The videos and tweets tell this chapter of the #SpyLie story best. My impression: this is what a constitutional crisis looks like and the obstruction of justice and abuse of power we witnessed this week indicates the degree of panic being experienced by the targets of the Special Counsel’s criminal probe. Imagine the Trump and Republican actions we are don’t see.
Emmett Flood’s only job is defending Trump in the Special Counsel’s probe. Morning Joe: “… an extraordinary breach of constitutional norms.”
MSNBC: White House attorney Emmet Flood on Thursday attended both classified Justice Department briefings with lawmakers on an FBI source in the Russia investigation, prompting reaction from Democratic Senator Mark Warren.
The illegality of working to discredit a criminal inquiry is breathtaking. We really need indictment to drop as soon as possible. If Trump want the investigations to end, he should stop adding more counts to his list of crimes.
MSNBC: The White House is under fire for sending one of Trump’s Russia probe lawyers to a Department of Justice meeting about Trump’s conspiracy theory that the FBI infiltrated his 2016 campaign without evidence. Special Counsel to 3 congressional investigations, John Flannery, tells Ari Melber Trump and his allies are seeking to “discredit” the Mueller probe, and “that is an outrage, that's a shame and a disgrace, I think it's unethical, I think it may be criminal”.
“It is the craziest shit I ever heard.”
CNN: White House lawyer Emmet Flood attended the start of two classified Justice Department briefings with lawmakers on a confidential intelligence source, adding to Democratic concerns that White House staff were taking part in the briefings on classified information that was related to the Russia investigation.
And this is where the crisis is at today, “of a size and scope beyond Watergate.”