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With special counsel robert muellers team. abbe lowell said that the mueller investigators asked kushner about russian collusion, foreign contacts and the firing of the fbi director james comey as well as more. lets dig deeper with our specialists and our analysts. david chelian, kushners lawyer outlined that mueller was asking about these contacts and the firing of comey. it sort of reflects two tracts of this investigation, right? >> without a doubt. the collusion track -- the so-called collus...

Scenario do you get the president of the united states in front of the special prosecutor. >> and is that not under oath and not taking notes which is the conditions that they have complained were completely out of bounds when applied to hillary clinton. >> so joining us on the phone now is former justice department spokesman matt miller. youve been inside the doj. the attorney general having interviewed with the special counsel. it is an intricate web. talk through what it must be like inside t...

Mueller, whos an experienced prosecutor at the federal level, might be looking at a rico charge, criminal enterprise, looking at all these tidbits put together and saying they show an effort to make money along the way to the presidency. >> right. right now it seems like you have two tracks that muellers taking. the obstruction track, and the collusion track. the one that is most dangerous for the president is of course the obstruction track. but in terms of his questioning of paul manafort, ric...

In trouble for lying to his former colleagues in congress and if he simply department answer that question because hes as exposed as he wants to be legally in front of his former colleagues in the house and senate. >> i think jeff sessions -- there are a lot of problems with jeff sessions as attorney general. one thing thats relatively clear on the basis of his behavior is that he wants to keep that job. he doesnt want to go to jail. he doesnt want to perjure himself. i think matt is right about...

Hearings and after and the conduct of jared kushner even after he was inside this white house. what do you make of the conduct of the presidents team after the election? >> theres no question that they are dragging their feet. look, its been more than a year since the election. and still this administration has not really taken any proven steps to prevent another cyberattack from happening in the next election cycle. theres something deeply troubling about the trump administration and its approa...

>> and then another statement for kushner. we dont know that trump wrote that but it sure looks like it because they both dovetail so neatly together. it seems hes ignoring the lawyers and doing all the so-called strategizing on this case. >> jill, you just mentioned jared kushner. i think we think about the collusion track and the obstruction track and having to do with the president and james comey, but it would be possible if someone was conspireing in furtherance of that, was it for the pres...

He not only fired comey, but he came up with this ridiculous statement about the june 9th meeting. >> thats right. >> and then another statement for kushner. we dont know that trump wrote that but it sure looks like it because they both dovetail so neatly together. it seems hes ignoring the lawyers and doing all the so-called strategizing on this case. >> jill, you just mentioned jared kushner. i think we think about the collusion track and the obstruction track and having to do with the preside...

Secretive process of robert mueller. remember, we didnt know for weeks they even executed a warrant on manaforts home. whereas congress had to be much more public in virtual realtime. this play out further and it will be a continuing conflict till we have a resolution where one decides to take the back seat. it wont be mueller. >> quickly at issue is whether or not there was obstruction of justice when the president fired comey. >> exactly. and this revelation makes it clear this is a line of in...

Relationship. this was a very witting relationship. they went to their easy guys first. theyre trying everybody all the time. >> heres the place where harold, having prized haised hi before, he might be wrong on this. the investigation right now, this is proceeding on two tracks. theres an obstruction of justice track and theres a collusion track. >> right. >> if mueller is going to spend a lot of time, the collusion thing could take a lot longer it seems to me than 60 or 75 days to sort out. th...

Are revelations in terms of the fact we now know about them. that we now know about them, put them in the proper place in the obstruction of justice timeline. >> yeah, i really think that todays developments are signaling to us that mueller is moving, perhaps, more quickly than we realize along the obstruction of justice track. it doesnt really explain what hes doing on the collusion track, but well put that aside for now. its looking more and more like he is wrapping up or getting close to the ...