Everybody. What more can you tell us about this . You were given this information or permission by the senator or by his family in order to broadcast this . Yes, they with his permission, i spoke to the doctors they ask that i talk to the doctors get the information about what happened. We know that on friday morning he went to the doctors basically for a scheduled annual physical exam. He was complaining a bit of fatigue and said hes been feeling tired over the last few months. He also had a bout of double vision. But because of those things his doctors decided to order a cat scan of his brain. This is all friday this happened. It was that cat scan and an a subsequent mri scan of the vain that revealed this abnormality. It was concerning enough that urgently, within the next couple of hours, the doctors took him to the operating room, they per
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this relentless pushing to the justice department to punish his enemies and serve himself. i wonder if you think there is sort of a pattern to be revealed by the january 6th committee, other agencies or if d.o.j. was special in the mind of trump? i think d.o.j. was certainly first in mind for president trump. but not alone. we know throughout his whole time in office, not just over the 2020 election, he tried to bend the federal government to follow out his own pill wins, to carrot revenge against his allies. but in particular the d.o.j. he thought the attorney general was like his personal attorney, his roy cohen we always would say, that he would look back to his own attorney general harkening back to his hardened and tough lawyer that he had in manhattan in the 90s. he thought it should be used to prosecute his political enemies. james comey, he was fired because comey wouldn t do his bidding.
whether donald trump was actually a russian agent became tangible enough for a counterintelligence investigation to be opened into the sitting president. nine days known to be of interest to robert s. mueller. nine days that forever changed the life and career of our guests this hour, former deputy director and former acting director of the fbi, andrew mccabe. day one, may 9, james comey is fired. two days later trump sits down with lester holt and said russia was on his mind when he fired comey. that same day we learned the new york times trump asked comey for a royalty pledge in a dinner. comey wouldn t give the president what he wanted. day four trump tweets, james comey better hope there are no tapes of our conversations before he starts leaking to the press. day seven, we learned from the washington post trump revealed highly classified information to russian officials in the oval office. we would later learn in that
inform the executive branch of a potential problem with national security that could impact foreign policy, the person you report that to is the executive branch. of course, the head of the executive branch being the president, that s problematic. what the washington post story does is it gives context as to why this could be crucially important. there were at least five face-to-face interactions the president is having with vladimir putin he s not only keeping from the american public but from his senior advisers. these are the people going out to defend the president every day, defend his policies, and to call the mueller investigation a witch hunt and a hoax. perhaps these people aren t getting all of the information. what does all of this boil down to? one, as pete just talked about, we might get a mueller report by the beginning of march. this counterintelligence investigation could keep going. two, congress matters more than ever. if this keeps going, it could be that it is men
mueller, has always been the implicit question at the bottom of the investigation. the president recognizes that himself. remember, he made very clear that he questioned jim comey a number of times, whether he himself was the subject of the investigation. the fbi director had said no. the bone of contention between the two of them is that he wanted comey to say that publicly. comey wouldn t do that because he quite rightly recognized that that status could change at any point. of course, it did change. i think what the significance of this is for the mueller investigation, i don t think it is anything related to the underlying question. we ve known the special counsel has been looking at that all along. anyone following this closely knows that s what he s been looking at. i think the way they work together is, when you go back and put yourself in the fbi s shoes, in those very turbulent nine days after jim comey was fired, they felt their investigation itself was under assault. you ve