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

muller and the house judiciary committee benghazi, robert muller and the housejudiciary committee in 2019. so the select committee has little margin for error here. ho so the select committee has little margin for error here.— margin for error here. no they don't, margin for error here. no they don't. and _ margin for error here. no they don't, and what _ margin for error here. no they don't, and what they - margin for error here. no they don't, and what they say - margin for error here. no they | don't, and what they say they'll margin for error here. no they - don't, and what they say they'll try to do is paint a bigger picture about everything that took place on january 6th and the conditions set by donald trump and others around him that set the stage for that attack, that led up to it. but what they really need to do is notjust connect the dots, they need to make compelling television, find a way of capturing the american audience's attention — that means bringing new material in an new revelations, because otherwise the american public has seen this before. connecting dots

muller to two impeachment hearings to a steady drip of disclosures out of president trump's circle. do not expect must-see tv." diane out of ohio, you are next. diane, are you with us? lawrence, massachusetts, this is james, a republican. good morning. caller: i believe i called on the democrat line. host: james is a democrat. back in order. caller: there are a few things that bother me with the contradictions. they want to raise the age from 18 to 21. the problem i have with that in massachusetts is they also want to lower the voting age to 16 in massachusetts and they are propagandizing and indoctrinating our children to the transgenderism and everything going on with that in kindergarten, so it doesn't make a lot of sense to me with this age thing. the other thing bothering me was that on august 21, 2021, the fbi came out with a report that said there was no insurrection and you guys haven't mentioned that once and i was wondering, with all the reading that you do finding articles, if you could find that, because it kind of bothers me that we are getting half the story here and w

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

to create an october surprise against then candidate donald trump, coming five years to the day that robert muller was reported as special counsel to investigate whether they did coordinate with russia to infiltrate the presidential election. trace gallagher is breaking down everything that happened today. >> the allegations are at the heart of the trial, a former hillary clinton campaign attorney two months before the 2015 election, going to the fbi and claiming that he had information linking the donald trump organization to a russian own bank with ties to the kremlin and of course the allegation was bogus. an opening statement, with the direction of special counsel said that michael sussman has a use of the fbi as a political tool to create an october surprise against then candidate donald trump with prosecutors adding that it was a plan that used as well as manipulated the fbi and one that they hoped would trigger the news outlets and trigger an fbi investigation and a plan largely that succeeded. the prosecutors went on to say that even though the claim was false, trump and russia were

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

amy, this argument is the exact argument they gave me about robert muller. he is causing the t's and dotti ng the i's and mueller did nothing. if garland wanted to prove he is this dog public server that is going to pursue justice, he still got the rubber mueller report there. mueller outlined to instances of obstruction of justice and they did not ask you. merrick garland could. you notice he is not. that is why i keep saying, he can talk the game, but look at the man's actions. if he was willing to go after trumper crimes of trump committed, he already has the mu eller report but he is not acting on it. maybe -- like he said, goes back to trust most maybe this great life institutional liberal prosecutor will totally get trump this time. not like the last 1 -- that is what you're selling to me. there will be people who believe that. but again, i went actual evidence that this man is willing to take on the powerful politically connected republicans who did this to us. and so far, i don't see that stuff amy: elie mystal, thank you for being with us, the natio

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 das here wasn't actually debunked by special council robert muller's investigation. trump elements continue to reference, and now steel 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 cohen had a secret meeting with 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 steel 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 i

muller ever interviewed donald trump but robert mueller could never prove intent because he didn't interview donald trump, we never understood why they couldn't answer the question of intent but it was never clear they sought an interview to understand his intent. in this case it seems what's coming out is clear intent. just declare the election corrupt and leave the rest to me and our congressmen. you've got the whole tape with raffensperger where he tells him to find 11,780 votes. there's still evidence emerging about contacts with other state election individuals. the intent is staring all of us in the face, isn't it? >> well, that's how an ordinary prosecution would prove intent. it's not usually through interviewing a witness or putting them in a grand jury. it is usually based on statements made by other witnesses which are admissible in court. what we're learning the last couple of weeks is remarkable, we have that recording. you identified this last week, nicolle. a little recognized tidbit from "the washington post" is that donald trump called over to the department of justice nearl

