this with, john carlin was chief of staff to bob mueller. i m also joined by former federal prosecutor gene rossi and melissa murray, a law professor at nyu. thanks to each of you. on the mueller piece, each of you are legal experts in various ways, but on the mueller piece, john carlin, what would bob mueller want to know from this person who plays a spokesperson role? would she have the juice on anything else? well, i think you need to ask and expect them to thoroughly and diligently investigate the facts as they have to ask her, often the person in that role is privy to conversations with the principali principaling principals inside the white house. so it s an opportunity to learn what did she know before she made certain public statements that might appear to be designed to influence people outside of the white house and explore what the basis was for those statements.
effectively under oath. john carlin was chief of staff to bob mueller, also gene rossy and thank you to each of you on the muller piece, you re all league experts, what would bob mueller want to know from the person that plays a spokesperson role. does she have the juice on anything else? i think you need to ask to thoroughly investigate the facts often that person is privy. it is an opportunity to learn what did she know before she made certain public namts that may have been designed to influence people out of the
prosecutors. this is coming out now. it occurred in the fall, a period when prosecutors spoke to other white house heavyweights including john kelly. reports are mueller s team may be interested in what sanders knew about the trump tower cover-up story and if what she told the public may differ from what she says when she is effectively under oath. i am joined by someone who is really perfect to discuss all of this with, john carlin was chief of staff to bob mueller. i m also joined by former federal prosecutor gene rosy and melissa murray, a law professor at nyu. thanks to each of you. on the mueller piece, each of you are legal experts in various ways, but on the mueller piece, john, what would bob mueller want to know from this person who plays a spokesperson role? would she have the juice on anything else? well, i think you need to ask and expect them to thoroughly and diligently investigate the facts as they have to ask her,
of the russian culture. what we witnessed this weekend is jet another reckless russian escalation. wesley, whenever there were questions for this administration about their commitment to holding russia accountable, they would point out to nikki haley at the united nations and say that s evidence of this administration being tough on russia. there s reports that the secretary of state, john bolton, the national security adviser, want to down grade the position duowngrade the position, nota cabinet-level position. why do that now considering the importance thus far in the administration as it relates to russia? do they want it to be just a glorified spokesperson role? certainly. i think you re right to point out the role that nikki haley played and being, frankly, the administration official who manafort unequivocally condemned russia and was willing to attack russia at times when the russian interests, russian behavior was in contradiction with american
interests. so it s going to be interesting to see what they do with the position now, having nikki haley exit the administration opens up a bit of a power vacuum. what we see as moving someone potentially with less diplomatic experience and public service experience. someone who has played a spokesperson role historically. prior to that being in a more journalistic role. so this could be a means for other people in the administration, be it bolton, be it others, to consolidate their power in terms of our foreign policy and to consolidate their envelope and their portfolio here. again, what you see is one of the most outspoken and charismatic figures of this administration stepping asides. and that opens up a space and i wouldn t be surprise to see a power grab from folks inside the white house. page, evan perez reports that big barr, the president s nominee for attorney general, took the job and initially didn t want it but some republican power players urged him to take for the go