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There are suggestions about who should be in muellers way and what it could be about and why we understand that. and, of course, we are going to have a lot of our suggestions answered later this week with the cohen and manafort memos that are coming out. well look at what we know, what case mueller seems to be laying out and well connect the dots. >> look forward to na take a lo at that in nine minutes from that. theyre protesting what is clear-cut dominance by the legislature to undermine the...

Who does get trumps stamp of approval? roger stone for refusing to testify against limb. >> theres no circumstance under which i would testify against the president. i would have to make things up and im not going to do that. >> thats one loyalist as two key deadlines are fast approaching in the mueller probe. court filings related to michael flynn and paul manafort are due this week. they could reveal critical information about the case mueller may be building. days after pleading guilty to l...

>> lisa: even if the written format, what sort of legal liability does president trump face in answering these questions? >> sean: listen, if you have a prosecutor who is trying to catch you can say you fluid answering the question. >> lisa: do you think the case mueller? >> sean: im concerned. mueller is a republican and mueller was a conservative. but when you build your team around a whole bunch of democrat donors or hillary clinton donors that lean left, you lose the appearance of impartiali...

The motivation on the trump legal side is to keep trumps name out of manaforts mouth? >> absolutely. >> which is sort of a quid pro quo or whats moan as the 3-6 mafia defense. i want to ask you about this real big news that we got late friday that i think some people have missed with everything else going on. let me read from andrew weissmann, saying whats not in manaforts statement of defense is it doesnt rely on the information obtained from manafort in the course of his proffer sessions, and ...

Every time giuliani speaks, he makes the argument that you want -- what is the official, under oath story of this? you want somebody under oath because you would hope they would tell the truth so that they wouldnt incur the wrath of the folks who theyre being interviewed by. >> i think hes helping the case mueller needs to talk to the president. he keeps saying different things. if nothing rudy says can be believed, you need to talk to the president. all right. well keep an eye on that. rudy giu...

Trump lied about this while under investigation, repeatedly lied to the public, putting out a false story, knowing robert mueller was looking into this, it could loom large on the obstruction of justice case mueller is believed to be assembling against the president. he cant indict the president, but he may present a report to congress on obstruction, and it could be huge. lastly, some are suggesting this is the smoking gun of collusion. i dont agree with that. my reporting on this meeting sugge...

Subpoena negotiations or his interview negotiations on behalf of the president in public. at the end of the day, the president is either going to agree to set for an interview, in which case there will not be a subpoena, there will be an interview at some point. or theres not. in which case mueller will decide are we going to subpoena this guy or not, are we going to litigate it, proceed without the presidents interview? nothing giuliani says on television matters a whole lot to it. its all just...

My answer would be yes. >> he did invoke them, telling a journalist, dont show this picture of me. if you show that picture, i will kill you, the kgb will kill you the g rrk u will kill you as well. that alone could be tough talk, but combined with the case mueller is making makes this a pretty interesting individual. >> i agree. remember, their number one client in ukraine was victor yan kovich. he was support in the other ways by putten. in 2010 he wanted him to win the election. russian oilga...

Indictments that have been handed down, a lot of guilty plea, the attempt to make it look like a witch-hunt is more difficult. but the talent of donald trump in telling repeatedly the big lie that there were spies in his campaign, that theres nothing there, theres no obstruction, that talent is holding him pretty well. but the big difference is that ken starr was out there digging stuff up looking for something. in this case mueller is looking for stuff and in the meantime, hes being undermined ...

To see files on the informant before trump sits down with mueller. joining me now former watergate prosecutor nick acker man, nbc analyst danny savalos and professor of law at georgetown law school paul butler. nick, you have rudy giuliani saying he wants to see the classified information for one purpose only -- to show it to donald trumps attorneys and derail the mueller investigation. >> exactly right. this is precisely what happened during the watergate investigation. john dean sat in on the ...