there should be a special prosecutor just as we had robert muller is a special prosecutor, a connection with the russian investigation after the 2016 election. unfortunately, the dust department has not yet appointed a special prosecutor. and without one attorney, john garland will ultimately have to make those decisions for friends. richard painters always, it's good to get your valuable insights on this and no, because put context around something that is important to the future of american democracy. thank you. thank you very much. sir, ah, or from the interaction at the capital 2 stopping gun violence across america, the u. s. senate is under pressure to follow the u. s. house and pass a series of new gun safety restrictions, but republican senators will probably stand in the way of the measures. they include raising the age to buy certain semi automatic fire arms from 18 to 21. the legislation comes after another series of mass shootings in buffalo, new york, 10 african americans were gun down and a racially motivated attack. and 10 days later in you've all the texas. a gunman mass

s muller of being. a fishing expedition that's gon on for an extended. mac of time without surfacing anything that aids the central case. your response to that, jim? >> that's a pretty predictable response. there's going to be a clamoring that somehow john durham is a political actor and this is a rejection of him. i am with john here and that it was really lost in the jury selection. if the judge puts a bias juror on the pool that is hurting the defendant's interest, there's a safety valve of appeal. they can appeal it. we saw a temporary reversal of the boston marathon bomber and jury selection grounds. if they get bad jurors because they are political partisans an they get an acquittal, they are done. that is how this played out. there were some jurors that got on and they were campaign donors , which is a nightmare for durham said he had one that sai he would try to be fair, which are very hollow words. i don't see them betting the verdict for where he goes. he may still have things to do with the f

. >> how does this special council investigation compare to the earlier, much earlier robert muller special council investigation. >> well, you know, the former president, president trump wanted a lot from john durham, wanted his political enemies sent to prison, said the deep state was against him and wanted those consequences brought against those people. none of that has happened, durham spent three years on this investigation, $3.8 million, one guilty plea, this, today, an acquittal and has one more case set for october, by comparison, multipler spent just under two years, a year and 10 months, $32 million and had a number of guilty pleas and convictions, including the former campaign chairman for trump's campaign, paul mannerford, gates, a number of people were a part of that case if you remember so for the former president i'm sure a lot of disappointment in what happened today. >> thank you very much, evan perez reporting for us. thanks very much, i'm wolf blitzer "the situation room," erin burnett "outfront" starts right now. >>> "outfront" next, the shocking admission from texas of

they have been working in quiet and for all the people that put their faith in robert muller that came up with a report that was deflated, came up with testimony that was even -- the sequel was even worse than the original report. there was no there. and it's turning out now, ainsley, they were sending out marketing messages. everybody knows that if there was -- the real interference that happened in 2016 were the phony media polls showing hillary winning it running away and what i call media interference. it was a more high minded ivy league education. ivy league educated collusion. it was real, telling you that donald trump did that was a joke. she had would-be cabinet members already buying houses in d.c. liked at one when i bought a house. >> ainsley: i don't remember the substance of the conversation but the discussion was hey, we have this and we want to share this with a reporter and she agreed to decimate -- or to disseminate this to the media and he said that. what are the consequences for her? >> robby was the 2016 campaign manager for donald trump. mook texted me the night b

thomas muller got two of his own on a comfortable night for the six—time champions. meanwhile, premier league matches will no longer be screened in russia, following the country's invasion of neighbouring ukraine. all 20 flights clubs unanimously agreed at a meeting in london today. 0urfootball reporter simon stone has the details. the premier league clubs, all 20 clubs, have met for four hours today. but i'm told there was just 15 minutes of discussion around the russia situation, and basically, it was just to agree that the broadcast of premier league games into russia will be suspended with immediate effect. so, the four games that take place on thursday will not be shown in russia, and neither will the matches at the weekend. so the decision has been made, there were no dissenting voices. in addition, the premier league has agreed to donate £1 million to the disasters emergency committee to provide humanitarian aid into ukraine, and it also repeated that it strongly condemns what it describes as a russian invasion of ukraine and repeats its call for peace. wales

thomas muller got two of his own on a comfortable night for the six—time champions. meanwhile, premier league matches will no longer be screened in russia, following the country's invasion of neighbouring ukraine. all 20 flights clubs unanimously agreed at a meeting in london today. ourfootball reporter simon stone has the details. the premier league clubs, all 20 clubs have met for four hours today. i'm told there was just 15 minutes of discussion around the russia situation, and basically it was just to agree that the broadcaster premier league games into russia will be suspended with immediate effect. so the four games that take place on thursday will not be shown in russia, and neither will the matches at the weekend. so the decision has been made, there were no dissenting voices. in addition, the premier league has agreed to donate £1 million to the disasters emergency committee to provide humanitarian aid into ukraine, and it also repeated that it strongly condemns what it describes as a russian invasion of ukraine and repeats its call for peace. wales' world

