WEBVTT - Taking on AOC 0:00:00.600 --> 0:00:03.159 All right, buckle up, glad you're with us. Happy Monday, 0:00:03.400 --> 0:00:05.640 and right down on toll free telephone number. You want 0:00:05.680 --> 0:00:08.920 to be a part of this extravaganza, it's eight hundred 0:00:08.920 --> 0:00:12.080 and nine four one sean if you want to join us. 0:00:12.880 --> 0:00:16.200 You know, you watch the deep state, You watch the 0:00:16.280 --> 0:00:20.160 people that have lied for over two years. You just 0:00:20.200 --> 0:00:22.360 watch them, You just listen to them, You just do 0:00:22.480 --> 0:00:28.480 the anticipation for what they think is massive, and you 0:00:28.680 --> 0:00:31.880 just begin to figure out that they don't have a thing. 0:00:33.120 --> 0:00:38.239 And I am predicting that. The only thing that I 0:00:38.280 --> 0:00:42.800 am somewhat concerned about is Mueller changes his mind all 0:00:42.800 --> 0:00:45.680 the time. Now, based on what Robert Mueller has said, 0:00:45.720 --> 0:00:50.400 he's going to stick to his report stand on the 0:00:50.520 --> 0:00:53.560 nature of the report he originally said as to part 0:00:53.600 --> 0:00:56.440 to the obstruction. First of all, you know, he went 0:00:56.520 --> 0:01:02.000 through great, great detail over how hard it is. You know, 0:01:02.280 --> 0:01:05.760 you just can't say somebody obstructive when there's no underlying crime. 0:01:06.600 --> 0:01:10.880 He was never denied anything. The White House publicly encouraged 0:01:10.920 --> 0:01:15.920 everybody to testify with all congressional investigations and with the 0:01:16.120 --> 0:01:20.759 Special Council investigation, and then of course the White House 0:01:20.800 --> 0:01:23.080 handed over one and a half million documents and the 0:01:23.080 --> 0:01:25.880 president himself answered questions, and it went on for two 0:01:25.920 --> 0:01:28.520 and a half plus years, and you would think that 0:01:28.640 --> 0:01:32.640 maybe at some point that we start getting to what 0:01:32.680 --> 0:01:35.240 the real crimes are here and all of the other 0:01:35.280 --> 0:01:38.559 important issues that they have purposely avoided. But at times 0:01:38.600 --> 0:01:41.600 you get frustrated. But I think that's all about to 0:01:41.680 --> 0:01:45.360 change this week. And I don't really care what any 0:01:45.360 --> 0:01:48.000 of these people like Adam Schiff have to say, or 0:01:48.040 --> 0:01:50.560 people like Jerry Nadler, because I don't think I think 0:01:50.600 --> 0:01:54.120 this is once again wishful thinking on their part. I mean, 0:01:54.160 --> 0:01:57.680 if you go back over the Muller report itself, what 0:01:57.760 --> 0:02:02.080 did it say? And this is the fourth investigation complete. 0:02:02.600 --> 0:02:06.160 Now they want investigations five, six, seven, eight, nine, and ten. 0:02:06.960 --> 0:02:11.120 But the FBI said, and you can quote Peter Struck 0:02:11.200 --> 0:02:14.520 of all people who hates Donald Trump, who thinks that 0:02:14.600 --> 0:02:17.639 Hillary should win one hundred million to zero, that had 0:02:17.680 --> 0:02:22.440 the insurance policy in place, and the guy that wrote 0:02:22.440 --> 0:02:26.600 the exoneration for Hillary before the investigation, the guy that 0:02:26.720 --> 0:02:29.280 was a part of the sham interrogation of Hillary where 0:02:29.680 --> 0:02:33.760 they actually allowed other people to be in the interrogation 0:02:33.880 --> 0:02:38.240 room at the time, and all of this special treatment 0:02:38.280 --> 0:02:41.680 they gave Hillary anyway, And and of course his you 0:02:41.720 --> 0:02:47.200 know the comments about Smellie Walmart Trump supporters. So this 0:02:47.280 --> 0:02:50.160 is a guy that also said and people forget, Yeah, 0:02:50.400 --> 0:02:54.079 there's no there there. And Lisa Page in closed door 0:02:54.160 --> 0:02:58.120 testimony when asked about well, the FBI nine month investigation 0:02:58.600 --> 0:03:03.040 before the appointment of Muller into any collusion, a conspiracy 0:03:03.120 --> 0:03:07.360 with Russia, well had to say, no, we had nothing. 0:03:07.960 --> 0:03:11.359 Those were her words. Then the House Intelligence Committee they 0:03:11.560 --> 0:03:14.640 had nothing, and you would think, well, maybe that would 0:03:14.680 --> 0:03:17.800 put it into this No, then Bipartisan Senate committee nothing. 