testifying for the defense, the two senators from illinois at the time, dick durbin, who is still a senator, and the then senator barack obama, they asked the justice department to review the whole thing for potential misconduct. the bush era justice department did investigate it. they cleared mcnally and decided nobody did anything wrong. a decade later now the whole thing is still remembered as a bizarre spectacle. but edward mcnally landed on his feet. he s now a partner in this guy s law firm. he s partner in mark kasowitz s law firm. mark has represented the trump organization for years on everything from the multimillion dollar fraud case that trump lost about trump university to trump s efforts to keep his divorce records out of the public eye, to the pseudolegal
he came in and testified for the defense to help their client, the governor. so that weird part of that trial, one prosecutor facing off against the other prosecutor from the same state, these two u.s. attorneys on either side of the case, it was a weird offshoot of a big, important corruption case that continues to resonate for years later, for all sorts of reasons. when that part of it came out, about this federal prosecutor testifying for the defense, the two senators from illinois at the time, dick durbin, who is still a senator, and the then senator barack obama, they asked the justice department to review the whole thing for potential misconduct. the bush era justice department did investigate it. they cleared mcnally and decided nobody did anything wrong. a decade later now the whole thing is still remembered as a bizarre spectacle. but edward mcnally landed on his feet.
emergency hearings. all they have to do is use a little bit of that same effort in this regard. all right? reporter: also lie when they put out that statement she tha said he had conversations with the dia about [ inaudible ] there were there is no evidence, there is no evidence that and the documents speak for themselves, by the way. there is no evidence that there was permission either given or even requested or acknowledged with regard to the payments. so, you can come to your own conclusions, but we ve given you the documents. take a look at them, all right? [ inaudible question ] that s not my decision. that s not my decision. my decision is to look into this, investigate it, present it, and let others make those kinds of judgments.
infection, and he won t be here the next three or four weeks. he said he may resign at his term which is another twist in this saga. let s listen to the sound from today. do you think michael flynn should be charged with a crime? that s not my decision. my decision is to look into this, investigate it, present it and let others make those kind of judgments. but i got to tell you, i go back to what i said before. you cannot allow situations where the congress requests documents and basically the white house says, take a hike. that s simply unacceptable. and it sets a very dangerous precedent. kristen, the white house is supposed to have logs anywhere else that they might be having
classified. so cummings and democrats expressing their frustration about this. earlier today, i asked cummings what he essentially think is the upshot here. what does thi all mean because the key question is, of course, did michael flynn do anything wrong? take a look. do you think michael flynn should be charged with a crime? that s not my decision. that s not my decision. my decision is to look into this, investigate it, present it, and let others make those kind of judgments, but i got to tell you, i go back to what i said before, you cannot allow situations where the congress requests documents and basically the white house says, take a hike. that s simply unacceptable, and in a very dangerous precedent. reporter: now i will say, steve, i put the same question to jason chaffetz earlier this