muller iii and to impeachment. despite of swirl of new investigations since he left office, the former president remains the dominant force in republican politics. i mean in fairness, we are learning new things that we didn't know during the impeachment. what's the point here, that we're not learning new things that fundamentally change anyone's thinking about what happened? we just have more details about what we already know? >> well, in many ways, i think january 6th maybe one of the most important historical events certainly to happen in my lifetime. you know, that i've witnessed. in other ways, you know, and because of that, we need to learn as much as we can about it, how did it happen, who was behind it, who were the intellectual people coming up with the underpin cans of it, the plans of it. and who was executing things, how did this all happen. how did thousands of people end up on the steps of the capitol in a violent, in a violent attack that led to deaths, and to the interruption of one of the most sacr

now c-span can play a vital role in thishe by just questioning t whole investigation of robert muller and even put that forth to the whole so-called impeachment oret whatever was being tried against trump, put h kavanau into that mix, in fact, greta, let me say this and i loved your program since 1979 when i i was home on leave so ts goes back a way and with brian lamb of course, but we got to get down to honesty in our country, the liberal side of this country has control of the media, and we're going to have to figure out a way to get through that propaganda. your whole network had a fellow that i did q respect, i think h name was steve. he was m even involved in like e debates, on the questioning, bring on tony blubinski. you have more than enough evidence to realize without the russia gate, robert muller, all ofof those things, donald trump would have been thehe president. we wouldn't even be talking about biden right now. this is obvious, this is beyond belief. bring on tony bubelinski, let's get to the bottom t of this. we've weaponized the intelligence agencies in the united st

according to a review of special council, robert muller's $448.00 page investigative report, which is no surprise considering the dossier creator of course, diverse peel was paid with money from the hilary campaign. and the d. n. c. the 2nd scandal was in russia, supposedly paid for facebook ad to help from get elected, also been debunked. the clicked a company that they accused was not connected to the russian government. over half of the ad only were only shown after the election was over. and most of the ones that were shown before the election did not clearly promote donald trump so quietly when no one was looking, robert lawler dropped the charges against the russian internet firms due to lack of evidence. so that leaves only the 3rd tent pole of russia, gate the internally in the emails that were leaked through wiki leaks and revealed all kinds of corruption in the dnc and the clinton campaign. the emails are real. absolutely real. never proven to be here any, anything but authentic. so when this happens in 2016, the democratic party blames russia. they say russia hacked their s

robert muller's dropped the charges against the russian internet firms due to lack of evidence. so that leaves only the 3rd tent pole of russia gate, the internally emails that were leaked through wiki leaks and revealed all kinds of corruption in the dnc and the clinton campaign. the emails are real. absolutely real. never proven that we have any anything but authentic. so when this happens in 2016, the democratic party blamed russia. they say russia hacked their servers and got the e mails. but who actually proved that you can't just say it russian hacker, you have to prove it. rockers tow grooved it the f b i right. the moment the dns he called and said, oh my goodness william jesus, mary jones, have we been hacked? the f. b. i came down on of mission impossible, rob, right into the dnc headquarters, dance tanked and tannic time. thank diana, and i secured the perimeter and other expressions used by law enforcement. and then they proved that the hacking was done by their dirty rations. then they proved this by examining the dnc computer servers, the actual scene of the crime.

although the donkey wasn't actually debunked by special council robert muller's investigation, trump elements continue to reference and now steal has spoken out about it after pending the report, while also admitting that it's not completely accurate, said, well, be interviewed in the documentary out of the shadows, the man, behind the steel dossier, the former spite, insisted that a claim he made about trumps self described fixer michael cohen was true, that i feel like said that coin had a secret meeting on russian officials in prague in 2016. however cohen denied the claim and the f. b, i found no evidence of the meeting. when asked about the accusation in the documentary still said, i'm prepared to accept that not everything in the data is 100 percent accurate. i have yet to be convinced that that is one of them. and when it comes to the infamous hotel tape with trump steel has said the tape probably exists. and for those who don't believe him, he says, prove me wrong, although no one other than steal has said that they've seen the tape. he has an answer for that. steel said, it