0:03:18.560 --> 0:03:20.520 Let's go back to the Muller report. What are the 0:03:20.560 --> 0:03:24.440 words in the Muller report that the investigation, meaning the 0:03:24.520 --> 0:03:29.160 Muller investigation, this is their words, did not establish the 0:03:29.160 --> 0:03:34.960 Trump campaign coordinated with the Russian government in Russia's in 0:03:35.160 --> 0:03:40.680 its election interference activities. So what part of that is, 0:03:41.160 --> 0:03:43.360 you know, let's look at this here. What part of 0:03:43.440 --> 0:03:48.160 that don't people understand? Now we all know because we've 0:03:48.200 --> 0:03:53.000 interviewed many constitutional experts and attorneys on this program. And 0:03:53.200 --> 0:03:57.840 the president under Article two powers also had the ability 0:03:57.880 --> 0:04:00.640 to fire Muller any time that he wanted to fire Amoute. 0:04:00.720 --> 0:04:04.360 He didn't do it. Now, did the President complain? Yes? 0:04:04.880 --> 0:04:08.360 Did the President call it a witch hunt? Often? Was it, 0:04:08.480 --> 0:04:11.880 in the end proven to be true? No, it was 0:04:12.280 --> 0:04:16.479 President was screaming about his innocence. Turned out he was innocent, 0:04:16.960 --> 0:04:19.359 was frustrated at the amount of time that he and 0:04:19.440 --> 0:04:22.880 his team had to spend dealing with this, these trumped 0:04:22.920 --> 0:04:25.440 up charges. And I think, like a lot of us, 0:04:25.520 --> 0:04:28.200 have a lot of questions for Muller about the so 0:04:28.360 --> 0:04:35.000 called priority of his investigation. You know, how is it that? 0:04:35.760 --> 0:04:39.480 First the first most obvious question, mister Muller, when did 0:04:39.560 --> 0:04:43.960 you know what you ultimately put in your report that 0:04:44.080 --> 0:04:47.480 the Trump campaign that you couldn't establish that they coordinated 0:04:47.520 --> 0:04:50.800 with the Russian government in their election interference activities. When 0:04:50.839 --> 0:04:54.240 did you know once you knew that? Why did you 0:04:54.320 --> 0:04:58.239 keep going? Why then we just found this out last week? 0:04:58.640 --> 0:05:02.640 Did you pick somebody like Andrew Weissman If you read 0:05:02.720 --> 0:05:05.599 License to Lie by Sidney Powell, who is now General 0:05:05.640 --> 0:05:09.960 Flynn's attorney, Well, there are instances spelled out in specific 0:05:10.040 --> 0:05:18.520 details about how Weissman literally withheld exculpatory evidence. Any prosecutor 0:05:18.520 --> 0:05:21.600 will do that, will do that means that they do 0:05:21.720 --> 0:05:26.000 not care about the law. They don't care about truth. 0:05:26.720 --> 0:05:31.320 They only care about wins and losses. And some of 0:05:31.320 --> 0:05:33.719 them get so caught up in the winning and losing 0:05:33.760 --> 0:05:37.600 of the cases they forget about what their principal job is, 0:05:37.640 --> 0:05:41.080 which would be the administration of justice. And I think 0:05:41.120 --> 0:05:44.880 one of the harder questions that you know Mueller's going 0:05:44.920 --> 0:05:47.840 to have to answer is about Weisman. Why would you 0:05:47.960 --> 0:05:52.240 let this guy who is withheld exculpatory evidence, Why would 0:05:52.320 --> 0:05:57.280 he become your main guy? Why would you allow Weissman, 0:05:57.760 --> 0:06:01.160 who was at Hillary's victory party we learned last week 0:06:01.520 --> 0:06:05.040 end up hiring the people that ended up being the 0:06:05.080 --> 0:06:08.800 Special Council team, and not one of them was a Republican. 0:06:09.560 --> 0:06:12.720 Most of them had donated to only Democrats. So there's 0:06:12.760 --> 0:06:15.960 a political taint right from the get go. Why would 0:06:16.040 --> 0:06:21.440 you ever hire Jeannie Ray, who is Hillary Clinton's attorney? 