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Affiliations with a party, its the republican party. thats where he was rising as an appointee, at least when he had taken over fbi. i guess the opposition research is kicking around. you cant do the whole topic justice, but anything you want to say about the enron task force here because its something that republicans seem to think is a kind of vulnerability for mueller. >> well, its ironic, ari, because the enron task force was created at the instigation of the bush justice department. john as...

To begin. walter dellinger. sam buell is a professor of law at duke university, a former federal prosecutor. lead prosecutor in fact for that enron task force which has some overlap with some of what mueller is doing now. and michael isikoff, a chief investigative reporter for yahoo news. walter, folks are just digesting "the new york times" reportrepor folks at home my want to understand what does it mean when we say this is one of the first document requests that mueller has sent to the white ...

Wrongdoing. because companies act through people. and so i think one of the things that we did effectively with the enron task force and a number of other corporate fraud prosecutions during that era was showing we were willing to follow the facts and the law wherever they may lead, all the way to the very top of the house. and in the enron case in particular, as you know, as you commented on, we brought cases against essentially the entire c suite of the company. obviously, we have to have the ...

Director held to the american people that donald trump was not under investigation. >> lets be very clear, he did not hold from people that he was under investigation. just because donald trump was not personally under investigation, everyone around him was under investigation. i think that is a distinction. >> the narrative has been that trump was colluding with russia -- >> julie: regarding the relationship between robert mueller and james comey, because this from the very beginning i have sai...

Donated almost exclusively to democrats. $56,000 donated, more than half of it came from one lawyer whos working on mueller now for this. can they be impartial? >> absolutely. remember the person making the decisions here is robert mueller who is obliged to nobody and is one of the best law enforcement figures in american history. hes the decision maker. i think its fair to point out that mueller has hired some very distinguished people. mike dreebin is the most respected criminal law appellate ...

Was reported about donald trump years ago in his private business life if he is personally recording things unknown to the other party on his cellphone or other personal device, that, too, is subject to subpoena and review. those may be more difficult to track in the same way that the official recordings would be. >> and mueller has been building his own legal team including seasoned litigators and experts in criminal law. what if anything can we learn from the selection to his team, some of the...

Andrew weissmann has joined special council into the trump/russia matter. we dont know the full extent as to who robert mueller has working with him. andrew weissmann including highest profile mob prosecutions we have had in this country, veteran of multiple high profile fraud cases, the guy who led the enron task force at the beginning of the 2000s that everybody thought would be the biggest scandal of the george bush administration until 9/11 happened. andrew weissmann who basically overhauler...

Weve ever had in this country. veteran of complicated stock fraud cases, actually, hes also the guy who led the enron task force at the beginning of the 2000s. which everybody thought it was going to be the biggest scandal of george w. bush administration until 9/11 happened. we now know that hes the highest ranking government lawyer to leave his post in government to go join robert muellers investigation instead. andrews appointment was first reported by bloomberg news. i expect we may learn mo...

Fusion gps, he uses russian sources and russian lies, and then it gets used for a fisa warrantor they dont have a fisa judge that hillary, one, paid for it, and two, they never verified at. just to spy on, not only an american citizen, but in our pleasures opposition party candidate in an election year, is sean hannity more important news the bad? i dont think so. >> you know, sean, these other media outlets, so comical, these frauds at the other media networks. you know why they will never repo...

Investigation. we have a lot to get to tonight. im happy to say a strong panel to begin. walter dellinger. sam buell is a professor of law at duke university, a former federal prosecutor. lead prosecutor in fact for that enron task force which has some overlap with some of what mueller is doing now. and michael isikoff, a chief investigative reporter for yahoo news. walter, folks are just digesting "the new york times" reports. folks at home my want to understand what does it mean when we say th...