welcome to politicking on larry king on wednesday special counsel robert mueller filed new criminal charges against paul not afford the former manager of donald trump's twenty sixteen campaign but mr muller placed the charges under seal obscuring the nature and import of them leaving many to wonder what this development means we'll start there with richard. clarke university of minnesota he was the chief white house ethics lawyer during the administration of george w. bush and he's currently vice chair for citizens for responsibility and ethics in washington he joins us from minneapolis ok richard what do you make of this and why do you think it's sealed. well the number is a prosecutor would want a sale and indictment portions of an indictment and usually other reason is to not disclose to other potential subjects of the investigation of the information that the prosecutor know. and he is continuing to investigate a number of different things not just the money laundering with respect to the mastermind of fort mr gates but also the russian ferrous and the election whether they had anything

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muller's team that was looking into suppose the pollution between trump and the problem prior to that the clinton e-mail investigation which went nowhere and then there's lisa page a lawyer for the department of justice who also worked for robert muller the couple came into prominence back in december when their private text conversations were released to congress girls hillary should win. i know. and maybe your man just the way you are because your man to protect the country from that manifest . thanks it's absolutely true that we're very very fortunate and of course i'll try and approach it that way these text messages proved that both struck and page were biased in favor of hillary and the messages even hint at some nefarious political activity so when they wanted to dig deeper it turned out the rest of their conversation had disappeared the f.b.i. ascribed the dates lost to misconfiguration issues related to rollouts provisioning and so for upgrades the conflicts with the f.b.i.'s collection capabilities but let's look at the time frame of these text messages december fourteenth t

that he shouldn't do that he can't do that that it would almost be handily handing the special counsel robert muller an ace card to play against him but you just get the sense that this president is see them constantly about this ongoing probe which is of course getting closer and closer to his own financial past and present probably. has announced that he will run again in twenty twenty that surprise you. know on the afternoon of the inauguration day he had an aide filed papers for his reelection which has got to be a record of some sort and and even this appointing a campaign manager full what to two years three years ahead of time is is extraordinary but he likes to think of himself as campaigning all the time he wants a schedule that has rallies and i think he's very aware of the fact. that if he doesn't keep stoking his base that he could well you know face defeat so i think he's he's convinced himself that if he keeps running all out and does everything just like he did in twenty sixteen he can prove all the critics wrong and that democrats i must say so many people say to me well who a

muller if you're innocent act innocent and right now he's looking like you know i want this over because he's got something to hide and that's a mistake we spoke to news commentator juno louden she believes that the mother issue is being driven by mainstream media because they believe it could lead to impeachment. the topic of moeller is one of the votes perfect examples of where trump tweets something the media goes into apoplexy over it gets themselves all in a tailspin about it when in fact there's nothing going on there and there's nothing that's going to come of it and the media feeds right into this the media with love to believe that the president would fire moeller and that this would somehow lead to the president's impeachment because that's exactly what the left wants they are constantly desperately clawing and scraping for some way to get this president out in the media perceives everything that the president does as strictly a prediction of his next policy move they're making a gross error that they've been making for going on a couple years now and that's why it's not servin

will heal won't he slessor prosecutor robert muller floats the idea of subpoenaing president trump what's the likelihood of that we're going to take a look at that on this edition. of politicking on larry king it's happened before once to president nixon and then to president bill clinton talking about a court order of the sitting chief executive to comply with a subpoena from investigators is going to happen again this time to donald trump for his testimony in the ongoing russian probe led by special counsel robert muller is it going to happen one of the legal and political consequences for the administration should the president since we're an interview with muller's team let's talk about that with bob driscoll the deputy assistant attorney general appointed during the george w. bush administration currently practicing law he joins us from washington what's the process or lower the involved of the subpoena of trump. it's hard to say at this point because i think that the president is reluctant to sit down but by the santo can be reluctant to receive a subpoena because that if the specia