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KIND OF NIGHT, DIDN’T YOU?
I TRIED TO GO ON VACATION THESE
LAST FEW DAYS.
DID NOT WORK.
I HAVE QUESTIONS.
I HAVE LOTS OF QUESTIONS BASED
ON THE BARR REPORT, SOME OF
WHICH I THINK WILL BE ANSWERED
IF AND WHEN WE GET ROBERT
MUELLER’S REPORT.
MUELLER’S REPORT. WHAT WILLIAM BARR GAVE TO
CONGRESS DOES RAISE A LOT OF
QUESTIONS THAT WE NEVER THOUGHT
WE WOULD BE ASKING, I THINK,
ABOUT HOW THIS INVESTIGATION IS
BEING RESOLVED.
BEING RESOLVED. I JUST ROUND DOWN MY TOP FOUR
QUESTIONS, ALL OF WHICH HAVE TO
DO WITH THIS SURPRISE IN BARR’S
LETTER ABOUT ROBERT MUELLER
REPORTEDLY NOT RECOMMENDING ONE
WAY OR THE OTHER WHETHER TRUMP
SHOULD BE PROSECUTED.
WE ARE ABOUT TO HAVE HERE ONSET
A FORMER VERY SENIOR NATIONAL
SECURITY OFFICIAL WHO WAS
INVOLVED IN THE EARLY STAGES OF
THIS MATTER WITHIN THE JUSTICE
DEPARTMENT.
DEPARTMENT. HE IS HERE TONIGHT BECAUSE HE
HAS SOME THINGS HE HAS TO SAY.
EXCUSE ME, SOME THINGS HE WANTS
TO SAY ABOUT THIS PART OF WHAT
WILLIAM BARR IS DOING AND HOW
THIS INVESTIGATION IS RESOLVING.
I’M EAGER TO TALK TO HIM.
BEFORE WE BRING HIM ON, I WANT
TO LAYOUT A FEW MORE QUESTIONS
FROM WHAT WILLIAM BARR HOZAS DON
AND ARE DRIVING ME NUTS.
NUMBER FIVE.
NUMBER FIVE. WHAT DOES IT MEAN WHEN BARR SAYS
HE HAD TO CONSULT WITH THE
OFFICE OF JUSTICE DEPARTMENT
CONSIDERATION ABOUT PRESIDENT
TRUMP AND AUFTSOFFICE OF LEGAL
COUNSEL, THE LAWYER’S OFFICE FOR
THE JUSTICE DEPARTMENT DEAL BE
POLICIES AND COMPLICATED AND
SHOW THEMSELVES CLEARLY AND
THROUGH A DIFFICULT MAZE.
I MEAN, WHEN BARR SAYS HE HAD TO
GO TO THE OFFICE OF LEGAL
COUNSEL BEFORE DECIDING AROUND
WHETHER OR NOT THE PRESIDENT.
DID HE DETERMINE THE PRESIDENT
DIDN’T COMMIT ANY CRIMES WHEN IT
CAME TO OBSTRUCTION OF JUSTICE
OR DID BARR HAVE TO GO TO THE
OFFICE OF LEGAL COUNSEL BECAUSE
HE BASED HIS DETERMINATION THAT
THE PRESIDENT HADN’T COMMITTED
ANY CRIMES ON HIS OWN LEGAL
THEORY, WHICH HE LAID OUT TO THE
WHITE HOUSE MONTHS AGO IN THAT
CONFIDENTIAL MEMO IN WHICH HE
SAID THAT A PRESIDENT INHERENTLY
CANNOT COMMIT OBSTRUCTION OF
JUSTICE JUST BECAUSE HE’S
PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES.
A PRESIDENT CAN’T COMMIT
OBSTRUCTION.
OBSTRUCTION. HE SAYS THIS PRESIDENT DIDN’T
COMMIT OBSTRUCTION.
COMMIT OBSTRUCTION. DID HE DECIDE THAT ON THE
PRESIDENT’S EXISTENCE OR FACTS?
