Page 2 - Attack Mueller News Today

Substantive conclusion on whether or not there was a conspiracy between the trump campaign and russia well after the 2018 midterms. roger stones devices alone were just searched and obtained by the fbi. a lot of information they gleaned after the midterms. so this is the route republicans will go down, try to attack mueller for his quote, unquote biases in efficiencies in the investigation. but mueller of course has been doing this a long time. he is a very steady figure in all of this. >> we ar...

Digress and then he teased a major statement today on the u.s./mexico border and were standing by for that. michael bender is a white house reporter for the "wall street journal" and a cnn political analyst, april ryan is a correspondent for american urban network and a cnn political analyst. so april, you first, watching the president this morning, what was that? >> it was donald trump who is upset, it is donald trump who is trying to combat what robert mueller said yesterday in his statement t...

Its a charging document, then you look to the senate as to whether there say possibility of him getting removed. >> let me focus you on the core comment here. there is a rebuttal to that. here im going to not present, you know, just trump folks who attack mueller either which way. but a credible rebuttal by michael demask, a very talented writer on the left. he says mueller wants the evidence to speak for itself. the evidence, however, was not allowed to speak for itself as he knows. the attorne...

Instead, what will happen is attorney general bar will release the report in full and that will take the steam out of the train to say lets get mueller appear, attack mueller and question the decisions. mueller is the gold standard among federal prosecutors. most liberals agree trump made a mistake in attacking mueller. shannon: go ahead. >> mueller did his job. people are not going to -- what will happen is the house and senate have to take up their own responsibility which is conducting oversi...

Stone since you brought him up. >> im the worlds foremost authority on roger stone. >> did you bring the stone? >> i did not. >> the special counsels office apparently pointed out to judge amy berman jackson, no relation, that stone had an instagram post and has this book coming out which possibly could violate the gag order. let me read you a clip from "the new york times." in a new post published on mr. stones instagram account he was accused of adopting tactics and mr. stones followers were a...

Pattern by the president of bad behavior. the question is whether that reaches a criminal level. the presidents lawyers and advisers that ive spoken to dont believe that it will reach that level. but theyre prepared for that. theyre prepared for there to be a very damaging report that could potentially, you know, inspire democrats in the house of representatives to begin impeachment proceedings. but theyre hopeful that the report will simply be sort of a political blow and they can put rudy giul...

Attack mueller and trump takes to twitter and maybe after a week or two people forget that it all happened. thats the best case scenario but that seems unlikely. >> nicolle, president comes to office having run a family business, i think its fair to say first president without a deep veneration of the office and the instruments of power and the institution. youre an institutionalist. youve worked in that building. who do we see about the institution and the damage its taking? >> the bet theyre m...

Voicing the fear about criminal damage or god forbid damage to the institution? >> well, brian, to put it in a perspective, the very best case scenario in the mueller report for president trump would be severe political damage. we know just based on the news reporting of the last two years on what mueller has been finding, what witnesses are telling him, what the evidence shows, that theres a clear pattern by the president of bad behavior. the question is whether that reaches a criminal level. t...

Lets talk about sarah sanders. she was press secretary during key periods that muellers team is studying. we learned today that she was questioned by muellers team. what information do you think theyre looking for from her? >> well, a number of times, you know, she would go out, whether it was trump tower, ties that others on the campaign had, lies that the president kept getting caught up in around the payoffs he and cohen were involved in, and she would tell a story that didnt match either the...

I got to run. have a great weekend. this is "cnn tonight." im don lemon. we have big news to get to on the mueller investigation tonight involving three key players on team trump. first up, we have paul manafort to tell you about. prosecutors want the former trump campaign chairman to get up to 24 1/2 years behind bars for financial crimes, which would amount to a life sentence for a man who is nearly 70, not in great health. they laid out just how serious his crimes were, saying, quote, manaf...