0:06:21.440 --> 0:06:25.279 How would you set it up that way? Now you've 0:06:25.320 --> 0:06:29.359 had time, mister Muller, for fair investigations which are rarely 0:06:29.920 --> 0:06:35.880 rarely prosecuted, and loan applications that people light on, and 0:06:36.120 --> 0:06:39.960 tax violations that people cheated on taxes and years gone by, 0:06:40.040 --> 0:06:42.960 two very stupid things to do. By the way, as 0:06:42.960 --> 0:06:45.440 a side note to anybody out there, don't do it, 0:06:46.160 --> 0:06:48.560 it's against the law. Don't cheat on your taxes, it's 0:06:48.640 --> 0:06:52.400 against the law. Don't lie on a loan application. Okay, 0:06:52.400 --> 0:06:57.320 why did you have time for that? Farer violations, taxi medallions, 0:06:57.920 --> 0:07:01.240 But you didn't have time with the broad mandate possible 0:07:01.320 --> 0:07:05.039 to look at election and interference, especially Russian? How did 0:07:05.040 --> 0:07:08.120 you not and in any way shape manner of form. 0:07:08.839 --> 0:07:11.160 Want to get to the bottom of the fact that 0:07:11.240 --> 0:07:15.440 Hillary Clinton, the other candidate in this case, not only 0:07:15.920 --> 0:07:21.240 was exonerated when the evidence was overwhelming and incontrovertible, and 0:07:21.680 --> 0:07:25.160 other people have gone to jail for far less. Christian 0:07:25.200 --> 0:07:27.800 Saucier is the first name that comes to mind. He 0:07:27.920 --> 0:07:30.640 took six pictures of the submarine. But violation of the 0:07:30.760 --> 0:07:35.440 Espionage Act? How is it possible that Hillary Clinton had 0:07:35.480 --> 0:07:40.880 marked emails top secret classified special access programming information on 0:07:40.960 --> 0:07:47.080 an outside server, A clear, no ambiguity, clear compelling case 0:07:47.160 --> 0:07:50.040 of a violation of the Espionage Act. And then, of 0:07:50.040 --> 0:07:53.960 course any other American I would think that have subpoena emails, 0:07:54.000 --> 0:07:58.000 that deletes them, cleans the hard drives with bleach bit acid, 0:07:58.040 --> 0:08:01.120 washes them, and then busts up the devices just in 0:08:01.160 --> 0:08:05.040 case any of the evidence lingers and pull out sim cards. 0:08:05.320 --> 0:08:09.280 How was that not obstruction? How did you not investigate 0:08:09.920 --> 0:08:13.320 the dirty Russian dossier? There's a lot of legal issues 0:08:13.360 --> 0:08:17.160 associated with that, you know. Did they take campaign funds? 0:08:17.560 --> 0:08:20.120 Did they funnel it and tried to hide it as 0:08:20.400 --> 0:08:24.400 a legal expense when they knew that the law firm 0:08:24.440 --> 0:08:27.160 they hired, Perkins Cooeie was going to go out and 0:08:27.240 --> 0:08:31.560 hire an op research group Fusion GPS, that went out 0:08:31.600 --> 0:08:34.559 to hire a foreign national, and that in the end 0:08:34.559 --> 0:08:37.840 the foreign national and push came to Shove wouldn't even 0:08:37.880 --> 0:08:41.320 stand by his own dossier and set under oath under 0:08:41.360 --> 0:08:43.240 the threat of perjury that I have no idea if 0:08:43.240 --> 0:08:46.040 any of this is true? How would you not look 0:08:46.080 --> 0:08:49.160 at the fact that the first FISA application was signed 0:08:49.200 --> 0:08:52.880 in October twenty sixteen, and I'd like to know what 0:08:53.080 --> 0:08:58.000 part of that was not part of Russian interference? Considering 0:08:58.840 --> 0:09:05.680 that same information was leaked to conspiracy theorists and friendlies 0:09:05.720 --> 0:09:11.080 of the Democratic Party like Michael Izikoff, a left wing hack, 0:09:11.240 --> 0:09:14.120 or David Korn, a left wing hack, or the Washington Post. 0:09:14.559 --> 0:09:19.040 You know, obviously an anti Trump pro Hillary publication How 0:09:19.080 --> 0:09:22.320 could you not see that as interfering with Russian lies 0:09:22.360 --> 0:09:25.000 in the middle of an election. How do you not 0:09:25.160 --> 0:09:28.040 look at the fact that Andrew Weissman, your number one guy, 0:09:28.200 --> 0:09:32.560 was hanging out hopeful on election night at Hillary Clinton 0:09:32.600 --> 0:09:37.679 campaign headquarters. How do you ignore the fact that Weissman himself, 0:09:38.360 --> 0:09:41.560 that he himself was brief by Bruce Orr about the 0:09:41.600 --> 0:09:45.120 contents of the dirty dossier in August to twenty sixteen. 