we saw yesterday, and one of the things that s interesting about it is this could have been treated in the trump team and in the giuliani approach to tv this weekend as a kind of triumphant turn of, look, the special prosecutor has said buzzfeed s wrong, and just stomp on that and leave it at that, but within that, rudy giuliani decided, and the team must have decided, actually this is a good time to also throw out there what s going to eventually emerge, which is donald trump has answered in writing that he may have been even gaungaged many t kib kinds of talks throughout the entire presidential campaign, talks about developing a trump tower in moscow, that within all the noise about buzzfeed being spanked by the special prosecutor, let s also throw this thing out there now. yeah. doesn t make a lot of tactical sense, lawrence, but, you know, i think what giuliani is, perhaps, trying to do is what we call draw the sting.
wasn t an unqualified win. it was a momentary win for the president. but what does it show us? it shows us that bob mueller doesn t really care what the evidence shows with respect to who it incriminates and who it exonerates. he stood up and he stomped on that reporting because he has something in his arsenal of evidence that told him that reporting was inaccurate. now, bob mueller knew that would be a momentary win for the president and, of course, the president i m not going to say took the bait but then you start seeing tweets about from the president how awful this inaccurate buzzfeed reporting was, but what does that tell us? inferentially, that tells us the president is holding up bob mueller as the teller of truth, right? so that s going to end up backfiring. but i think the people are dying for a smoking gun. so maybe what giuliani is doing is he s sort of loading all this presidential misconduct into the gun and he s firing it in advance of any impeachment hearings so the smo
we saw yesterday, and one of the things that s interesting about it is this could have been treated in the trump team and in the giuliani approach to tv this weekend as a kind of triumphant turn of, look, the special prosecutor has said buzzfeed s wrong, and just stomp on that and leave it at that, but within that, rudy giuliani decided, and the team must have decided, actually this is a good time to also throw out there what s going to eventually emerge, which is donald trump has answered in writing that he may have been engaged many these kinds of talks throughout the entire presidential campaign, talks about developing a trump tower in moscow, that within all the noise about buzzfeed being spanked by the special prosecutor, let s also throw this thing out there now. yeah. doesn t make a lot of tactical sense, lawrence, but, you know, i think what giuliani is, perhaps, trying to do is what we
will see a fair amount more that will implicate those very close to individual one. what do you know? this a month or two? no, i think, again, this investigation has been going on for 2.5 years. i think bob mueller doesn t want to bring this into the campaign season. i anticipate that in the first half of this year, if not sooner, it will be concluded. but what his report will be i think it subject to some question. but i think he will try to at least wrap up his work, he may be feeding and seeding, you know the different types of investigations that he has uncovered or identified, so the southern district of new york, the eerch district of virginia, the state attorney general of new york, but don t think that bob mueller sees this is his lifelong career. feeding and seeding, that is too good, we re going to push on
this story is fascinating, right? i wonder what it means when you have a russian oligarch and they all have ties to vladimir putin, pressuring the then candidate trump s campaign chairman about how he could, about how he could essentially re-pay money. sure. so brianna, i ve heard people analyze this over the course of the day. and people have picked on the fact that, well, if this was so bad, paul manafort would have been charged along with the other things he was charged with. i think that kind of misses the point. this goes to a fundamental question about donald trump s ability to surround himself with people of questionable backgrounds, right? and i m thinking, paul manafort, i m thinking michael cohen, i m thinking michael flynn. all of these gentlemen had significant baggage. and to think they were at the heights of the trump organization, the trump campaign, and ultimately, potentially the trump white house is a scary thought. so there s this mountain of ever-growing circumsta