The Mueller probe isn't supposed to investigate stuff like this Nominally right that's not the job of them But they have a mandate to be able to pursue Anything that comes up over the course of the investigation if they need to expand the scope. The third one is more confusing Oh god Let's just call it unrelated crimes Miscellany crimes Just just random crimes Okay, so these things these unrelated crimes serve two functions first they could end up Showing serious criminality on the part of someone the president or someone close to him. Second they Could and have been used by the probe To go after people who they want to flip Who they want to turn into states witnesses to testify against other people It's
Today, special counsel Robert Mueller dropped over 20 criminal counts against former Trump campaign official Rick Gates, just days after Gates agreed to a plea deal. Mueller's Russia probe has a lot of people and moving parts, so how do we keep them all straight? Vox’s Zack Beauchamp tells Sean Rameswaram not to focus on all the names and places or it might start to sound like “We Didn’t Start the Fire.” We update the Billy Joel song to explain Mueller’s investigation.
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