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Criminality, in order to clear her path to the presidency and on the very day he cleared her, he launched the investigation of donald trump meeting secretly with the author of the anti-trump dossier who was on the payroll of hillary clinton and he was off to the races to destroy trump. really, that is the thesis of the book, "the russia hoechst." >> sean: sara, you broken a lot of stories on this program. i am watching a 2005 case that ateven the judge says, we dont care about manaforts taxes. w...

Its nice to have you, paul. lets get through this. first, when you look at what he is facing, what manafort is facing, we have learned his lawyers do not plan to argue in this trial before these jurors that their client is the victim in any way of political prosecution or that he was selectively or vindictively prosecuted. is that important and interesting. this judge, who is going to hear this case and preside over it, said a month or so ago to muellers team about this case, you dont care about...

The manafort case? saying come on, you dont care about manafort. you are just after trump. he wanted to see the scope memo to see what the definition of the scopes whole investigation is. now we understand that he has that. what is in there? joining me now jonathan turley a law professor and attorney. your thoughts -- this is pauls story. he is indicated there could be possible criminal charges brought against fbi and doj members in the hillary clinton case. >> we have to wait to see the report....

>> in the case against paul manafort you said, you dont care about manaforts bank fraud but care about getting information that mr. manafort could give you to reflect on mr. trump and lead to his prosecution, impeachment or whatever. do you agree with the judge there? >> well, you have to break it down into political and legal, okay? politically, the judge gave him quite the tongue lashing and said, you are doing the legal venting. the judge made a strong point to tongue lash them and say, wait ...

This whole investigation is set up on the pretense of protecting democracy and here we have an out of control special counsel in the federal government embued with these people. they are trying to obstruct what he is doing and abusing their authority to do it. and thats what the judge meant by unfettered authority. who holds them accountable? >> weve been warning about this team of democratic can donors. ethical problems that theyve had. and when muellers team is told, "you dont care about manaf...

>> reporter: they pressed to see if they had found new evidence. >> sean: how about redakt being the rest of it. there is reaction and fox news contributor and author of the soon to be released best seller and the scheme to elect hillary clinton and frame donald trump. gregg jarrett, i have never in my life in the manafort case, heard a judge call muellers team liars the way he called them out today and then go on to see what relation it has to do with the special counsel. you dont care about ma...

Manafworts money laundering violations and all of that. what does that tell you? >> it has to do with paul manafort having a birds eye view of what could be conspiracy to defraud the united states. it doesnt get much juicier than this. we get this shady russian operative telling trump junior, i got dirt on hillary clinton. he said i would love this. mueller would love a really good high place snitch. the big question about manafort is why hasnt he pled guilty. hes charged with money laundering. ...

Hiring his attorney general. >> how do you take a job and then recuse yourself? >> day 182 of the trump administration. trump has asked his advisers about his power to pardon aides, family members an himself. >> rex tillerson wanted to quit this summer and called the president a moron. >> day 183 of the trump administration. the headline tonight, sessions discussed trump campaign-relatted matters with russian ambassador. the long suffering and often parodied sean spicer is gone. day 186. for the...

Paint flynn has a liar. why no mention of him? >> the presidents very difficult to interview because he can move very quickly from one issue to the next. and the next thing you know youve been off on a different tangent and we didnt have a chance to focus on flynn. theres so many different issues to talk to the president about and trying to get him to talk about north korea. he tweeted about it that day and didnt get a chance to talk about flynn. he pewent on about manafort and never really addr...

Attorney, not manaforts attorney. what is he doing with this, do you think? >> well, this is one of the strange wrinkles of this case, sort of the -- we heard that earlier statement from the president where he was distancing himself from paul manafort saying he was only with the campaign a very short period of time, despite manafort was his campaign manager so very close to the campaign. then we see trumps attorney involved, making comments on legal matters not related or directly related to his...