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Matt whitaker is in there now as the countrys top law enforcement official, its a live issue, right, i mean, last night robert muellers prosecutors announced they were not going to make todays deadline in the case of trump campaign chair paul manafort. the dead rhine to tell the judge about the extent of manaforts cooperation. last night muellers prosecutors asked the judge for a mysterious ten-day extension telling the judge that ten days from now, all will be made clear to the court as to why ...

Oligarch close to vladimir putin and part of the founders of alpha bank. over the course of this scandal involving russian interference in our election and whether the trump campaign was involved in that interfeerns there have been questions. the way that putins russia works these days, there is a private element. there is evidence behind that hi hypothesis when they indicted those russians last friday. in the case of alpha bank, a private enterprise, there have been intriguing questions raised ...

And special counsel mueller in the past. thank you for being here. >> my pleasure, rachel. >> first let me ask you about this sealed document under the case number that applies to the manafort and gates case. were told that this is filed in such a way, like almost geographically in such a way that should make us believe that these are new charges or that theres something related to the charges in the case. how should we see that? what do you make of that? >> i think thats probably right, rachel,...

And robert mueller in the past. thank you for being here. >> my pleasure, rachel. >> first, let me ask you about this sealed document filed under the case number that applies to the manafort and gates case. were told that this is filed in such a way, like, almost geographically in such a way that should make us believe that these are new charges or that theres something related to the charges in the case. how should we see that? what do you make of that? >> i think thats probably right, rachel, ...

More avenue for u.s. surveillance on communications. >> explain ken, why should people be paying attention to this? why is this important, why does it matter? >> well, i think in particular in this case it puts a spotlight on the work that manafort and gates was doing. it also brings in an american law firm, asking and norths. >> that is a name people know. >> absolutely. this is a report that some critics justify, a lot of critics that were not on the level now mueller is digging into that part...

Shooting there was a bill called the fix mix bill which enforces the current laws that we have around background checks. doesnt expand them further by requires agencies that are not spending their information to the system to do so. that of course may have presented the shooting in sutherland springs because the shooting in that case had a record with the air force that was not logged in the database that was supposed to keep him from buying those guns. before this most recent shooting in parkla...

This afternoon. pete williams joining us from washington. gives your sense of significance of this. >> reporter: its very hard to say. we know this stems from the manafort/gates case. about six years ago when manafort and gates were representing the prime minister of ukraine and the league work involved justification for charges that the prime minister brought against a political rival, the former prime minister. what the special counsel says that in november, lawyers from robert mueller intervi...

Person out there suggesting that you could rig an election. theres no evidence that happened mt. past. so id invite mr. trump to stop whining and make his case to get votes. that was from president obama. former president obama quoted, i just -- from the election thats because he thought crooked hilly was button to went. the russian excuse became the narrative. president trump trying to turn the democrat words on their head. lets take a look back, at the time of all this -- because we havent h...

How mueller has all of this in his possession he continues to surprise it. >> ken, this is a little bit shades of george pap lus who was charged with making false statement to the fbi. in that team papadopoulos was linked to the campaign. potentially is it fair to say spelling trouble for those guys, what do you think? >> more trouble, theyre in huge trouble. yeah, absolutely this is related to the manafort/gates of the case. there are so many names that continue to pop up that nobodys ever hear...

Now, reportedly, hope hicks disclosed her meetings with the fbi to white house counsel don mcgann and we do know hicks met with officials friday as part of their ongoing russia probe. and theyre releasing new details in the paul manafort and gates case. they say so far theyve amassed 400,000 documents in the case and the government is also saying that they have 36 electronic devices they seized from paul man ma forts home. investigators have also in this case issued 15 search warrants. interesti...