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Cohen Visits Capitol Hill Ahead Of Testimony And Robert Mueller Report | The Last Word | MSNBC

"'Our President Is An Idiot’: Trump Facing Both Sides Over Emergency Declaration | Deadline | MSNBC "

MSNBC
Published on Feb 21, 2019

Pres. Trump's former lawyer will testify before three Congressional committees next week as the White House braces for the Mueller report. Rep. Jim Himes
of the Intelligence Committee previews Cohen's testimony and Rep. Hakeem Jeffries says Dems might subpoena the Mueller report if it is not made public.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rvz_WoVeFlI

Congress to subpoena full Mueller report if AG Barr withholds parts, Blumenthal says
Mueller could issue his report as early as next week, per media outlets
Posted Feb 21, 2019 11:11 AM
Griffin Connolly
https://www.rollcall.com/news/congress/congress-to-subpoena-full-mueller-report-if-ag-barr-withholds-parts-blumenthal-says

Michael Cohen Agrees to Testify Next Week, Setting Stage for a High-Stakes Hearing

Michael D. Cohen leaving Federal District Court in New York in December. Lawmakers said they would limit the scope of their questioning.
Stephanie Keith for The New York Times
By Nicholas Fandos Feb. 20, 2019
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The committee’s chairman indicated that after consultation with the Justice Department and the House Intelligence Committee, Mr. Cohen would not be allowed to discuss matters related to Russia, including a proposed Trump Tower project in Moscow under scrutiny by the special counsel, Robert S. Mueller III.
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The public hearing is one of three sessions Mr. Cohen will have next week on Capitol Hill. He is also scheduled to participate in private deposition-style interviews with the House and Senate Intelligence Committees, where he is likely to be pressed on matters pertaining to Russia and other potential efforts by foreign powers to gain influence over Mr. Trump. Mr. Cohen pleaded guilty in November to lying to the two intelligence committees about the Trump Organization proposal to build a skyscraper in Moscow.
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/02/20/us/politics/michael-cohen-testimony.html

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Here's Why A Short Mueller Report Could Actually Be Bad News For Trump | The 11th Hour | MSNBC

MSNBC
Published on Feb 21, 2019

Could a short and concise Mueller report just end up being a road map for further investigations
into Trump officials and the 2016 election? We talk to Nelson Cunningham and Jill Colvin.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SNNncB2LGac

Why now? Mueller has the Stone case just started. Then there is the SCOTUS and DC circuit
case going with Mueller trying to get evidence from a state owned corporation. See

Six Experts Explain Robert Mueller’s Impending Supreme Court Showdown

Our panel of Muellerologists weighs in.

Written by Benjamin Wofford | Published on December 26, 2018


Robert Mueller pictured in 2013. (Photo courtesy UPI/Kevin Dietsch via Creative Commons License.)

During the 18 months of the Special Counsel Robert Mueller‘s investigation, a cottage industry has emerged to decipher the famously tight-lipped former FBI chief’s ongoing probe: Call them the Muellerologists. We’ll be checking in with them periodically, as the investigation approaches its climax (or so we think).

In this edition: The mysterious case of the secret subpoena.

So far, perhaps no plot note in the Mueller probe has proved more intriguing, or furtive, than a sealed federal court case believed to be related to the Mueller probe; the parties in the case, and the specifics of the legal conflict, remain secret. The existence of the case, known simply as “In Re Grand Jury Subpoena,” was first reported by Politico .. https://www.politico.com/story/2018/10/24/mueller-investigation-grand-jury-roger-stone-friend-938572 .. in October, leading some to speculate that President Trump himself may have been subpoenaed .. https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2018/10/31/has-robert-mueller-subpoenaed-trump-222060 . That now seems unlikely: In December, a ruling .. https://www.cnn.com/2018/12/18/politics/mueller-mystery-grand-jury-appeal/index.html .. from the DC Circuit Court of Appeals—taking extraordinary measures of secrecy .. https://talkingpointsmemo.com/muckraker/extraordinary-measures-keep-a-possible-mueller-linked-case-secret , including clearing out the courthouse during the hearing—offered a glimpse into the proceedings, with an unnamed company (“the Corporation”) owned by a foreign country (“Country A”), which was found in contempt for resisting a grand jury subpoena.

This week, the drama intensified, when the Supreme Court signaled an interest in the case .. https://talkingpointsmemo.com/muckraker/supreme-court-secret-mueller-grand-jury-case . In a court order issued Sunday, Chief Justice John Roberts granted a stay to the contempt finding, and requested briefings on the case by December 31. Before the Supremes had a chance to weigh in, we had asked our panelists: What’s going on in the mysterious case? And what does it tell us about the direction of the Mueller probe?

More - https://www.washingtonian.com/2018/12/26/six-experts-explain-robert-muellers-impending-supreme-court-showdown/

You've got the Corsi stuff going on. Why now? The only thing people can get to is Rosenstein going, and Barr
arriving. A reminder that Barr is an old friend of Mueller's, and has testified he will release as much of the
report that rules will allow. He also has a reputation of being a respectable, stand-up guy. As Rosenstein.

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Meet The Mueller Prosecutor Who Scares Trump More Than Mueller | The Beat With Ari Melber | MSNBC

MSNBC
Published on Feb 11, 2019

In a special report, MSNBC Chief Legal Correspondent Ari Melber examines the tactics of a hardball Federal Prosecutor on Special Counsel Mueller’s team, Andrew Weissmann, who many refer to as Mueller’s “legal pit bull”. Melber breaks down how Weissmann honed his hardball strategy in the Enron investigation, one of the most far-reaching, aggressive and controversial prosecutions in modern American law and how he built a reputation of effective and controversial prosecution, by charging targets that many prosecutors avoid: like a defendant’s own family members.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1M_CSsQas60

Related:

JimLur - Senate Intelligence Committee Democrats Dispute Claims That Russia Probe Found No Collusion
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How Manafort’s 2016 meeting with a Russian employee at New York cigar club goes to ‘the heart’ of Mueller’s probe
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The Aug. 2, 2016, encounter between the senior Trump campaign officials and Kilimnik, who prosecutors allege has ties to
Russian intelligence, has emerged in recent days as a potential fulcrum in special counsel Robert S. Mueller III’s investigation.
P - It was at that meeting that prosecutors believe Manafort and Kilimnik may have exchanged key information relevant
to Russia and Trump’s presidential bid. The encounter goes “very much to the heart of what the special counsel’s
office is investigating,” prosecutor Andrew Weissmann told a federal judge in a sealed hearing last week.
https://investorshub.advfn.com/boards/read_msg.aspx?message_id=146823923

From video:

What Robert Mueller Learned From Enron
The patient, sophisticated and very aggressive prosecution of the energy giant could signal how he will handle the Russia investigation.
by Jesse Eisinger July 13, 2017, 5:32 p.m. EDT
https://www.propublica.org/article/robert-mueller-russia-investigation-enron-task-force