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Issues here. there are prosecutors who specialize in financial crimes. andrew weissman had the fraud section of the justice department before he came to work for bob mueller. long story short this is incremental but important. >> matt, just to be clear in terms of the way the special counsel is approaching this and the fbi broadly if they are looking at potential financial crimes by trump associates and as you report tonight potential financial wrongdoing by jared kushner does that mean the fina...

Was reported about donald trump years ago in his private business life if he is personally recording things unknown to the other party on his cellphone or other personal device, that, too, is subject to subpoena and review. those may be more difficult to track in the same way that the official recordings would be. >> and mueller has been building his own legal team including seasoned litigators and experts in criminal law. what if anything can we learn from the selection to his team, some of the...

Protection and went to arizona and flipped another mob boss, that prosecutor, he now works for robert mueller in the special counsel investigation into the trump russia affair. his name is andrew whites man. two ss, two ns. running the fraud section in the long state in brooklyn at the eastern district of new york u.s. attorneys office. interestingly in his role at the fraud division, the justice department he did a ton of work specifically on the foreign corrupt practices act. now, though, andr...

Ambassador sergey kislyak, a meeting that the attorney general has never revealed and did not reveal in his corrected testimony to the senate judiciary committee. the fbi is a looking into whether there was an additional private meeting at the mayflower hotel in washington. and earlier today, nbc news learned that former fbi director james comey is expected to testify in public next week after having been cleared to testify by special prosecutor robert mueller. the "wall street journal" reports ...

Supreme court overturned the obstruction of justice conviction in a 9-0 unanimous ruling. but thats not the only example of his aggressive tactics resulting in a case being overturned. the conviction of a business transaction between enron and merrill lynch, it sent people to jail. it was also reversed by the fifth u.s. circuit of appeals. now, critics have also accused wiseman of intimidating witnesses, creating crimes that dont even exist. in one case, in particular, one case, withholding evid...

And he put together what he said happened between him him and the president. and at the end of it he said i knew if i released this it would result in a special counsel. oh, really, guess who is running a special counsel. great reputation. worked together for 30 years hand in hand. he says wait a second. you put this out there. now the president has got to feel as though he has got to get a fair shake at this? which is dangerous. especially if you look at the quality of criminal attorneys. crimi...

At his golf club. for congressman tom macarthur who really played a pivotal role in getting the republican health care plan through the house. a fundraiser for him and then president trump will go back to the white house tonight. >> thank you kristin fisher. >> we will bring in the editor-in-chief of the washington transits we appreciate you being here as always. weve got this sort of thing going on about the sessions hearing coming up, the james comey hearing that happen. and president trumps t...

Bloomberg reports that andrew weisman, the head of the justice departments fraud section in the obama administration will join the special prosecutors staff of attorneys. according to bloomberg, weismans specialties have included corporate wrongdoing and foreign corruption. weisman previously worked for mueller as the fbis general counsel from 2011 to 2013. the house intelligence committee approved four subpoenas today for former national security adviser michael flynn and one of michael flynns ...