0:09:45.160 --> 0:09:47.560 But according to all accounts, you use that as a 0:09:47.640 --> 0:09:51.640 roadmap as part of your investigation, and in that meeting 0:09:51.679 --> 0:09:56.079 he was told Steel hates Trump, it's not verified, and 0:09:56.200 --> 0:09:59.559 Hillary paid for it, but they used in any way 0:10:00.320 --> 0:10:03.240 In fact, was it not a conflict of interest for you, 0:10:03.400 --> 0:10:07.120 mister Muller, when the day before Rod Rosenstein hired you 0:10:07.480 --> 0:10:11.400 as special counsel, you had interviewed with Donald Trump for 0:10:11.440 --> 0:10:14.640 the position of f Behind director and in that meeting 0:10:15.280 --> 0:10:19.040 you were told exactly why James Comey was fired. How 0:10:19.120 --> 0:10:21.959 is it possible, now that we know all of this 0:10:22.120 --> 0:10:28.000 information about Rush, about Ukrainians and their attempts to sway 0:10:28.120 --> 0:10:31.600 the American public and influence the election by digging up 0:10:31.600 --> 0:10:35.280 and providing dirt on Manafort and others, in Ukraine and 0:10:35.320 --> 0:10:37.800 they're offering all of that information. How did you ignore 0:10:37.880 --> 0:10:41.920 that aspect when you had the broadest mandate possible. You know, 0:10:41.960 --> 0:10:45.839 what do you know about this, Professor Massud? I think 0:10:45.920 --> 0:10:48.480 John Solomon's going to be talking about later this week. 0:10:49.120 --> 0:10:52.040 John Solomon has breaking news today and is going to 0:10:52.080 --> 0:10:54.480 break it on the program later. But we now find 0:10:54.480 --> 0:10:58.280 out that two weeks after being appointed, Andrew Weissman secretly 0:10:58.320 --> 0:11:01.720 offered a plea deal to a oligarch by the name 0:11:01.760 --> 0:11:06.480 of Dmitri Firtash. And this is only two weeks into 0:11:06.480 --> 0:11:10.880 the investigation into your being hired. And you also apparently 0:11:11.000 --> 0:11:14.240 subcontracted out the hiring of all of your staff to 0:11:14.280 --> 0:11:18.240 Andrew Weisman with his atrocious track record. And anyway, we 0:11:18.280 --> 0:11:20.840 didn't know before the d details of all of this. 0:11:20.880 --> 0:11:23.000 I'll let John Solomon tell you about at the top 0:11:23.000 --> 0:11:26.040 of the next hour, But people with direct knowledge of 0:11:26.080 --> 0:11:30.160 all of this that the deal was a really sweet 0:11:30.320 --> 0:11:33.400 deal that would have been made for this Ukrainian oligarch 0:11:33.480 --> 0:11:37.319 that would have served multiple purposes and would have had 0:11:37.320 --> 0:11:40.960 a lot of consequences. And you know what part of 0:11:40.960 --> 0:11:44.640 that didn't you want to investigate or understand if the 0:11:44.679 --> 0:11:49.240 mandate was about interference, Well, why not Ukrainian interference? If 0:11:49.240 --> 0:11:52.200 the mandate was about Russian interference? How do you not 0:11:52.280 --> 0:11:54.600 want to know about the Russian dossier that was leaked 0:11:54.600 --> 0:11:57.440 to the public before the election? If you don't if 0:11:57.440 --> 0:12:00.200 you want to know about Russian interference? As the New 0:12:00.280 --> 0:12:04.560 York Times characterizes the dirty Clinton bought and paid for 0:12:04.720 --> 0:12:08.880 dossier as Russian disinformation from the get go, and then 0:12:08.920 --> 0:12:13.280 that Russian disinformation from the get go was used to 0:12:13.320 --> 0:12:16.240 obtain a FISA warrant to spy on an American citizen 0:12:16.880 --> 0:12:20.240 and then spy on all things Trump campaign, Trump transition, 0:12:20.320 --> 0:12:24.400 Trump presidency. How did you ignore that part of the 0:12:24.480 --> 0:12:28.400 investigation as well? You know, as it relates to the dossier. 0:12:28.520 --> 0:12:31.120 You know, you have a lot of questions to answer here. 0:12:31.840 --> 0:12:34.480 And what about a conflict of interest? Are you not 0:12:34.600 --> 0:12:37.960 a witness even in your own case? And does the 0:12:38.000 --> 0:12:40.920 president under Article two powers did he not have the 0:12:40.960 --> 0:12:44.280 power to fire you if he wanted to? And why 0:12:44.280 --> 0:12:48.120 didn't you sign any of the FISA warrants after you 0:12:48.160 --> 0:12:50.320 were appointed? You would have had the ability to at 0:12:50.360 --> 0:12:53.520 least sign the third renewal the fourth FISA warrant, but 0:12:53.920 --> 0:12:56.320 that ended up in the hands of Rod Rosenstein. How 0:12:56.320 --> 0:13:00.480 did that happen? Who wrote this report? What is the motive? 