Her focus was on the Judge’s comments on the Manafort case. Hannity is highlighting all of it. The judge wants to see the unredacted version of Rosenstein’s August scope revision document. The implication is that the Manafort home raid happened before Rosenstein amended the original scope.
They also mentioned the Flynn case. The unredacted House Select Committe pages released confirm, that the FBI agents that originally interviewed Flynn said they didn’t think he lied. This was also confirmed by Comey in his testimony before Congress. Seems Comey forgot that testimony.
Sara mentioned that she had heard that McCabe was pressuring the agents to say Flynn lied.
I think that is the gist, so much info coming quickly. Hope I recorded this all correctly.
Thank you so much Storm!!
In my world a scope document is very public, otherwise I would be off the job in about a mili-second and you never ever start a project until everyone agrees to it.
That timing factor is not an issue. Why not? Because Rosenstein's letter didn't amend Mueller's scope, at least not as how viewed by Mueller and Rosenstein. Rosenstein knew what was going on in camp Mueller.
The letter was drafted so Mueller wouldn't be solo in battle against Manafort's lawyers. It would be not only his word that his interpretation of scope was appropriate, he would also have confirmation from his boss.
All the legal arguments (including the obvious admission that the letter came after the raid) are plain as day in the legal filings.
Listening to Hannity and Greg Jarrett - Mueller went to an old investigation that had been “cleared” as the basis for his investigation of Manafort. Money Laundering from 2004 or so.
The Judge told Mueller that this was not within the scope of what he was supposed to be investigating. Further he warned that he would not allow Mueller to suborn perjury using this as leverage (judge used different wording).
Mueller presented the judge with his document from Rosenstein, but it had redactions. The judge asked for an unredacted copy. Mueller made some excuse as to why the Judge didn’t need to see it, and the Judge basically said, I’ll be the judge of that!
Hope they have increased this judge’s security guards.