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February 1, 2018
And he would also last week complaining about rod rosenstein again, maybe he should fire him, and he believes this memo, if it becomes public, would give him the pretext or the grounds to potentially fire rosenstein, to make changes in the department of justice generally that he thinks could help him with the mueller probe. and at the very least, even if hes not able to sort of ward it off, he is laying the groundwork for whenever these conclusions are reached, whatever they are, that trust is n...
February 1, 2018
Memos accuracy. at 5:00 p.m. yesterday, the white house said that there are no current plans to release the memo. however, following his state of the union address just a few hours later, the president was caught on a how the microphone reassuring a republican lawmaker he had every intention of releasing that memo. >> just release the memo. >> oh, yeah, dont worry. 100%. can you imagine? >> 100%. this morning the presidents top aide john kelly further suggested that its release is a foregone con...
February 1, 2018
Again, maybe he should fire him, and he believes this memo, if it becomes public, would give him the pretext or the grounds to potentially fire rosenstein, to make changes in the department of justice generally that he thinks could help him with the mueller probe. and at the very least, even if hes not able to sort of ward it off, he is laying the groundwork for whenever these conclusions are reached, whatever they are, that trust is now so eroded by the president attacking his own department of...
February 1, 2018
Written and people will be judged and their legacies may be tarnished by this, theres no concern for that, its short-term political gain, go into 2018 and sell tax cuts. and the ability of republicans on the hill to sort of not see some of these things, to look the other way or squint and see things in a way where they dont really see a problem with these things, for paul ryan yesterday to say the mueller probe shouldnt be messed with and yet to green light devin nunes sending this memo to the w...
January 31, 2018
Volleyball investigation to a point. where is the line? >> the line is a political one in the first instance. in watergate youll remember there was a firestorm of adverse reaction to richard nixon firing the man who demanded evidence concerning the tapes. here -- >> nobody considered, as you well know, nobody considered an indictment surely, but an impeachment of nixon on firing archibald cox. >> actually they did. >> its not recorded well. >> thats part of the first article impeachment by the h...
January 31, 2018
Mueller an order not carried out, there was a pretext already teed up. well, we fired him because of the dispute over golf club fees or we fired him over the fact that muellers law firm had previously worked for jared kushner. they had these pretextule reasons camouflaging the real reason and i think bob mueller is seeing this. of course, were seeing this. and it goes to that question of intent. are these actions intended countrily intended to obstruct the investigation. >> congressman adam schi...
January 31, 2018
Contact with the white house. but they be hes asked if the staff who obviously wrote the memo were in touch with the white house and refuses to answer the question. so that remains very much an open issue and, of course, if the white house was complicity in any way in the production of this memo, that makes it even more scandalous. >> congressman, for folks watching tonight, because of the compression of time and space, during the trump era, it seems like we are covering a legitimate crisis each...
January 30, 2018
It alleged that information was used in the warrant process in the fisa court, a process that then rod rosenstein renewed and perhaps could be used to threaten him. that is very, very troubling because it could be used as a pretext for firing rosenstein, then robert mueller. that kind of chain of events directly threatens the rule of law. >> if the fbi director, khr christopher wray has question, why not speak publicly against the release? >> there were members that spoke directly. stephen who h...
January 30, 2018
To stop him in the suffrage. i will tell you, here is the bottom line, tucker. barack obama weaponize to the department of justice. barack obama politicized the fbi. the fbi is our nations premier criminal investigation organization. i know a lot of rank and file fbi members. they are all embarrassed. the doj, completely weaponize. we sat with the irs. we saw how the weaponized department of justice went after people like congressman michael graham, dinesh desousa, people like that. it has been ...
January 30, 2018
The house intelligence committee tonight has voted along party lines. they are releasing to the public that classified 4-page memo that details massive fisa abuses against the trump campaign. no democrats voted yes. the reason is they dont want you to know the truth. president trump has 5 days to approve the release so you the american people can see it. my sources tell me the matter is being taken very seriously at the white house. it will be reviewed in the next 48 hours. while the president b...