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The latest Political Developments of the day and interviews with top newsmakers are featured. Its not like somebody former president got to report, somebody gave a little more than the minimum, some pac didnt follow a small regulation. This is a fundamental thing. The nominee at the closing days of the campaign, when he thought his campaign was on the line and a story or two stories potentially threatened his nomination went be and said, i have to make this story go away, according to Michael Co...

Investigating. in "the new york times" reports, those comments indicate muellers still open probe is pursuing the central question of whether there was some kind of deal between russia and the trump campaign. now this is important because it reveals a mueller prosecutor under oath recently, not way back in the day, but recently saying this is the focus of the probe. were also hearing more about a mueller-related arrest, maria butina, the russian, who pleaded guilty to asking as an undeclared rus...

Painting than us, or at least than shelby and i, tweet in. >> please, help. >> what is the right painter to describe this probe. my thanks to both of you. as promised, im turning to bring in gene robinson to discuss the other big story, trump ally david pecker, the "national enquirer" publisher, weve now learned, this is brand-new, he actually asked the federal government whether his group had to basically register as saudi lobbyists. nbc has confirmed this. enquirers parent company asked the do...

Enron." youve been at this from the start. thanks for being here. >> thanks for having me. >> in your view, where the long eye of history, what did mueller and weissmann learn through the hardball tactics of the enron probe? >> well, i think that in some cases, theyre necessary and helpful. of course necessary and helpful as you pointed out depend on which side of the aisle youre sitting on. but it really turned out to be pivotal in the case of enron, the ability to convict jeff skilling rested ...

Register as saudi lobbyists. are we saudi lobbyists? also, new links between that story and former trump aides roger stone and carter page. plus, donald trump heading down to beto country in el paso as republicans keep bailing on his wall. and my special report on muellers attack dog prosecutor andrew weissmann. inside the tactics he uses to make people flip, and what it means for the mueller probe. we have all of that for you on a packed show this monday night. but we begin with new clues about...

The federal investigations have ensnared many of donald trumps most senior aides, and as prosecutors probe deeper into the remaining senior aides, as well as the people at the trump org, some of the names that are left in both worlds are obviously donald trumps own family. now many prosecutors are actually especially cautious when it comes to splitting families against each other in a probe, but not this one. the "hardball" federal peruse andrew weissmann, many call him muellers legal pit bull, ...

>> do you have a painting metaphor for this? >> no, but ill build on yourself because its excellent. >> because she is at a really good school. were just normal pundits here. >> a rap word maybe will come to mind. thats a really good analogy. when youre reading through the transcript they got wasnt until late last year. so they are building this methodically. >> still going. >> a lot of people knocked this probe for being slow and long, but actually, theyre continuing to get information that pro...

Governments arsenal. i dont like andrew weissmann heading this prosecution. >>that was trumps former lawyer. he doesnt like it. well, that brings us to tonights special report, the reason why team trump fears weissmann, and what it actually says about the future of trumps family and how the probe may reportedly look at people as it draws to a potential close. so lets get into it. weissmann known for tough and sometimes controversial tactics. lately trump allies have seized on, for example, this ...

Guidelines require agents to pursue evidence by the least obtrusive means possible. sending armed agents to his door in the middle of the night is not the least obtrusive means possible. >> weissmann honed his hardball strategy in one of the most far-reaching, aggressive and controversial prosecutions in modern american law, the enron investigation. that probe was high stakes because president george w. bush had deep ties to that texas energy company. so his doj tried to show there would be no f...

Work in atlantic city that hes had these kind of, shall we say, shady connections. and it seems, given the all-star team mueller has pull together, theyve approached donald trump in this way. so theres concrete evidence, the analogy orients us perfectly. i think there is something real about how donald trump is being treated and how donald trump operates. and so its not farfetched at all. >> theres a lot of attempts to draw parallels, the mueller probe is like the enron probe. the mueller probe ...