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there is nothing at the department of justice that indicates that they didn t do overt acts and these investigation investigations 60 days before elections. it s customary, usually around the time of an election they won t do what is called overt acts, that i won t bring indictments or subpoena people or do anything publicly as to try to not sway the election. the idea that we here in that time frame or approaching it is simply not true. i think what we know, poppy is that we expect mueller will continue in september and there may be a quiet period come octob october, a month before the election. as we saw from james comey in the hillary clinton e-mail probe, things can be reopened days before an election. that is something that mueller and his team would be conscious of.
mueller was i mean, comey was in trouble for that. that is something they are considering. for sure in their minds. dana bash
Kne he feels under pressure. kneels he must have slipped up and made some mistake that contradicted one communication in the binder of communications that investigators have been going through over the past two months. he told me he thought it was probably a perjury trap issue. that means they caught him lying. we don t have any details on the nature of these plea negotiations. he was providing stone opposition research in the summer and fall of 2016, that key period right before the john podesta e-mail. the question is did corsi did have some kind of advance knowledge about what wikileaks was going to do and pass it