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Of trying to smoke other people out per se. i think that were seeing this sort of different dots that we keep trying to connect are slowly actually getting connected by mueller. i think he needed to wait. cohen needed to be debriefed, he was in d.c., likely testifying at the grand jury. i think things sort of came together. he waited until after the election, and -- >> is this a coincidence that within days of the president submitting his answers to mueller, you have -- or right in that moment y...

Loir lawyer in that case to be admired. hes been looking for his own roy cohen, why would he demean the hearings in that way? >> danny, it looks like this may sort of give us some clues into where this goes next, but lets just underscore again, and greg touched on this, but the importance of having michael cohen cooperating specifically with the mueller probe as opposed to we know he was working with the southern district of new york. >> over the last few days weve talked about wikileaks and jer...

Campaign? roger stone, you know, issued a public statement somewhere back along in the fall saying something to the affect of wait until you see what is going to come out on podesta. he is on record as having some knowledge about what is going on with wikileaks. i think you have to go back and make -- connect some of the dots earlier, and we we know is the russian intelligence agencies stole these e-mails and downloaded them to wikileaks and wikileaks became as part of that, how did those e-mail...

Thats a non denial denial. >> thats a classic word used to set up a condition because you dont know the truth or you dont want to deal with the truth. thats a non denial denial in journalism. the content is pretty stunning. rudy guiliani also apparently, you know, in contact with manaforts folks. the dots are being connected here in a deeper way than ever before than we have seen. in sarahs reporting, among the tpheupbgz things we have seen, they have damaging information that will be released i...

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About wikileaks. how does it all fit together and what does special council do if he cant actually connect the dots here? >> there were a lot of tweets that were premonition coming up. you see there are these efforts behind the scenes to figure out information. particularly saying telling murray he created this document, this -- to explain this e-mail after the fact because roger stone, you know, kind of went out there. it was based on corsis research. it shows there is a bit of a cover up, not ...

These are all interesting dots and you get a sense of why the pressure is increasing on the president because you cant spin your way out of these problems. >> and also in that piece you note that stone says he spoke to the president in the middle of it all, and that jumped out to me, again, because we know the presidents legal team was all of a sudden really hesitant to turn in the written questions they were asked by mueller when mueller wanted to know what the president knew and when? >> the r...

The underlying wire fraud and bank fraud. just to talk about that joint defense agreement, there is some reason to believe when you look closely that mueller might have anticipated some level of coordination. rick gates when he faced his plea agreement was hit with a gag order as part of that plea agreement. paul manafort notably wasnt. >> interesting, if i can ask you to kind of connect some of the dots legally here, lets say if the special counsel establishes -- we are reading smoke signals as...

A draft court filing obtained by cnn sheds new light on what robert mueller may know. this document shows the special counsel planned to argue that roger stone made an effort to get advanced notice of wikileaks damage document dumps about hillary clinton and the democrats. joining me to discuss is angus king of maine and serves on the intelligence committee. i am sure you have been following the news over the last 12 hours or so and connecting the dots is not easy, but if the special counsel now...

>> what about the wikileaks part of this? what is the significance part of that for you? >> it seems to be so much sort of tension building on that front. i think thats what mueller is interested in to really put the campaign in touch with the russians. thats kind of the missing link there is if you can connect the dots for it. thats what the significance is. >> i think what we learned yesterday is there is information that the special council believes that roger stone was communicating with sen...