3 News Stories You Should Read Today – 4/13/2018
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Mueller report on Trump obstruction takes shape ahead of schedule
Rachel Maddow shares new NBC News reporting that because Donald Trump has backed out of the idea submitting to an interview with Robert Mueller, the investigation can proceed to the next phase, closing the obstruction part of their inquiry with a focus on four key findings in Trump’s attempt to obstruct justice.
Trump’s Lawyer May Have Stored ‘Gold Mine’ Of Recorded Conversations: Report
The FBI raided Michael Cohen’s offices earlier this week, seizing his computers and phones.
An unidentified Trump adviser told the outlet that Cohen, who has worked with Trump for decades, had a “proclivity to make tapes” of private conversations and store them digitally.
The Post said it was unclear if Cohen had taped any conversations with Trump. But a source said it was Cohen’s “standard practice” to play recordings for the president that he’d made of other top advisers. New York is a one-party consent state, meaning Cohen could legally record any phone conversation without the other person’s knowledge.
Experts described the recordings as a potential “gold mine” in interviews with the Post, saying that if they exist and are admissible in court, they could prove extremely valuable to prosecutors.
Trump Meets No. 2 DOJ Official as Aides Seek to Defuse Tensions
Rosenstein came to the White House to assure Trump that the Justice Department was cooperating with Republican congressional investigators examining the origin of the FBI’s inquiry into ties between Trump’s presidential campaign and Russian operatives, according to three people familiar with the matter.
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