to stop criminalality, then you have to act on the first one that you have, you can keep working on particular the smoking gun tape which has become sfams, we got in the months, just the months before trial, it was a trial subpoena, it wasn t before the indictment, we kept building the case after we indicted, and we got better evidence. but we had enough evidence to go ahead with indictment and to go to trial. we didn t need the extra. it helped. it was really good. but at some point, you just have to say, enough is sufficient and i m going to do it. you were, as we all know, an assistant watergate special prosecutor, you just mentioned it a second ago, when you learned about the missing seven hours and 37 minutes in donald trump s call log, you got flashbacks, right? i definitely had flashbacks. and my phone started ringing crazy. because everybody else was having them.
whether it was to a colleague or staffer who you wanted to meet downstairs for lunch or whether it was edits to my speech i was working on. there will be voluminous pages and pages, but everyone with a white house email has a copy of everything they accepted and receive sent to the national archives. i wonder every email drafted, every sell the, every call log, every visitor log. as an investigator, what are you looking for if you are to obtain toes documents. the gold star is always going to be the smoking gun, the person who was fed up and made a comment in an email. you know, the guidance that i used to always give my prosecutors was don t say anything in an email that you are not comfortable reading on the front page of the new york times tomorrow morning. and you would say it sort of jokingly. but i think in this setting it s very real. right? we will see some of these emails