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>> barr has been to australia and italy in what is now a criminal investigation into the origin of the trump investigation. the intelligence it used from overseas. the italians had nothing to offer barr. on his agenda, likely the row on the academic who vanish two years ago. that he said the russians had dirt on h h. one of those aquaintances, george xa dpapap dap lustful th worry about the ill reply indications. >> the apprehension, the impression i got, was that they may get drawn into interna...

From president trump, within a couple days of that, attorney general william barr is visiting the uk. and that seems to have set on trail what is now bringing about deep concern about the special relationshi relationship. >> boris, its only my opinion. >> im not going to -- >> reporter: behind the smiles, theres tension in the special relationship. president trump wants boris johnson to investigate his political opponents, figure out if mueller and others tried to smear him. a day after his cont...

About the implications. >> the apprehension, the impression that i got, was apprehension is that they may get drawn into or are getting drawn into american politics. >> president trumps obsession with discrediting mueller could cost america the trust of its allies. >> and this comes at a very sensitive time for the uk, as well. elections are four, five and a half weeks away. president trump is a factor in those elections. talked with one of the partys candidates just a few days ago, suggesting a...

The london focus, but worry about the implications. >> the apprehension, the impression that i got, was apprehension is that they may get drawn into or are getting drawn into american politics. >> reporter: president trumps obsession with discrediting mueller could cost america the trust of its allies. you have to go back really to the 1940s to try to find a case where the british intelligence services would have been working inside, side by side, with u.s. intelligence services but providing in...

Discrediting mueller and his investigation moving forward. but the key thing here is what they are doing. your question -- i think the heart of your question, and its critically important, is do we really want to permit, as happened in 2016, foreign countries to be involved in our election process, not just involved in our election process, but manipulating it, moving it in a different direction than the american people would otherwise choose. this happened in 2016. theres no doubt about it. and...

His staff, his surrogates, all praised robert mueller and his team and his report. now, mr. trump suggesting that mueller was conflicted in his work. how does that stand in your view? or does it come across as if this president is conflicted on mueller? >> i mean, it is -- i think this is the preempted attempt of discrediting mueller now. what the president anticipates will be public testimony, however reluctant from the former special counsel. and what can you say about this? the president reve...

No one would expect the fbi to go in this fashion. we dont know all the information the fbi had and the reason why they chose to do it this way. there may be reasons, but it is true when certain circumstances like this when people are charged with nonviolent crimes its not always the fbi goes in this way. they usually tell people to surrender. they chose not to do that in case, and they may have a good reason for doing that. we dont know. but the president he could ask the department of justice ...

Enough. many people thought thats what i should do. the president also had a lot to say about the arrest of his long time ally, roger stone, saying he was very disappointed to see the arrest, his words, go down that way. all this while robert mueller the special counsel is out with a new filing alleging more russian interference this time, aimed directly at discrediting muellers investigation. a pro-russian twitter account allegedly used information from the account from concord management and c...

A new filing by robert mueller alleges that a pro-russian twitter account waged a disinformation campaign against the russia investigat n investigation, using information on a case by the special counsel. theres lots to discuss here. matthew, thank you for joining me. this attempt to discredit the mueller investigation, using documents from a federal case prosecuted by mueller, its pretty bold, and right out of the russian playbook, right? >> its consistent with a lot of the information operatio...