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Trying to infiltrate the election. and we ve heard this term a lot, jim, right? as we ve been covering this story and talking to sources about unwitting. there was this idea that carter page was unwitting, papadopoulos was unwitting. it s a key word that a lot of intelligence officials, fbi officials have used have with us. i don t think we can definitively say at this point, from this indictment, whether that part, whether there were any witting participants is complete, if that investigation is complete. fact is in fact, as we know of one witting encounter, if that s even the word but that is the trump tower meeting when we know senior trump officials, including the president s son-in-law and his son took a meeting, knowing that there was a russian promising dirt on hillary clinton. author of a book on fbi and robert mueller, garret, i wonder what message you took, if there was a message, to see the deputy attorney general, rod rosenstein, who we know the president has discussed, ....
W. bush administration would collapse without karl rove, it didn t and that s the way it had to go. and it s interesting. they course corrected before the end of that administration. after alberto gonzalez lost his job over that scandal they had to bring in a new attorney general to replace him, that was michael mukasey. he surveyed the wreckage that led to the previous a.g. having to resign and michael mukasey decided to put back in place those old rules. those old post-watergate rules. so starting in 2007 the white house went back to the old post-watergate rules. they reestablished the principle in the white house can t just get in on fbi and justice department investigations willy-nilly anymore. they reinstated that old strict limitation that only those top four people, the president, the vice president, president s counsel and that counsel s deputy, those four people only can make a call to the justice department about an ongoing investigation. they made carveouts for national secu ....
Led to the previous a.g. having to resign and michael mukasey decided to put back in place those old rules. those old post-watergate rules. so starting in 2007 the white house went back to the old post-watergate rules. they reestablished the principle in the white house can t just get in on fbi and justice department investigations willy-nilly anymore. they reinstated that old strict limitation that only those top four people, the president, the vice president, president s counsel and that counsel s deputy, those four people only can make a call to the justice department about an ongoing investigation. they made carveouts for national security and stuff but in general they reinstated that rule because of the scandal that they had only just barely survived and that some prominent members of the george w. bush administration did not survive. but i think it s fair to say they also reinstated that rule because it was plainly the right thing to do. it s such a serious thing. it s such a fun ....
Collapse without karl rove, it didn t and that s the way it had to go. and it s interesting. they course corrected before the end of that administration. after alberto gonzalez lost his job over that scandal they had to bring in a new attorney general to replace him, that was michael mukasey. he surveyed the wreckage that led to the previous a.g. having to resign and michael mukasey decided to put back in place those old rules. those old post-watergate rules. so starting in 2007 the white house went back to the old post-watergate rules. they reestablish it had principle in the white house can t just get in on fbi and justice department investigations willy-nilly anymore. they reinstated that old strict limitation that only those top four people, the president, the vice president, president s counsel and that counsel s deputy, those four people only can make a call to the justice department about an ongoing investigation. they made carveouts for national security and stuff but in ....