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Anyone stand in your way. did anyone mess with you? a lot of people understand if he ever answers yes to that question, there could be hell to pay. >> devlin barrett, "the washington post" national security reporter. thanks for being with us tonight. thanks for having me. >> we will have much more to come, including a question that has been -- theres all this reporting all the time no matter who the president is, its just like the president has left the south -- by the south lawn, and he has arr...

Argument but if youre a senior white house official, certainly as we saw in hillary clintons case with her aides, those privacy concerns were deemed to not be sufficient to withhold that kind of information from congress and i assume that the justice department would have to make the same judgements. i think that barr looks at that 420-0 vote on releasing the report that we got from the house of representatives the other day and he may not be the most political guy around but he does know when a...

More likely to see more answers from mueller and barr on those individuals than we will on private citizens who end up not being charged with anything. so i think what im geared towards and thinking about is to the degree that mueller looked at people who work for the government, we will probably know more about what mueller found or didnt find regarding those people. then we will end up knowing at least in the first take about folks who sort of moved in trumps world lets say but never went into...

I wonder if that was expected as far as youre concerned or if that struck you the way it struck me? >> i think it is striking but i think its striking because throughout this process mueller and his reputation have been sort of the 800-pound gorilla inside the justice department. no one has -- one of the things we learned in this letter, for example, is no one objected to any major investigative move that mueller wanted to make. and i think barr has as best we can tell so far continued the tradi...

Could pick up cases that remain in progress. in some cases that spun off from muellers investigation, including those being conducted by the u.s. attorneys office in manhattan involving michael cohen and trumps businesses will continue unaffected. devlin and harry are back as well as sam and a.b. here at the table. let me start with you, devlin, and your understanding of how much of the actual investigative findings will go to bar or whether or not it will simply be, if it were a case you could ...

Grown-ups, who are investigators and prosecutors and judges are keeping it professional. >> devlin, you talked about being gob smacked. if you sort of like bureau orou and think about it, theres another surprising at all the longest sitting alterego to donald trump conducted himself like this, particularly if pardons were dangled in front of paul manafort and mike flynn, you have to assume the possibility of a pardon is the last thing he thinks about as he doses off at night. what to make of the...

Tampering and false statements, is in court this afternoon being questioned for the very first time by a mueller prosecutor in a hearing he largely brought on himself by posting a photo of the judge in his case with the cross hair behind her head. the self-described warrior against the deep state and by extension the rule of law facing tough questions about that post and his public antics, as he awaits trial in his criminal case. the judge today doesnt seem to buy stones contrite apology. she to...

Bunch of data and files from his home. no one has signaled any sort of all clear where roger stone is concerned. and any questions that remain about whether or not there was coordination with the russians usually have a roger stone thread running through them. what did you learn today, or what are you hearing from sources that explains or begins to attempt to explain the stupidity and recklessness of his conduct? >> no source can complain that, nicolle. i like devlins word gobsmacked. this whole...

The courtroom. and here at the table sam stein, politics editor at the daily beast is here. amy stoddard is making her way to the table. thats how we go here, if theyre here, theyre here, ready when theyre ready. we will start with you, devlin. what are you watching in this stone proceeding? if you could just sort of rank on sort of the scale of corruption to stupidity, brazen to devil destructive, finger in the eye of rule of law, and this is also a case of sort of spiting himself. roger stone ...

False in high pressure situations? >> harry litman, thats a great point. a law enforcement official told me with all of the turnover, i think michael cohens on his third legal team, that he does still face legal exposure if he does what devlin just described, if he makes false statements. hes now offered hours and hours and hours of testimony to muellers investigators. if anything he says before congress is inconsistent with that testimony, it will be closely scrutinized. what risk is michael co...