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Rachel Maddow went over this article in lots of details tonight. Hope Hicks is the one who said --the emails would never get out................she is in trouble.
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/01/31/us/politics/trump-russia-hope-hicks-mueller.html
nytimes.com
Mueller Zeros In on Story Put Together About Trump Tower Meeting
Jo Becker, Mark Mazzetti, Matt Apuzzo and Maggie Haberman
12-15 minutes
After President Trump left Hamburg, Germany, in July with the first lady, Melania Trump, he helped draft a news release that has become a focus of the Russia inquiry. Stephen Crowley/The New York Times
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The revelation of the meeting was striking: It placed the presidents son and his top campaign officials in direct contact with a Russian lawyer who promised damaging information on Mrs. Clinton, and an email to the presidents son emerged saying that the information was part of Russias effort to help the Trump campaign. The special counsel is investigating how those revelations were handled in real time in part because the president was involved in his administrations response.
Some lawyers and witnesses who have sat in or been briefed on the interviews have puzzled over Mr. Muellers interest in the episode. Lying to federal investigators is a crime; lying to the news media is not. For that reason, some of Mr. Trumps advisers argue that Mr. Mueller has no grounds to ask the president about the statement and say he should refuse to discuss it.
What is already clear is that, as Mr. Trumps aides and family members tried over 48 hours to manage one of the most consequential crises of the young administration, the situation quickly degenerated into something of a circular firing squad. They protected their own interests, shifted blame and potentially left themselves and the president legally vulnerable.
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The latest witness to be called for an interview about the episode was Mark Corallo, who served as a spokesman for Mr. Trumps legal team before resigning in July. Mr. Corallo received an interview request last week from the special counsel and has agreed to the interview, according to three people with knowledge of the request.
Mr. Corallo is planning to tell Mr. Mueller about a previously undisclosed conference call with Mr. Trump and Hope Hicks, the White House communications director, according to the three people. Mr. Corallo planned to tell investigators that Ms. Hicks said during the call that emails written by Donald Trump Jr. before the Trump Tower meeting in which the younger Mr. Trump said he was eager to receive political dirt about Mrs. Clinton from the Russians will never get out. That left Mr. Corallo with concerns that Ms. Hicks could be contemplating obstructing justice, the people said.........................
kentuck
(111,098 posts)Corallo is going to be a very interesting interview, I would think?
bitterross
(4,066 posts)Lying to the press with the intent to obstruct justice might be. Also, it might be that it helps make the RICO kind of case Mueller might be pursuing.