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started the russia collusion story and went in and told barack obama all about it she was trying to link trump to russia to get attention off email scandal. we thought that hillary got the russians to make the story up. it turns out hillarys guy made up the pee pee tape lie. and then they just pin it on a russian. the democratic national committee had this guy, charles dolan, he goes to russia. checks into the ritz carlton and asks for a tour of the presidential suite. and then the gol...

Reporter. She is the coauthor of our exclusive nbc news report from just last night on Robert Mueller asking witnesses if trump knew with these hacked democratic emails before they were released. Also back with us, jeremy bash, former chief of staff at the cia and pentagon. And we welcome back to the program, cynthia alneya, a federal prosecutor and a Justice Department veteran. Welcome to you all. Carol, about tonights story, what is its central impact the your view . Well, as you mentioned, th...

Flat on their case because there is no there there. >> jesse: a lot of big fat nothings piling up. bidens foreign bribes, spying on trump, framing him a lot of big fat nothings. that was the guy mueller had run the special counsels office because mueller was tooled. that was the guy who destroyed his cell phone when the special counsel investigation was over. but, after today, the media doesnt care. they think, yeah, we cheated but you didnt catch us. you didnt put any of our people in jail. we ...

And then goes back, he opens himself up to why did you -- why did you -- >> i think its a conspiracy theory. my favorite thing is they want to bring it to life for people and the senior aide said not everybody is reading the book but people will watch the movie. if youre not reading the book, youre not going to watch this movie. everybody made up their mind how they feel on this. nobody will wake up wednesday and said i heard theres this guy mueller out there. i want to know -- >> its the same w...

President. it was almost like al capone. he better not go -- he doesnt have any authority in the intugs institutions of government over this guy mueller. he has no right to tell him what to say. >> i think he is scared, because robert mueller, if he could speak freely could really powerfully criticize the president in a way that almost no one else can. this is a life-long republican, chris. he volunteered for the vietnam war when donald trump was in studio 54, who led the fbi after 9/11. and wha...

Still working on this project, and what is the role of the fbi? a lot of questions for us to understand how the president was compromised. what are the risk to our country as a result of the president being compromised? >> kim, what i was struck by was the bullying tactic of the president. it was almost like al capone. he better not go -- he doesnt have any authority in the institution over this guy mueller. he has no right to tell him what to say. >> i think he is scared, because robert mueller...

Rudy giuliani said he twisted the judges words somewhat to suggest he was punishing robert muellers team for overreach, that muellers team suggested a stiffer sentence for manafort, the fact the judge only gave him four years was proof that the special counsel was out of bounds. and clearly trying to sort of lay that groundwork to make a similar claim for whenever the mueller report is finally released and the white house has to deal with that. >> seems to me last night the judge was saying the ...

Hes committed white collar krum. a very easy argument to sell. >> anyway, in doing it secretly. muellers prosecutors said yesterday that manafort did not fully cooperate, saying quote he told us things we already knew. he did not provide valuable information or cooperation. and its providing speculation. trump attorney rudy giuliani tells nbc news a pardon isnt being considered at this time. hes not ruling one in or out. when asked about a pardon earlier today, trump also side stepped. >> i do...

Putting outmistruths and pray apau upon members of the american public and when handed something like this yesterday the president is giuliani have really seized on it to take a swipe at the special counsel. rudy giuliani said he twisted them somewhat to suggest he was punishing robert muellers team for over reach. they had suggested a much stiffer sentence for manafort. the fact the judge only gave him four years, in giulianis estimation was proof that the special counsel was out of bounds. so ...

Seized upon in the political sphere to go after particular people in part of this investigation. >> let me give you one angle here that nobodys talking about about that barr exchange, and that is when jeff sessions was there, the president could claim theres one guy mueller with a bunch of random democrats running an investigation. this is a comey moment. you fire comey, you get mueller. you dump sessions because sessions isnt involved in the investigation, you cant say my nominee is overseeing ...