but a year later investigation led by special prosecutor robert muller concluded there was insufficient evidence to prosecute the president. the special councils investigation did not find that the trump campaign or any one associated with it, conspired or coordinated with russia in its efforts to influence the 2016 u. s. presidential election. thomas renewed attack on the liberal newspapers comes weeks after a damning revelation against the democrats and the russia. good case. last month, the former clinton campaign lawyer was indicted on charges of lying to the f. b i. when talking about alleged links between russia, trump, and that moscow and washington, and we discussed this with legal analyst at jennifer, the master. well, it surprised you what it was their own entity, so they could vote these awards. they can issue a statement, retracting their formal statements or former statements. it could accurately state that their prior award was based on what's clearly now been reported by actual legal sources as misinformation. so they could do all of these things, but the question is, wil

>> robert s. muller the third has been examining two chief questions. ties between donald trump's campaign and russia and whether trump as president has tried to obstruct that investigation. >> i don't know if i can explain it as well as i did before. >> if they get a report from the justice department, they will likely, certainly take impeachment seriously if not begin an impeachment process against the president.hm >> sean: they reported lie after lie after lie.e. they spewed conspiracy theory after conspiracy theory, and as we speak, "the new york times," the washington correspondent maggie haberman covers donald trump nearly, get thisor nine times more than the current president joe biden. when are they going to stop giving joe and hunter the benefit of the doubt, to quote them? it's completely insane. they stalk donald trump, they still stalk donald trump and they kiss the ass of and protect joe biden and his crack addict son hunter. p he's in the oval office and joe is in the oval office, maybe it's time to start doing your job. "the new york time

he pressured don to fire then special counsel robert muller. he resisted and that was at the core of the obstruction of justice investigation into former president trump. former national security advisor john bolton spoke to jim acosta about this on sunday. here is his take. >> i'm prepared to believe the worst. i think we're operating in a -- >> what does that mean the worst? >> that trump would attempt to do things for political purposes and subvert the course of justice. we're still operating in a large fact vacuum here. >> reporter: democratic lawmakers are calling for the top justice officials to come to the hill and testify. they want to hear from attorney general jeff sessions, rod rosen stein. they want to hear from bill barr and head of the national security division john demurs. they can make requests for any of the officials. former and current to come and testify voluntarily. if they refuse, they could issue subpoenas, though in the senate it would likely require the support of at least one republican on the panel. but if any of the

in germany has been this league a byron munich striker robert lewandowsky has equalled the record for most goals in a season he scored the best penalty against freiburg for his 40th of the campaign to draw level with the legendary guard muller which the feet 49 years ago lewandowsky has the chance to break the record in the final league game of the season next saturday. well the late basketball legend kobe bryant has been inducted into the n.b.a. hall of fame michael jordan presented the award to bryant's widow and daughter it's a star studded class including tim duncan and kevin garnett kobe bryant died in a helicopter crash last year along with one of his daughters and 7 others. you once told me if you're going to bet on someone bet on yourself i'm glad you've been on your stuff you overachiever. you did it you're in the hall of fame now. champ you're not just an m.v.p. you're an all time great. i'm so proud of you i love you forever and always. being right. was also a memorable day for basketball in africa with the launch of a new league backed by the n.b.a. 12 teams from across th

crimes related to the robert muller investigation klim was back in the white house egging trump on talking about calling for martial law to overturn the results of a redo of the election when was talking about so yes there there were clear indications that this very bizarre q and on conspiracy call reached right into the oval office during trump presidency michel just a final thought to you i mean how much does this case do you think expose the deep phone lines within the republican party itself because many see this as a battle for the very soul of the g.o.p. . it is and that that's clearly a factor of what's going on and and you know kevin mccarthy has been trying to balance the various members of his caucus there you know he's got a hard core of pro tromp membership in the house republican caucus they wanted to strip liz cheney of her position as chair of the house republican conference that's 3 position for republicans in the house because she voted to impeach donald trump now mccarthy was able to dodge that bullet he had a secret ballot and a majority of republicans voted to retain li

military personnel to the border to perform a police action on the brain and robert muller. what a stupid question. what a stupid but i want you a lot of us got a lot of snow right some thinking very. hills will start another fire over here today to move us off this fire i think it was monday or tuesday i listed 10 or 11 issues that we went through in the course of one day 11 of them would have been a huge story in a previous administration and some of them get lost because just you get rolled up . i call it the chaos but yeah and i'm always shocked by the continued shock about donald trump this has been his entire adult life has been run this way and he has read his yeah. will be out in the rose garden where the president is going to appear for the national day of prayer he may or may not take questions he's not going to take a question now but will show up because it might be our only chance to see the president today to get a question to ask. ladies and gentlemen the president of the united states that history. people are so proud to be using that beautiful word. and hidi

