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What you thought it might be and some people say they lost their memory or a lack of memory, which a lot of people can understand that too." we also have brand new revelations tonight from special counsel mueller about the latest effort to disrupt his investigation. apparently coming from russia itself. federal prosecutors say the russians swiped information that muellers team had provided to a company called concord management, owned by a russian oligarch, the guy known as putins chef. concord ...

Material and sent to it the attorneys for concord management, somehow that material ended up kron line being shopped by an anonymous newly created twitter handle as if this information had been stolen directly from the special counsels office by some hacker who was somehow able to break into their servers and show you all their secrets. according to this filing today, robert mueller, the special counsel says nobody actually broke into their servers. nobody has actually violated their own securit...

Its one of three entities the special counsel accusing of helping to meddle in the 2016 election. a twitter account called "hacking redstone," included information that could ntained file to conquer management in the discovery process. it was altered and released as part of a disinformation campaign. the web site was eventually linked back to russia. it is aimed at explaining why mueller is opposed to sharing evidence with the accused russian troll farm. >> you really have to wonder sometimes ho...

Americans to follow. theres a lot of moving parts, details, people, time line events. any information thats out there that goes further away from the search to sort of give people the complete picture of what happened from a counterintelligence or criminal perspective is damaging to the ultimate goal of the american public and congress finding out. bigger picture, this serves the interests of russia when theres no confusion and chaos on the american end of this whole controversy. >> jeffrey toob...

Of the u.s. government and specifically, the operations of the special counsels office. they have tried to use their role as a defendant in this case, to get information about what the special counsels office has turned up. well its been looking into russian int russian interference in our election. the russian government would love to get their hands on that information. theres been a very serious litigation battle going on where his lawyers have been arguing in federal court in washington that...

They have tried to use their role as a defendant in this case to get information about what the special counsels office has turned up. while its been looking into russian interference in our election. and of course, the rubbssian government would love to get their hands on the information. there is a serious litigation battle going on where his lawyers are arguing in federal court in washington that they want to use the discovery process in this case to obtain tons of information like decades wo...

Dispute. i think its a great thing the judge is looking into that situation. thats a honor for a lot of terrific people. >> dana: earlier in this block we showed you a sound bite from james comey, yesterday in front of an audience cheering him on. he said it was unusual to send agents over to the white house that way. >> yes, this is what you look for if youre representing flynn. you look for inconsistencies in treatment. there seem to be viable issues there. did the fbi take advantage of the ch...

From the justice department. break this down for us. what is this case specifically about? >> jake, this entire case surrounds whether the foreign money flowing into the trump hotel here in washington, d.c., violates the emoluments clause, that little-known clause in the constitution that prohibits federal officials from taking a thing of value from a foreign government. the trump administration and trumps legal team has been fighting off this suit, along with a slew of others for months. but a ...

Through the discovery process, he has to answer questions, has to be deposed, and ultimately would expose the president as well. so theres no longer any benefit for him. maybe he could use the extra 130 k. >> he is an attorney. wouldnt he know all of that? at the same time, it adds to confusion over was the agreement one made strictly between michael cohen and stormy daniels, was it at the wishes, request of the president because he is his attorney. it just makes it far more complicated and one ...

Kavanaugh, brett kavanaugh, the presidents appointee for the supreme court, what is the first question you would like to ask him? >> well, i dont want to telegraph that, but i do think that what youre going to see is a lot of boiling mad democrats on the judiciary committee. there has been a real banana republic process that has gotten here. those of us who are lawyers think the obvious comparison is to the discovery process in a trial. imagine one party in a trial telling the other party, well,...