IS THAT WHY HE NEEDED TO TALK
ABOUT THIS DETERMINATION BECAUSE
IT’S BASED ON HIS LEGAL THEORY
OR IS IT BASED ON THE FACTS OF
THE PRESIDENT’S BEHAVIOR?
QUESTION NUMBER FIVE.
QUESTION NUMBER SIX, THE
CONGRESSIONAL LEADERSHIP OF
HOUSES OR INTELLIGENCE
COMMITTEES WHEN IT COMES TO
MUELLER’S FINDINGS.
MUELLER’S FINDINGS. WHAT WILL THEY GET?
THIS IS A CRIMINAL INVESTIGATION
BY ROBERT MUELLER BUT IT WAS
PARTLY A COUNTER INTELLIGENCE
INVESTIGATION, TOO DOES THE
COUNTER INTELLIGENCE
COUNTER INTELLIGENCE INVESTIGATION, THE COUNTER
INTELLIGENCE PART OF WHAT
MUELLER LOOKED INTO, DOES THAT
DEAL WITH THE QUESTION, DOES
THAT ANSWER THE QUESTION OF
WHETHER ANYONE IN THE TRUMP
CAMPAIGN OR THE TRUMP
ADMINISTRATION WAS UNDER THE
INFLUS WEBIN
INFLUS WEBIN INFLUENCE OF A FOREIGN ED AADVER
ADVERSARY.
ADVERSARY. THAT’S NOT THE SAME AS COLLUDING
TO INFLUENCE THE 2016 ELECTION.
IF YOU’RE UNDER THE INFLUENCE OF
A FOREIGN ADVERSARY, THAT’S NOT
NECESSARILY A CRIME AND IT MAY
NOT RELATE AT ALL TO RUSSIA’S
INTERFERENCE IN THE 2016
ELECTION BUT IF THERE ARE PEOPLE
IN ADMINISTRATION OR CAMPAIGN
OPERATING UNDER THE INFLUENCE OF
A FOREIGN ADVERSARY, THAT COULD
BE IMPORTANT FOR US TO KNOW AS A
PEOPLE, ESPECIALLY IF THOSE
PEOPLE OPERATING UNDER THE
INFLUENCE OF A FOREIGN ED AADVER
HAVE GOT REALLY, REALLY BIG JOBS
IN THE GOVERNMENT.
IT WOULD BE GOOD TO KNOW THAT.
WE LEARNED NOT LONG AGO THAT ONE
OF THE OPEN INVESTIGATIONS
ROBERT MUELLER INHERITED AS PART
OF HIS SPECIAL COUNSEL WAS AN
FBI COUNTER INTELLIGENCE
INVESTIGATION INTO PRESIDENT
TRUMP HIMSELF INTO WHETHER OR
NOT PRESIDENT TRUMP HIMSELF WAS
UNDER THE INFLUENCE OF A FOREIGN
ADVERSARY.
ADVERSARY. DID MUELLER CLOSE OUT THAT PART
OF HIS INVESTIGATION, AS WELL?
WILL THAT BE BRIEFED TO
CONGRESSIONAL LEADERSHIP?
CONGRESSIONAL LEADERSHIP? WILL THAT BE BRIEFED TO THE
INTELLIGENCE COMMITTEES?
INTELLIGENCE COMMITTEES? WILL THAT BE BRIEFED TO CONGRESS
OR TO US?
OR TO US? QUESTION NUMBER SEVEN.
WHAT THERE A FULL DETERMINATION,
WAS THERE A FULL INVESTIGATION
OF TRUMP’S INTENT REGARDING
OBSTRUCTION?
OBSTRUCTION? WILLIAM BARR SAYS THE
DETERMINATION HE CAME TO THAT
TRUMP COULDN’T BE CHARGED WITH
OBSTRUCTION OF JUSTICE WAS BASED
IN PART ON THE SPECIAL COUNSEL’S
CONCLUSION THAT QUOTE, THE
EVIDENCE DOES NOT ESTABLISH THAT
THE PRESIDENT WAS INVOLVED IN AN
UNDERLYING CRIME RELATED TO
RUSSIAN ELECTION INTERFERENCE.
