president trump react? what does he do? what does he tweet? does he attack bob mueller? you are monitoring this. as he tried to preemptively undermine the process? we know he said he thinks this, he has called it a hoax. he thinks it s baloney. this is escalating the process. it s taking the investigation to another level. bret: he also told lester holt that no one told jim comey to stop the investigation. he also said i want it speeded up. does this make it faster? no, and i don t think it creates space for the republicans in congress to implement their agenda. i think the other major implication, besides the fact itself is, this has a devastating effect for the republican agenda. i can t imagine they re going to be able to focus on tax reform. catherine is right that bob mueller doesn t have the
aggressively saying official prosecutor wasn t necessary. they will have to try to figure out, how do they either support what the deputy ag is done, at the acting ag, are not. that will be the big question, how supportive is it? what does trump say to his followers? he has said that this is unnecessary. bret: some people thought that this was coming because of all of the calls, and the pressure must have been on the deputy attorney general to think that this was the right move to take it out of those hands. i go back to something i mentioned earlier. i think he has to have been thinking quite seriously about the public perception of this, the lack of trust, and all of these institutions, and thought that this might be a way to reestablish some credibility and a process, somebody like bob mueller would bring to this. to go back to byron s point, think about a ten month investigation, ten month s fbi investigation. think about how much we don t
i would be shocked if he didn t look into those two things. the statement from rod rosenstein says that he will look at russian attempts to influence the u.s. election it and related matters. those would be related matters. by rinse point is right. how broad does he go? if you uncover something new in the course of the investigation, do you then chase that? there are all different routes that this could take. it is i think it will continue to dominate the news and i think it hurts the republican agenda. bret: james comey on on has a former boss, robert mueller. i must be out of my mind to be following bob mueller. i don t know whether i can fill those shoes but i know that however i do, i will be standing truly on the shoulders of a giant. someone who has made a remarkable difference in the life of this country. i can promise you, mr. president, and mr. director, that i will do my very best to
the only people that it s been publicly confirmed that they ve had an fbi raid on their office is paul manafort and michael cohen. manafort s home was raided. 97 days later, he was indicted. michael cohen is a lawyer. he knows what it means when the feds raid. it means they convince adjudge there s either evidence of a crime or criminal concern that key evidence could be destroyed. and i can also tell you tonight, this is historic in a bad way. you know during the entire watergate scandal, which toppled a president, the fbi never raided any of president nixon s personal lawyers. that s according to watergate prosecutor, nick ackerman, who asked about this tonight. and finally, the other reason why this matters, bob mueller doesn t get a criminal referral for something up in new york, potentially outside of his jurisdiction, without going to rod rosenstein, which reportedly he did, and tonight rod rosestein didn t say stop, red, he didn t say, yellow, slow down. he said green. and he se
thing although they have certainly had impact in various countries and yet bob mueller doesn t look at this as trivial at all. why not? because there s a lot of evidence what happened digitally on twitter and facebook, one of the decisive moves in the campaign and who controlled the bots? bought the bots? and how they were coordinated is really the key issue. it may be the key issue that unlocks how much the russian fifth in the trump campaign activity proper interlinked. you think about the way that the digital world has exploded through this campaign. and you have a large background in that as well as politics. there are digital footprints to things that are different. watergate was a physical break-in and fingerprints and led to something. the idea here is that there could be, what? records, flash drives, targeting data that would basically pinpoint who may have been in on this operation? yeah. look. i don t want to speculate too much about exactly what kind of