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Accomplish for them? >> i dont know. i think its a mistake to keep hammering this because i think if you look objectively at what has happened here, i really dont think mueller is trying to make a collusion case against the president. i think mueller is pursuing his original objective which is russias interference in the election of which the collusion thing was one strand. my view of it is, hes interested in manafort because of manafort, not because of trump and collusion. the reason i say that...

Justify how the same or similar cases have been handled on the two different categories of people. im not as convinced that what we started with was russian collusion. i really think what we started with is russia interference in the election and that is still -- >> sean: that is what they called it, right? >> supposed to be at least -- well, no. they said the collusion was one thread of an investigation into russias involvement in the election. im pretty convinced that mueller is not pursuing a...

Ken, i want to start with you. this is an explosive, explosive claim from omarosa that the president knew about the wikileaks emails before wikileaks released them. she is not offering any proof, but she certainly is implying, ken, that she has handed that stuff over to robert muellers team. and just in case you are wondering or questioning whether she actually was interviewed by robert mueller, i checked in with one of her lawyers. one of her lawyers did confirm that. >> right. i mean, this goe...

Oppression by taking a knee." his message, stay strong brothers. andy scholes, remind us where colin kaepernick is in all of this. he wasnt resigned, theres been debate about that. >> of course there has been. hes the one who started it and he had to fall on the sword for the whole thing and if you look at it now its silly the way his nfl career ended because he wasnt the only one kneeling, he was just the guy that started the movement and the fact he doesnt want to have a job in the nfl, its no...

Two items, the collusion case and the obstruction case. what would the president consider sitting down two with the approval of his attorneys? how much has this conversation evolved? >> well, i think we have to take everything rudy giuliani says with a grain of salgt. and when were only hearing about these conversations from him, it is very unclear to me how accurate he is in relaying those conversations. but if it is true that giuliani is considering a response to mueller and that they are cont...

Telling the truth and obviously you can imagine that it breaks down a little bit along partisan lines who thinks cohen was lying to them and who thinks cohen is lying now, but at the very least we know that he was asked in these congressional situations whether or not the president knew about the trump tower meeting beforehand. >> right, and our understanding is that he said no, which was the party line at the time. so for him now to be coming out and saying that he has this bit of evidence, tha...

Down a little bit along partisan lines who thinks cohen was lying to them and who thinks cohen is lying now, but at the very least we know that he was asked in these congressional situations whether or not the president knew about the trump tower meeting beforehand. >> right, and our understanding is that he said no, which was the party line at the time. so for him now to be coming out and saying that he has this bit of evidence, that just so happens to be really the closest thing to a smoking g...

Russians and that would be a collusion case. >> michael, based on your reporting, is this something that the special counsel wants to talk to the president about? does he want to talk about him about his twitter feed? >> in march, the special counsels office was trying to make the argument to the presidents lawyers about why he should sit for an interview and they went through the different subjects they wanted to ask him about as a way of sort of getting him to do it. and several of them relate...

To criticize them. he is an official of the u.s. government and he cant use his twitter account to punish americans. so i think theres a lot here that is going to help mueller in prosecuting this case. >> jill, what does this latest development, again, "the new york times" reporting here, what does this tell us about where the mueller probe stands right now? >> well, it certainly, this focuses on obstruction of justice. and i think the case for obstruction has been clear for over a year, its ver...

Violations of criminal law are the things that hes charged with, among others is acting as a foreign, unregistered foreign agent, by the way. so, you know, were not going to see the full story necessarily in the criminal trials. what we want to look at i think are some of the indictment thats mueller is bringing against the russians which will lay out some of the background of what was going on and where we can connect those dots remains to be seen. >> my understanding is some of these five witn...