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And the man turned on john gotti so robert mueller knows how to flip people. and we have seen that again today. >> frank, tell me more about that, what is it like to be in a room with bob mueller when hes putting these kind of screws to somebody? >> so, look, he gives direction well to his senior staff. he surrounds himself with people who have the skillsets to do that. and hes created that dream team in the special counsels office right now. but what he does is, he is relentless in drilling dow...

District of new york, now the executive director for the public advancement of integrity, and frank loozy, who in the past has worked for robert mueller. he is also an nbc national security analyst. there is so much to talk about with all of you tonight. ken, i want to start with you because you have been doing kind of the nitty grit fi day-to-day, your e-mails have begun guiding me through the afternoon and evening preparing us for the show tonight. can you walk us through what we learned tonig...

Pardon if state charges are brought. but absolutely, kasie, the momentum is picking up in this investigation and its very clear. and that indictment of 13 russians that laid out how the russians, at least in part, how the russians meddled in the election and laid out a grand conspiracy, that essentially laid the foundation for charging americans if evidence develops in the future. that really put a lot of cards on the table. and now were seeing this series of guilty pleas. were up to four cooper...

Investigation would further delay the security clearance process of senior adviser jared kushner. according to three people familiar with the discussion, the post also reports, quote, the justice department officials said rosenstein did not provide any details to the white house about the matters that need to be investigated related to kushner. with me to talk about this is ken thomas, white house reporter for the associated press, my former colleague, and frank figliuzzi is back with us. frank,...

Jared kushner because of this wide-ranging role that kushner plays that could be seen by some as undercutting john kellys ability to have full access to full range over policies within the white house. so all of this is kind of coming, you know, to a head. and it will be very interesting to see how john kelly handles this issue. the president is essentially punting to john kelly on this one, giving him the wherewithall to make the leeway. at the same time, we heard the president speak so highly ...

Four, trump, gates, myself and manafort, we have met and they have done a phenomenal job building up this campaign over the last five or six months. so i look forward to continue to work with both of them. >> well bring in the first panel on another busy friday night. ken delanian and national security reporter, jennifer rogers, former assistant attorney for the southern district of new york, now the executive director for the public advancement of integrity, and frank loozy, who in the past has...

Laid the foundation for charging americans if evidence develops in the future. that really put a lot of cards on the table. and now were seeing this series of guilty pleas. were up to four cooperators. mueller is picking up the pace, it is very clear here, and i wouldnt be surprised to see other charges drop in the next few months. i mean, we still havent heard what happened with the hacking. there are russians who hacked and violated american law. those people potentially could be charged. and ...

And it seemed like it was a close call. at the end of the day, this may have been one of the things to push him over the edge, because this was a clear-cut case. they had him dead to rights on the lie and now hes pleading. i want to go back to how frank says this seems like something out of a mafia movie, "the sopranos." robert mueller is approaching this like hes prosecuting the gambino crime family. he did prosecute the gambino crime family back in the 90s. he approved the prosecution of the h...

Coming, you know, to a head. and it will be very interesting to see how john kelly handles this issue. the president is essentially punting to john kelly on this one, giving him the wherewithall to make the leeway. at the same time, we heard the president speak so highly of jared kushner. its hard to imagine that john kelly would create a situation in which jared kushner would be forced to leave. >> frank, one interesting aspect of this is that this conversation between rod rosenstein and don mc...

Scandal, including eliminating interim clearances that have been pending since june 1st of last year. the new guidelines were slated to take effect today. all this as "the washington post" reports tonight that the deputy attorney general rod rosenstein alerted the white house two weeks ago that significant information requiring additional investigation would further delay the security clearance process of senior adviser jared kushner. according to three people familiar with the discussion, the p...