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Just a few days ago we learn one of stones associates who has been fighting muellers attempts to get him to testify basically tried to say hey, youve got stone. am i off the hook and they more or less said no, this is not over. joining me u.s. national justice reporter. what can you tell us about the mueller filing in the case of roger stone today? >> its interesting. two big things that jump out is the voluminous and complex piece. the amount of information they seized from roger stones house o...

This discovery is both voluminous and complex. it is composed of multiple hard drives containing several terabytes of information consisting of among other things search warrant applications and results, eg apple i cloud accounts, fwang and financial records the sell ill phones, computers and hard drives. the communications contained in email accounts and physical devices span several years. but hes the thing. rilts not just stone in that filing. shrouded in secrecy behind redaction, the special...

We dont have much time, do you think mueller and his team know the answer, if the president, donald trump, knew about what was going on? >> yes, because in order to call manafort a liar, they already had confirmation of what the truth was. lets be clear, muellers mandate is not to go after donald trump. his mandate is to figure out whether there were members of a campaign, who were trying to use a foreign nation to influence an american election. so the witch hunt phenomenon that he may try to b...

Questions from mueller, wont do interviews in writing or person. he has only done them in writing so far once. he is promising a fight if they decide to issue a subpoena to the president. what does that tell you? >> giuliani was a failed mayor, then a failed presidential candidate. now he is a failed lawyer. its unfortunate he decided to take this obstructionist approach with respect to the investigation. again, we need to allow this investigation to run its course. you would think that the pres...

>> well, its not a surprise. i also dont think that in the end, from an evidentiary stand point, i dont think an interview with the president is going to add that much to what mueller already has, which i think is the body of evidence he has is i think quite substantial. >> giuliani says if they get a subpoena from mueller, they will fight it. we could fight like hell, his words. >> i guess they could. again, im not sure what would actually be gained other than perhaps from an appearance or poli...

Reporting we have done, i dont think anything we can say that anything is definitive in this case. i dont know how could they fight -- keep fighting mueller on certain questions that he may have? we will see. this could be wrapping up soon. maybe thats what the presidents legal team is hoping here for. if they continue to say were not doing anything else, maybe they feel it will wrap up sooner. >> amidst that, cnn is learning that the deputy attorney general rod rosenstein, who has been overseei...

>> absolutely. last night on "the situation room," david said, internal polling data is the single most valuable piece of information that any campaign has. its expensive to produce. it determines where they spend their money. do you advertise in michigan? do you advertise in georgia? this is the information the russians got that at the time that they were directing social media to help donald trump get elected president. how the information went, we dont know, but it was -- you know, how it wen...

In exchange for this money these oligarchs owed him. its a bizarre set of circumstances. >> the oligarchs were pro-russian who were very wealthy. we are getting new information, giuliani, the presidents personal lawyer, said the president is finished answering questions in writing or in person with the special counsel. >> right. we have heard this before from rudy giuliani. the people who are making decisions on behalf of the president, the legal team from everything we understand, its not rudy ...