the lie detector. and back with our panel, rick and mike, i want to ask you about what you know about the status of bob mueller s investigation and his effort to recruit some of the top legal minds in the country. he has put together some of the dream team for someone who needs to prosecute the most sensitive and criminal and counterintelligence case in american history. he has on his team not only individuals who can go to substantive issues like money laundering, but the appellate issues, as to whether or not a president in the situation engaged in obstruction of justice. so i think he has the right team. there is reason for the president, his lawyers and his staff to be worried. a former law enforcement official flagged the hiring of i think mr. weitzman, who i believe prosecuted enron, he said that is significant not
if you have a sudden decrease or loss of hearing or vision, or an allergic reaction, stop taking cialis and get medical help right away. ask your doctor about cialis. welcome back to the 11th hour, rick stengel, and mike duhain are still here with me. what is wrong with him? i think every one of these political hacks think we should be a governor or senator and every politician i work with thinks they would be a great campaign manager. doesn t surprise me, we all think we can do the other job. rick, speak to the situation about a president who thinks he can do everybody s job. a white house staff structure is important to allow to president to do his job which is he is trying to be the leader of the
of all of us and someone in our government getting to the truth. is he sort of the last man standing that trump can t bully or fire? this is very different than what trump was trying to do, to make him somebody who was entangled. he has always been a marine, won a bronze star, someone who has just been above board always. that is what that represents. and mike, even president trump s lawyer agrees, reuters today noting that trump s lawyer, john dowd said this about bob mueller, one-time u.s. marine, and he declined to criticize mueller, a marine platoon leader during the vietnam war. he said bob is doing what he has to do, he is a fellow marine and a good man. seems like the president has a small but dangerous group of messengers in the effort to
comey to oval office and saying you got to audition for your job again even though statutorily you can fbi director for a decade. there were several other times he reached out to him ultimately putting the arm on him about mike flynn and threatening him in public with in effect a witness tampering evidence saying i m calling you out for being a liar when in fact it was the president who was coming forward with misstatements. yes i think there are critical elements of the obstruction statute in play here. michael crowley, i want you to i want your thoughts on the same question. but i also want to ask you back to abbey s piece about how this altered the way everything happens in washington. you cover washington you ve done so a long time and you re as well sourced as anyone i know. how do people even respond to the latest take on a trump truth? and i guess by that you know it was true for a while that he had recordings. then he was keeping us all in suspense in very much the same way
so we now have a lot of material that we now have questions to ask people. and there seem to be quite a few questions out there. one in particular, the transcripts the lack of transcripts yeah, the sort of watercolor impressions of the interviews conducted. suggest david wildstein was telling christie s top people, this is according to mike duhain who was interviewed by gibbs & dunn. that bridget kelly and bill stepien knew about the bridge closures beforehand. that there were e-mails as proof. we aknow that chris christie said december 13th that nobody on his senior staff knew anything about what they were calling the traffic study. right. there would seem be a host of questions related to that issue, how skeptical are you of it? are so many inconsistencies. you correctly pointed out that mike duhain made it known to the governor that there were people in his administration who knew about the lane closures either contemporaneously or after the