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Doing is, theyre starting to work their way down the list of all the fbi witnesses who could corroborate james comey on the presidents alleged obstruction of justice. we know theyre going after comey directly. we know there are five or six of these witnesses, senior officials at the fbi who comey told. as of right now theyre trying to destroy two of them, mccabe and baker. who doesnt think theyre just going to keep going down that list? everybody is focused on whether or not the president is goi...

Most of the jamie weinstein show podcast and founding partner at j and w strategies. thank you for being here today. >> thank you for having me. >> its kick off with what we learned about the general counsel of the fbi essentially being reassigned. the washington post reports this is essentially because christopher wants to assemble his own team but politico says documents show baker communicated with a reporter -- one of those that originally reporter of the trump dossier however, denies it was...

New fbi director is trying to put a new team around him for alternative, the political report that he was leaking stuff to a very well-known left-wing political magazine editor. of course as you mentioned, david denies that baker was his source. this is kind of a developing situation here. we do not know the extent of bakers, was he leaking at the time or was he not? and i think we will as investigations go on. the internal investigation within the doj and robert mueller his investigation into t...

To stay there just in a different capacity. reassignments happen all of the time and when people come into a leadership position, they are allowed to shuffle who their senior adviseser are around them and the same for mccabe. it was known that andrew mccabe was waiting until hes eligible to retire and there is a lot of money for his amount of experience in the private sector. where the moral is low is when the president is attacking the fbi and undermining its credibility. those have been very l...

Predecessor jim comey tweeting, sadly we are now at a point in our political life when anyone can be attacked for partisan game. james baker who is stepping down as fbi general counsel served our country well for 25 years and deserves better. he is what we should all want our public servants to be. still with us from washington, security and justice reporter julie ainsley and betsy woodruff and steve clemens. julia, to you first and lets -- lets get more information on the bureaus climate, the r...

>> because bill said it so effect hfbly. were not a banana republic. we dont have to be autocratic. we want a president that represents our best, has some sense of civility, generosity, doesnt always have to be about themselves. i mean thats what you expect of kind of dictator or something. we just hasnt had somebody like that. look at our recent presidents, truman, eisenhower. these were all by and large maybe with it exception of nixon, fine spirited men that dont have to be constantly taking ...

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Confidence in christopher ray. he did that, but then didnt -- sort of punted on the chance to express confidence in baker. i think the message is ambiguous. sees absolutely no reason to do so. perfectly satisfied with the scope and integrity. >> mueller was the perfect choice for running the investigation. >> who else might be able to serve on this role. considering the arc of muellers career this is a guy that was george w. bushs tenure. this is an individual with strong bipartisan credibility.

Operation it seems. the idea of him going out and doing rallies. >> absolutely. if you think of the most successful chief of staff, that person has a lot of political moxie, james baker who ran two campaigns against reagan and the day after reagan was elected he asked jim breaker to be chief of staff. it was really important that he had baker there. where everything is integrated, politics, policy, on the hill thats in the chief of staffs office. same with john podesta who was a good chief of st...

>> i will try. >> miss cicillini for five miles per hour. >> thank you. change positioning in abbot. the texas photo i.d. case. did you have any involvement in its decision to reverse the justice department long standing position in this case of the texas voter i.d. law was intentional and discriminatory? >> no, i did not. >> in august the department of justice changed its litigation position in the case columbus ton vs. randolph institute. the justice department is now defending ohios voter pur...