Special Edition: Shane Harris and Paul Rosenzweig on the State of Things Today

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🗓️ 31 August 2017

⏱️ 47 minutes

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In the past 24 hours, the Financial Times reported that Russian lobbyist Rinat Akhmetshin testified before Robert Mueller's grand jury; Politico carried that the Mueller team is cooperating with the New York Attorney General to investigate Paul Manafort; and the Wall Street Journal broke that the President's lawyers have provided memos to the Special Counsel arguing that the president cannot commit obstruction of justice and questioning Jim Comey's credibility. Shane Harris and Paul Rosenzweig joined Susan Hennessey and Benjamin Wittes to discuss the recent developments.

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1:06.0	Back in June, lawyers for President Trump
1:10.0	met with the special counsel Bob Mueller and his team.
1:14.0	During these exchanges, essentially made a couple of arguments
1:18.0	that they presented in the form of legal memo.
1:22.0	The first was arguing that the President could not have committed
1:26.0	obstruction of justice in the firing of Jim Comey.
1:30.0	Second, there was another memo in which they laid out an argument
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