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>> 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

unlawful order trying to fire muller without cause. he's telling lawmakers, reading from judiciary information, trump asked him to do some crazy blank. he was worried firing muller, your boss, was the point of no return, things could spiral out of control into a second, quote, saturday night massacre. your response. >> well, from my quick read from his quite voluminous testimony, he appeared to now under oath confirm what is in the report, which is that he was asked by the former president of the united states to fire and to seek the firing of bob muller from the justice department. that later the president wanted him to go out and deny a press report that that had happened and don mcgann testified under oath that he refused to do that in part that he had already told the special counsel's office what had happened and he wasn't about to, as he said, risk going to jail by denying what he had just told the special counsel, which is what the president asked him to do and he wasn't about to say that that wasn't true. so very dramatic testi

muller at the department of justice, and he's also host of "that said". so good to see you. >> good morning, fred. >> so let me get started with your thoughts on these raids of rudy giuliani property. how much trouble could giuliani be in? >> well, that's a great question because we just don't know what is at the heart of this investigation. many have said that it concerns one count of rudy giuliani failing to register as a foreign agent for his work on behalf of ukraine. giuliani has denied that. his lawyer has denied that. others speculate this has to do with campaign finance violations and his dealings with others who are under indictment in the united states. but there's been no connection yet established that giuliani did anything that is criminally related to that. so there's a waiting for the shoe to drop moment here, but we don't know what's involved completely. >> we do know there had to be something very specific that they were going after in order to get those kinds of warrants, but we also know that other discoveries could be made, which is of

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 a plane and robert muller. what a stupid question. what a stupid but i watched you a lot of us got a lot of snow right some think in very. hills that he'll 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 the previous administration and some of them get lost because just you get rolled under 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 on the rose garden where the president is going to appear for the national day or 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 this is true. people are so proud to be using that beautiful w

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

robert muller already told us that president trump publicly dangled pardons, partly to prevent michael flynn, roger stone and others from testifying. muller found that could be obstruction and now those dangled pardons have actually been delivered and now only to people who refused to cooperate, refused to testify. so the case for obstruction now, if anything, gets even stronger. now, this will be an important and difficult decision in the biden administration and even harder to sort of ignore all the evidence and do nothing. we'll be watching closely to see what the next attorney general does on this question. >> for sure. kenneth in tennessee asking a question i wanted to know the answer to. can a pardon by one president be reversed or revoked by the next president? >> a lot of people asking this one, i think you can see why. the short answer is we don't exactly know. there's actually a bit of mixed history here. the constitution grants the pardon power. it doesn't say anything about whether a president has the power to revoke a pardon but believe it or not, there is very limited his

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 and his own words quote did not find that the trump campaign or anyone associated with it conspired or coordinated with the russian government and quote but several in the trump campaigns all but were convicted as a result of their conduct during the investigation all for unrelated crimes that were dug up as part of the increased scrutiny of both the trooper former trunk campaign chairman paul mann afore he was convicted of obstructing the rusher investigation but also several counts of bank tax fraud related to his political consulting work for the ukrainian government before he joined the trump campaign. for some metaphors paul confirms a suspicion they had during the russian meddling investigation democratic congressman adam schiff tweeting during the murder investigation trump's lawyer floated a pardon to mount a 4th man a fault with drew his cooperation with prosecutors lied was convicted and then trumped praised him for not ratting trumps public now completes the corrupt scheme nola's until the bitter end it was a witch hunt there's no question about that longtime political op

muller and his own words quote did not find that the trump campaign or anyone associated with it conspired or coordinated with the russian government and quote but several in the trump campaigns all but were convicted as a result of their conduct during the investigation all for unrelated crimes that were dug up as part of the increased scrutiny of both the trooper former trunk campaign chairman paul mann afore he was convicted of obstructing the russian investigation but also several counts of bank tax fraud related to his political consulting work for the ukrainian government before he joined the trump campaign. for some other force pardon confirms a suspicion they had during the russian meddling investigation democratic congressman adam schiff tweeting during the investigation trump's lawyer floated a patent amount of what amount of fault with drew his cooperation with prosecutors lied was convicted and then trump praised him for not ratting trump's pub not completes the corrupt scheme nola's until the bitter end it was a witch hunt there's no question about that longtime political oper

muller and his own words quote did not find that the trump campaign or anyone associated with it conspired or coordinated with the russian government and quote but several in the trump campaigns all but were convicted as a result of their conduct during the investigation all for unrelated crimes that were dug up as part of the increased scrutiny both a true performer trunk campaign chairman paul man afore he was convicted of obstructing the russian investigation but also several counts of bank tax fraud related to his political consulting work for the ukrainian government before he joined the trump campaign. for some other force pardon confirms a suspicion they had during the russian meddling investigation democratic congressman adam schiff tweeting during the murder investigation trump's lawyer floated a patent amount of what amount of fault withdrew his cooperation with prosecutors lied was convicted and then trump praised him for not ratting trump's public now completes the corrupt scheme nola's until the bitter end it was a witch hunt there's no question about that longtime political o

