"And the quid-pro-quo for that was the dropping of sanctions"

[Miles Archer]

Former Watergate prosecutor Nick Ackerman analyzed the direction of special counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation in the wake of this week’s bombshell reports on the White House. Ackerman was interviewed during “All In with Chris Hayes” on Wednesday.

“What we’re dealing with here is a conspiracy to break in to the Democratic National Committee, steal emails, and use those emails to help Trump get elected,” Ackerman suggested. “And the quid-pro-quo for that was the dropping of sanctions.”

“We should say, there is reporting indicating that was the order that was sent sort of top-down on day one, was ‘we want to get rid of the sanctions’ and there was a rebellion in the state department,” Hayes interjected.

“If you go to the other end of the conspiracy, what you have is the June 9th meeting, where you’ve got the email to Don, Jr stating that they’re going to bring all of this dirt on Hillary Clinton up to New York to this meeting from Russia, the dirt is the equivalent of the e-mails,” Ackerman continued. “So all of these emails come up to New York, they realize it’s too hot to handle, the campaign…”

https://www.rawstory.com/2018/02/ex-watergate-prosecutor-lays-muellers-trump-russia-case-quid-pro-quo-dropping-sanctions/