0:13:00.920 --> 0:13:03.960 How do you get to obstruction when there's no underlying crime? 0:13:04.480 --> 0:13:06.760 How do you not look into the other candidates and 0:13:07.040 --> 0:13:11.600 Russian interference with Hillary and direct interference and direct payments 0:13:11.679 --> 0:13:14.440 and direct lies that were told the American people before 0:13:14.440 --> 0:13:18.360 the election. How do you not look into that Russian 0:13:18.440 --> 0:13:24.160 disinformation leading to a countertelligence investigation against Donald Trump then 0:13:24.240 --> 0:13:28.280 candidate transition member and everything else. How did you feel 0:13:28.360 --> 0:13:32.439 about James Comey? Did he violate the Espionage Act by 0:13:32.720 --> 0:13:36.960 leaking intelligence in order to get you appointed? I mean, 0:13:37.040 --> 0:13:39.040 as I have a ton of questions we'll get into 0:13:39.120 --> 0:13:41.880 later in the program for Comy. All of it is 0:13:41.880 --> 0:13:45.720 out there, all of it is available. And Muller's team, 0:13:46.240 --> 0:13:49.880 you know, they're looking for some type of agreement. Well, 0:13:49.920 --> 0:13:55.319 we have the evidence. Your report said that your investigation 0:13:55.400 --> 0:13:58.960 did not establish, and I'm quoting to verbatim that the 0:13:59.000 --> 0:14:02.360 Trump campaign coordinated with the Russian government in these in 0:14:02.480 --> 0:14:07.000 their interference activities. Okay, that means he's exonerated. Well, then 0:14:07.040 --> 0:14:09.640 how do the Democrats then go to interpret what it 0:14:09.679 --> 0:14:12.240 is you're saying now? When I read and I see 0:14:12.880 --> 0:14:15.960 you're you know you you yourself point out in the 0:14:16.000 --> 0:14:19.400 second part of the report, how there was you know, 0:14:19.880 --> 0:14:23.640 not really a motive anyway. Eight hundred nine four one 0:14:23.640 --> 0:14:25.040 seawan is a number you want to be a part 0:14:25.040 --> 0:14:28.680 of the program. Now we also have this ongoing battle. 0:14:29.120 --> 0:14:32.760 All right, First it's stormy, stormy, and it's Russia, Russia. 0:14:32.800 --> 0:14:36.240 Then it's collusion, collusion, then it's s wholes whole. Now 0:14:36.280 --> 0:14:39.600 it's racist, racist thousands of times a second. That's all 0:14:39.600 --> 0:14:41.960 the media says. And I'm just going to lay out 0:14:41.960 --> 0:14:44.280 the history. This is all they ever do in campaigns 0:14:44.280 --> 0:14:47.360 and at other times, you know, you just read the headline. 0:14:47.400 --> 0:14:51.600 I mean, they're raising expectations so high. Yes, I believe 0:14:51.800 --> 0:14:55.320 this reaches the level of high crimes and misdevenors. Nadler 0:14:55.520 --> 0:15:00.000 is saying, could begin impeachment proceedings substantive evidence the Trump 0:15:00.040 --> 0:15:04.240 up is guilty of these things, and shifts saying he 0:15:04.280 --> 0:15:08.400 believes Trump can be indicted. So the Democrats are probably 0:15:08.400 --> 0:15:11.040 going to focus on five things that is in the 0:15:11.120 --> 0:15:14.280 report on the obstruction side. Okay, well, they didn't find 0:15:14.320 --> 0:15:16.480 obstruction to the point where they felt that they could 0:15:16.520 --> 0:15:20.200 recommend anything all right, he directed the White House Council 0:15:20.280 --> 0:15:24.680 to fire Muller, while the president and every ability himself 0:15:24.760 --> 0:15:28.120 to fire Muller. It makes no sense or that Corey 0:15:28.200 --> 0:15:33.440 Lewandowski that the you know, former campaign chief asked Sessions 0:15:33.480 --> 0:15:36.240 to reassert control. Why did he give up control in 0:15:36.280 --> 0:15:39.960 the first place. The President complained about that publicly and 0:15:40.280 --> 0:15:44.240 while witnessed tampering to discourage Manaport and Kohn from cooperate. 