clapped where nurses are coming from. we clapped for where nurses are coming from. we clapped for them on thursday during the pandemic. they do a huge amount of work. the pandemic. they do a huge amount of work. we the pandemic. they do a huge amount of work, we cannot cope without them and that of work, we cannot cope without them and that is of work, we cannot cope without them and that is absolutely clear. what they are asking for here is a 19% pay rise they are asking for here is a 19% pay rise way above the rate of inflation. the argument given, in the last inflation. the argument given, in the last ten years real wages have followed the last ten years real wages have followed and have not kept pace with inflation followed and have not kept pace with inflation and they are basically paying inflation and they are basically paying catch up which i do have some sympathy paying catch up which i do have some sympathy for. but we also need to be realistic sympathy f
service of vice chair for supervision of the federal reserve board. of going to share with joe manchin had to say about this nomination and is leslie pointe out it was dead on arrival. he said he was unable to suppor her nomination. her previous public statements have failed to satisfactorily address my concerns about the critical importance of financin in all of the above energy policy to meet our nation s critical energy needs. you can make an argument given what we are paying at the pump right now we should have whatever we can do to lower the cost for average americans, whatever we can do to generate more energy would seem to be th right call and there are others among them that site this is an unfair criticism that she would be up to do the job despite som past statements she made good about advocate to take a fork manchin decided to do. well, let s not pretend it i just manchin. it it is manchin 150 other senators and the majority of th united states senate thinks tha
if people are saying that the economy is going well, jobs are improving, i think that is very helpful to the republicans. katherine, that s one of the mysteries of this presidency. oddities at least. if you look at the public s assessment of the economy, you d normally expect the president and his party to be faring better in polling. these are not normal times, right? there s the trump factor. trump is different from every other president. trump has been surrounded by scandal after scandal after scandal. by crazy tweets. by all sorts of other distractions that would maybe make the economy not the most salient factor in how people judge how well the country is doing and how well they assess the presidency. beth, something i picked up on talking to republicans, we talk about motivation, who s going to turn up and vote. we see the democratic base very motivated. republicans are telling me their folks are motivated by trump. if you don t have his name on the ballot, the party label