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McCarthy: Mueller Gave Dems All They Could Hope For

May 30, 2019 by GregC

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Special Counsel Robert Mueller stepped down Wednesday saying the work of his team is done.  And while partisans on all sides latched on to different comments from Mueller’s statement, former federal prosecutor Andrew C. McCarthy says Democrats got everything they could have reasonably hoped for.

President Trump and his allies exulted that Mueller repeatedly insisted the report he issued in April serves as his full testimony and that he didn’t want to distract from that.  But Democrats are seizing on two parts of the statement as fuel for impeachment – both related to Mueller’s refusal to exonerate or indict Trump for obstruction of justice.

“If we had had confidence that the president clearly did not commit a crime, we would have said so,” said Mueller.

Mueller further stated that he was constitutionally barred from indicting Trump due to a long-established policy from the Justice Department’s Office of Legal Counsel, or OLC .

“It explains that under longstanding department policy , a president cannot be charged with a federal crime while he is in office.  That is unconstitutional,” said Mueller.

Mueller’s pronouncement that OLC policy precludes him from charging Trump flies in the face of testimony from Attorney General William Barr, who stated that Mueller told him and then-Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein that he was not relying on the OLC precedent in refusing to make a decision on obstruction charges.

McCarthy, who served as Chief Assistant U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York, says both men may be telling the truth.  He says Barr is referring to a March meeting with Mueller that took place weeks before the Mueller report was submitted to the Justice Department.

“It was at that meeting that Mueller first alerted the attorney general, the deputy attorney general and others that he was not going to make a decision on obstruction.  I think it was at that point that Barr asked him – and he said that Mueller was emphatic on this – whether the OLC guidance was the rationale for not making a decision and Mueller evidently said no, that that was not the reason,” said McCarthy, who suspects Mueller changed his mind on the basis for the rationale during the intervening weeks.

Nonetheless, McCarthy says House Democrats now have more ammunition to push further down the road to impeachment, even though key leaders are not calling for that yet.

“He doesn’t want to testify, but he did give Democrats as much as they could hope for from his testimony, I think, by saying, ‘If I thought there was no crime here, I would’ve said so,’ and it’s up to you Democrats who run Congress to decide what to do about it,” said McCarthy.

Listen to the full podcast to hear McCarthy’s fascinating dissection of how Mueller and Barr appear to differ on what is required for a president to obstruct justice, whether Trump’s worst impulses are criminal even if his subordinates did not obey him, and much more.

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Filed Under: News & Politics, Podcasts Tagged With: democrats, Mueller, news, obstruction, Trump

Private Sector Builds Wall, Economy & 2020, Michael Cries Wolff Again

May 28, 2019 by GregC

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Jim Geraghty of National Review and Greg Corombos of Radio America discuss how the private sector is picking up the slack for the bureaucrats when it comes to border security. They also discuss The New York Times revealing their economic models predict President Trump winning re-election next year. And they laugh as Michael Wolff’s new book on the Trump White House already has it’s most salacious claim shot down by Special Counsel Robert Mueller.

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Filed Under: congress, Economy, News & Politics, Podcasts, polls Tagged With: 2020, border wall, Economy, Mueller, Trump, Wolff

Mueller Hesitant to Testify before Congress

May 21, 2019 by GregC

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Former Special Counsel Robert Mueller and his team are reportedly hesitant for Mueller to appear before the House Judiciary Committee. Concerns over political posturing from committee members may lead Mueller to decline the committee’s invitation. But House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jerry Nadler doesn’t plan to take no for an answer. Matt Fisher reports.

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Dems Fail the Barr, Hillary Still Thinks She Won, Biden Stumbles Badly

May 2, 2019 by GregC

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Jim Geraghty of National Review and Greg Corombos of Radio America pour three crazy martinis.  They marvel at the pathetic attacks on Attorney General Bill Barr from Senate Democrats – from ad hominem attacks to slamming legal positions they held strongly until the past few weeks.  They also groan as Hillary Clinton continues to insist the Russians actually changed votes to cost her the 2016 election.  And they scratch their heads as Joe Biden insists China is not really a competitor to the U.S.