BARR SAYS QUOTE WHILE NOT
DETERMINATIVE, THE ABSENCE OF
SUCH EVIDENCE BEARS UPON THE
PRESIDENT’S INTENT WITH
OBSTRUCTION.
OBSTRUCTION. WELL, WAS THERE A FULL
INVESTIGATION OF THE PRESIDENT’S
INTENT WHEN IT CAME TO
OBSTRUCTION OF JUSTICE?
ONE OF THE WAYS YOU TRY TO GET
IT INTENT IS BY ASKING PEOPLE
QUESTIONS, YOU KNOW, PRESIDENT
NEVER CAME IN FOR AN INTERVIEW.
DOES IT MAKE SENSE AS LEGAL
REASONING FOR WILLIAM BARR TO
HAVE CLEARED THE PRESIDENT OF
OBSTRUCTION OF JUSTICE IN PART
THE PRESIDENT WASN’T INVOLVED IN
AN UNDERLYING CRIME WITH RUSSIAN
ELECTION INTERFERENCE.
ELECTION INTERFERENCE. DOES THAT MAKE SINCE IF THE
PRESIDENT HYPOTHETICALLY WAS
TRYING TO OBSTRUCTION THE
INVESTIGATION NOT BECAUSE HE WAS
PART OF RUSSIA’S SOCIAL MEDIA
EFFORTS OR HACKING EFFORTS
TARGETING THE DNC BUT INSTEAD
BECAUSE OF SOME OTHER THING,
BECAUSE HE THOUGHT A FULL
INVESTIGATION OF THOSE MATTERS
MIGHT TURN UP EVIDENCE OF HIM
BEING COMPROMISED BY A FOREIGN
POWER OR HIM HAVING LIED ABOUT
BUSINESS DEALINGS WITH A FOREIGN
POWER OR DISCUSSED SOME SORT OF
QUID PROQUO.
QUID PROQUO. DOES IT MATTER IF HE OBSTRUCTED
JUSTICE NOT SPECIFICALLY RELATED
TO THE CRIME COMMITTED BY THE
RUSSIANS?
RUSSIANS? QUESTION EIGHT.
QUESTION EIGHT. WERE THE PRESIDENT’S BUSINESS
ACTIVITIES AND FINANCIAL HISTORY
PART OF THIS INVESTIGATION AS TO
HIS POTENTIAL COMPROMISE BY A
FOREIGN POWER OR SOME FOREIGN
ENTITY HAVING LEVERAGE OVER HIM?
THE INTELLIGENCE SAID
CONGRESSIONAL INVESTIGATORS WERE
TOLD THERE WERE NO DECONFLICTION
PROBLEMS, THERE WAS NO CROSSOVER
THEY HAD TO WORRY ABOUT IF THEY
WANTED TO LOOK INTO THE
PRESIDENT’S BUSINESS HISTORY AND
FINANCES.
FINANCES. THAT SUGGESTED TO THE
INTELLIGENCE COMMITTEE THAT THE
SPECIAL COUNSEL WASN’T LOOKING
AT ANY OF THOSE MATTERS WHEN IT
CAME TO INVESTIGATING THE
PRESIDENT’S POTENTIAL
PRESIDENT’S POTENTIAL COMPROMISE.
COMPROMISE. WELL, IS THAT TRUE?
DID THEY LOOK AT THAT.
ARE WE NOW ALLOWED TO KNOW THAT?
QUESTION NUMBER NINE.
NOW THAT THE SPECIAL COUNSEL’S
OFFICE CLOSED ITS INVESTIGATION,
DO WE GET TO SEE THE FULL
UNREDACTED MEMO THAT LAID OUT
THE SCOPE OF STUFF THEY WERE
AUTHORIZED TO INVESTIGATE?
QUESTION NUMBER TEN, DO WE GET
TO SEE THE PRESIDENT’S WRITTEN
ANSWERS THAT HE SUBMITTED TO THE
SPECIAL COUNSEL?
SPECIAL COUNSEL? HE DIDN’T DO AN INTERVIEW BUT
SUBMITTED A TAKE HOME TEST.
