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That could be a challenge being either targeted or removed from that investigation or pursued in some way. im fascinating by how this sort of plays out on obstruction of justice. the collusion angle, which we saw with manafort yesterday is playing out, but weve heard very little in terms of how this will go. i think it will be decided between special counsel mueller and the new incoming attorney general. >> jake, one of the -- one of the items from the exsempt hacet continues to get a fair amoun...

They have people feeding information back into the central command structure. putting more names and more lines on their white boards, adding documents to their binders. we only see it a piece at a time but this is a complex, ongoing investigation with dozens of witnesses and thousands of documents. >> our friend lydia huff post editor joined us from a flash cam. lydia, you were here before these two stories blew up we had a different show planned but i would love your thoughts on the breaking n...

Truthful, he made mistakes and is not going to play ball with this plea deal. we know manafort is facing sentencing because the mueller team said he lied about all these things you mentioned. where does this lead the president? >> this is coming to a end in the sense of all the aspects of an investigation coming towards the close. we are getting the final parts of whatever may or may not be a collusion angle. the special counsel is going after roger stone. if there was any type of criminal consp...

To play ball with the plea deal. now we know manafort is facing facing sentencing on friday. the mueller team says he has lied about all these things. where does this leave the president? >> this is coming to an end in the sense of all aspects of the investigation are coming towards the close. we are getting to the final parts of whatever may or may not be a collusion angle. we know the special counsel is going after roger stone. thats where jerome corsi came in. if there was terminal conspiracy...

Those hacked e-mails during the presidential campaign. here is roger stone speaking of michael caputos radio show yesterday. >> anybody who has followed jerry corsis interviews and his own podcasts over the last couple of weeks realizes that hes been under relentless pressure, evidently, to say what the special counsel wants him to say. he told nbc news. my crime is i didnt tell them what they wanted to hear. this idea that jerry corsi could implicate me, theres simply no evidence whatsoever. >>...

Where the crime is yet. one possible crime is that if this is being done by people overseas to provide a benefit for the campaign, it would be, in essence, an illegal campaign contribution. it is also possible that there is some sort of possession of stolen property theory that the government could be working on. it is also possible that there are obstructive crimes. weve seen reporting that, you know, stone may have been in touch with credico and other people trying to influence what they would...

Security clearance. do other msnbc people have security clearances? how did somebody limited intellectually get to be the cia director in the first place. no one on the left tried to explain those things. they started yelling about how brennans rights were violated. >> he know the russian collusion angle. thats what trump is trying to silence. >> nixonian type practices of trying to silence anyone who is criticizing this president. >> the larger implication is the jeopardy to our first amendment...

University professor and msnbc contributor. let me start with you, frank figliuzzi. one former very senior intelligence official said to me, this is the closest weve come to being straight-up unamerican this this presidency. >> so, for those americans who think, hey, this is some inside the beltway politics that doesnt affect anyone without a clearance, let me tell you why youre wrong. this strikes at the heart of free speech in our society. now, there are those who are going to say john brennan...

A secret investigation. we really dont know what mueller has. we know that hes doing an obstruction report, which is allegedly going to implicate the president. we know he is still investigating the collusion angle. i think whats going to matter here is when he finds the trump campaign did collude with the russians or didnt collude with the russians. every time mueller drops something, it seems to dominate the news coverage because no one saw it coming. hes already indicted the former campaign c...