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They were certainly not doing that job. he knew about how the money was being spent. he told the new york a.g., look, you asked me what the policies are, what our policies are to make sure we arent misspending charity money, there are no policies. >> my question for you, david, is the president tweets every d day, goes absolutely bananas that michael cohen was cooperating with mueller and the sdny. goes berserk over the flynn sentencing. do you think he had any idea of what you just explained, a...

Because their requests arent the word of god, theyre still a judge thats going to take their recommendations, but make his own decision? or is there something else that in your mind represents a stepback for mueller? >> thats precisely what im talking about, if youre sitting across the table from the potential cooperator, you want them to understand that cooperation is absolutely in their best interest. you never make guarantees. ever. thats drilled into you as an agent, as a prosecutor, but you...

Thats where president trump worked for decades in trump tower. him at the center. the children in one office doing a certain projects, allen weisselberg in another. he knows weisselberg has always been functioning -- who has to act extemporaneous, often react to what the trump family is doing. he always manages everything he does. its how people talk about whats going on inside of the white house and inside of the presidents legal team. >> what -- how long do all of the republicans on the hill k...

Things. they know it. hes a di aa director. he knows what theyre listening to. yet he decides its worth getting lying to the fbi as long as i cover up my relationship with russia. thats a very big deal for a general who was head of dia. to do that quick thinking in his head. he lied to the vice president of the united states about this. hes lied about it repeatedly. he lied about it as mueller said weeks before he lied to the fbi about it. so what is going on? and, look, my quick answer to most ...

He was the national security adviser at the latter part of this. he was certainly, you know, well within bounds to have these sort of calls, so why did he need to lie? what was it covering up? and as frank says, why did h egoeghe go to the dominican republic to have one of these calls? i thing thatk thats really intriguing. weve all talked about the fact that trump should have known that virtue to his prior job, calls kislyak, the russian ambassador made, that the calls were being taped and mad ...

Was upset, you need now to totally cooperate. >> frank, so many convicted felons, its hard to keep track of all of them. joyce vance, let me come to you and read you a little bit more of what happened in court today because it was dramatic, and im really intrigued by what franks saying because it suggests that mueller, again, is sort of blowing up the idea that theres any witch hunt. hes suggesting, he was more, i guess, generous to michael cohen in his sentencing procedures than the southern di...

Ken is saying. i do think, though, when you boil it down as a prosecutor who did this for a long, long time, papadopoulos has turned out to be a bust, to be honest with you. i mean, i dont think hes usable now as a witness. that sort of watered down vanilla statement that he gave to cnn doesnt help mueller. frankly, in the least, when you come out and look at his sentence, 14 days, i represented on both sides now. and anybody who goes through the criminal justice system at the federal level, you...

>> the narrative that the public hears is confusion. that doesnt help muellers ability to be believed. >> thats right. right now, trump is wamging a pr campaign and mueller is waging an investigation and a legal case. those are very different matters. thats why i keep saying we are this the prolog or the early chapters of the book because the point at which you make a case for your evidence is the point in custom you assembled your evidence and presented it in a a a public forum. remember that m...

Mueller before the release of this book. im assuming that, but correct me if im wrong if you think differently. >> i would not make that assumption at all. i think comb,is his own man, and mule ear, even if consulted, would say jim, do what you feel like you need to do, but the reality is this is not helpful. the timing is not helpful form the appearance that the former director was making political type of decisions and getting down in the sail gutter that the president resides in doesnt help m...

Development? the guy who was leading the hillary clinton e-mail investigation not only turned down the wording significantly, but then was on the mueller investigation. and was saying negative things about trump? >> i think laura had it right, it was bad for optics. the fbi is biassed at all, one of the things they train you very strongly, they emphasize all the time is that perception is reality, and you always have to maintain the utmost objectivity, i think the changing of the language was ch...