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

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 then we have the 3 former republican congress members one of which is serving a 10 year stint in prison for fraud and for money laundering while $1.00 of those congress men were the 1st to endorse trump in his 20 secs 2016 campaign and then finally of 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 who happens to be also the brother of trump's education secretary so if you look at what all of these people have in common it's not so much that they may deserve clemency the rather they play a role in trumps political interests and that's why people are looking at this and saying the legal the president has the power to issue these pardons it certainl

it to the public, a move that forced robert mueller himself to write a letter condemning barr's so-called summary. after trump tweeted his complaints about the sentencing of some of his closest allies, barr intervened in those cases too. michael flynn, paul manafort, roger stone, but unfortunately for barr those efforts mean nothing if he cannot now come up with evidence of voter fraud. barr declared openly this week the justice department has found no evidence of widespread voter fraud. he didn't even find evidence of little scale voter fraud. that might be the last straw for bill bar. first, there was the failure to find illegal ballots and the durham report, the investigation into the russia investigation that he ordered before the election the way trump wanted and now debunking the president's wild false claims of massive voter fraud. joining me now is former federal prosecutor, former assistant u.s. attorney at the department of justice and msnbc legal analyst, cynthia oxley. thank you for joining us. >> good morning. >> you and i have talked about bill barr. bill barr sent the unsol

muller and to investigate the fbi for having had the temerity to investigate russia's interference in the 2016 election themselves. the fbi investigated it, mueller investigated whether trump's campaign was in on it. barr then assigned this guy, john durham, to investigate the fbi and robert mueller for having looked into those things. well, today as he went up to the white house upon telling the associated press there was no fraud in the election, barr decided that this might be a good time to reveal that two weeks before election day, he secretly wrote a letter giving john durham the title of special counsel because he wants durham to keep his investigation of muller and the fbi going into the biden administration even after trump's gone. according to congressman adam schiff, the head of the intelligence committee, this is going to go down as one of those nice try pr moves from william barr, but it's not going to work. schiff saying tonight on msnbc that what barr did here might be good enough pr, might pull the wool over president trump's eyes enough to maybe save bill barr's job f

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

and in fact, almost from the very beginning of robert muller's investigation into alleged meddling into the 2016 presidential election as well as the alleged possible loss problems or attempt to influence the incoming presidency of donald trump. this matter of what michael flynn did between the election of 2016 and donald trump becoming president actually became a very big legal problem for him. he was accused and then convicted of lying to federal investigators about his contacts with the russian ambassador to the u.s. at that time, sergey kids. and about whether flynn may have been making promises that perhaps should not have been made by anyone. even someone who had been selected to be donald trump's national security adviser because of that, he ended up spending time in prison. and what this means is basically this is wiping the slate clean for michael flynn. legally. although history will show that what happened did happen. this is something that, of course, has been people who are opposed to donald trump castigating him on twitter. notably, including someone who is considered a le

this was part of the ongoing investigation carried out by the former special prosecutor, robert muller. the investigation which certainly gripped official washington for the better part of a couple of years. this is because michael flynn contacts were considered, perhaps, untoward or suspicious by some in the u.s. intelligence community. a community with which donald trump, the u.s. president, has long been at war, accusing them of trying to undermine his presidency. again, this has been long expected, but certainly in the 1st few days a sense of the official transition has been allowed to go forward. have we seen anything of such significance coming from the trump white house across the vase? and what kind of reaction has there been that to this news? i mean, in fairness, that just happened a few minutes ago, but as you said, it was far from unexpected. well us so far, the only reaction is coming from people opposed to donald trump on social media. they are in essence, whitely mocking the president's decision to issue this pardon, there has been no official reaction from general flynn

director robert muller to investigate an alleged conspiracy between the trump campaign and the kremlin 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 a president when reality and the official report fail 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 business right now is

muller, into whether the trump campaign had colluded with the kremlin ahead of the 2016 election. the probe resulted in a spate of prosecutions... traitor! ..of donald trump's former campaign manager who was found guilty of multiple charges including conspiracy against the united states. cheering. of his long—time political adviser roger stone who was convicted of witness tampering and lying to congress. when he delivered his long—awaited report, mueller found that the russian meddling had been sweeping and systematic, and identified links between trump campaign officials and individuals with ties to the kremlin. it's a witchhunt. witchhunt. fake news and the russian witchhunt. we've got a whole big combination. but it did not find sufficient evidence that the campaign coordinated and conspired with the russian government. the white house claimed victory, but robert mueller made it clear this wasn't an exoneration. if we had had confidence that the president clearly did not commit a crime, we would have said so. we did not, however, make a determination as to whether the presi