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Connections. the prosecutor for mueller said this. i will put it on the screen. that meeting is of significance to the special counsel. theres an in-person meeting at an unusual time for somebody who was the campaign chairman to be spending time and to be doing it in person. what does it tell you, preet, about manafort, about the meeting, and why this is now a focus for mueller? >> it sounds like it goes to the heart of what the mueller investigation was supposed to be about. whether or not ther...

Charges or other significant charges being levied at the americans who sat across the table from them. >> and joyce, lets string that out. if youre trump or members of his legal team, whats your number one legal concern right now tonight? >> you know, its hard to say that the president could have only one legal concern at this point because all of the walls are closing in. southern district of new york is responsible for indicting natalia veselnitskaya, and that has to be a concern for him, part...

Basically a half a step away from criminal charges or other significant charges being levied at the americans who sat across the table from them. >> joyce, lets string that out. if youre trump or members of his legal team, whats your number one legal concern right now tonight? >> you know, its hard to say that the president could have only one legal concern at this point because all of the walls are closing in. southern district of new york is responsible for indicting natalia veselnitskaya, and...

Half a step away from criminal charges or other significant charges being levied at the americans who sat across the table from them. >> and joyce, lets string that out. if youre trump or members of his legal team, whats your number one legal concern right now tonight? >> you know, its hard to say that the president could have only one legal concern at this point because all of the walls are closing in. southern district of new york is responsible for indicting natalia veselnitskaya, and that ha...

Again, i understand that they are trying to get my father. and theyll do anything they can to get that. >> reporter: but trump jr.s june 2016 meeting at trump tower where russias promised him dirt on hillary clinton but didnt deliver is a focus for muellers team. the president has privately expressed concern his son could be in legal jeopardy, according to a source. its a possibility trump jr. brushed off. >> are you scared you could go to jail? >> im not. because i know what i did and im not wo...

Lowell said. it is also true that these investigations dont evolve immediately and you certainly -- if you are investigating a person, hes the last person you ask, hes not the first person you ask. its also true, if muellers people have not sought documents related to the 666 transaction, and im sure there are thousands, if not millions of documents related, that does suggest this is not a focus for mueller. one thing i think we have all learned is that it is very difficult to predict where ro...

Point of view about that, whether the president was informed of the meeting, whether he met the actual russians, what the presidents mind set was when they were on air force one and drafting their response of statement. bannon doesnt have to have been on the ground at the time of knowledge of those facts. , that w >> that was a meeting designed to obtain dirt on hillary clinton from the russians, who showed up there. everybody stand by. theres more news were following. the special prosecutors de...

Murray, who helped break this story. what are you learning about muellers interests? he clearly thinks steve bannon can help. >> thats right. obviously weve seen mueller taking on a number of higher level administration officials. we saw him bring in jeff sessions. now hes moved on to steve bannon, whos the former chief strategist at the white house. but one of the things thats interesting is when we saw bh bannon go on the hill, he refused to talk about his time at the white house whatsoever. s...

Served in the white house as chief strategist. but were now told this time hes going to be answering questions on everything. >> thats right. he will not be able to invoke executive privilege when he does go in and meet with mueller the way he did on capitol hill. it does tell you that mueller believes that there could be revelations, moments bannon could shed light on that happened in the white house, both in terms of collusion, perhaps, when it comes to what flynn knew and what these various a...