0:15:44.360 --> 0:15:47.680 Just the opposite happened, because everybody ended up cooperating in 0:15:47.680 --> 0:15:50.920 the end. And if the President has the ability and 0:15:51.400 --> 0:15:55.680 power and authority under Article two to fire Mueller, none 0:15:55.680 --> 0:15:58.520 of it's significant because he didn't do it. I'll explain, 0:16:00.320 --> 0:16:02.120 all right, glad you when US twenty five till the 0:16:02.400 --> 0:16:05.400 top of the hour, we have John Solomon breaking news 0:16:05.440 --> 0:16:10.280 on Andrew Weissman's bad behavior, and it raises a lot 0:16:10.400 --> 0:16:12.080 of questions that I think will be coming up in 0:16:12.120 --> 0:16:14.760 the hearings this week. Look, Iron York has a great, 0:16:14.920 --> 0:16:17.280 great piece out. We'll put it up on Hannity dot com. 0:16:17.320 --> 0:16:21.040 Democrats think they've got a slam dunk obstruction case against Trump, 0:16:21.080 --> 0:16:25.160 and they don't when you really get to the nuts 0:16:25.280 --> 0:16:29.040 and bolts of all of this. I remember, there's gonna 0:16:29.040 --> 0:16:32.560 be two hearings this week. One is the in the 0:16:32.640 --> 0:16:37.160 Judiciary Committee in the House Intelligence Committee, Judiciary will focus 0:16:37.320 --> 0:16:42.080 on volume two of the report, the so called obstruction Analysis, 0:16:42.200 --> 0:16:45.000 where they did not well by the way they covered 0:16:45.000 --> 0:16:50.360 allegations of obstruction, and the first volume is going to 0:16:50.440 --> 0:16:55.960 be pursued by the Intelligence Committee. Conspiracy coordination. Well, that's 0:16:56.160 --> 0:16:58.560 we already know the answer to that, because we actually 0:16:58.640 --> 0:17:01.720 have the Muller Report, and it couldn't be more clear, 0:17:01.760 --> 0:17:03.920 because they say over and over again they did not 0:17:04.080 --> 0:17:07.439 establish in any way, shape, matter of form that in 0:17:07.520 --> 0:17:12.159 fact the president ever or his campaign ever coordinated with 0:17:12.200 --> 0:17:14.680 the Russians. All right, So that part was always removed 0:17:14.680 --> 0:17:17.760 from the get go. Then the questions, we know, the 0:17:17.800 --> 0:17:20.840 Democrats on the Intel Committee, how are they going to 0:17:21.040 --> 0:17:27.200 establish conspiracy of coordination when the Mueller Report decisively says that, 0:17:27.320 --> 0:17:31.360 in fact, the president did not do that. Okay? Issue one. 0:17:32.240 --> 0:17:35.600 Then it's interesting, as Byron York points out, that the 0:17:35.640 --> 0:17:40.520 Democrats want to focus on five specific episodes of that 0:17:40.600 --> 0:17:44.000 they say would prove obstruction, which, of course the Office 0:17:44.040 --> 0:17:47.480 of Legal Counsel, the Attorney General, and the Deputy Attorney 0:17:47.520 --> 0:17:50.879 General at the time, Rod Rosenstein determined never happened, and 0:17:51.000 --> 0:17:54.200 that is that, well, Trump told White House counsel Don 0:17:54.280 --> 0:17:59.320 McGann to fire Muller and then publicly lie about it. Well, 0:17:59.400 --> 0:18:03.040 Don McGann never fired Robert Muller, nor did the president. 0:18:03.600 --> 0:18:09.640 Numerous constitutional scholars point out that the President also brought 0:18:09.680 --> 0:18:13.240 in very specific reasons why he might be fired, which 0:18:13.320 --> 0:18:16.280 was his conflicts of interest, of which there were many, 0:18:16.840 --> 0:18:18.719 not the least of which as they had a personal 0:18:18.760 --> 0:18:21.200 issue going back years ago related to a golf club. 0:18:21.200 --> 0:18:23.960 And number two was, well, the day before he got 0:18:24.000 --> 0:18:27.080 hired as special counsel, he was applying for the job 0:18:27.080 --> 0:18:30.800 as FBI director, and Trump said no, and it would 0:18:30.800 --> 0:18:33.320 then make him a witness in his own case. And 0:18:33.520 --> 0:18:37.840 I don't think that that's gonna fly very well. Or 0:18:37.880 --> 0:18:41.440 the fact that maybe Corey Lewandowski was asking Jeff Sessions, 0:18:41.480 --> 0:18:43.840 you know, because Jeff Sessions at the time, remember we 0:18:43.920 --> 0:18:47.679 told you, cited the wrong statute and the wrong law 0:18:48.320 --> 0:18:52.280 justifying his recusal. Greg Jarrett was the one to broke 0:18:52.359 --> 0:18:57.200 that wide open. And again, well, it never happened. When 0:18:57.240 --> 0:19:00.520 the initial resignation letter from Jeff Sessions