is not the truth. is that just misspeaking or part of a campaign of deception? it s time to go deep. let s get after it. in an on the record interview with reuters, the president says that he could run the probe himself if he wanted. all this coming after his biggest tweet storm yet about mueller and word that his white house counsel cooperated with mueller s probe more than trump might have known. here to discuss that and much more, former attorney general michael mukasey. judge, good to have you as always. good to be with you. so if you were to hear that the president has decided, i m taking over this probe. i m taking it over. what would your reaction be? i would shake myself and wake up. just a dream? yeah. can he, or should he not? i i have no idea whether he can. i can t believe that he can. he d have to fire mueller in the
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he said that initially. they later reversed themselves and flynn was indicted for making a false statement to an fbi agent. but as point of fact, judge, he s told them things that were not true and things that he should have known and recollected in realtime. right. maybe he did. and maybe he did it because he thought there was some impropriety about having the conversation with kislyak. that s why sally yates, then at the a.g. s office, then went to don mcgahn and said you better figure out what s going on with this. i don t think there was any impropriety in that conversation at all. in fact i think flynn would have been committing malpractice if he had not had the conversation with kislyak. he is the guy who was going to be the national security then why did he lie about it? beats me. that s a good question, no? it s an excellent question, but i don t know the extent t
Rick gates, paul manafort, jeff sessions, melania trump and her plagiarism. i mean the list goes on and on and on. so this isn t a one-off. this is a culture in the white house. and so right now that culture is meeting the rule of law. and all donald trump has is his bully pulpit where he s going to stand up and say i m going to take over the investigation. i m going to do this. i m going to do that. but the rule of law in this country wins. so we can have these as i nine or absurd debates about what truth is. to quote stephen colbert, truthiness. we can have all of these fickle debates but the point is the truth is what it is. and donald trump and his white house have a culture of not telling the truth. when you sit down across because i ve been in this room many times before across from a federal investigator, i remind my clients all the time. martha stewart did not go to jail for insider trading. martha stewart went to jail for lying to federal investigators. every single one of
To quote stephen colbert, truthiness. we can have all of these fickle debates, but the point is the truth is what it is. and donald trump and his white house have a culture of not telling the truth. when you sit down across because i ve been in this room many times before across from a federal investigator, i remind my clients all the time. martha stewart did not go to jail for insider trading. martha stewart went to jail for lying to federal investigators. every single one of them who have been charged with lying, they are liars. and most times you go to jail for a year and a day for that. we ll end it there with one little note. i covered that martha stewart trial just about every day and there s another rule to that. when the prosecutors come to you and they want to make a deal and they want to talk to you, think twice before you tell them to get out and you re not nice. and that s another thing that s in play here too. what has he said about these prosecutors? what does that