Page 2 - Thing Mueller News Today : Breaking News, Live Updates & Top Stories | Vimarsana

Wrong. new york state follows what is known as equitable double jeopardy. what that means is, if someone has already been prosecuted out of something that arises out of the same facts, you're not supposed to prosecute them in new york a second time. in this instance, i know your earlier reports of the cases are unrelated, they actually are not unrelated. the bank fraud in new york that was charged today arises out of the same transactions that were involved in mueller's prosecution in virginia. this is a case that new york ordinarily wouldn't bring and they obviously only brought it for politi...

Years in new york, it's a whole different ball game. that's why this is such a fascinating turn. stay with me. let's look at how this fits into the building behind you. people sometimes forget. bob mueller works for the justice department. he reports into the trump attorney general bill barr. there would look like a big mueller victory. we'll put it on the screen for your analysis. this case started with papadopoulos getting a couple of weeks. cohen was handed off three years in new york. the seven and a half years for manafort here is by far the most significant thing mueller has done at a ti...

The coming days, what impact will that have if any on all of the rest of these investigations including these individuals being asked to turn over this documentation? >> looks like there is overlap. the public will have a problem with that. if mueller has done this investigation with millions and millions of dollars the country has put into that and now we have other committees, judiciary, oversight, intel, three committees right there looking at the same thing mueller has looked at, it its -- heather: it is not good oversight if you are in charge of the oversight committee to do the same work...

Campaign in august of 2016. the most interesting thing about those contacts, that is the part most blacked out in the filing. what does that tell you? it tells you that unlike some other pieces where the special counsel told us what manafort lied about, here he's not willing to do so because that's a live part of the investigation. it tells you that those contacts with kilimnik are very relevant to the core thing mueller is investigating, and that is russian interference with the election. >> just in case viewers didn't see the graphic that we put up, you mentioned two of the five lies that we...

Names. you can name different individuals, but this is all one giant conspiracy. but now we're looking at their attack on the 2018 elections. and so i think mueller appropriately decided that's sort of out of his, you know, bandwidth, not something that he should appropriately be doing. >> right. >> and, you know, again, i think this points to people who like to attack mueller, this is exactly the kind of thing mueller takes seriously, he takes his mandate seriously, interprets it as narrowly as he can doing his job. it's completely appropriate. also it does put in a safety net for these kind ...