you know andrew weissman, you worked with andrews weissman who is the prosecutor on the mueller team. i believe we have a picture of the two of you together. he is the one who will likely be questioning the president when this happens. you both look younger now than you did back then -- >> young chaps. >> how do you think the special counsel's team -- maybe your friend, andrew weissman, how do you think they will approach the questioning of the president? >> whenever you go to question sbo somebody who is at the center of an investigation, you wait until you have all your ducks in a row. they've talked to people about the relevant conversations that may have occurred during the transition, around the comey firing, during that period of time. they have flynn cooperating. presumably have a lot of information from him. they've looked at lots of e-mails and documents. they're hoping by the time you sit down and talk to that witness, you've got the witness fairly boxed in. they're not going to give you their own version of what they would like to have had happened. you want to lock them in

weissman went on to join mueller's team the following man. weissman notify offed his superior about the sit down with theap, and during the time he didn't have access to the documents related to it. that shows weissmann had prejudice against paul manafort. on top much his troubling history. wissmann led the obstruction case and enron. he destroyed that company and tens of thousands of people lost that job and the verdict was overturned with a 9- 0 ruling. weissmann put four maryland executives in jail for a year. that's why we have to question the decision of making robert mueller, why would he make these appointmentes of people like weissmann and only democratic donor. why given his history was he appointed and why would mueller fill the team to people who gave money to hillary clinton and dnrngs c and candidates like barak obama. and a follow-up to our exclusive reporting last night on the clinton bought and paid for phony "fake news" russian dossier with all of that salacious material that was used by the obama administration to literally

you sugtd it's not good for jared kushner or donald trump. >> i assume that robert mueller, andrew weissman and other special counsel investigators are following the money as we speak. >> there have been contradictory reports about whether deutsche bank has been subpoenaed. but in light of this and everything that's gone on in this investigation, i would be very surprised if these deutsche bank records have not yet been obtained. and that is very important for not just jared kushner but donald trump himself, because so much of his finances were tied up with deutsche bank. >> rebecca bird, the president an extraordinary statement, not a tweet, an official white house statement he responded to the comments in this new book saying this, when he was fired he not only lost his job, he lost his mind. but since he was fired over the summer, he's met with the president, apparently, and spoken with the president. they did have a continuing relationship. >> absolutely. and they continued to speak, as press secretary, sanders acknowledged today, up through december. so they were in touch up until the

weissman right now.ems to be getting into donald trump and and his possessions and millionaire style. my question is that we have got a president who is loaded with money. this guy has got billions of dollars, ok? yet people are complaining about all the money he has in his businesses that he had grown all these years because he 71 years old, ok? i'm 80 years old, ok? i've never ever heard of anybody talking about how these democratic people -- number one, osi and reid, these people go very poor into congress. every one of them are millionaires right now. i've never heard people like mr. weissman or people like him talking about how somebody can investigate how they go in poor and they all end up with million dollar homes and million dollars in their checking's accounts and savings accounts. host: we will let him respond. , wet: at public citizen talk about the things you're talking about all the time. most of the members of congress now are very rich. theyo gon rich and that is a change from what has hi

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the clinton foundation and or barack obama's administration ok you've got jenny ri you've got your weissman you've got goldstein you've got peter stories like these are you've got what's your name. berman jackson you've got the other one that also was the prosecutor against the man of four so this is a complete this is not an impartial investigation this is not an independent investigation if it was then you would have prosecutors that were from i don't know the george w. bush administration or you'd have. people that were from the george h. walker bush or even if the reagan administration and people are still around from there this would have a mix of luck it is not is that clinton off here with a reagan parag with a point on many go ahead richard go ahead go ahead richard. i'm saying mohler robert muller who is the head of this was a ronald reagan appointee to a top law enforcement position he was george h.w. bush appointee to a top law enforcement position he was at george w. bush to a top law enforcement position moeller so this notion about who is on the staff you know the contribution

weissman. this out all, all of the different ways, people seeing business before the government properties, is there any evidence they may have spent this money if he had been a private citizen? >> we don't know for sure. they are mostly holding events they oregon would have held, but it is common sense they want to get favor with the president, it's not because they like the towels in the hotel rooms. >> this has been an issue in the whole -- in the clinton foundation and the hearing over the clinton foundation. is this comparable? there was concern that the clinton foundation is suddenly open to lobbying of the secretary of state by using the clinton foundation. ing is that members of congress were outraged about at the time, is this a similar situation? >> i think that was troubling, but this one is way worse. you're putting putting it up for risk. it is also worse because we know that he is uniquely susceptible to flattery. you have the event there, you tell him how wonderful the hotel is,

during the meeting with reporters, andrew weissman, the number one guy appointed by robert mueller, head of the justice department fraud division, then later, not long after, joined mueller's investigation to look into paul manafort, the next month. acourting to sara carter's reporting aeissmann told his superiors about the meeting with the a.p. and he wasn't working on the manafort case and didn't have access to documents related to it. here's the thing, weissmann was discussing paul manafort with the reporters and joined mueller's team where he's leading the case against manafort. now, he was prejudging the case, prejudiced. massive conflict of interest. we obviously see what's going on here. and then there's weissmann's disturbing history. why would robert mueller ever appoint this guy that led the obstruction of justice case against arthur andersen accounting and the enron scandal, tens of thousands of people lost their jobs. they're out of business. thank you weissmann. the supreme court overturned a ruling 9-0 in the case. his job was a mess. people, by the way, exculpatory evidenc

