Rep. Adam Schiff (D-CA), the top Democrat on the House Intelligence Committee, on Sunday said that special counsel Robert Mueller likely filed charges against either President Donald Trump’s former national security adviser Mike Flynn or Trump’s former campaign chairman Paul Manafort.
CNN reported Friday night that Mueller filed the first charges in his investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 election and the Trump campaign and administration’s dealings with Russia.
On ABC’s “This Week,” Schiff said those charges were likely against “either Mike Flynn or Paul Manafort,” respectively Trump’s former national security adviser and former campaign chairman.
He said his theory was based on “press reporting.”
“We haven’t been informed of who it is, and I don’t think it would been appropriate for Bob Mueller to tell us,” Schiff said.
Asked whether he thinks Trump is under investigation, he said, “I can’t answer that one way or the other.”
“You wouldn’t know whether Robert Mueller is investigating the President?” George Stephanopoulos pressed.
“I can’t comment on that at all,” Schiff said.
He said Trump’s presidential pardon power is not as “absolute as people have been suggesting.”
“The President cannot pardon people if it’s an effort to obstruct justice,” he said, “if it’s an effort to prevent Bob Mueller or others from learning about the President’s own conduct.”
.@RepAdamSchiff to @GStephanopoulos on whether special counsel is investigating Pres. Trump: "I can't answer that one way or the other." pic.twitter.com/yRsS2plpal
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He’s just having fun now. Slightly mean, nasty fun. I like that about him.
Please, please, please let it be Manafort. It couldn’t happen to a more deserving person not named Trump.
Indeed. I just had a pang of the memory of fitzmas the giddy and the dismay. Let’s hope this plays out differently.
The Times, the Post and NPR still refuse to go with the story. Seems like they havent been able to confirm. Have the others been punked?
That’s been my big concern, that the reporting is wrong. NBC confirmed ithe CNN report through their sources, but they could be the same sources. The one thing everyone who has ever worked with Mueller seem to agree upon is that the leak did not come from Mueller’s team.