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Investigator was skeptical the russian probe would uncover wrongdoing. to go days after special counsel robert mueller took over the pope in may, now demoted fbi agent peter strzok enter now reassigned fbi lawyer lisa page discussed the merits of joining muellers team. strzok tells page, you and i botha know the odds are nothin, if i thought it was likely, ill be there no question. i hesitate in part because of my gut sense and concern there is no big they are they are." in another cryptic text,...

Going off course. but what we are seeing is, in fact, this is, indeed, relevant to muellers investigation, these potential financial crimes so we could be talking about money laundering, for example, and there are also some signals that this is much broader than just cooperation we are hearing about with the irs, mueller and his team have been working with new york attorney general eric schneiderman, as we seen reported in recent weeks reporting by cnn, looking into potential money laundering, i...

Manafort, and now hes moved on to allegations where the venue, the events took place in the district of columbia. that means he might have expanded the investigation to look perhaps at obstruction of justice and events that occurred inside the white house, false sfamts were made by people, either on their security clearance payments or other paperwork, submitted to the government, perhaps false statements made in the course of interviews with the fbi. this signals a broadened investigation. >> t...

Line. >> his red line. not muellers red line. focus russia. dont look at my finances. earlier, a few days ago we heard news of an attorney joining muellers team who is a highly paid, high profile white collar crimes defense attorney. it seems pretty clear this is not going to be a narrow focus. >> give as you sense about the importance of impanelling a grand jury. his mandate is to take up any man per may arise. any aspect of dirt, anything that looks interesting or a problem under the law. he c...

It is probably a nerve-racking time for the new chief of staff to cross his fingers and really try to implore the president not to act rashly. >> let me ask you a couple things. as this case advances, it is clear the grand jury is being impaneled and mueller is on the hunt and he is trying to bring in subpoena, bring in more business documents, it could be the tax returns, thats always been a target of usefulness for him. does there come a point where it becomes harder for trump to move because ...

That mean he would have to go? >> i think thats a violation. >> what would you do? >> i cant answer that question. i dont think it will happen. >> of course, muellers probe is authorized to investigate as i said a moment ago, any matters that arose or may arise directly from the investigation. robert, you know this president pretty well. he seems to believe there is a red line. that somehow muellers scope of his investigation only includes the russia stuff. >> it is hard to speculate with the sp...

You uncover more information. i dont think we can say mueller will be done next month or in a year. hell be done when hes done. thats a tough answer for people to hear but thats the truth. >> a tough thing for the man in the white house to hear. thank you. congratulations to your newspaper, the "wall street journal." robert costa, thank you for your expertise. much more ahead on the trump-russia investigation including a new report that the tacting director of the fbi told top fbi deputies, they...

Providing information about other people who then are brought under oath and then challenged with the information theyve already been gotten and so forth. i dont think it is that hard for prosecutors to find people to testify against things like this. i think the harder thing for the prosecutor is to figure out what is going on with the russians. remember, there isnt a particular scandal, this isnt a particular thing we have seen in the past. this involves intelligence, another culture, another ...

Suggests they discuss the merits of joining muellers team. strzok writes "you and i both know the odds are nothing. if i thought it was likely, i would be there no question. i hesitate in part because of my sense and concerned there is no big "there" there." republican lawmakers said the text are more evidence of clinical bias. >> i care about the department of justice and the fbi and it breaks my heart that we are having to have this conversation about two agents and only wanted to get the pres...

They discussed the merits of joining muellers team. on fox, republic and lawmakers have the texts are more evidence of political bias. >> i care a lot about the department of justice and the fbi, and it breaks my heart that we are having to have this conversation about two agents that only one had to get the -- >> another republican or read the texts of the fbi officials talked about a "secret society" within days of president trumps victory. >> there was a society of at least two people to incl...