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lisa page, who, in part, because they were having an affair, which had nothing to do with anything, but he dragged them through the mud mercilessly, and because he boasted about it. because the doj said you can't actually depose the president. there are other ways to get the information. what judge jackson said yesterday, and it's a motion for reconsideration, so that will be the end of the line unless there's a mandamus petition. she said, hey, as it turns out, rob rosenstein, chris wray were a little foggy, we could still use trump's testimony. besides he boasted about it. beshids she said tartdly, he's got a little time on his hands because he's filing all this civil litigation. so he can sit and he has to sit, and that's the order. >> it seems that mueller and smith and now judge jackson have
everything, everything the entire spectacle. i mean, i don't know what i don't know what we can talk about after the trump lawyer right there. why does the why is he surrounded himself? is there are these the people who will work with for him? i think he's pretty much run out of lawyers. i mean, he had he had this trouble five years ago when he was trying to find lawyers to represent them after rob rosenstein had appointed the special counsel robert mueller and a lot. you know, he went through the list of big names. in fact, i was on a phone call, um, with him where he was asking me about lawyers and, um they won't represent him because he's erratic. doesn't pay his bills doesn't follow directions. um undercuts his own lawyers by, you know, shopping for advice, and it seems like he likes this sort of team of sort of game of thrones like no, but it's part of it. yeah i mean, that's part of the you know the his his manipulation of the situation wants to manipulate the situation as he wants to hear what he wants to hear,
will work with for him? i think he's pretty much run out of lawyers. i mean, he had he had this trouble five years ago when he was trying to find lawyers to represent them after rob rosenstein had appointed the special counsel robert mueller and lock. you know, he went through the list of big names. in fact, i was on a phone call, um, with him where he was asking me about lawyers and, um they won't represent him because he's erratic. doesn't pay his bills doesn't follow directions. um undercuts his own lawyers by, you know, shopping for advice, and it does seem like he likes this sort of team of game of thrones like no, but it's part of it. yeah. i mean, that's part of the you know the his his manipulation of the situation wants to manipulate the situation. he wants to hear what he wants to hear. which is part of how you know he's getting himself into trouble in other places like the mar-a-lago documents. he's talking to a non lawyer getting advice about about whether he gets to keep these documents that he took from the federal government. you know, it's just it's no way to
out and amid or acknowledge that there is a situation unfolding back in early november, when the documents were first revealed and recovered, if you will. it did not come out into the public and to the media reported on it. i think that was a miscalculation or misstep by this white house, a last chance to be transparent. again, we're still seeing that play out, matthew. that's interesting given that the attorney general has named robert herr as his special son so for this biden probe. he's a former trump appointee. he served as the type aide to the ex president's deputy attorney general, rob rosenstein. what do you make of garland's pick and was naming a special counsel it, trump west point special counsel, the kirk decision? i feel it may be indirectly reinforces this notion that there are trump appointees and biden appointees, and given who the other appointee is, you will get a certain semblance of
reported on it. i think that was a miscalculation or misstep by this white house, a last chance to be transparent. again, we're still seeing that play out, matthew. that's interesting given that the attorney general has named robert herr as his special son so for this biden probe. he's a former trump appointee. he served as the type aide to the ex president's deputy attorney general, rob rosenstein. what do you make of garland's pick and was naming a special counsel it, trump west point special counsel, the kirk decision? i feel it may be indirectly reinforces this notion that there are trump appointees and biden appointees, and given who the other appointee is, you will get a certain semblance of an investigation? >> well, i actually think it was a smart move by the attorney general to appoint robert hur in this because it takes away the immediate of reactions which is that this is another democrat coming in and brush it aside.
counsel in the biden investigation. robert her, we know he was a trump appointee, he served as the top aide to deputy attorney general, rob rosenstein and christopher wray before ray became the head of the fbi. so does disappointment make it easier or more difficult for special counsel, jack smith to indict any mar-a-lago case? earlier this week, the new york times reporting that jack smith might bring charges by this summer. do you think that is realistic now? >> i think that the question becomes, are you talking about the court of law or the court of public opinion. i think when you talk about the court of law, it does impact jack smith to the extent that it is not going to change a yay to a nay or aa to a nay and as much as what he has already decided to do or decides to do will not be impacted by this. however, it is going to ensure that jack smith was already a nerve prosecutor is going to dot every i across every t in terms of how it goes forward. in terms of the timeline, it could bump it up to a small
when we all know the trump administration had corrupted the department of justice through bill barr, weaponized it to punish donald trump's enemies like jim comey and andrew mccabe, and reward donald trump's criminal associates like mike flynn and roger stone, prompting some assistant u.s. attorneys, including former colleagues of mine, to leave cases and leave the department altogether, because they wouldn't stand for the corruption of the department of justice. now, what mr. did during that time as he came to the department of justice and served as rob rosenstein's right-hand man, as the payback. the principal associate deputy attorney general. we like our titles long at the department of justice. thereafter, he was appointing u.s. attorney by donald trump to serve in the maryland u.s. attorney's office. this is someone who, for whatever reason, chose to associate himself with donald trump and bill barr's department of justice at a time