mueller chose weissman -- that's one of the staff people there -- first and he is a money laundering guy that goes through deutsche bank and all the kushner stuff, expletive, deleted. the kushner stuff is greasey. they're going to go right through that. does this say where the fbi was going from the start? >> i can't say where the fbi is investigating. i can say i think it is a very important issue to be investigated. the allegations are credible enough and the damage to the country would be significant if this is something the russians could hold over the head of the president of the united states. so i do think it needs to be investigated. you do see concerted efforts by the president and his allies to limit what bob mueller can look at. the manafort investigation should be seen in that context to attack mueller, plainly they don't want mueller looking into money laundering, but it would be negligent for him not to. >> before i let you go, you refer to the manafort litigation. it's a challenge to try to limit the scope of mueller's inquiry. there are legal questions as to whether h

mueller chose senior prosecutor andrew weissman first and he is a money laundering guy. their path to blanking trump goes right through paul an afor the, don junior and paul manafort, it is as plain as the hair on your face. to give bannon credit, he's right. the first guy mueller picks is a money laundering expert. i remember back last december i want to see a big wall street backer of president trump who said to me, trump needs to be careful, he cannot get cute going after the intelligence agencies and others, he doesn't want them going to his business, which has been very sloppy. and you know trump said last summer, his red line would be if mueller goes into their family business, a business that we know has been bankrupt more than four times. >> yeah, absolutely, stephanie. and of course we don't know how far it extends. but the fact that you're having someone like steve bannon of all people, former white house strategist to president trump, making these comments, which are a lot more revealing than you would end up hearing from any democrat at the house intelligence

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mueller chose weissman first. their path to trump goes right through paul manafort, don jr. and jared kushner. it's as plain as the hair on your face. it goes through deutsche banc and all the curer in. they're going to roll them up and say play me or trade me. what do you make of bannon's reading of the investigation? >> we have always known that mueller had a heavy focus in this area and it's important to remember that the public doesn't know everything that's going on in this investigation. it's sort of like a duck swimming across a pond and all you see of said before is the top of the duck's body and in fact what prosecutors are doing are the feet frantically paddling beneath the surface of the water. money laundering has always seemed like a very likely prospect of bob mueller both because he hired people on the team with expertise in the area but also because we heard these little tidbits along the way. real estate sales in florida that appeared to take on large profit margins in very small periods of time. some other interesting tidbits that led you to believe that th

our concern is that bias is reflected in whether it's andrew weissman's inclusion in the team or theeople that defended the clinton foundation. we say it ought to be fair and it doesn't seem to be that way. >> other republicans feel strongly about the same issues as you do think otherwise. they're voicing their confidence in robert mueller. well, here's a few examples. let's listen. >> i think mr. mueller is the perfect guy to get to the bottom of all of this and he will. and i think my job, among others, is to give him the space to do it. i intend to do that. i've got legislation protecting mr. mueller, and i'll be glad to pass it tomorrow. >> it would certainly wouldn't hurt to put that extra safeguard in place given the latest stories. >> do you still trust after all you've heard, do you still trust special counsel robert mueller to conduct a fair and unbiased investigation? >> 100%, particularly if he's given the time, the resources and the independence to do his job. >> i mean trey gowdy, no friend of democrats. why are you on a different side of this? you said you have about 35

closed doors when the special counsel's team is interviewing him when your former colleague, andrew weissman is interviewing him? is that going to satisfy investigators? >> they're going to have to take whatever answers he gives them. then the question for them is going to be how does that compare against the other evidence they have? what is mccabe's testimony likely to be on that? if it has the kind of rich detail we got from comey about his conversations with trump and the sort of strangeness of those conversations and the weird almost creepy kind of pressured context, if that's the sort of story that mccabe is telling and it's a credible one, it's not going to be very believable for the president to say, oh, this was an off-the-cuff remark. i'd ask that to anybody. it's going to sound like something that was intended to kind of get a loyalty test again. >> if the president had his druthers, it seems like he would go to coffee with bob mueller today. that's how he sounded last night. ty cob jumps in and says wait a minute. you had a piece out saying when mueller is around, silence should

mueller chose senior prosecutor andr andrew weissman. to, nasty word, trump goes through paul manafort, don junior and jared kushner. plain as a hair on your face. steve bannon has never been in business with jared kushner and is not a real estate guy. if an insider was saying, this is money laundering, they could know something. could steve bannon know something that is helping mueller or is this palace intrigue? >> i don't know that bannon knows something specific but he is reflecting things other people said, as well. that is, seeing the links between the trump family, the kushner family and russia, how are those links made? were they made through loan arrangements, to what extent the russian banks own interest in trump loans? who was buying apartments? what investments did they want? a lot of what you're seeing if you're mueller is, okay, what are the connections? it doesn't have to be quote, unquote, money laundering. just as it didn't have to be quote, unquote, treason. sometimes we get caught up in some of these words, as opposed