First Charges Filed in Mueller Investigation

[mobeau69]

Source: CNN

Breaking News. Indictments are sealed.



Read more: http://www.cnn.com/2017/10/27/politics/first-charges-mueller-investigation/index.html

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[Wounded Bear]

1. Your "link" to source isn't a link...

[mobeau69]

2. No link yet. n/t

[bathroommonkey76]

3. It will be up soon.

Link to tweet

[Stuart G]

4. Here is a link:

I just tested it...yes this works.... and give it some time to come up...

http://go.cnn.com/?stream=cnn%3Fsr

[mobeau69]

5. Thanks. How sweet it is!

[bathroommonkey76]

7. That is the stream to CNN.

[videohead5]

6. It's on CNN

Right now.

[OKNancy]

8. Link to CNN website

http://www.cnn.com/2017/10/27/politics/first-charges-mueller-investigation/index.html


Exclusive: First charges filed in Mueller investigation
By Pamela Brown, Evan Perez and Shimon Prokupecz, CNN
Updated 8:29 PM ET, Fri October 27, 2017

Washington (CNN)A federal grand jury in Washington, DC, on Friday approved the first charges in the investigation led by special counsel Robert Mueller, according to sources briefed on the matter.

The charges are still sealed under orders from a federal judge. Plans were prepared Friday for anyone charged to be taken into custody as soon as Monday, the sources said. It is unclear what the charges are.
A spokesman for the special counsel's office declined to comment.

Mueller was appointed in May to lead the investigation into Russian meddling in the 2016 election.

Under the regulations governing special counsel investigations, Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein, who has oversight over the Russia investigation, would have been made aware of any charges before they were taken before the grand jury for approval, according to people familiar with the matter.

rest at link

[Stuart G]

9. According to what little I heard, indictments will be announced on Monday..

It was a headline at the CNN link...but we will find out more soon...

[metalbot]

11. Indictments on Friday, announcement Monday

Have a nice weekend, Mr Reality-TV President!

[mobeau69]

26. They need to make the arrest(s) first.

Pick 'em up and get their passports is the next move. I'm sure Mueller has surveillance on the bastards.

[Stuart G]

14. I just heard that Muller has a whole lot of possibilities..

As we know, it could be one, or it could be a few...or many. We will have to wait a few days more.

[PunkinPi]

10. Here ya go...

http://www.cnn.com/2017/10/27/politics/first-charges-mueller-investigation/index.html

[mobeau69]

16. Thank you.

Go Mueller. Kick their asses.

[dalton99a]

40. +1

[drray23]

12. so now we get to play the guessing game until monday.nt.

[BigmanPigman]

13. The smaller fish are the typically the first indictments

and this is going to take a long time they are saying on CNN right now. Maybe they are trying to get people to flip. Carl Bernstein thinks Mueller is going after conspiracy/collusion more than obstruction. Also, Mueller may be expecting people to flee the country.

[Stuart G]

21. a short story about "Carl Bernstein"..and Woodard ...

Sometime after the Watergate scandal hat hit, Woodard and Bernstein appeared at the University of Chicago law school for a short lecture and answer session. It was open to the public and all were invited. A friend and I went. I don't remember the exact date, but I think their first book had been published. After a short talk, question and answers were allowed.
..I got to ask a question which was simply. .Do you think Nixon was nuts ? They did not answer the question because they said that they could not interpret his actions in that way.......Sometime in 74..I think..

A couple of years after that first book, they wrote a second book. I do not remember the name of that 2nd book, but I recall reading a couple of reviews. Basically the 2nd book stated that towards the last month or two of Nixon's time in the Whitehouse...he had gone nuts, talking to the pictures and walls...

[BigmanPigman]

24. Yes, I have read and heard that several times during the last year.

Nixon drank in the evenings so a lot of his actions have been linked to that. I believe he was living with so much guilt that it did indeed effect his mind. He was smart about many things but at the end it caught up with him. I like to think of Poe's The Tell Tale Heart.

[Stuart G]

25. One thing about Tricky Dick....after he left, resigned....you almost never heard from him.

on anything. If I recall, he almost never said anything in public about anything....

