a federal judge extended mueller s grand jury. why was this a necessary step? well, it s hard to reach too much into what mueller does, but this does signal to us that he has more work to do. this was set to expire, this grand jury that s been on the job for some 18 months, it was supposed to expire this weekend. so having this extension means that, again, there s more that mueller needs to do. we do know that he has used the grand jury to great effect. you think about all the indictments, all the grand jury subpoenas that it s been issuing. so having this vehicle that s still available to him obviously signals to us that it s probably something he s going to use. then lastly there s a practical aspect. think about it. some two dozen of our fellow citizens have essentially become subject matter experts in this investigation. if you think about all the threads that mueller has been, you know, surfacing here and going after, these people are now experts. you want them to carry that on.
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rosenstein does, what mueller does, and what southern district of new york does, and start reigning in. to be fair, hasn t done that yet. from what we see, he hasn t reigned them in. if trump is pressuring him, will he do it. that s a real concern. and we learned whitaker disregarded advice from department of justice ethics official to recuse himself from the russian probe. what s the potential impact of that? well, that s a real problem. first, he never asked for advice. he could have asked for advice. he decided not to. he got informal advice, ethics official at doj wrote a letter saying while you re not legally required to recuse yourself, for for appearance purposes you should. one of the basic tenets of ethics, you shouldn t appear that you re not impartial. he expressed well before he was interim on the air and otherwise he didn t believe the
is that what you see happening? all the tweets and all the messages and all the confusing counternarratives, it s just an attempt to flood the zone like that? absolutely. i think it s a way to discredits other institutions that may become critical to him. starting with bob mueller. with the fbi? discrediting mueller, discrediting what may come out throughout justice department through mueller and the press on what we re reporting on what mueller does, so a third of the country will believe it s all overblown or it has been made up or whatever it may be. there is a clear pattern right from the beginning that has actually in some ways worked because it has kept that base together, but it s eroding the trust in the presidency. the trust in this president around the rest of the country, and it has been extremely damaging, i think for our sense of being a single people that we have some sense of unity about