INTERVIEW – JOE DIGENOVA – legal analyst and former US Attorney to the District of Columbia
OMAROSA
– White House seeks to prevent Omarosa from releasing more tapes: report
The White House is looking into legal options against former aide Omarosa Manigault Newman after she secretly recorded chief of staff John Kelly in the Situation Room, ABC News reported Sunday.
The administration reportedly wants to block Manigault Newman from releasing any more tapes and punish her for the recording she revealed on NBC’s “Meet the Press” earlier Sunday, which was taped during Kelly’s firing of her back in December.
White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders said in a statement Sunday that the “very idea a staff member would sneak a recording device into the White House Situation Room, shows a blatant disregard for our national security.”
“And then to brag about it on national television further proves the lack of character and integrity of this disgruntled former White House employee,” Huckabee Sanders continued. http://thehill.com/homenews/administration/401498-white-house-seeks-to-prevent-omarosa-from-releasing-more-tapes-report
MUELLER PROBE
– Giuliani: Mueller told us he’d wrap up Trump obstruction probe by Sept. 1
President Trump’s lawyer Rudy Giuliani said Sunday that special counsel Robert Mueller gave him the deadline of Sept. 1 to end his probe into possible obstruction of justice on the part of the president.
“September 1 was the date that Bob Mueller gave me back two months ago … When we were talking about getting his report done, he threw out the date September 1 as a reasonable date to get it done,” Giuliani said on CNN’s “State of the Union.”
“I thought he [Mueller] meant, well that’ll keep us clear of the election. And they did say something like they didn’t want to repeat some of the mistakes that [former FBI director James] Comey made,” he continued. Comey has been slammed by the Justice Department and Democrats for showing poor judgment during the 2016 election, particularly for his decision to announce that the FBI was renewing its investigation into Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton’s use of a private email server while secretary of State just days before the presidential election.
http://thehill.com/business-a-lobbying/401451-giuliani-mueller-told-us-hed-wrap-up-trump-obstruction-probe-by-sept-1
– A majority of Americans have fallen into “Russia fatigue”
A majority of Americans have fallen into “Russia fatigue,” and want the probe into Moscow’s influence in the 2016 ended, according to a new survey provided to Secrets.
The latest Zogby Analytics online survey found that 52 percent of voters believe that “it is time” for investigator Robert Mueller to wrap up his probe. Some 30 percent do not want it ended. https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/washington-secrets/52-want-russia-investigation-to-end-one-third-democrats-agree
