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Figure it out. ive said this before. the american people dont read aristotle every day, but they can figure it out. i would strongly encourage you to put this all to rest, to make a report, a final report public. let everybody draw their own conclusions so we can move on. if somebody did something wrong, they should be punished. but if they didnt, lets stop the innuendo and the rumors and the leaking and lets move on. >> i agree, senator. and earlier, i misspoke. the acting attorney general is m...

General, we were investigating something that related to president -- someone who had a relationship with president bush. i can just orient them theres going to be a story tomorrow that says this. in that particular case, there was no chance that it would effect the investigation. so sometimes judgment calls are necessary. >> if you learned the white house was attempting to interfere with the investigation, would you report that information to the special counsel and to congress? >> well, theres...

Evidence that hes hiding something? >> i wouldnt say that yet. i think thats exactly why we have the investigation being led by robert mueller is to have professional investigators reach those conclusions. president trump also has the highly unusual practice of ripping to shreds documents after hes reviewed them or even signed them in case wheres theyre drafts. there have been press reports that its someones job in the white house to pull documents out of the trash, tape them back together and s...

Investigations. hopefully well get to that the bottom of that. we dont have the conclusions just yet. please stay with me. a new cnn poll revealing who americans blame for the longest government shutdown in history. plus, remember that go fund me collecting money to pay for trumps border wall? well, it reached more than $20 million. well tell you whats going to happen to that money now. and a huge winter storm gripping the eastern u.s. you saw it in boris sanchezs live shot. we have this w...

From "the new york times" reporting and what we can all kind of take in is we dont know any conclusions from it. if this counterintelligence inquiry is still ongoing or was it dealt with when it started in 2017, folded into the mueller investigation, and we waiting for robert mueller, the special counsel, to ultimately conclude his probe to find out what came out of that. we just dont know. the president said if there had been anything to be found, it would have been made public. he insists ther...

Counterintelligence investigation thats part of special counsel muellers probe, how does that effectively change things? >> well, it ends up being a part of the ultimate outcome or the conclusions that are made by special counsel, which kind of leads us down the road towards something like bill barr who we know is the nominee by donald trump for attorney general, his confirmation hearings begin tomorrow, morgan. were all watching it with captivation. we want to know kpa exactly bill barr is goin...

Because we need the conclusions. we should all want that. >> so president trump has been tweeting over the last hour about this story about mueller, about comey. mccabe as well. his first tweet. he says here that the investigation was opened for no reason and with no proof. your former supervisor, special agent. give me the truth on this. how much work would it take and the thresholds to cross into investigating a president from potentially working on behalf of a foreign government against u.s. ...

Justice criminal inquiry, and the second is what you described, which is the counter-intelligence investigation into whether donald trump was unwittingly or knowingly working on behalf of russia. and so "the new york times" reported that the counter-intelligence inquiry had been taken over days after it was opened by robert muellers team, and his prosecutors. its not clear what the current status of that inquiry is, but its possible that in coming weeks and months, when we see the mueller report...

The investigation and status of it now? >> reporter: this is two elements of one investigation. obstruction of justice inquiry, which is a criminal matter, and the counterintelligence investigation. that we know or reporting has shown has been taken over by robert muellers team. it is not clear what the current status of that counterintelligence investigation is, but it is possible that in the coming weeks and months as the mueller team writes its report and issues that report, that we might see...

To argue with the fbi that you dont agree with their conclusions. you dont get to change them before i see the report. you know it and i know it. asha, get in on the conversation. >> you do -- >> chris, you know as lawyer and so does jim -- >> let asha get in. >> listen, were all lawyers here. we live in what is called an adversarial system of justice. that means that the investigators and the prosecutors collect evidence and they present their narrative. this happens in a court of law. it happe...