extraordinary that james comey, a former boss at the fbi, is able to write a sort of tell-all book right in the middle of the mueller investigation. this wouldn t happen in many other countries. you wouldn t be allowed to do this. peddling all sorts of lurid and ridiculous details to the world. it makes me think this. donald trump fired him because he didn t trust him. he was right, wasn t he? when you read this stuff pouring out of his books, donald trump was absolutely right not to trust james comey. in relation to the wider mueller probe, i think what s happening here is that they tried to get the proof on russian collusion. they wanted to prove the world that donald trump collaborated with the russians to fix the election. that s why he won. no other reason. has to be that. so far, they have singularly failed to establish it. now they are moving the goal posts. now they are moving to staff about his private life with
able to write a sort of tell-all book right in the middle of the mueller investigation.n. manywouldn t happen in other countries. you wouldn t be allowed to do this. peddling all sorts of lurid and ridiculous details to the worldd it makes me think this. donald trump fired him because he didn t trust him. he was right, wasn t he? when you read this stuff pouring out of his book, donald trump was absolutely right not to trust james comey. in relation to the wider mueller probe, i think what s happening here is that they tried to get the proof on russian collusion. they wanted to prove the world that donald trump collaborated with the russians to fix the w election. that s why he won. no other reason. t has to be that. so far, they have singularly failed to establish it. now they are moving the goal posts. now they are moving to staff about his private life with alleged allegations involving women going back more than 10, 15 years.
to jared and manafort. they do lineup at times. lit man, tie this all together for us. we sit here all of us one week after the stunning indictments last friday of 13 russian nationals. since then two more individuals have been well, one more has pleaded guilty, another has been indicted in the mueller probe. just pull back the lens a little bit for us and tell us where you think we are here at the end of february. okay. well, let me start with jared kushner because there s a big difference between proving a guilty charge, a criminal charge beyond a reasonable doubt in front of a jury with abby lowell defending and figuring out whether there is a security risk. security risks are usually adjudicated in several months. if you have some troubling information, that s enough. there is not the same burden of proof and rights for that person. so, i think probably the white house has already processed sufficient information to give grave doubt as to his ability to handle classified info
finding out, his administration is mired in not only controversy, but a legal quagmire where we re up to, what, four people from his campaign have now pleaded guilty to a crime in the mueller probe. but, you know, what you just read from glenn thrush, manafort s way of working his way into trump world, it s the classic move. you play to trump s vanity. and if anything, trump got played. trump is easily played, as we ve seen on the world stage, whether it s the chinese played him like a fiddle when he went overseas with the pomp and the circumstance. you could argue and the french. at least they re an ally. to me, i m stammering for words here because i cannot believe that this is where we are, we, the united states of america, are in 2018 with a president and
not someone who is super important. looking at this memo, one thing that jumps out to me as we look at the footage of carter page when he came out and had spoken to the congressional investigators, this memo with regards to the mueller probe is a dud. and let me just repeat that having read it and covered the story for a while. as to the mueller probe, this memo is a dud. it doesn t say anything or even reference any evidence that calls into question the wider mueller probe. the entire memo makes an argument without the underlying evidence which may be a good thing because of the rules but makes the argument that the independent judges, 80% of them are republican on the fisa court, who approved the surveillance of carter page in october 2016 and reauthorizationed, shouldn t have done so. they shouldn t have approved the warrant. that may be a true opinion. it may not be the right opinion. either way, it doesn t do what you and your panel were just