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It. the bottom line is there are only three questions that most americans want the answer to. was there obstruction, was there collusion and would donald trump have been indicted had he not been the president of the united states? those are three pretty simple questions but i dont think hell -- i dont think youll get the answers to those tomorrow sadly. >> lets bring in national political reporter for nbc news, carol lee, with lingering questions that mueller is likely to face. specifically, why...

Invoke his fifth amendment right and donald trumps lawyer declined to comment on whether he did that. but as i said earlier, chairman schiff said you know that he intends to dive into evidence of the pieces of evidence that relate to the collusion portion of the investigation. he specifically mentioned this instance. this trump tower meeting so were likely to see this come up. however, you know, whether robert mueller decides to add anything to what we dont know is a real open question and seems...

Stalemate and build a bipartisan consensus on a number of issues, one being immigration. while administration officials wont say what president trump might announce next week, they have said that he will offer a way forward on the shutdown. >> abby, thank you. abby philip at the white house. lets get more on this. congressman, thanks for joining us. the president says he never spoke to roger stone about wikileaks. we know from the mueller indictment that a senior trump campaign official was dire...

This way suggests they must have a pretty good reason for thinking that hes lying. >> yon dean, if the conventional wisdom is, you know, true and the collusion portion of the investigation is nearing an end, why would manafort mess up a federal plea deal? he obviously had some experience with this, does this make sense to you? >> it makes absolutely no sense, anderson. in fact as alluded to earlier its stupid. hes not going to get this opportunity again. it already appears he gave a lot of hour,...

John how to phrase this question but how frigging stupid is this guy? >> very frigging stupid. to get a cooperation agreement and the chance for a lower sentence was very important to him. especially since hes 70 years old. to throw that away, to throw that benefit away by continuing to lie to the special counsels office is incredibly reckless and self-defeating. now, in the filing today, manaforts lawyers said they disagree. >> he said he wasnt lying. >> he wasnt lying. but the fact that muelle...