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It seems like mueller is sending a very strong signal that lying to congress is as serious a crime as lying to the fbi. >> lying to congress is lying to the american people, right? these are our elected officials, and what mueller is doing, its a secondary purpose to message. its not his primary focus. but you better believe that he knows whats happening in january with the house and he is letting them know that i am catching liars. this house has been lied to. but i am with matt on strategy. i ...

President trump asked about manafort, says he doesnt see a problem as long as he tells the truth. do you buy that confidence? >> i dont. i think manaforts as dangerous for the president as is his white house counsel, mcgahn. they are both right with them in terms of the collusion issues. theyre both well placed to hear his musings. his thoughts about whats going on? thats whats really dangerous for the president is manafort was there during the campaign, any offer of any information he would hav...

Docket judge. they are very fast. he does not tolerae any delays. for him to grant this sort of delay pretty much on the eve of the trial indicates that he must have found some compelling reasons, such as theres a lot of new evidence. he wants to make sure that he protects his verdict. if theres a guilty plea, he doesnt want some apeissue they didnt have enough time to prepare. >> im reading about this and reporting it out that the prosecutors going into the manafort trial explicitly said they d...

You look at narrowly with regard to the russian venture here, or do you look it as is donald trump a crook? >> well, the scope of the investigation is fairly broad. it does center mostly around the collusion issues but also on masking, for example, the leaks. so theres four different prongs. my sense, though, is that robert muellers investigation is number one on a faster pace, and number two, broader than even the house investigation at least. and this is a very important and interesting develo...