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Impeachment inquiry. quote, the presidents relationships with his private lawyer who once aspired to be his attorney general and the man who currently has that post are complicating white house efforts to build a legal and public relations strategy to keep mr. trump in office. he may not have planned on that, greg. what are they up to? rudy wants to be crazy at 9:00 at night, and that seems to be his bewitching hour, if you will. he goes on fox and does his stuff. skbr and thats the irony here. ...

The mueller models are all over the map. the democratic models have a direct hit on the white house, legal experts are modelling a once in a century storm that makes land fall multiple times. and then there is a mod from from trump loyalist that have an unexpected turn over to hillary clintons house. and then there is an increasing sense of panic that the administration will fight like heck to keep the whole thing out of public view. joining me tonight is tom winter and nick ackramen. and greg b...

For example, mark judge, who is alleged to have been in the room, thats the first person the fbi will want to talk to. another question, ali, will this inquiry be limited in scope just to the dr. ford allegations or look at the ramirez and swetnick allegations? that has to be worked out. >> greg, thats an interesting point. judge kavanaugh and the republicans on the committee kept on saying the fbi does not determine culpability or guilt in these investigations. but to kens point the specific qu...

Office whether to prosecute or not. whether theres reasonable grounds to believe a crime was committed. thats not what a background investigation is about. but it can be about assessing the credibility of witnesses in addition to establishing the facts. and so the idea that an fbi investigation at this point, a reopening of a bi, a background investigation, would not be useful in any way, misses the point. it might be very useful. it may not elucidate anything new. well never know unless and unt...

Kasie hunt at capitol hill. well check in with both of you as things develop. the lack of a further fbi investigation into the allegations against kavanaugh was one of the major points of contention at yesterdays marathon hearing and at todays judiciary committee meeting. >> he claimed the fbi had already investigated him because they did a background check six times. the fbi never investigated dr. blasey fords allegations. it never investigated deborah ramirezs allegations. it never investigate...

Gates for putting so much of that together. >> assuming its not a crime to unwittingly hire at least alleged tax evaders and admit it on the part of gates, greg, does the president truly have nothing to fear other than bad optics? >> no. i think theres potentially a lot more than that. and all of that, of course, is in the background of the investigation. as you mentioned, its not something that this jury is going to hear about. its not a focus of these particular charges in this trial. its part...

Cross? >> i agree with shan. if the prosecution does its job, there will be nothing left for the jury to be surprised by. nothing that the jury hasnt heard in terms of negative information about rick gates, his crimes and past lying, so i think what the defense is left with is nothing more than reiterating and getting mr. gates to repeat over and over that he lied repeatedly, and in closing arguments, trying to emphasize to the jury that this is san admitted liar, that you -- this is an admitted...

Our justice correspondent jessica schneider is here, former u.s. attorney greg bower joining me. and analyst xian wu. lay out your representation previously of rick gates so its on the table. >> right. we had represented rick from the time that he was indicted to just before he pled guilt et etetch -- guilty. the guilty plea and illegal operation i was not involved in. and everything i talk about is on the record. nothing confidential or privileged. >> understood. building on that, what do you m...

Mouth. its a very grim process. the decision a defense attorney to sit his client down is one of the toughest decisions defense attorneys make. >> i heard you laughing. youve been on the other side of this. youve been in on those interviews, what danny described there. >> i would agree, 100%. i would imagine that ive never had a conversation like that during my time as u.s. attorney with one of my ausas because they would never bring to me the offer. its a nonstarter even at the ausa level. i th...

Except by crooked hillary and the democrats. >> this weekend, the debate over whether or not president trump will sit down for an interview with the special counsel and his team comes to a head. rudy giuliani telling nbc news hes spending saturday and sunday coming up with the response to robert muellers latest request for an interview. joining us now, former u.s. attorney greg bower and legal analyst danny cevallos. just out with this piece, great headline, encapsulating where we are. trump at ...