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Witness people like carter page brought on and then ended up causing serious problems for them without bringing any benefit i think more professional campaign to flag the concerns up front and said, hey, we dont want any part of this. >> barbara, i think mueller is investigating people of benefit and international edge to win the campaign and they may or may not have realized how illegal the edge would have been. >> you see in the e-mails that are quoted in the charging document where there is a...

Looked like the fbi owned the case, this threat could be ended early on, theyre following him, doing surveillance. the problem is that the life of isis is going to live beyond the demise of isis in syria and iraq. youre going to see because of the internet and social media, people for years if not decades, get inspiration. you see in the charging document hes talking to people on social media and getting inspired to do things like this. if you want an example of why federal investigators worry a...

Theres been two prosecutions, or at least two charges so far brought by the independent counsel. is that correct? >> four individuals charged to, pleaded guilty and two will stand trial. >> have any of them been charged with any linked and/or coordination between the russian goismd and individuals associated with the campaign for president trump. >> the charges speak for themselves. im not going to comment beyond whats in the charging documents. >> is there anything in the charging documents tha...

Believe happened with the president when it comes to mike flynn? are you under the impression or have reason to believe that the president did know that mike flynn lied to the fbi in that 18-day period before the white house fired him, and the reason they gave at the time was that mike flynn lied not to the fbi but to mike pence? >> yes. i think we know theres a significant gap in time. we know that the acting attorney general warned them and we also know in the charging document, mr. flynn made...

Or the special counsel wsh another option is they could sort of hold the indictment for when the president is not in office. but the most likely scenario, i think, where most legal experts agree, is that if the special counsel were to bring a charging document that that probably would then trigger reaction in congress. >> congress. >> but, anderson, it just -- its worth remembering that both leon jaworski, the watergate prosecutor within and starr in the werth. the famous starr with all the dirt...

Were to bring a charging document, that that probably would then trigger reaction in congress. >> but anderson, its worth remembering that both leon gentleman war ski who was the watergate special prosecutor and ken starr in white water, in the monica lewinsky case, both of them submitted reports to congress, the famous starr report with all the dirty parts and all of that, basically they dumped the whole problem in the white house of representatives lap. the big difference in both of those was ...

>> yes, but i think what we also still want to know is underlying all of this, what were the russians trying to do? and mueller may be getting closer to that through this investigation, which is if there was no collusion, if there was no conspiracy, what were the russians attempting to do by there -- with their contacts with people either in the transition and eventually in the administration. >> and thats been the thing about these documents, from papadopoulos to todays charging document, to le...

Whether or not this is something thats impeachable, this is high crime, a misdemeanor that deserves the treatment that that entails. >> wasnt lying one of the articles of impeachment -- >> yes, but i think what we also still want to know is underlying all of this, what were the russians trying to do? and mueller may be getting closer to that through this investigation, which is if there was no collusion, if there was no conspiracy, what were the russians attempting to do by there -- with their c...

She was much lower on the food chain. she may have been very close to the trump family but that did not give her the authority to say, yes, talk to kislyak. you need to do this. >> the reporting that we have about the meeting a day or two after the election when donald trump went to washington, d.c., and he met with president obama and we all saw that image and it was sort of sinking in for everyone that this was what was happening, president obama to president trump. and the reporting we have o...

George papadopoulos. additionally it came after the contacts with the russian ambassador serge kislyak during the republican convention, after the december meeting at trump power involving flynn and jared kushner, which kushner asked about setting up a private communications channel with the trump team and the kremlin. so this transpired after related developments, and prior to many others, including the president allegedly asking james comey to go easy on flynn. his firing then of james comey, ...