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To medieval times. >> with the mote and the gate lowering. >> a guy with a torch. >> but now its 2019. >> after 675 days, 2,800 subpoenas issued, 34 people and three companies indicted, former special counsel robert mueller has returned to the private sector after concluding his investigation of the president back in march. mueller rejoined wilmer hail, a law firm known for recruiting former high level government officials. he has worked for the firm since 2014 before taking on the special couns...

Outlining the investigations scope signed by then deputy attorney general rod rosenstein. it is dated several months after the special counsels appointment and as of now its contents are secret raising big questions on why it was necessary in the first place. byron york is the chief political correspondent for "the washington examiner". good morning. you are always so good at laying this out for us, what we need to know. what does this tell us? >> its a little mysterious. go back to may 17th, 20...

New york. day 789 of the trump administration and against all we dont know about the mueller investigation and a subsequent mueller report, just today some newly released documents are revealing details about the earliest stages of the investigation into this man, former trump lawyer michael cohen. hundreds of pages of court documents concerning cohen were unsealed today. its a lot. it shows muellers team start requesting search warrants just two months after robert mueller was appointed to the ...

>> i think we might rerack that because this is pretty important. do we have the ending of that? this was august 2017. mueller was in office for a few months and we reported there was a state looking at this way of charging that would go around donald trump as a person who controls federal pardons. lets take a look. >> tonight for first time we can report new finds from an msnbc legal investigation into the other way this russia probe could continue even after pardons. through prosecution for st...

Rallying cry. >> fake news and the russian witch hunt. >> since may of 2017. mueller has been investigating possible conspiracy between russia and the trump presidential campaign. >> no collusion. >> to say it one time again and i saw it all the time. there was no collusion. i didnt know the president. there was nobody to collude with. >> president trump supporters in congress voiced impatience. >> whatever you got. finish it the hell up. >> voters spoke loudly in a 2018 midterm. sweeping democr...

Meanwhile, here is a reminder of what the president told the new york times about robert mueller possibly looking into his finances. this was in july 2017. >> mueller was looking into your finances, your familys finances unrelated to russia. is that a red line? >> would that be a breach of what his actual -- >> i would say yes. >> our guests remain with us, peter baker, maya wylie and tal kopan. you were in the room for the very recording. fast forward to now, a lot of talk on this broadcast and...

He sees it. meanwhile, here is a reminder of what the president told the new york times about robert mueller possibly looking into his finances. this was in july 2017. >> mueller was looking into your finances, your familys finances unrelated to russia. is that a red line? >> would that be a breach of what his actual -- >> i would say yes. >> our guests remain with us, peter baker, maya wylie and tal kopan. you were in the room for the very recording. fast forward to now, a lot of talk on this b...

Meanwhile, here is a reminder of what the president told "the new york times" about robert mueller possibly looking into his finances. this was in july 2017. >> mueller was looking into your finances, your familys finances unrelated to russia. is that a red line? >> would that be a breach of what his actual -- >> i would say yes. >> our guests remain with us, peter baker, maya wylie and tal kopan. peter, im reminded you were in the room where it happened for that very recording. fast forward to ...

Long process. it appears to be coming to a close. sources tell fox news the president and presidents attorneys are at the point now where theyre comfortable submitting written answers to questions to the special counsel robert mueller. negotiations have gone back and forth about an interview, what would happen, what the president would answer going back to november 21 of 2017. mueller first wanted a lengthy sit-down interview agreeing to just written answers to questions. he also had a list of 4...

Counsel needed to be brought in. >> i think rod was looking for somebody of unimpeachable integrity and deep and abiding respect for the law whose judgment really cant be questioned. when you make that list, bob muellers name has got to be at the top. >> rod rosenstein today took himself out of overseeing the russia investigation, turning that over to robert mueller. >> if you were looking for someone who was going to move into a difficult and politically charged situation and give people a sens...