Volume 1, 193. He lied three times. Why didnt you charge him with a crime . I cant get into internal deliberations as to what or would not be you charged a lot of people from making false statements. Lets remember this. In 2016 the fbi did something they probably havent done before. They spied on two american citizens associated with the president ial campaign. George papadopoulos and carter page. Was carter page who then went to the g the fisa court. With mr. Papadopoulos they didnt go to the court. They used human sources. From about the moment papadopoulos joins the Trump Campaign you have all of these people All Around The World starting to swirl around him. Names like halper, downer, misfeud, thompson. Meeting in rome, london, all
kinds of places and the fbi even sent a lady posing as somebody else. Went by the name turk to spy on papadopoulos. In one of the meetings he is talking to a foreign diplomat and he says that the russians have dirt on clinton. That Diplomat Contacts the
[laughter] it was good, they did a great job. they had a lot of fun. last one, i do appreciate that show, a great wash. what do you think of putin assassinating as reports say, is rival, yevgeny prigozhin/. i have no idea, he is a tough guy, a gangster, he s smart. he had this guy around, a multibillionaire, they were closed. he turned on him. i think he has the capabilities of taking him out. he has the temperament to take him out but i don t know, it s not clear, he says he didn t so i really don t know and i don t care. i agree. one of the conspiracy question for me, what reports have you
plausibly agreed with the conduct of the people inside the capitol that day? so he is asking this question because trump and all these other people that were sued, rudy giuliani, his son, proud boys, oath keepers, are all arguing the case should get tossed out and shouldn t go on in the court and test whether it s legally viable. they are making all kinds of claims saying this can t be a conspiracy. also that trump should be totally protected because he was president at the time. that that means he has some sort of absolute immunity regarding everything that he says whenever there can be lawsuits that come up. all of these people are also arguing they have first amendment protections. meda was really tough on trump s lawyers on the conspiracy question. he didn t show his hand where he stood otherwise and we didn t get a ruling out of him yet. this is a set of important cases, an important standpoint was he has to decide whether the cases can go on and people could hold potentially trum
it was we found insufficient evidence of the president s culpability. the president could have said clearly there s nothing there. he didn t. that s as far consistent with the report. by it shows you but it shows you he didn t dismiss that in the way he dismissed the claim of his obstruction. listen, i think it could be unfair to look at mueller s performance there and say that somehow he s not on top of things. i mean, you had you have a 400 page report here, members citing page citations and mueller when there are particular citations well, let me look at the report on the key questions of what he found, was there he gives a clear answer on the conspiracy question, a clear answer on the obstruction question and those are the takeaways. one other item that i think is important, jeffrey toobin, that he said that the
that mueller didn t establish a concrete case for the conspiracy question, the collusion question, but what mueller said quite clearly in his last public comments is that russia interfered with the election and hacked into email servers, attack one candidate in favor of donald trump and that the country needed to be prepared for the next time. clearly this white house is not prepared for the next time. and it s no wonder that jared kushner couldn t get a security clearance without the help of his father-in-law when he makes statements like this. and kristen, it does seem as though, based on everything we re seeing from kushner, giuliani, the president himself, that they haven t necessarily learned the lesson as everyone else agrees, the russians tried to interfere in the election. and next time, they should all go right to the fbi if it ever happens. yeah, certainly, knowing what we know now, the idea that there s somebody coming who has connections to the kremlin and they want to