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News, analysis and interviews with politicians and observers. News, analysis and interviews with politicians and observers. Damaging. Both the combination of the Michael Cohen revelations and also the fact that mueller is still going. Its causing a lot of people around the president to worry, and theyre also worried about the midterms. Theyre worried mueller might drop something before the midterm elections that could be devastating to republicans. And trump also seems to believe that possibly i...

Says theres going to be an open hearing like this, where you have live tv cameras inside? >> typically we would absolutely expect that kind of coordination and the last thing the dems want to do is compromise or in any way harm muellers inquiry. >> theres another development were watching, sabrina. cnn has learned that the main pollster for the trump campaign, tony fabrizio, he was called to testify last year before mueller and his team on the polling information. we now know that paul manafort,...

Damaging. both the combination of the michael cohen revelations and also the fact that mueller is still going. its causing a lot of people around the president to worry, and theyre also worried about the midterms. theyre worried mueller might drop something before the midterm elections that could be devastating to republicans. >> and trump also seems to believe that possibly if he talks, it could bring this investigation to an end more quickly, but theres not necessarily any evidence of that. >>...

You should stiff arm mueller and keep him at a distance. however, at the same time, it does seem that trump and his allies throughout the conservative media and on capitol hill, weve been watching this closely in politico. the rhetoric is escalating. weve been through cycles like this. people may remember the holidays at the end oh of the year, the rhetoric was cranking up and there were predictions that mueller would be fired. that didnt materialize. but it feels like its cresting again, and ma...

Think about the first part of what he said there, in effect john dowds a good man. in effect, thats why hes leaving. >> yeah. he wasnt a vicious enough fighter. its a little confusing, because john dowd did not want donald trump to sit down for an extended, open-ended interview with special counsel robert mueller, fearing that it could become a perjury trap, feeling there was too much risk. he and ty cobb have disagreed over that part of the strategy. ty cobb has been much more open to the idea ...

Years. but he is in fact a very conservative idealogue. he is much more in line with trumps world view and his approach to policy handle the i think outsiders believe. >> i did not mean to say youre hanging with all these people in your social circle. >> i know. >> michael, as we say every so often on this broadcast, robert mueller went to work today. and he is going to work tomorrow. and while all of this continues, so, too, does the mueller investigation. any way you can bring us up to speed o...

Mueller went to work today. and he is going to work tomorrow. and while all of this continues, so, too, does the mueller investigation. any way you can bring us up to speed on your knowledge of the status of said investigation? >> i guess youve got two big issues sort of hanging out there. one of them is when is mueller going to talk to the president, or is he going to talk to the president? are the presidents lawyers going to put up a fight and made it so that mueller has to subpoena the presid...

Head on, hes made it far, far worse. were going to continue to see the russia story line be the dominant story line of his presidency. >> yeah, the russian connection question, peter, what does this request from your opinion here suggest to you about how fast the senate intelligence committee is moving in their investigation so far, this as the trump camp probably worried? >> i think theres now real cooperation between the chairman burr and the minority leader, mark warner. i would see them movi...

Their argument. in this instance, this particular leak does benefit them. it has their entire game plan in there of, the president might want to give an interview. here is the reasons why he cant. here are the reasons why any obstruction charge would be wrong or here is our argument against that. i think that in this case, this leak might benefit them. of course, that past leak of all the questions they might want to ask the president, it depends who is spinning what of who benefits. >> im curio...

>> viewed another way, just think about the first part of what he said there, in effect john dowds a good man. in effect, thats why hes leaving. >> yeah. he wasnt a vicious enough fighter. its a little confusing, because john dowd did not want donald trump to sit down for an extended, open-ended interview with special counsel robert mueller, fearing that it could become a perjury trap, feeling there was too much risk. he and ty cobb have disagreed over that part of the strategy. ty cobb has been...