Bob Woodward on Mueller Report: Now We Wait For The Tapes

realclearpolitics.com ^ | 4/19/19 | Tim Hains

[a little elbow grease]

"Watergate" journalist Bob Woodward told MSNBC's "Morning Joe" on Friday that in the wake of the Mueller report, he is waiting for someone to come forward with "tapes or new evidence."

BOB WOODWARD: Well, first of all, I think the report is quite amazing, and the Attorney General Barr did himself a massive disservice because his letter quoted a portion of the report that looked like Trump was off the hook on obstruction of justice, but as we know on page 182, Mueller makes it very clear that they did not reach this issue because of evidence, because they could not make a determination determination. Joe may remember this, but the day Reagan was shot 1981 was it was Al Haig who rushed in and defined the way people were going to remember him by saying 'I'm in charge here.' Of course, he wasn't.

And Barr is going to be remembered for this because it was not — it was just a deception and a misrepresentation of what this report shows.

Now, where it goes, I think it turns on the quality of evidence. In the Nixon case again, I’m sorry to go back but the tapes showed conclusively the President of the United States ordered the payment of hush money to the Watergate burglars and their overseers. He did it again and again, said, 'Let’s blow the safe, let’s break in.'

Now, in the case of the Trump case here, they stumbled, Trump stumbled. It was kind of obstruction of justice-lite. There were lots of people who said, 'I’m not going to do these things that he ordered.' So where this goes, does somebody come up with tapes or new evidence? I think that would be the propellant here.

[Billthedrill]

Bob’s just sure that somewhere out there is a video recording of the Tooth Fairy, too. And until it turns up the only safe thing to do is assume that Trump is guilty.

[alloysteel]

Absence of exculpatory evidence is not evidence of misdemeanor or felony.

[Steely Tom]

I believe Trump is holding some big cards.

That’s what all the screeching is about.

They’re setting up to attempt to blunt the impact of the disclosures, when they come.

They’re going to try and wrap whole coup attempt in a big ball, and say their coup is morally equivalent to Trump’s “obstruction of justice.”

Then they will in effect make a deal: write off the whole fiasco, and we’ll let Trump have his second term. Kind of a plea bargain, in a sense.

[hardspunned]

Yeah, that’s the ticket. Rose Mary Woods erased the tapes of Trump and Putin colluding.

[2ndDivisionVet]

Is he at the Western Union station?

[FreedomNotSafety]

Why are you surprised? You have not done it, so why would anyone else?

[Captain Peter Blood]

What tapes? has lost his mind, looks like Dementia has set in and he is back in 1973 working on Watergate. He and Carl need to go to the nursing home and get a rocking chair.

[hanamizu]

Blatant lie. Haig said he was in charge at the moment at the white house because VP Bush was traveling and out of contact.

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Glad someone else remembers this. Pisses me off how they tell the lie so often that it somehow becomes the ‘truth’. I had no trouble understanding what Haig meant at the time.

[a little elbow grease]

"Rose Mary Woods erased the tapes of Trump and Putin colluding."

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LOL

....... accidentally erasing the tape.

[Sacajaweau]

I've been saying right along that Comey taped the President at every meeting....to cover for his memos supposedly written from memory.

Why even think it? Cuz Comey, in response to the President saying....there might be tapes...Comey went overboard in his response with

"Oh Lordy...I hope so".

The fast forward to when there was an actual conversation about FBI personnel wearing a wire. So don't think it can't happen....or didn't happen.

[antidemoncrat]

I wonder what all these big mouth Democrats will be saying if Barr goes after the deep state actors in the FBI and DOJ and of course the Clintons.

[a little elbow grease]

"Rose Mary Woods, Nixon’s loyal private secretary, was tasked with transcribing the tapes before they were turned over to prosecutors. Woods testified in front of a federal grand jury in 1974 that she was using a dictaphone, which had a pedal that would pause the recording when she lifted her foot off it, and she claimed she had erased part of the tape by mistake."

"“Her explanation was that she was listening to the tape and … the telephone rang,” said Wine-Banks. “So she kept her foot on a pedal, pushed the wrong button. She pushed record instead of off and reached for the phone.”"

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Ooops.

[gogeo]

They keep digging in the manure pile, convinced there’s a pony in there.

[jimfree]

I expected Bernstein, the simpleton sidekick, to be this stupid. I’m disappointed in Woodward.

[wally_bert]

I didn’t know that part.

Thank you for the history lesson.

[Kid Shelleen]

I hope an outfit like NewsBusters produces a compilation of all the weasel words and phrases the MSM toadies circulate.
They moved the goalposts from bigger than Watergate, to collusion with Russia, to the possible attempt of obstruction of a non crime.

[conservative98]

Tapes are basically extinct, Bob.

[M-cubed]

he is waiting for someone to come forward with “tapes or new evidence.” <<<

LOL..so am I Bob!!.....but I'm waiting for the tapes and evidence of the whole Obama cabal committing TREASON!!!.....It will make Watergate look like a minor footnote in history......and your on the wrong side of it

[Sequoyah101]

“could not make a determination of obstruction of justice”

Why? Because it was not there. Just more clever words to keep this sh!t alive.

Woodward has become a legend in his own mind. Tapes? In what decade?

[samtheman]

Woodward has become a legend in his own mind. Tapes? In what decade?
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Yup