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Filed Under: News & Politics, Podcasts Tagged With: 2016, 2020, Bill Barr, China, Hillary, Joe Biden, Kamala Harris, Mazie Hirono, Mueller, National Review, report, Three Martini Lunch

The Real News from Barr’s Testimony

May 1, 2019 by GregC

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There were plenty of fireworks in Wednesday’s Senate Judiciary Committee hearing featuring Attorney General William Barr, but former federal prosecutor Andrew C. McCarthy says the biggest pieces of news concern the investigation still to come about how the government’s probe of the Trump campaign got started in the first place.

According to McCarthy, the first interesting revelation deals with the infamous Steele dossier, which was a key premise for launching the FBI investigation into possible conspiring between Russia and the Trump campaign.

“They’re looking into not only the origination of the investigation and the origination of the FISA warrants, but, specifically with respect to the Steele dossier, whether we’ve been the victims of Russian disinformation,” said McCarthy, a contributing editor at National Review Online who previously served as a Chief Assistant U.S. Attorney.

He also says Barr revealed another curious fact on Wednesday.

“The attorney general said that he thought it was astonishing that the Obama administration had not given a defensive briefing to the Trump campaign,” said McCarthy.

According to McCarthy, Obama administration officials could have briefed legal experts (like former U.S. Attorneys Rudy Giuliani, Jeff Sessions, and Chris Christie) in the Trump campaign about concerns of Russian infiltration but decided to launch a full espionage probe instead.  That suggests to McCarthy that Trump himself, and not associates, was the target of the probe.

As for the fireworks on Wednesday, Democrats on the Senate Judiciary Committee hammered Barr for declaring no evidence of Trump-Russia collaboration when the Mueller report documents numerous different points of contact.

McCarthy says those contacts might be worth discussing but don’t amount to criminal charges, and that’s the only thing the Justice Department is concerned with.

“It doesn’t mean that other stuff is irrelevant.  It could be highly relevant for political reasons, for intelligence reasons, for a variety of reasons.  But a prosecutor’s job is not to delve into everything that might be interesting.  A prosecutor’s job is to determine whether crimes happened,” said McCarthy.

In addition to accusing Barr of downplaying the conclusions of the report, Democrats also took a different course than they’ve been tacking on other issues.  Today, Barr was accused of not challenging Mueller’s decision not to prosecute Trump.  They also turned very negative on Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein, whom most on the left have vigorously defended for the past two years.

“I think there might be politics going on, I’m not sure.  Like every other prosecutor, I don’t want to get out over my skis on this one,” mused McCarthy.  “I have to decide is it Monday-Wednesday-Friday or is it Tuesday-Thursday because I have to decide.  Is it a ‘We like Rod’ day or a ‘We want to run Rod out of Washington’ day.”

Listen to the full podcast to hear McCarthy explain why all the posturing by senators is largely irrelevant at this point and why the next few weeks will likely bring a whole lot more drama to this debate.

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Media’s Mueller Madness, Freedom On Hold in Venezuela, MSNBC & the 2nd Amendment

May 1, 2019 by GregC

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Jim Geraghty of National Review and Greg Corombos of Radio America are exasperated as Democrats and the media breathlessly report that Robert Mueller disagrees with Attorney General Bill Barr’s summary of the report since the very same story confirms that Mueller did not find the summary inaccurate.  They’re also disappointed as Juan Guaido’s effort to remove Nicholas Maduro from power in Venezuela appears to be a failure.  And they applaud MSNBC for inadvertently explaining the purpose of our second amendment while watching Venezuela’s military crush protesters in the streets.

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Filed Under: News & Politics, Podcasts Tagged With: Barr, guns, Mueller, National Review, Three Martini Lunch, Trump, Venezuela

Rosenstein Backs Barr, Mitch Rejects Cuccinelli, Comey’s Lame Spying Response

April 12, 2019 by GregC

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Jim Geraghty of National Review and Greg Corombos of Radio America welcome Deputy Attorney Rod Rosenstein confirming that Attorney General Bill Barr is conducting due diligence in redacting classified information and grand jury information before releasing the Mueller report and that Barr’s letter to Congress accurately captured the conclusions in the report.  They also scold Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell for letting his personal animosity against former Virginia Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli obstruct President Trump from possibly making a great choice to lead the Department of Homeland Security.  And they react to former FBI Director Jim Comey’s pathetic claim that conducting electronic surveillance isn’t really spying.