muller in his investigation of the president could not conclude that there was actual collusion between russia and the president's campaign even though it said there was a lot of overlap and some very bad decisions in terms of donald trump jr and other members of the family in a campaign being in contact with officials in russia so this is donald trump's outgoing effort to legitimize his original election 4 years ago john and we've been hearing all week about trump possibly granting dozens of pardons before he leaves office what's the. well that's what we know so far we know that he has been willing to use pardons in the past in order to help his friends in allies he has either commuted the sentences of or pardon people like roger stone like joe beneforti people who have been convicted of crimes for aiding the president and some of those who have been related to russia is well so this is another effort by the president to try to legitimize his presidency by trying to free these people and who knows who he is going to pardon at this point but we are told on sources that the white house d

yes certainly the pardons in connection with the robert muller investigation are russian and in fairness and the election we have several people who were material witnesses in that investigation including michael fay and george george papadopoulos roger stone and now with force have modified or for all been barking and it appears that their pardon for keeping their mouth shut and none of them turned over evidence of significant value to robert muller they did not cooperate with the investigation. even though michael flynn promised to cooperate with the investigation and the bottom line is that the president in our studies does have the right to pardon anyone he wants but he cannot take a bribe in return for apartment any come up pardons someone in order to keep them not talking with the investigators to keep their mouth shut that's obstruction of justice if it is proven that president trump gave any of those 4 part was in return for silence that that was the deal of the be a criminal offense and would be prosecuted after he left office we don't know what the evidence is at this point and

muller they were among the 1st 2 convictions secured in the investigation both pleading guilty to lying to federal officers they are among those pardoned course we have these 4 convicted murderers the blackwater security guards now they were convicted after a hard fought conviction during the president obama administration of murder of manslaughter for the massacre of innocent iraqi civilians well what is their connection to trump blackwater is owned by an ardent trump supporter erik prince of course we have that whole other mass with the covert relief bill which was a shock to both republicans and democrats in congress trying had declined to participate in the months of negotiations and so it really came out of nowhere when he announced on twitter that he wanted. checks of $2000.00 rather than the $600.00 as economic stimulus to americans but democrats are playing along their leaders in congress have said ok they're going to bring up a plan to increase the quantity of those checks to the house floor tomorrow christmas eve for unanimous consent but it would indeed take a christmas mirac

remember, michael flynn was cooperating with robert muller's investigation and remember how hard the president worked to kill this case? he tried to get the fbi to drop it, he publicly floated the possibility of a pardon for michael flynn over a year ago and eventually robert muller found this was potential obstruction of justice by the president. now it's full circle. michael flynn stopped cooperating, now he has his pardon. even among the worst most corrupt pardons, i think this one will stand out for its flagrant cronyism and corruption. >> we want to turn to coronavirus now. there's a viewer that wants to know about the supreme court ruling. they read, quote, now that the supreme court struck down new york's covid-based restrictions on religious institutions, will we soon see courts doing the same in other states across the country? >> key thing to note. the court's decision was limited only to new york state's covid rules. of course, every state has different rules. that could lead to different outcomes. so this does not guarantee any future outcomes in the supreme court but it

and then there was the investigation by there was the investigation by the special counsel, robert muller, and his plea deal, he admitted to lying. but in the last two years, he's been trying to take back that guilty plea. but what donald trump has essentially done is taken this matter out of the courts and out of president biden controlled justice department. staying in the us, because president—elect, joe biden has called for an end to what he called the grim season of division — which he said would give way to light and unity. the president—elect urged americans to recommit to the fight against coronavirus. and on the eve of thanksgiving called on them to forgo high—risk holiday traditions —— as cases of the virus continue to surge. another country has grown weary of the fight. we need to remember, we are at war with the virus. not with one another, not with each other. this is the moment where we need to steel our spines, redouble our efforts and recommit ourselves to the fight. let's remember, we are all in this together. well there were more than 160,000 new recorded cor