came in, the 0:19:00.520 --> 0:19:03.240 President did not accept it, and he remained on as 0:19:03.280 --> 0:19:07.400 the Attorney General. But what's not there, as Byron York 0:19:07.480 --> 0:19:12.240 points out, is the evidence that's not included in the 0:19:12.280 --> 0:19:15.880 Democrats report, or what their choice of evidence that they're 0:19:15.920 --> 0:19:18.840 not going to be including in this particular case, and 0:19:18.920 --> 0:19:22.040 that is that the firing of Comy. You know, well, 0:19:22.080 --> 0:19:26.399 that was their first big issue as possible obstruction. That 0:19:26.840 --> 0:19:29.800 is not going to be in the Democrats what the 0:19:29.840 --> 0:19:33.639 Democrats are highlighting. Nor are the conversations with Trump and 0:19:33.760 --> 0:19:36.399 Comy that Comy wrote up in his famous report and 0:19:36.440 --> 0:19:40.000 his famous memos. Probably the Democrats have even figured out 0:19:40.000 --> 0:19:42.120 what we figured out is James Comey has a lot 0:19:42.160 --> 0:19:45.119 of explaining to do himself, in spite of him sending 0:19:45.119 --> 0:19:47.000 out a list of his own questions to try and 0:19:47.040 --> 0:19:50.920 help the Democrats in their efforts this week. Anyway, Nor 0:19:51.000 --> 0:19:55.240 is the president's efforts to talk about the public story 0:19:55.400 --> 0:19:59.879 that about the Trump Tower meeting. Yet the incident was 0:20:00.040 --> 0:20:03.760 often characterize his obstruction. They're not bringing that up either, apparently, 0:20:04.600 --> 0:20:09.080 And the Mueller investigation was not obstructed by anybody, It's 0:20:09.080 --> 0:20:12.760 a matter of fact. Publicly, the President and his team 0:20:13.560 --> 0:20:16.480 made it known to everybody that they want everyone to 0:20:16.520 --> 0:20:21.560 cooperate with congressional investigations and with the Special Council investigation. Well, 0:20:21.600 --> 0:20:24.040 that kind of takes that narrative and blows it out 0:20:24.080 --> 0:20:27.160 of the water. Or it's important to recall Muller could 0:20:27.240 --> 0:20:31.320 never establish an underlying crime. He would that's what he 0:20:31.359 --> 0:20:34.199 was supposed to investigate. That was supposed to be the 0:20:34.240 --> 0:20:36.480 core of all of this. He was going to investigate 0:20:36.880 --> 0:20:40.639 whether or not Donald Trump, in fact and his campaign 0:20:40.680 --> 0:20:43.840 conspired against the Russians. Well, again, I'll read from the 0:20:43.920 --> 0:20:47.000 Mueller report. It said that the investigation did not establish 0:20:47.080 --> 0:20:51.240 that the Trump campaign coordinated with the Russian government. So 0:20:51.440 --> 0:20:53.760 that can't be any more clear than what you have 0:20:53.800 --> 0:20:56.240 here if you don't have an underlying crime. That's one 0:20:56.280 --> 0:20:59.360 of my big issues. Hillary was guilty of an underlying 0:20:59.400 --> 0:21:04.000 crime Espionage Act. Hillary was guilty of real obstruction when 0:21:04.040 --> 0:21:07.119 she deleted its subpoena at emails, and then the bleach 0:21:07.160 --> 0:21:09.080 bit and then the hammers and then the sim cards 0:21:09.119 --> 0:21:14.200 are gone out of nowhere. So Mueller could never establish 0:21:14.240 --> 0:21:18.480 the underlying crime in Hillary's case. You could the fact 0:21:18.560 --> 0:21:21.239 that they're the same players, and that we found out 0:21:21.320 --> 0:21:25.000 from the first Inspector General report that those players hated 0:21:25.080 --> 0:21:29.480 Donald Trump, that they actively worked to help save Hillary 0:21:29.520 --> 0:21:32.760 Clinton in her campaign by not applying the law equally, 0:21:33.400 --> 0:21:36.880 that they ignored real obstruction of justice. I would think 0:21:36.880 --> 0:21:41.280 that Republicans at different points during these hearings are going 0:21:41.359 --> 0:21:43.160 to bring all of this out and ask, well, why 0:21:43.240 --> 0:21:47.159 wasn't that important? Now? The Mueller Report also included a 0:21:47.240 --> 0:21:51.679 lengthy section in Part two, quote legal defenses to the 0:21:51.720 --> 0:21:55.960 application of obstruction of justice statutes to the President. Now 0:21:55.960 --> 0:22:03.200 that includes extraordinarily compelling arguments. Again, the reports owned instances 0:22:03.280 --> 0:22:07.119 where they say obstruction could have occurred. Well, if you 0:22:07.200 --> 0:22:11.480 can't prove an underlying crime, and you can't and you 0:22:11.600 --> 0:22:15.679 have the legal defenses and what the law actually requires 0:22:15.720 --> 0:22:19.720 to prove such, well, then you run into massive legal problems. 