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States is subject of his investigation but currently not a criminal target about the president giving an interview to his investigators. robert, thank you for breaking that story. i want to bring in jennifer rogers and renato mariotti, both former federal investigators. break it down, jennifer, whats the differences? >> a subject is someone who is of interest and you want to speak to but isnt someone who you have criminal evidence against who youre about to charge basically. so im not surprised ...

We have him. lets talk about russia and the trump campaign. this guy says yeah, theyre asking me about roger stone, about wikileaks. that indicates to me they are on the scent of the thing in question, was there collusion, was there is cooperation, did the two entities work with each other into completely. as you say about gates, we thought he was there to stitch up manafort. now we have reason to think its all on the collusion side of things with manafort and others. he was involved with this s...

Wikileaks documents. >> thats what struck me. i mean, weve got the reporting yesterday that from a single anonymous source over at cnn gates was told when they were seeking his cooperation, we dont need you for manafort. we have him. lets talk about russia and the trump campaign. this guy says yeah, theyre asking me about roger stone, about wikileaks. that indicates to me they are on the scent of the thing in question, was there collusion, was there is cooperation, did the two entities work with...

Finish line and plumbing the death penalties of everything that is involved here, im sure to trumps great chagrin. were back in tom clancy territory with a very rich complicated brew centering around the 2016 release of the wikileaks documents. >> thats what struck me. i mean, weve got the reporting yesterday that from a single anonymous source over at cnn gates was told when they were seeking his cooperation, we dont need you for manafort. we have manafort. lets talk about russia and the trump ...

I mean, weve got the reporting yesterday that from a single anonymous source over at cnn gates was told when they were seeking his cooperation, we dont need you for manafort. we have him. lets talk about russia and the trump campaign. this guy says yeah, theyre asking me about roger stone, about wikileaks. that indicates to me they are on the scent of the thing in question, was there collusion, was there is cooperation, did the two entities work with each other. >> completely. as you say about g...

In this particular case for a special counsel. and i think hes right because theres an inspector general. he has all the powers that you need and in fact, thats the job of the inspector general to investigate violations of laws or regulations within the department of justice and he even went one step further, steve. he assigned this investigation to the "uss attorney in utah to look into it further which is an additional step that may not be necessary but it is an additional step. and the notion...

Fire mueller, then hed go about doing it. on the other hand, if we see them shrinking from that criticism, its a signal that its out of his mind and he knows by this revelation that it will be an extremely unwise and unpopular move. >> but is it not impossible to read those signals? because youre talking about a week when you see members of the gop go after the fbi, go after a text with a secret society, forgetting if youre in a secret society, you never say it is a secret society. so there isnt...

>> i totally agree. sends a strong message to manafort and others they have a significant case, that the punishment on this, its off the charts. talking $18 million of monies that are laundered, supposedly? it sends that message loud and clear. >> whats your sense, when you look at this, look at this indictment, and listen to what the wus said today and listen to these responses and say, this is evidence that they dont have enough on the, the collusion side of things. they dont have that informa...

Did they rely on a democratic commissioned opposition research document that was soursed by anonymous russians to get a wiretap on trump officials? that would be an enormous black mark on the agency. probably the worst going book to hoover. >> sandra: you end the piece by saying this investigation has a long, long way to go. let us hope with revelations too big for even the media to ignore, which is a really important way and an interesting way to end that piece considering we have seen the medi...

Special counsel robert mueller has reportedly interviewed a figure who may be key to unraveling the collusion side of the russia investigation and that is what bears out, has to do with a strange story reported in "the wall street journal." you may remember this, about a gop operative named peter smith who sought clinton e-mails, presumably the ones she deleted, from hackers before the election. he also sought help from a cyber security expert named matt tate who was so alarmed by the scheme he ...