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Powell? dom chu, thank you so much. now the latest in the russia investigation, "washington post" reporting that on friday robert muellers team questioned trumps former chief strategist steve bannon, marking bannons third sitdown with the special counsels team. he was reportedly asked about comments that long-time trump associate roger stone is said to have made privately about wikileaks in 2016. prior to their release of hacked democratic e-mails. joining me with more is nbc news intelligence...

New exclusive reporting raising the question of whether roger stone knew in advance about the wikileaks e-mails released just before election day 2016. special counsel robert muellers team has spent months investigating whether the conspiracy theorist learned before the public did that wikileaks obtained e-mails hacked by russian intelligence officers and whether he passed information about the stolen e-mails to donald trump associate roger stone. thats according to multiple sources. joining us ...

Republican politics since the 1990s. when he was revealed to be advertising with his then wife for sex partners possibly for mr. and mrs. stone to have fun with. revealing photographs for mr. and mrs. stone appearing in swinger ads before the time those things migrated to the internet. and no, were not going to show you those pictures. thats what google is for. this wouldnt have been a problem for roger stone in most other occupations. but politics, even liberal politics demand very conservative...

Know ahead of time that negative information about the clinton campaign was going to be revealed by wikileaks before wikileaks revealed it. and we now know that wikileaks obtained that information from russian government agents, who were stealing it from e-mail servers at the national democratic committee. and today "the washington post" is reporting, quote, last month randy credico, a one time roger stone friend, told the grand jury that the trump loyalist confided during the 2016 campaign that...

Willingness to, well, basically turn on the people hes been involved with? >> well, i mean, you get people to cooperate when they realize the evidence against them is very strong. i dont think robert mueller is going after roger stone just for that reason. but if roger stone decides to cooperate because he sees that evidence of him having committed a crime is very strong, i have little doubt that like michael cohen, like manafort, he will. and with stone, you know, whats going to be key here is ...

Lawyer, when you have roger stone running your campaign, only the best. and its interesting because the fact that roger stone so clearly obviously lied during his testimony is in and of itself as we all know by now a serious crime. but the real question is why did he lie, and what is he so afraid -- hes not a man whos afraid to talk. hes not a man whos afraid to talk pretty boldly in ways other people wouldnt admit to things other people wouldnt necessarily admit to. so what is it hes covering u...

But if i help figure out the time the security guards are gone or i help figure out how to get the money of the bank, im part of the conspiracy. and i think thats the question with stone and other people part of the campaign. >> congressman swalwell, "the new york times" and when they obtained a version of the things mueller wanted to ask the president, one of the questions to the president that robert mueller wants to ask is what did you know about communication between roger stone, his associa...

>> and mimi, are there prosecutorial techniques when youre dealing with someone like roger stone and what you really want is the information he can give you beyond his own involvement? are there some techniques that the prosecutors bring to that moment to try and get that person to focus on his willingness to, well, basically turn on the people hes been involved with? >> well, i mean, you get people to cooperate when they realize the evidence against them is very strong. i dont think robert muel...

Will assess their credibility and try to figure out whos telling the truth but it sounds like theres quite an electronic paper trail -- not paper trail, but trail. and that is going to be key because he cant wiggle out of that, stone. and so that is really powerful evidence when prosecutors have an electronic trail to show a subject or defendant or someone is charged or about to be charged because they know they cant get out of it. >> and congressman, quickly before break, i want to get your rea...

Campaign for city council never mind the presidency. never mind the most valuable inexperienced republican campaign veterans stayed very far away from the trump campaign and have almost all condemned both the trump campaign and the trump presidency. that left a very big opening for the very strange roger stone who had been banned from serious republican politics since the 1990s. when he was revealed to be advertising with his then wife for sex partners possibly for mr. and mrs. stone to have fun...