2 00 p. M. In washington where today the president s lawyers are scrambling to clarify his tweets. It is unusual since the president s lawyers dont respond so quickly to clarify anything, he says, which makes you wonder if the tweet in question got them worried. In a series of official president ial statements, remember the white house has called his tweets official statements, trump called the russia probe a disgrace to the usa and seemed to demand his Attorney General put an end to it. Quote, Attorney General Jeff Sessions should stop this rigged witch hunt right now before it continues to stain our country any further. As reported in the New York Times last week, Special Counsel Rocky Mountain is keepi m rob Robert Mueller is keeping an eye on the president s twitter. No, say the president s lawyers. Katy Tur hosts coverage of national and international news, including breaking stories. Clinton campaign, and the indictment of 13 russians and three entities who allegedly used a Sophi
investigation, which takes tremendous time and focus, no collusion or obstruction, parentheses, other than i fight back. so now they do the unthinkable and raid a lawyer s office for information, exclamation point. bad in capital letters. harry litman, when you take these tweets together, what is a prosecutor going to do? how are they going to argue it? will we see robert mueller arguing obstruction of justice with this or more? is it enough just to have these tweets? i think it probably is for the comey piece. the first one you read, katy, has become quite important in the last couple of days because new reporting has shown that trump knew at the time that flynn was under investigation by the fbi. so that s a mendacious tweet. when he tells comey can you let it go, we know he is saying to let go an active fbi investigation. likewise, the whole sort of tweet storm, these are going to be admissible, and they will all
arguing that these documents seized from body his home and office are protected. it s that attorney-client privilege. here s the thing, though. if the president is the one telling the truth and it s just not that significant, cohen did a tiny little fraction of the work, then why is the president so consumed with the fbi raid on cohen? apoplectic tweeting, attorney-client privilege is dead, and now they do the unthinkable and raid a lawyer s office for information, bad. so could it be that cohen, seen here as you see on your screen a short time ago today, is more than just a bit player on trump s legal team? once upon a time, the president himself was very eager to say just that. let s roll the tape. michael cohen is a very talented lawyer, a good lawyer in my firm. michael is my attorney. so i just heard that they broke into the office one of my personal attorneys. that is exactly the way michael cohen has described his
to us. but a bunch of news sources have reported that the documents that prosecutors were seeking and building this case against the president s lawyer include stuff that relates to basically how trump and his lawyer might have reacted to women claiming sexual contact or sexual interactions with the president. even with all that reporting, though, what none of us know is why that would be the basis for a criminal investigation into anyone. i believe whole heartedly in the secret nature of our campaign finance laws in this country. it may be that making a large payment to a woman so she won t talk about an affair so as to help the dude she was allegedly having an affair with win an upcoming election, i can see why that might be a violation of american s campaign finance laws. it s hard to imagine a judge signing a search warrant for federal agents to go raid a lawyer s office to obtain evidence of a campaign finance violation for which the worst
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