I cannot imagine that happening to Drump. But we are not there yet. I sure hope we get there though. Drump deserves the worst. He is such a mean vicious person. The way he talked to the widow, and even yesterday, bringing it up again.. No humanity or sensitivity at all...and never an apology, never

[BigmanPigman]

29. Have you seen Nixon's David Frost interview?

He stuck to his story and dug his heels in deeper. David Frost was so mad. I think it was in 1976.

[Stuart G]

37. Yes I do remember that...Nixon never gave an inch..

But I do recall that after a while, he didn't say much. at least that is what I seem to remember. I don't think he wrote a book about it (I may be wrong) but I do not think he gave many interviews after that one..

But of course, I could be wrong..it was a while ago.. Our family called him Tricky Dick in the 50s..

[BigmanPigman]

41. I still have the newspaper from August when he resigned.

I am going to give it to my neighbor since he said he would love to hang it in his classroom (he teaches High school History). The font is 3 inches and it is yellowed a bit. I was young and felt sorry for him since he cried on TV. My parents said that I would feel sorry for Hitler.

[Stuart G]

44. I have it, the newspaper headlined, "I am not a crook"..but here it is on TV,now..I am not a crook

Here is a moment in history, brought to you by You Tube "I am not a crook".. .back by popular demand...

[marybourg]

64. I used to see him in the Federal Building

in NYC, where he was given his post-presidential offices, with the ordinary federal drudges, to humiliate him. He was always courteous to us worker bees, but his Secret Service detail was not.

[mobeau69]

15. By Pamela Brown, Evan Perez and Shimon Prokupecz CNN - KITV 4 ABC

http://www.kitv.com/story/36705475/exclusive-first-charges-filed-in-mueller-investigation

YES!

[Gothmog]

17. Who was charged?

[mobeau69]

20. Indictment is sealed.

Probably little flipper fish.

[AncientGeezer]

28. You don't know???

[Glimmer of Hope]

18. Tell us now....don't make us wait!

[Madam45for2923]

19. Kicking!

http://go.cnn.com/?stream=cnn%3Fsr

[OliverQ]

22. Guessing it's Manafort.

What happens if Trump pardons?

[mobeau69]

23. The shit hits the fan. n/t

[bearsfootball516]

27. Yeah, if he pardon's Manafort, things will get real ugly

His approval will plummet down to the bare bones of his base, and no higher. Probably mid-20s. We'd start seeing prominent Republicans start trying to distance themselves from him.

[OliverQ]

31. Nah, Republicans won't care if he pardons. They've proven they're complicit and guilty too.

Not to be cynical, but what are the odds this isn't someone in the Trump circle?

[bearsfootball516]

34. That's quite possible

I'm trying to not let myself get too excited, but it's hard not to. Every time something big has broken, it always seems to just sort of fade into the background and not be as big as we thought it would be.

So, I have guarded optimism about this.

[Sanity Claws]

39. I think the NY AG will bring charges on money laundering or other charges

Those charges can be pursued under NY state law too. The President has no authority to pardon state crimes.

[WhoWoodaKnew]

56. Correct

[Wednesdays]

32. What, exactly, does that mean?

Remembering similar rhetoric when Comey was fired.

[bearsfootball516]

36. Bannon said firing Comey was the worst decision Trump has made since taking office

Since it led directly to the hiring of Mueller.

[George II]

35. That's my guess, too. The realtor who arranged his condominium purchase in VA was interrogated...

....last week, and it appears these are Virginia indictments.

The report is that those charged will be taken into custody on Monday.

A pardon would be presidential suicide, even the most zealous republicans won't go for a pardon at this point.

It's going to be a LONG weekend waiting for this to play out!

[George II]

30. Those charged will be taken into custody on Monday.

[Not Ruth]

33. Guessing Ivanka

[L. Coyote]

38. No wonder they have been so busy going after Clinton this week.

Link to tweet

[Dr. Jack]

46. Bwahahahahahahaha!

.......BAWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

[CanonRay]

42. Don't ask me why, just a hunch

but my money is on Carter Page.

