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Confirm the russian investigation. now the targeting of rosenstein. >> well, yes. >> thats a purge. >> well, the question is whether that is happening because the president st. trying to get around or conceal sort of actual real criminal wrongdoing that he is aware that will come down, or if its because of some other reason that he just doesnt like being under sort of scrutiny, that he doesnt like this investigation, that he feels like its an attack on him and an affront on his presidency. we do...

This could fall under his purview, and the interesting thing to be is what happens next if any fbi agents, if mueller wants to speak to stormy daniels. >> as you know, jeffrey, you know this a lot better than i do. in the olden days, what they used to call an independent counsel, they could start investigating one area but if they find some potential criminal wrongdoing in another area, totally unrelated, they go after it. >> well, thats true, and you also had under the independent counsel law a...

Hes a leaker. there has been no collusion. there has been leaking by comey. but theres been no collusion, no obstruction, and virtually everybody agrees to that. >> no collusion, no obstruction. we hear that, as you can see, quite a bit from president trump. but new revelations about his attempts to interfere in the russia investigation are raising new questions about possible criminal wrongdoing. as weve said, "the new york times" broke the story detailing how president trump asked the white ho...

No obstruction, and virtually everybody agrees to that. >> no collusion, no obstruction. we hear that, as you can see, quite a bit from president trump. but new revelations about his attempts to interfere in the russia investigation are raising new questions about possible criminal wrongdoing. as weve said, "the new york times" broke the story detailing how president trump asked the white house counsel to convince attorney general jeff sessions not to recuse himself. the associated press reporti...

Investigation of a member of congress accused of ethics violation. they turn up evidence of criminal wrongdoing by that member of congress, wrng doing not otherwise known to or being pursued by the relevant law enforcement agency. in cases like that the ethics committee would finish their report, their ethics committee report on the members behavior but might make a criminal referral to the appropriate law enforcement agency if they turned up something serious that law enforcement wasnt otherwis...

They turn up information that law enforcement doesnt have, its not unheard of for congress to notify the relevant law enforcement agent, hey, we turned up something that might want to prosecute. thats happened in serious ethics cases for members of congress doing intense investigation of a member of congress accused of ethics violation in the course of the investigation, they turn up serious evidence of potential criminal wrongdoing by that member of congress, wrongdoing that was not otherwise k...

Potential criminal wrongdoing here. this little rock story is so frustrating because we were so close to breaking it and we couldnt get that second source of the record. this pay to play thing, whether its a rainy one, whether its the foundation education foundation which is a lot of these companies are really closely attached to the clintons have collapsed and she didnt win the presidency. even if something that she did was otherwise narratives otherwise okay to do in her job, its not okay to d...

Investigates his core mandate of links and coordination between the trump campaign and russia. and the people that are implicated by the lies in this indictment or information and what mueller has to investigate are sessions and kushner and manafort, still for addition allies for flynn junior, and for don junior. so there are a whole host of people who the lies of this information implicate in possible criminal wrongdoing. so for all of these people, they have to be wondering one, if they were i...

Investigates his core mandate of links and coordination between the trump campaign and russia. and the people that are implicated by the lies in this indictment or information and what mueller has to investigate are sessions and kushner and manafort, still for addition lies for flynn junior and for don junior. so there are a whole host of people who the lies of this information implicate in possible criminal wrongdoing. so for all of these people, they have to be wondering one, if they were inte...

What it reveals is that a cabinet member through business ties has these links to high-level russian officials and including for the first time a link to vladimir putins own family. >> pretty stunning, richard engel in new york, thank you for that crucial reporting. turning now to another breaking news story, another twist in the russia investigation. nbc news has learned that special counsel robert muellers team has enough evidence in their investigation of michael flynn and his son michael t...