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you don t believe that to be the case? we acknowledge the threat, it is real, it is continuing. and we re doing everything we can to have a legitimate election. if you don t catch a hacker, okay, in the act, it is very hard to say who did the hacking. with that being said, i ll go along with russia. could have been china, could have been a lot of different groups. make no mistake, the scope of this foreign influence threat is broad and deep. i ve seen it described as two administrations. john mclaughlin says we re seeing orwellian. you have senior advisers saying over and over again as you heard there. and then you have the president saying something entirely different. what do you make of it and what is the lasting effect of that? one thing that we didn t see in that clip is even john bolton said that the president supports our efforts and top priority. exactly. but that is not true because the
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general under president clinton and former federal prosecutor. julia, i will have you play a few roles for me tonight because you do also cover the justice department. jeff sessions in the room with the president when he is told that robert mueller is going to be special counsel, according to bloomberg news. jeff sessions offered his rec resignation in that moment. i think the idea that robert mueller had been appointed was pretty obvious right there. he saw the writing on the wall, that it was because he had recused himself from this investigation that this had been allowed to happen, that rod rosenstein was allowed to appoint this special counsel. the way we all see it and the logical way to see it is the appointment of robert mueller was because of the firing of jim comey. it was actually the president s decision to fire jim comey, not jeff sessions decision. but knowing donald trum
she joins us now. what did these e-mails between butina and gordon reveal? yeah, they showed that the two met at an embassy event, a party at the swiss embassy in late september 2016. so really in the final weeks of the trump campaign. and then paul erickson, the republican operative who she was apparently dating kind of connected the two of them over e-mail, and they show that the fact that j.d. gordon had this trump tie appeared to be important to the e-mail relationship that they then struck up. paul erickson referred to the fact that he was an important person likely in a trump transition, and then j.d. gordon himself sent back to ms. butina at some point a copy of a story from politico noting that he had a role in the trump transition. and there was an invitation from gordon to her to attend a concert as well as his birthday party in the fall of 2016? yeah, that s right. they have a series of e-mails.
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jeopardy for the president. we re learning more about the trump-mueller relationship. the day after he interviewed robert mueller to be the director of the fbi, trump was in an oval office meeting when an aid announced that mueller had been appointed the special counsel to investigate the trump campaign. trump and attorney general jeff session, who attended both meetings were blind sided according to a person familiar with both meetings. the president immediately blasted sessions for not knowing the announcement was coming and challenged how the person he just interviewed for the fbi job and who trump had said he had a past dispute with over golf club fees could now be investigating him, the person said. now, we don t know if trump had turned down mueller for the fbi job at this point. but we do know that christopher wrey wasn t named until a month after.
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