specific person of any specific crime. i just want there to be a fair process to get there. what i do know as a former federal prosecutor is it does appear that there were crimes committed during the obama administration. we talked earlier about michael flynn. his phone call with the russian ambassador was a highly classified nsa intercept. someone in the obama administration leaked that call to washington post. that s a felony. glenn simpson from fusion gps, in talking about the steele dossier, said under that he and bruce ohr did not meet until after the election. bruce ohr said under that they met three months before the let s. one of them before the election. one of them is not telling the truth. we need a process to identify that. where it all started, jim comey. he admitted that he leaked his confidential conversations with the president to a reporter. did that include classesfied information? classified information?
interfering with the election. as notes above, the special come did not find any u.s. person or trump campaign official or associate conspired or knowingly coordinated in these efforts. although the special counsel brought criminal charges against a number of russian nationals and entities in connection with these activities. the second element involved in the russian government s effort to gather and disseminate information of to influence the election. obtained e-mails from perps affiliated with the clinton campaign and the democratic party organizations and publicly disseminated those e-mails through various intermediaries including wikileaks. based on these activities, the special counsel brought criminal charges against a number of russian military officers for conspiring to hack into computer ors in the united states for purposes of influencing the election. but as noted above, the special counsel did not find that the trump campaign or anyone associated with it conspired or coor
in this fox poll say they disapprove. that is down from mueller s all-time high approval of 59% in august. the poll conducted, though, before mueller completed the probe. let s talk now to an axios political reporter, she joins us live. shannon, good to see you. thanks for having me. ed: this is a legal battle, it s also a political battle, and winning hearts and minds in the public. absolutely. and we know that at the end of in the democrats are already coming out and saying they re willing to go to war over getting these results from the mueller report made public and unclassified. we know senator jack reed wants mueller to testify, and we know that senator kamala harris wants bill barr to testify, and adam schiff has said he s going to ask for information, even subpoena if he doesn t get that information, and then he s willing to drag folks in to testify as well. so we know the political battle ahead could be fraught. ed: there was a usa today poll as well a few days ago with
some of the evidence, and they are not likely to accept this verdict from the president s own attorney general. so how does the attorney general, who works for the president, inspire confidence so that democrats and the country writ large accept this verdict? well, it s, i think that s an important question, and, you know, the underlying material, the democrats didn t want to share those in the irs investigation, and the law is clear that much of that material cannot be disclosed. it s a felony to disclose information from a grand jury. you know, there are executive privileges that may apply to certain materials, and much of it s classified. so the portion that would, you know, be publicly available under the law is not substantial. ed: okay. ty cobb, former attorney inside the white house, helped the president in the early stages of this investigation, turned over
restrictions on the use and disclosure of information relating to matters occurring before a grand jury. generally, that limits the disclosure of certain grand jury information and a criminal investigation and prosecution. this restriction protects the integrity of grand jury proceedings and insures that the unique and valuable investigative powers of a grand jury are used strictly for their intent. given those restrictions, given these restrictions, the schedule for processing the report depends in part on how quickly the department identify the material that, by law, cannot be made public. i have requested the assistance of the special counsel in identifying all the information contained in the report as quickly as possible. separately, i must also identify any information that could impact other ongoing matters including those that if special counsel has referred to other offices. as soon as that process is complete, i had been in a position to move forward expeditiously in determin