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Rather, potential interview terms between the president and mueller. trump kept up his attacks even as he seemed to be open to a sitdown with the special counsel. >> im fighting a battle against a -- a -- a horrible group of deep-seated people, drain the swamp, that are coming up with all sorts of phony charges against me, and theyre not bringing up real charges against the other side. so we have a phony deal going on, and its a cloud over my head. >> does it make you want to talk to mueller and...

Notable one-day media blitz this week to say he would defy his subpoena. that sam nunberg has since thought better of it and will now testify before a grand jury in washington tomorrow. he has already been questioned by muellers team, remember. heres what he said about that on this very network. >> i know bob mueller. i know that whole team. and theyre right, and they probably have something on trump, trump did something pretty bad, i assume. i think they were interested in something with his bu...

Anyone else other than columbus novas owners were involved in the decision to hire cohen or provided funding for his engagement. from the very effective law firm, latham & watkins tonight. here to help us make sense, our leadoff panel, frank figliuzzi, who in past has worked for, among others, one robert mueller. john heilemann, co-author of "game change" and "double down" as well as co-host and executive producer of "the circus" on showtime. sam stein, veteran political journalist. and jill col...

The investigation, reports indicate his legal team is now -- is still negotiating, rather, potential interview terms between the president and mueller. trump kept up his attacks even as he seemed to be open to a sitdown with the special counsel. >> im fighting a battle against a -- a -- a horrible group of deep-seated people, drain the swamp, that are coming up with all sorts of phony charges against me, and theyre not bringing up real charges against the other side. so we have a phony deal goin...

Adviser who launched that notable one-day media blitz this week to say he would defy his subpoena. that sam nunberg has since thought better of it and will now testify before a grand jury in washington tomorrow. he has already been questioned by muellers team, remember. heres what he said about that on this very network. >> i know bob mueller. i know that whole team. and theyre right, and they probably have something on trump, trump did something pretty bad, i assume. i think they were intereste...

All of that makes what trumps comments today rather curious. he seemed to back jackson while also leaving the door open for jackson to drop out. >> i said to dr. jackson, what do you need it for? so well see what happens. i dont want to put a man through whos not a political person. i dont want to put a man through a process like this. its too ugly and too disgusting. so well see what happens. well make a decision. >> are you saying, mr. president, that you will stand behind him -- >> oh, i woul...

Is and how this was a model. this was a model nda. its a lot of things, but there is no way in hell its a model nda. this thing is a piece of trash in reality and everybody knows it and any legal analyst that looks at it will tell you the same thing, whos not biased. but thats what weve been hearing. and now what we have is, we have a principle party to the agreement, who admits on camera that supposedly he didnt know anything about a principle term of the agreement. well, that means he didnt kn...

Details almost daily. michael cohen has said the payment came from his own personal account, a line of credit. and not the trump campaign or the trump organization. but avenatti provided another tease to viewers tonight saying, there is much more to come. >> the initial interview was two hours. the total time for her on the "60 minutes" piece was probably 16, 17, 18 minutes. theres a lot of information left on the cutting room floor. theres a lot of the details. theres a lot of embarrassing info...

Alarmed when papadopoulos after a night of heavy drinking said the russians thad dirt on hillary clinton. and that triggered this investigation. that dirt turned out to be the hack of the dnc e-mails. papadopoulos has pleaded guilty. hes cooperating with the mueller investigation. his wife said recently her husband george could wind up as the john dean of this investigation. on that note, lets bring in your leadoff panel. ken derainian is heand ann milligram, she is these days a professor and di...

The intelligence committees have known for months that credible allegations of collusion between the trump camp and russia were pouring in from independent sources during the campaign. yet lawmakers in the thrall of the president continue to wage a cynical campaign to portray us as the unwitting victims of kremlin disinformation. lets bring in our leadoff panel chief correspondent for "the new york times" peter baker. white house bureau chief for "the washington post" seeing me for the second ti...