For months. His longtime lawyer, business associate, one of the men he is closest to is under investigation, has been braid the fbi, and could be indicted at any moment. And we just learned his own son held multiple meetings with agents of Foreign Governments offering help in the 2016 campaign. Thats just the tip of the iceberg. Now, it also turns out that the fbi back in 2016 was so alarmed by the Trump Campaigns various suspicious contacts with russia, it reportedly sent an informant to meet with three Different Campaign aides starting the summer before the election. And now the president , his lawyer, and his allies in congress are trying to use that incriminating fact in a kind of weird jujitsu move to discredit the investigation itself. Just a few weeks ago, the president warned us this moment might come. Ive taken the position, and i dont have to take this position, and maybe ill change, that i will not be involved with is the Justice Department. I have decided that i wont be inv
otherwise would have. but they have briefed lawmakers in the past. so maybe this is the department sort of playing bureaucratic, just making a bureaucratic move to get the white house off its back, fleece temporarily. that is how it s being widely interpreted, i think. to circle back to the first point you make. this is the president of the united states whose own campaign is the subject of a counterintelligence investigation. it s well established. we ve known that for over a year. summoning two of the people supervising that investigation to intervene in that investigation in the white house, right? it s really interesting. look, the president is the chief executive. the justice department is a part of the executive branch. so he s got to meet with these guys. but in this context, it s pretty weird. he is meeting with them a day after he has essentially ordered an investigation of the investigation of his campaign. that s pretty weird. and it s also fairly unusual for the preside
i think one point about what happened in the meeting today is president trump personally wanted these guy there s to answer these questions. i think that s particularly significant. so what happened? rod rosenstein, chris wray, dan coates go over to the white house there is some talk about this document request. congress has been beating the drum for the justice department to turn over documents about this confidential source who brushed up against the trump campaign, as part of the russia investigation. they come to an agreement, which is pretty surprising. the justice department had seemed to draw a red line over turning over documents about this source. but the agreement doesn t exactly make them do that. they agree to come back for another meet which john kelly will apparently spearhead, and they ll provide information to some lawmakers, i guess, about this source that does seem to be the justice department going a little farther than maybe they otherwise would have. but they hav