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With the plea deal, nothing else may come of it or that it s nearing the end. i actually read the papadopoulos deal as something that should really concern them. if you look at the timeline, they went to papadopoulos in january, he gave them a bs story. they went back to minimum in february, he stuck to the lie. they took a couple of months to gather evidence and confronted him again in july after they pulled him off a plane. this time the evidence was overwhelming. he found religion and told them the truth. think that shows, one, these individuals are willing to lie about their contacts with russia. but, two, that the fbi and the department of justice are determined to get to the bottom of it. that should send a chill to the trump team but also show them if they have something to hide, it s very likely that they re going to find it. we ve seen the transcript of your committee s recent kind of long and unusual hearing with carter page. do you have any better idea of where he fits i ....
End. i actually read the papadopoulos deal as something that should really concern them. if you look at the timeline, they went to papadopoulos in january, he gave them a bs story. they went back to minimum in february, he stuck to the lie. they took a couple of months to gather evidence and confronted him again in july after they pulled him off a plane. this time the evidence was overwhelming. he found religion and told them the truth. think that shows, one, these individuals are willing to lie about their contact wig russia, but, two, that the fbi and the department of justice are determined to get to the bottom of it. that should send a chill to the trump team but also show them if they have something to hide, it s very likely that they re going to find it. we ve seen the transcript of your committee s recent kind of long and unusual hearing with carter page. do you have any better idea of where he fits into all of this? well, he actually fits in the same manner that george pa ....
Workings of a lot of political stories and washington stories. so i ask you not about what s going on in the grand jury but about this way mueller keeps surprising trump and all of washington. it was a real bad boys move in silence. while many of us were poised for mueller monday, around the manafort indictment, we were thrown the loop around the papadopoulos deal with the mueller team. and what that allows the team to do, to prosecute its investigation in a way that is really, really sophisticated. it is a pretty sophisticated and complex investigation. but there are certain ways in which he is very deliberate in keeping things close to the vest, if you will. my sense is that the papadopoulos piece is the biggest story. that s the story that gets closer to trump himself. it is more difficult for trump ....
And his administration to claim they re completely unaware of the various contacts between members of the administration and various personnel in the russia government, or affiliated with russia. that claim is much more difficult to make. with the papadopoulos deal in place and without really having full knowledge of the deal, what information he is providing to the team. so it is a complex piece but smart lawyering. as you would know. in terms of the investigation process. and you re going to the fact donald trump may move words around in all sorts of ways. but it is harder to move facts around and you can t move objects around unless you re houdini. this was trump s reaction and admitting surprise about the raid. i thought it was a very, very strong signal. they do that very seldom. ....