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Democrats now revisiting these two bills that were originally introduced in august, designed to not only protect robert mueller but potentially other special counsels in the future. both of these bills make it so that only the attorney, a nonrecused attorney general, could fire the special counsel. theoretically if they were to pass, jeff session, who recused himself from the russia investigation, wouldnt be able to fire the special counsel. the biggest difference between the two bills is that o...

>> explosive new details about the kind of operation cambridge analytica was handling. and why facebooks handling of a massive data intrusion. >> i understand that facebook was how donald trump was going to win. >> when "all in" starts right now. good evening from new york. im chris hayes. new reporting tonight that president trumps lawyers are now turning documents over to special counsel robert mueller in hopes of limiting the scope of muellers interview with the president. that news comes in ...

From mr. horowitz the inspector general the fbi to senator ron johnson, saying i have all the text messages through the common of june. only after that, do we hear from the fbi that theres a five month black hole in those text messages. weve got conflicting information. today ill be sending a demand to the fbi to find out where the phones are. what system in are they saying malfunction. what was the upgrade that caused this. it would be the greatest coincidence since the conception. if it happen...

>> reporter: good morning, erica. the president so far has avoided directly criticizing robert mueller since the special counsel was appointed last may. thats at the advice of his lawyers worried he would antagonize investigators. the president abandoned that strategy over the weekend when he called out robert mueller by name. white house lawyer ty cobb insisting president trump isnt considering or discussion the firing of special counsel robert mueller. after the president went after mueller by...

Rosenstein. rosenstein was put in place when jeff sessions recused himself from the frustration. at times the frustration boiled over to trump saying he wants rosenstein removed from the investigation. two sources have told us that. others say that is more of just bluster and really an example of trumps frustration. the white house has given us a statement from special counsel ty cobb. and ty cobb said we do not find it to be a coincidence theres an onslaught of false stories circulating in what...

General rosenstein will follow the brilliant and courageous example of the fbi office of professional responsibility and attorney general jeff sessions and bring an end to alleged russia collusion investigation manufactured by mccabes boss james comey based upon a fraudulent and corrupt dossier. that doesnt sound off the cuff despite the fact they walked it back. >> no, not at all. and i should note we should all aspire to have friends and partners in our lives who describe us the way john dowd ...

He helped be in the room in terms of deciding whichsosome o theervegs would get positions in the white house. he stayed on past man an for the and went on with ivanka and jared kushner in the fall campaign where he would have had access to a lot of strategic decisions. >> i want to ask you, chuck, theres been some analysis that the additional charges, indictments against manafort and gates coming so many months after the first ones which i believe were in october could mean a whole lot of differ...

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The president has called russian interference a hoax, despite all the evidence indicating a very real threat. in fact, this argument was recently declared the "lie of the year" by politifact. >> this russia thing with trump and russia is a made up story, an excuse by the democrats for having lost an election that they should have won. >> nbc news has learned that senior fbi officials warned trump last year that russia would try to infiltrate his campaign. thats according to multiple government o...