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Weeds a little bit -- >> go there. >> thats the piece of evidence that makes a conspiracy that makes a collusion case by itself, it doesnt. if you put it together with this, that the polling information was given to the russians to enable them to use their hacked information that theyre feeding into facebook and other social media things to move the electorate in certain critical states, now you have, if this is true, the trump political operatives working in collusion with the russians to move ...

Do you see it the same way? do you see all of these cases that the special prosecutor robert mueller that hes been building up, whether it be with general flynn, michael cohen, whether it be the russians that have been indicted? george papadopoulos? do you see that theyre simply entrapment and have nothing to do with the collusion case? >> no. this entrapment claim is a diversion by giuliani and company. heres the thing. general flynn had a really strong adept criminal defense team working for h...

Of business, but it seems like if the mueller probe and based on the interest in corsi and the ongoing interest in stone and the fact there are rumblings out there about jared and junior, that hes focused on witnesses that can speak to the collusion case. is manafort still useful on the collusion question? >> manafort could be very useful. hes sort of like forrest gump. he pops up in a lot of different times and places. pops up in ukraine. pops up with different people that are interesting to mu...

Public opinion. the president is fighting in the court of public opinion. hes going to keep that bar at collusion and say anything short of that just falls short. the president believes he can probably weather an obstruction case. he believes he can weather a campaign finance case but he knows his support collapses, both congressionally and among the american people if a collusion case is built against him. if they evidence does appear, he may have to pivot. and well see where that goes. >> ther...

>> i wish i knew, john. one thing thats important to note, these documents arent about laying out muellers case for collusion or obstruction but getting these two men, michael cohen and paul manafort sentenced. theyre only talking about what those judges need to know. we want to know whether they have a collusion case or obstruction case and these documents arent even contained in them and then, of course, there are things that are redacted because they hint at things that are part of ongoing in...

Related to the ramt of time that was spent trying to wheelings and dealings with the russians to, have either their -- to get them in the campaign early and how long those conversations went until earlier this year. and so its, you know, mueller is not messing around. this is a collusion case. its not a process case. this is not a lying to investigators case. there is substance there, and we have seen it this week. >> okay, before i get to you, im going to ask everyone else. this is what everyon...

Cant forget mike flynn at the beginning of the week and what we sort of could gain from all that blacked out text to what happened today. i know the southern district of new york case is important. i know its scary to have a president as an unindicted co-conspirator in a case like that. its not -- it is -- it doesnt have the impact on our american democracy like the rest of the stuff related to the amount of time that was spent trying to have wheelings and dealings with the russians, to have eit...

Far from out of the weeds here. communicator. could she thrive in this new theres a reason that the role? >> anything is possible. president keeps going back to you know, she is good at this notion of collusion or the lack thereof, right? fielding questions, and towing half the laws in the courtroom -- the other half of the line, and staying on the laws are in the court of public opinion, and the message. this, unfortunately, is not a president is very much fighting in the court of public opinio...

President did tell us. thank you. i would just note, jim, if people missed last hour, you asked peter navarro on the presidents team, and he completely dismissed the john kelly news, saying no, no, hes not going anywhere. the only person we have heard from on the record from the presidents inner circle. well see. >> as always, its up to the president. hell make the final call, maybe by twitter. joining us is cnn political commentator, robby mook, and cnn political commentator and former special ...

We have a long way to go on the collusion case, dont we? >> i think you are right. the obstruction investigation is a much smaller, more narrowly tailored investigation that probably was more or less wrapped up over the summer. the only thing outstanding for that one is whether or not they will interview donald trump. the collusion does seem to be ramping up in some respects and i do think that with these sentencing mem ran dumb that were going to get this week, and that also includes michael co...