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Filed Under: News & Politics, Podcasts Tagged With: Bill Barr, James Comey, Ken Cuccinelli, Mitch McConnell, Mueller, National Review, Rod Rosenstein, spying, Three Martini Lunch

Adam Schiff Rebuffs Calls for Resignation

March 28, 2019 by GregC

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During a House Intelligence Committee hearing on Russian election interference, Chairman Adam Schiff rejected calls from House Republicans to step down after the Mueller investigation found no evidence of collusion between the Trump Campaign and Russia. Radio America’s Christian Whittle reports.

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McCarthy: Mueller ‘Derelict’ for Leaving Question on Obstruction

March 25, 2019 by GregC

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Special Counsel Robert Mueller found no evidence of the Trump campaign conspiring with Russia to influence the 2016 campaign but is apparently more ambiguous about whether the president obstructed justice during the investigation.

According to the letter Attorney General William Barr sent to Congress, Mueller ultimately made no recommendation on whether to there was a prosecutable case on obstruction.

Former federal prosecutor Andrew C. McCarthy says Mueller probably realized quite early in his investigation that there was no evidence of Trump and his team colluding with Russians, but McCarthy believes Mueller dropped the ball on obstruction.

“That was his only job,” said McCarthy.  “Really, if you think about it, his only job was to do what he refrained from doing, which is to draw a traditional prosecutorial conclusion about whether there is enough evidence to indict or not.”

“Mueller was derelict in not drawing a conclusion on the obstruction aspect of the investigation,” he added.

He also shed light on what the job of a prosecutor is.

“Prosecutors never exonerate anyone.  What prosecutors do is they make a decision about whether to charge or to decline to charge, based on whether there’s enough evidence and whether a case meets – in this case –  Justice Department standards,” said McCarthy.

McCarthy also believes the Mueller probe was launched on the faulty theory that Trump fired FBI Director James Comey in May 2017 because he must have something to hide and not because he wanted to exercise powers granted to him in the Constitution.

In addition, McCarthy says the prosecution has delivered it’s report and now the defense ought to get a turn, meaning there ought to be a robust investigation of the former Obama administration officials at the FBI, Justice Department, CIA and elsewhere that pushed the idea Russia and the Trump campaign were in cahoots.

Listen to the full podcast with a legal analyst who actually had this story right from the beginning, as McCarthy elaborates on what should come next, whether Trump critics will find any success continuing the probe in Congress or in the courts, and the damage the media did in pushing the Trump-Russia narrative.

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Filed Under: News & Politics, Podcasts Tagged With: collusion, Mueller, news, obstruction, russia, Trump

Toensing Blasts Mueller Raid: ‘That Is So Corrupt’

January 25, 2019 by GregC

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Longtime Trump associate Roger Stone was arrested Friday and hit with a seven-count indictment, but former Justice Department official Victoria Toensing is aghast at how Mueller arrested the longtime political operative and says even if the Trump campaign was trying to get information from Wikileaks about Hillary Clinton’s hacked emails, that it is not a crime.

Before dawn Friday, a large presence of armed FBI personnel and police surrounded Stone’s Florida home, knocked on the door and ordered him to let them in.  Stone later appeared in federal court on Friday.  He will be arraigned in Washington next week.

Toensing, who served as a deputy assistant attorney general and a federal prosecutor, says the tactics used to arrest Stone were grossly excessive.

“That is so corrupt.  That is reserved for terrorists and drug dealers who are going to flee if they know they’re going to be arrested.  This is not done for a process kind of crime.  I am so offended as a former Justice Department person.

“Where was (FBI Director) Chris Wray?  Where was (acting Attorney General) Matt Whittaker?  How could they have allowed this?” said Toensing.

“This is how conservatives and Republicans are treated, whereas people like (Hillary Clinton associate) Cheryl Mills, who a federal judge said the other day was clear she she had committed perjury, they get immunity,” said Toensing.

Toensing is also demanding that incoming Attorney General William Barr address what she considers the problem of rogue special prosecutors.  She says special counsels regularly tell defendants to testify how the prosecutors want in order to make their legal headaches go away.

“Independent counsels and special counsels have got to stop.  I would hope that one of the first things that Bill Bar does is rewrite the regulations for the special counsel,” said Toensing.

Listen to the full podcast to hear Toensing give multiple examples of defendants harassed by special counsels for refusing to falsely implicate their superiors in criminal activity and to hear her explanation for why it wasn’t a crime even if Stone and the Trump campaign tried to find out what was in the stolen Clinton emails.

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Filed Under: News & Politics, Podcasts Tagged With: indictment, Mueller, Stone, Trump, Wikileaks

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