THE PRESIDENT SAYS HE BELIEVES
THIS INVESTIGATION HAS
EXONERATED HIM AND HE DID
NOTHING WRONG, IF SO HE SHOULD
BE PLEASED TO SHOW HIS WRITTEN
TESTIMONY TO THE PUBLIC SO FAR
THE PRESIDENT’S LAWYERS ARE
INDICATEING THERE IS NO WAY THAT
WILL HAPPEN BUT WHAT ARE THEY
AFRAID OF?
AFRAID OF? THERE IS A BIG PICTURE OF WHERE
WE GO FROM HERE.
WHAT WILL BE CUT OUT OF THE
MUELLER REPORT BEFORE WE AND
CONGRESS ARE ALLOWED TO SEE IT?
AND WHEN WILL WE BE ALLOWED TO
SEE IT?
SEE IT? THIS IS NUMBER 11.
PROBABLY MY FAVORITE BECAUSE ON
THIS, THIS IS ONE THING THAT
UNITES ALL OF US.
EVERYBODY FROM THE SUPER
CONSERVECONZESK
CONSERVECONZESK CONSERVATIVE RIGHT WING
EDITORIAL BOARD TO THE NEW YORK
TIMES EDITORIAL BOARD TO 420
MEMBERS OF THE HOUSE OF
REPRESENTATIVES THAT VOTED
UNANIMOUSLY TO THE PRESIDENT
HIMSELF TODAY TO TONS OF
REPUBLICAN SENATORS SUPPORTIVE
OF THE PRESIDENT, EVERYBODY IS
ALL ON ONE PAGE, ALL IN
AGREEMENT THAT WE ALL NOW NEED
TO SEE NOT WILLIAM BARR’S
DESCRIPTION OF THE MUELLER
REPORT BUT THE ACTUAL MUELLER
REPORT.
REPORT. SO THAT’S THE BIG UNIFYING
QUESTION FOR THE COUNTRY.
WHEN DOES THAT HAPPEN?
AND HOW MUCH OF IT IS GOING TO
BE CUT OUT BEFORE WE’RE ALLOWED
TO SEE IT AND WHO WILL DECIDE
WHO WILL BE CUT OUT BEFORE WE’RE
ALLOWED TO SEE IT.
SIX DEMOCRATIC CHAIRS WROTE
SAYING THEY WANT A FULL AND
UNREDACTED COPY OF THE REPORT BY
NEXT TUESDAY, BY A WEEK FROM
TOMORROW.
TOMORROW. WE SHALL SEE BUT WORTH NOTING
THAT THE PRESIDENT CALLED FOR IT
TO BE FULLY RELEASED.
NUMBER 12.
NUMBER 12. WILL MUELLER TESTIFY TO
CONGRESS?
CONGRESS? WILL THE JUSTICE DEPARTMENT
ALLOW HIM TO TESTIFY IF CONGRESS
ASKS HIM TO BE THERE OR IF THEY
SUBPOENA HIM TO BE THERE?
IF THE JUSTICE DEPARTMENT TRIES
TO BLOCK MUELLER FROM TESTIFYING
AND ANSWERING QUESTIONS ABOUT
THE INVESTIGATION, HOW WILL THAT
BE AJUTEDJUDICATEDADJUDICATED?
BE AJUTEDJUDICATEDADJUDICATED? QUESTION 13, CAN DEMOCRATS IN
CONGRESS GET THE UNDERLYING
EVIDENCE FROM MUELLER’S
INVESTIGATION IN ADDITION TO THE
MUELLER REPORT ITSELF?
REMEMBER THE TRUCKLOADS OF
EVIDENCE, VAN LOADS OF EVIDENCE
THE KEN STAR INVESTIGATION DROVE
UP TO ACCOMPANY THAT SORTED
WRITTEN REPORT THE STAR
INVESTIGATION DID ABOUT BILL
CLINTON?
CLINTON? WILL THIS CONGRESS GET ACCESS TO
THE UNDERLYING EVIDENCE, TOO, OR
JUST THE REPORT OR WORSE THAN
THAT, JUST THE REDACTED REPORT
OR WORSE EVEN THAN THAT, JUST
WILLIAM BARR’S ASSERTIONS ABOUT
WHAT THE REPORT MIGHT SAY?
