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It s been for the special counsel investigation aside from the 13 indictments that came down today, robert mueller s team met with steve bannon, let s not for geget, for over 2 hours this week. and not just him. mike corallo, spent more than two hours with the special counsel s team as well. that s him at the podium. vanity fair sums up the mueller investigative method, this way, quote, as he did in the john gotti case, mueller has moved systematically through the lower ranks of trump world up through the president s inner circle in his efforts to shake out the truth. with us, two of the best matts in the business. mr. apuzo, to you first. ....
Russians in trump tower. we know that meeting was called to deliver russian government provided dirt on hillary clinton but michael wolff reports in fire and fury that on that air force one ride, the president ordered that no one should let on to the more problematic discussion at that meeting about hillary clinton. that flight and that effort by the president to craft that statement is described by wolff as a realtime example of denial and cover-up. he then continues. mike corallo was instructed not to speak to the press, indeed not to answer his own phone later that week seeing no about outcome and privately confiding that he believed the meeting on air force one likely represented obstruction of justice, mike corallo quit. so according to michael wolff in this book, not only did the spokesman for the president s legal team quit his job in part because he worried about what happened on air force one might have constituted obstruction of justice, that spokesman told other people at ....
Now, that s important in terms of the reporting here in substantiating these lurid allegations because that s something that can be followed up, right? you can question mr. corallo, speak to people he talked to at the time about his belief that what he was seeing was obstruction of justice realtime by the president and his advisers. then there is jared kushner s father reportedly involved in the pressure to fire james comey reportedly because of an interest in protecting the family business from scrutiny by the fbi. that suggests potential obstruction of justice, not by the president but by the president s son-in-law and the kushner family more broadly. let s get the fbi director fired in order to protect us from fbi scrutiny. if that happened, that s a potentially very big deal. that s another thread that needs pulling and presumably could be reported out. in addition to that, now michael wolff in promoting his book has published a new piece in the ....