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Its not like anything has to make an announcement about that. how would we know if thats whats been happening since matt whitaker arrived three weeks ago tomorrow? thats why it is all the more interesting that tonight, we are getting a first look at what might be robert muellers notebook. his sort of working file. because tonight, nbc news has obtained a draft criminal information, which is the kind -- its basically an indictment when you agree to plead instead of having a trial. also, a draft p...

Notebook. his sort of working file. because tonight, nbc news has obtained a draft criminal information, which is the kind -- its basically an indictment when you agree to plead instead of having a trial. also, a draft plea agreement, also a draft statement of the offense. all these documents appear to have been created by the special counsels office, though we have no way of verifying that directly. the documents were reportedly created by robert muellers office and sent by mueller to a man nam...

Of those e-mails, we havent seen the communication between corsi and someone involved in wikileaks. we havent seen an e-mail between corsi and julian assange, for instance, which is really damning. but torhe other piece of this i that the e-mails are coming from a draft statement of offense. there may be more to it that mueller just didnt lay out here, knowing that corsi is publicly talking toer everyone. >> and we only have a tiny clue of what mueller and his people really know. dana, is this t...

In the middle of that media confusion yesterday, a justice department spokeswoman actually drafted a statement for attorney general jeff sessions to issue in the event that rod rosenstein was actually dismissed. that draft was never formally sent, but it was drafted, and the contents of the draft were leaked to both axios and "the new york times," and in part that leaked draft confirmed what we already suspected, that if rod rosenstein was out, that he was resigning or he was being forced to res...

A statement for jeff sessions to issue in the event that rosenstein was actually dismissed. that draft was never formally exce sent but it was drafted. in part, that leaked draft confirmed what we already suspected that if rod rosenstein was out and he was resigning or being forced to resign or fired, the current solicitor general, francisco would step in and take over as the top justice official in charge of the russia investigation. thats the person that robert mueller would have to report to ...

I think a man who served as he did, who refused to leave the prison in hanoi until the other prisoners were able to leave is a man who shows real character. >> yeah. >> thats why it bothers me somewhat on the flag at the white house because john mccain had so, so much character. it shows a lack of character in not lowering the flag at the white house. >> what does it show to you that there was a draft statement that was submitted to the president praising senator mccains -- his unique role in am...

The unlikely event you die before you are 40. i cant pull away, what the f happened to our country? >> he occasionally had a clear memory especially when he was asked to read his text out loud to come but he and other times it was surprising how fuzzy his memory was, like when he was asked about softening and fbi statement to benefit hillary clinton. >> the meta data shows that you that you modified their draft statement on june 6th. is this when the phrase "grossly negligent" was changed to ext...

The meeting? >> it did at some point. i dont know if it was during that meeting or another one. >> whenever it happened who brought it up? >> my recollection someone within our office, one of the attorneys. >> up dont remember who did? >> no. it was a legal issue that one of the attorney brought up. >> okay. now immediately after that meeting, data shows you modified the draft statement on june 6th. is this when the phrase "grossly negligent" was changed to "extremely carelessness"? >> my recoll...

Strzok, a couple of questions about that. the original may 2nd draft of the statement that director comey was characterized mrs. clintons actions as gross lly negligent, is that correct >> yes. >> are you ware was kpaenged to extremely careless in the eventual statement? >> yes. >> do you recall the june 6, 2016, meeting attend by you and mr. ribicki and miss moyer and lisa page to discuss the language of the statute on whether to use grossly negligent or something else in the draft statement? w...

>> somebody within our office, the general counsel dead, one of the attorneys. >> you dont member who did it? >> it was a legal issue that one of the attorneys brought up. >> metadata shows that you modified the draft statement on june 6th. is this when the phrase "grossly negligent" was changed to extremely careless? >> i dont recall specifically when it happened. my recollection is working on the draft with a group of us in my office because it was the largest office, it was made there. >> was...