14.
14. IN REAL TERMS, NOT JUST IN
TECHNICAL LAW SCHOOL TEXTBOOK,
IN REAL TERMS, DOES THE
DISILLUSION HAVE EFFECTS THAT
DERIVE FROM THEIR WORK?
IT’S A LONG LIST.
THERE IS A LOT OF PEOPLE STILL
AWAITING SENTENCING AND A COUPLE
TRIALS ON DECK AND PENDING
INVESTIGATIONS REPORTED FROM THE
U.S. ATTORNEY’S OFFICE AND THE
SOUTHERN DISTRICT OF NEW YORK
AND LOS ANGELES AND IN THE
EASTERN DISTRICT OF NEW YORK AND
EASTERN DISTRICT OF VIRGINIA AND
D.C. U.S. ATTORNEY’S OFFICE NOT
TO MENTION THE NEW YORK STATE
INVESTIGATIONS AND THE INAUGURAL
L COMMITTEE INVESTIGATIONS THAT
STARTED IN THE OFFICES OF NEW
YORK STATE ATTORNEY GENERAL,
EXCUSE ME, NEW JERSEY’S ATTORNEY
GENERAL AND.
GENERAL AND. DID C.
DID C. D.C. ATTORNEY GENERAL.
DOES THE DISILLUSION HAVE
EFFECTS.
EFFECTS. DOES THE INVESTIGATION COLLECTED
BY THE SPECIAL COUNSEL THAT MAY
RELATE OR HELP ALL OF THOSE
OTHER INVESTIGATIONS, DOES THAT
GET PERCEIVEDRE PRESERVED AND SH
LAST ONE WHILE ON THE SUBJECT OF
IDEAL VERSUS REAL, ON THE
SUBJECT OF PIE IN THE SKY, OR
REAL WORLD SERKCIRCUMSTANCES, WH
IT COMES TO THE BOTTOM LINE FOR
THIS MOMENT IN AMERICAN HISTORY.
WHEN IT COMES TO THE BOTTOM LINE
WE HAVE BEEN THROUGH A
REMARKABLE THING, WE HAVE BEEN
THROUGH A CIRCUMSTANCE IN WHICH
A HOSTILE FOREIGN ADVERSARY
LAUNCHED A COMPLEX AND
SOPHISTICATED ATTACK TO
INTERFERE WITH THE PRESIDENTIAL
ELECTION TO GET THE FAVORITE
CANDIDATE INTO THE WHITE HOUSE
AND HE IN FACT GOT INTO THE
WHITE HOUSE.
WHITE HOUSE. WHEN IT COMES TO THAT BOTTOM
LINE, NOW THAT PRESIDENT TRUMP
IS PRAISING ROBERT MUELLER AS AN
HONORABLE MAN AND TALKING ABOUT
WHAT A GREAT COUNTRY THIS IS AND
EXPRESSING SUCH GREAT
SATISFACTION WITH WHAT BARR SAYS
ARE THE FINDINGS OF THE MUELLER
REPORT, DOES THIS MEAN THAT
PRESIDENT TRUMP AGREES WITH
MUELLER’S FINDINGS ABOUT RUSSIA
ATTACKING OUR ELECTION?
CAN WE EXPECT PRESIDENT TRUMP
AND THE TRUMP WHITE HOUSE TO
FINALLY ACCEPT THE UNDERLYING
FACTUAL RECORD THAT RUSSIA DID
IN FAK ATTACK-- FACT ATTACK US A
DON’T DO THAT TO ANOTHER COUNTRY
BECAUSE YOU’RE THEIR FRIEND?
I KNOW.
I KNOW. I’M GETTING CRAZY.
THE BARR REPORT HAS GIVEN US
JUST THIS WHIRLWIND OF
QUESTIONS.
QUESTIONS. I MEAN, THE MUELLER REPORT IF
AND WHEN WE SEE IT SHOULD ANSWER
MOST OF THEM BUT TICKTOCK.