[IronLionZion]

43. How Dipshit ought to be feeling right about now

or more like

[Dr. Jack]

45. I spent all day reading right wing news stories

I got distracted at work and spent all day on Politico and The Hill reading stories about uranium deals, Steele, and Republicans attacking Mueller. Honestly, it made my blood boil because it seemed like a massive hit job of old stories, conspiracy theories, and cover ups. Now it all makes sense, they were desperately trying to deflect before the hammer dropped. People in the comments of these "news" stories kept saying "it seems like they are getting worried", "it seems like they are deflecting" and that turned out to be 100% true. The cathartic feeling I have right now is overwhelming. The Trumpster tears are delicious. They sustain me.

[Fred Sanders]

51. I rarely go to Fox website. Only in times like these. The mocking comments to Fox sheeple

are hilarious. Meantime's the sheeple are stunned into silence. Too sweet.

[Dr. Jack]

52. If the Russian trolls and Trump ass lickers are quiet, you know they are spooked

And from what I am seeing, its all quiet in Moscow tonight.

[IronLionZion]

58. Mueller facing new Republican pressure to resign in Russia probe

http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2017/10/27/mueller-facing-new-republican-pressure-to-resign-in-russia-probe.html

Since Fox News is posting this garbage, Mueller must be on to something big.

Other very important stories of national interest on Fox News front page right now:

Married substitute teacher, 26, accused of 'bathrobe man cave sex' with her teen boy student

Wisconsin man gets locked in beer cooler, starts drinking

Dodgers fan scores $9 World Series tickets due to website error

Democrats collude with Russians while Trump colludes with patriotic deplorables

[Stuart G]

47. Question...Will Trump go on TV and say..."I am not a crook" What do you think?

or will he say...I do not lie, I haven't lied, and will never lie.....maybe that is what he will say..eh?

[mobeau69]

49. "People need to know if their president is a crook." - Tricky Dick

[L. Coyote]

54. Trump is the first president to tweet "I am not a colluder."

Then he'll add, "When will they indict Crooked Hillary the Witch?"

Link to tweet

[sprinkleeninow]

61. He may go on tv and say,

"I am not a president."

😆

[L. Coyote]

62. If Trump is now one of the indicted , indeed he may resign, but

he'll do it on Twitter.

[sprinkleeninow]

63. A strong HAHAH! Ooh, that's good. 😆

Screenshot going to the husband.

[Skittles]

66. I really wish it said F*CKING DIE

yes INDEED

[Blue Owl]

48. For once, a reason to look forward to Monday

n/n

[Dr. Jack]

50. An hour later and nothing about this on Fox News

The only Mueller story they have is about why he needs to resign right now, along with the typical stories about Obamacare being a failure and why Hillary Clinton steals the souls of good christan babies in their sleep, or some shit.

[Fred Sanders]

53. Pravda America has the story up now..along with pathetic deflection by their stable of

paid liars.

Still, the impression is of them all shitting their pants.

Long overdue...clean up on all aisles!

[Calista241]

55. i got a box of twinkies that says it's Manafort.

[Dr. Jack]

57. l will bet 100 rubles and a bottle of trump vodka that you are right

[sprinkleeninow]

60. Gave my husband late breaking news at 11:00 b4

he turned in. "Indictments!" Then I said hold the glee. Most likely Manafort.

I'll bet a bottle of Slivovice and homemade Apricot Cheese Kolach. 😜

[workinclasszero]

59. Saturday night massacre incoming?

Saturday Night Massacre
The Saturday Night Massacre refers to U.S. President Richard Nixon's orders to fire independent special prosecutor Archibald Cox, which led to the resignations of Attorney General Elliot Richardson and Deputy Attorney General William Ruckelshaus on October 20, 1973, during the Watergate scandal.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saturday_Night_Massacre

[marybourg]

65. 6 hours later and WaPo still has nothing.

[Skittles]

67. now we know why Trump released the JFK files

anything to distract

[BumRushDaShow]

69. By law, he had an Oct. 26th deadline to make the decision however...

the continued withholding of some items (instead of releasing all remaining stuff per the law) becomes the distraction!

https://www.politico.com/story/2017/10/27/jfk-records-rollout-judge-criticism-244257

[Chemisse]

68. Let the games begin!

Who will it be? Will Trump convince people that Hillary's emails are more interesting than one of his people being arrested? Or will he finally pull out that nuke?