David Kurtz
The chair of the House Oversight Committee is preparing to subpoena more than 10 years of President Trump’s financial records from his accounting firm.
The man who self-interestedly objected to President Obama sounding the alarm on Russian meddling during the 2016 election is now blaming President Obama for not doing more to counter the meddling.
First indications that Mueller report has been delivered to Barr.
No indications that anything substantive is about to be released publicly.
Late Update: Attorney General Bill Barr in a letter CNN read on the air is telling Congress he may be able to provide it with more information as early as this weekend.
Maybe it’s just a matter of degree, but I’m not sure I’ve seen President Trump contrast as starkly as he did today his own legitimacy (63 million votes/304 electoral votes in 2016!) with what he portrays as the utter illegitimacy of the investigation by special counsel Robert Mueller (“never got a vote!” as Trump put it).
His attacks on the rule of law are legion at this point, but watch him today and see if he doesn’t have a heightened sense of urgency and an alarming new tone.
Huge tranche of Michael Cohen search warrants made public this morning, albeit heavily redacted, are providing us with new insights into the origins of the criminal investigations into his business and political dealings.
Paul Manafort’s sentencing hearing is about to resume. We should hear the sentence shortly. Live coverage here.