Official representatives of the United States, including the members of this very commission headed by Mr. Mueller

We can let them into the country and they will be present to this questioning, but in this case, there is a

There's another condition on this kind of efforts should be a mutual one

For instance, we can bring up the Mr. Mr. Browder in this particular case

It's not the first time and it won't be the last time

Vladimir Putin is very mad at me

Russia then accused Browder and Magnitsky of tax fraud. He offered to have the people working on the case

Come and work with their investigators with respect to the 12 people. I think that's an incredible offer

Putin's got a real problem here because I put his money at risk and that's why he's so angry

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I'm Jacob Weisberg

At least that's what the president claimed today as an explanation of why he took Vladimir Putin's side in Helsinki on Monday

What he said was I don't see any reason why it would be Russia

What he meant to say he now says was I don't see any reason why it wouldn't be Russia

But he was afraid of committing a double negative

Which reminds me of a true story about Sydney Morgan Besser

Morgan Besser was a professor of philosophy and a famous wit who taught a Columbia University for many decades

One time Morgan Besser was present at a lecture on the philosophy of language by the Oxford philosopher J. L. Austin

Who was visiting Columbia sometime in the 1950s

Austin pedantically pointed out that in English a double negative amounts to a positive

But a double positive never amounts to a negative

From the audience Morgan Besser's voice was heard yeah, yeah

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