director robert muller to investigate an alleged conspiracy between the trump campaign and the crime of those news outlets kept that story through a series of official leaks stay with us i will consider retiring attorney an official conspiracy theorist predicting a watergate scale downfall of the present one reality and the official report feel to meet those expectations it played right into the trump fake news narrative the only solution was committed by the democrats the fake news media had their operatives journalistic reputations took a pounding now there were a lot of things the news media reported that were false because they had this vacuum they had to fill guess what's going to happen you're going to speculate we actually correcting a story that we have been reporting throughout the day today and let's be clear the liberal media was very prone to believing the worst possible things about donald trump so when when you're prone to believing it and it fits with your narrative and it's good for ratings who's going to start one of the real factors in the media because right now if

robert muller and 18 angry democrats, and fbi agents all over the yea rs and fbi agents all over the years spent $28 million and went through everything i had, including my tax returns and they found absolutely no collusion and nothing wrong. 48 million. i guarantee if i spent 1 million i could find plenty wrong, because the kinds of things that you've done and the kind of that family has taken,, imean your kind of that family has taken,, i mean your brother made money in iraq and your other brother made a fortune and it's all through you and they say you get some of it, and you do very well with houses all over the place. you live very well. let mejust ask some place. you live very well. let me just ask some questions about this. there have been questions about the work your son has done in china and 40 ukrainian energy company when you are vice president. in retrospect, was anything about those relations it's inappropriate or unethical? nothing was unethical. here is the deal. with regard to ukraine. we had this whole question about whether because he was on the board of a company

which are you robert muller talk about john brennan a talk about james komi which i heard james clapper these are the heads of the intelligence agencies under. obama and they proceeded with the feeling that they were immune to being held accountable for violating the law and the constitution and i hope they'll be proven wrong but i suspect that this will wither away and no one no one important will be held accountable for this grievous grievous violation of what in our country was the 4th amendment which prohibits explicitly this kind of thing where does this leave the n.s.a. ray is the path now open for legal action against the agency. well there are several court cases that this will help there is standing now from people who have been monitored and that the universe is pretty much all americans and even more there's this curious procedure called parallel construction and that means you you collect information illegally on americans and you tell the cops that you know local police or the f.b.i. and they go get this guy because he's going to be here at a certain time but you don't tell

at the end of march $29000.00 robert muller completed his investigation into russian interference in the u.s. well as long run of court victories had come to an end his report showed there was no evidence of a conspiracy between donald trump's campaign team and russian officials. who is yours to announce there was no clue you were the right you're the most ridiculous thing i've ever heard there was no collusion with the russia there was no ups truck urine and none whatsoever. it was a complete and total exoneration. total exoneration well not quite the final report only said that there was insufficient evidence the tramp broke the law still for him it was the success he was hoping for. the outcome was welcomed in russia. as a question it was obvious from the start that it would end this way he began as a mountain and ended as a mole hill and knowing. notably have to be pretty naive if you believe that 13 russian hackers can get 300000000 americans to vote for trump and not hillary clinton he's the middle of a media kinds of were brought around by an evil bitch clinton they. but 2 yea

has been using propaganda and this information warfare for the past decade special counsel robert muller indicted russia's internet research agency for using social media posts data driven messaging and analysis to influence the 2016 us presidential election separately the oxford internet institute found evidence of organized social media manipulation campaigns in $48.00 countries in 2018 it also found that political parties and government spent more than $500000000.00 on ways to manipulate public opinion of a social media since 2010 and data is such a crucial area of contention and president trumps decision to ban the popular tick-tock the u.s. fears that user data could be handed over to the chinese government well let's bring in sean gourley he's c.e.o. and founder of silicon valley based primer prime it is an artificial intelligence startup that can summarize reams of data in just seconds sure it seems that dissin from ation is really getting high tech isn't it and countries are deploying all sorts of artificial intelligence and bots that can work around social media defenses how muc

muller was investigating you obviously haven't killed this is just to hire away let's just skip to the end town putin be stopped well i hope so given all these things he's apparently allegedly seemingly by all accounts purportedly reportedly supposedly done one other question for the kiddies should russia be expelled from the united nations how wonderful shaping global policy from a young and uninformed day oh look that's recommended reading the new york times monster piece on how russia paid the taliban to kill u.s. troops in afghanistan i am so glad they gave the link to that because that really opened my mind to true john and as i'm absolutely no evidence on anonymous sources quoting other anonymous sources amazing apparently if you read that you're an expert on ruthless russia wow call me an expert then i just think you know round of applause for this website founder richard outis veteran journalist and self-proclaimed fighter of fake news it is clear there are schools around eventually encouraging children to burrow through the rubbish and ritual out the truth well thank goodness