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To have them look at it. >> jon: busy at the department of justice these days. i just have to wonder if theyll want to take on another one of those high-profile investigations. >> the one thing that i have to agree with democrats on as far as this whole investigation, donald trump surrounded himself to pretty sleazy guys. it harkens back when clinton was being investigated. you saw the mcdougal and hillary, a draft indictment against her for the work she did for a failed savings and loan. it is ...

They didnt already know? was that a check the box exercise to make sure they had gotten everything? did they get anything new from that? we dont know yet. >> what do you think, jeffrey? >> its a hard question. >> im basically asking you to be psychic. >> theres so many -- theres so much we dont know about what has gone on behind the scenes in the mueller investigation about why it took them so long to add these -- to charge stone. why did they send jerome corsi a draft indictment of him but neve...

The acting attorney general that there was something nefarious about cnns presence there. >> are you familiar with public reports or otherwise that a cnn reporter was camped out outside of stones house when the fbi arrested him? this wouldnt be part of the investigation. >> i am aware of that. it was deeply concerning to me as to how cnn found out about that. >> well, im glad were going down that road, mr. attorney general, because did somebody at the department of justice seemingly share a draf...

Ranking member doug collins of georgia raised the issue of roger stones arrest in florida, which cnn was there exclusively to cover, suggesting along with the acting attorney general that there was something nefarious about cnns presence there. >> are you familiar with public reports or otherwise that a cnn reporter was camped out outside of stones house when the fbi arrested him? this wouldnt be part of the investigation. >> i am aware of that. it was deeply concerning to me as to how cnn found...

Draft indictment with cnn before the finding of a true bill? >> ranking member collins, the court had a sealed indictment that, after mr. stones arrest was unsealed. consistent with all its prior indictments, dojs basic policy for transparency in criminal cases is that the indictment is posted on the doj web page promptsly after its unsealed and media outlets were notified. we do not know of anything. i do not know of any other special counsels office notice or doj notice to media outlets regard...

Especially underoath. its tactics. my question is, were you aware of roger stones indictment before it became public? >> congressman, thats as you know, an important question. it is also mr. stone is part of an ongoing investigation. but i have again been briefed on the special counsels investigation. that would have been considered a development that i would have been briefed on and i was briefed on that. >> are you familiar that a cnn reporter was camped outside of stone east house when the f....

Or any body is wrong, especially under oath. thats not the issue. the issue is tactics. my question is were you aware of roger stones indictment before it became public? >> congressman, thats a, as you know, an important question. it is also mr. stone is part of an ongoing investigation. but i have, again, been briefed on the special counsels investigation. that would have been a -- that would have been considered a development that i would have been briefed on and i was briefed on that. >> are ...

Heads and what the purpose of that is at this stage in the probe. >> i actually dont think thats so uncommon. i think prosecutors will often have a conversation with somebody that theyre trying to potentially sign up as a cooperating witness where they will lay out all the charges and say this is exactly what youre facing. they dont do it as a threat, as a scare tactic. its really so somebody has all of the information. so that they can actually make an informed decision. >> in your experience, ...

>> no, it did not. it was an old computer that had not been being used. >> okay. in muellers draft indictment, which you shared with the world, interestingly, it says between january and march 2017, you deleted all your e-mails from before october 2016. why? >> because the machine -- i had a 17-inch laptop that was dying and it needed new space. i also turned over the time machine application with the hard drive backup that had all e-mails, whether id erased them or not, and i knew they were all...

The work that had been done over the years and came to the conclusion that we should not present charges to the grand jury at that time. >> it was decided, including me, we dont have enough to charge her. and i might say, at this point, there were six main people... that would have had information about this. vince fosters dead. jim mcdougal just died. two are in jail -- webb hubbell and susan mcdougal. two are in the white house. >> the creation of a draft indictment is not only ordinary, its n...