0:22:19.800 --> 0:22:23.000 But Byron York points out this is not a legal proceeding, 0:22:23.040 --> 0:22:26.480 it's a political one, and that most of these lawmakers 0:22:26.480 --> 0:22:28.600 are dumb and don't know the law it, you know, 0:22:28.640 --> 0:22:30.680 as we saw even over the weekends saying well what 0:22:30.720 --> 0:22:32.679 are the high crimes and misdemeans? They don't know what 0:22:32.680 --> 0:22:36.399 the high crimes and misdemeans are because there hasn't been 0:22:36.480 --> 0:22:39.760 any you know, everything we heard this weekend from Nadler 0:22:39.800 --> 0:22:41.560 and Shift. They've been saying for two and a half 0:22:41.680 --> 0:22:44.439 years that we've got all this evidence, but they've not 0:22:44.480 --> 0:22:46.920 been able to produce any of it, And I doubt 0:22:46.960 --> 0:22:49.720 they're going to be able to produce it in one 0:22:49.800 --> 0:22:52.359 day worth the hearings, one before Shift's committee and the 0:22:52.359 --> 0:22:55.520 other before Nadler's committee. And I also think once the 0:22:55.600 --> 0:22:59.359 Republicans dig down deep into what has not been looked 0:22:59.359 --> 0:23:02.000 at by mull, it's gonna make Mueller look pretty political. 0:23:02.600 --> 0:23:04.280 And I'm not sure Mueller is going to have the 0:23:04.320 --> 0:23:07.640 ability to answer a lot of these important questions, especially 0:23:07.680 --> 0:23:11.400 about the dirty Russian dossier and the impact that had 0:23:11.440 --> 0:23:14.679 on the twenty sixteen elections, and then the FIA abuse. 0:23:14.760 --> 0:23:17.959 How did you not investigate the fact that Russian lives 0:23:18.080 --> 0:23:21.960 were used as the basis of four separate FISA applications 0:23:22.000 --> 0:23:25.359 that resulted in spying on the Trump campaign, the Trump transition, 0:23:25.400 --> 0:23:28.800 and the Trump presidency. So one of the things that 0:23:29.760 --> 0:23:34.840 our friend Byron York concludes is that you know, legal 0:23:34.880 --> 0:23:39.560 analysis may dominate, cable TV coverage is not going to 0:23:39.640 --> 0:23:43.320 really apply, and that the president's defenders will make common 0:23:43.400 --> 0:23:48.399 sense defenses that do make sense to the American people 0:23:49.000 --> 0:23:52.280 that are not lawyers. So whatever legal argument they might 0:23:52.320 --> 0:23:57.359 be making, you know, is based on nuance and constitutional understanding. 0:23:57.640 --> 0:24:00.360 And then Mueller has a problem of Widdy ten three 0:24:00.400 --> 0:24:04.800 separate positions on why he didn't make a final determination 0:24:04.880 --> 0:24:07.720 on obstruction. First, he said it had nothing to do 0:24:07.800 --> 0:24:11.880 with DJ policy or constitutional considerations about whether you can 0:24:12.000 --> 0:24:14.800 or cannot indict a sitting president. So that's going to 0:24:14.840 --> 0:24:18.000 become an issue, you know. The Mueller report contends the 0:24:18.000 --> 0:24:24.080 president's behavior changed. In June of twenty seventeen, Washington Post 0:24:24.160 --> 0:24:27.400 reports that Muller less than a month in office, investigating 0:24:27.440 --> 0:24:31.159 Trump for obstruction, and Mueller suggesting that Trump began to 0:24:31.240 --> 0:24:35.160 obstruct the investigation. Well, that narrative is countered by one 0:24:35.200 --> 0:24:38.359 and a half million documents handed over and a public 0:24:38.400 --> 0:24:43.600 declaration encouraging everybody to cooperate and anybody that's subpoenaed to 0:24:43.600 --> 0:24:46.399 go see the Special Council or go to whatever congressional 0:24:46.400 --> 0:24:50.520 investigation is ongoing. No, but not one time was executive 0:24:50.520 --> 0:24:54.200 privilege ever invoked, or the idea that the president told 0:24:54.240 --> 0:24:57.520