Appearing March 5th on MSNBC’s The Last Word, former CIA Director John Brennan told host Lawrence O’Donnell he “wouldn’t be surprised” if special counsel Robert Mueller unveiled additional indictments by Friday, March 8th.
A partial transcript is as follows:
LAWRENCE O’DONNELL: Are you one who’s willing to, at this stage of the game, venture a guess about where Robert Mueller is and isn’t in this process and how close he is to filing a report? And beyond that, what would you would expect from such a report?
JOHN BRENNAN: I think Robert Mueller wants to be able to conclude his work and turn over the investigative threads to the Southern District of New York, the Eastern District of Virginia, and other jurisdictions as appropriate as we’re coming up to two years. So I think he does want to conclude that.
I wouldn’t be surprised if for example this week on Friday, not knowing anything about it, but Friday is the day the grand jury indictments come down, and also this Friday is better than next Friday because next Friday is the 15th of March, which is the Ides of March. And I don’t think Robert Mueller will want to have that dramatic flair of the Ides of March when he is going to be delivering what I think are going to be are [sic] his indictments, the final indictments as well the report he gives to the Attorney General.
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BRENNAN: I thought at the time there was going to be individuals who were going to have issues with the Department of Justice. Yes. And I think we’ve already seen a number of individuals who have been indicted, either have pled guilty or have been convicted now. So again, I don’t have any inside knowledge. I’m not talking with anybody in the special counsel’s office.
O’DONNELL: Yes, you do. You have the inside knowledge of what began it all.
BRENNAN: Not about the status of the investigation now, but I do think also if anybody from the Trump family, extended family, is going to be indicted, it would be the final act of Mueller’s investigation, because Bob Muller and his team knows if he were to do something, indicting a Trump family member, or if he were to go forward with indictment on criminal conspiracy involving U.S. persons, that would be, that would basically be the death knell of the special counsel’s office, because I don’t believe Donald Trump would allow Bob Mueller to continue in the aftermath of those types of actions. – read more