Made Mueller News Today

Effectively tonight. >> jessica schneider, thank you for that reporting. two legal analysts, paul callan and robert muellers special assistant at the justice department. you wrote a piece entitled "roger stone must have made mueller really angry." thats your takeaway from the way the arrest went down on that early morning raid. why do you see it that way? why do you think the message was that mueller was trying to send? >> the raid itself was unusually aggressive in a white collar criminal case....

Moving forward and apparent bias movement inside an agency or organization. my question is, if they felt so confident to do these things that they are being accused of, strzok, and page, it couldnt have just begun, right? are they practiced in a more wider culture, if you will, that allows it to have a question mark what do we know? >> this goes back to comeys leadership, and muellers leadership before. we have been litigating against the fbi for 20 plus years at judicial watch. one thing that h...

You have the leadership of the fbi, who thought they could get away with illegally targeting a candidate for president of the united states. mccabe has been fired, come has been fired, mr. strzok has been fired, and frankly, what i think needs to be done is we need to hold mr. mueller accountable for what went on here. these are the cops that made muellers case. without strzok, without page, without the illicit activity related to the dossier, without the illegal targeting of carter page, in my ...

>> and were learning today, laura, that robert muellers team has interviewed witnesses and interviewing people involving donald trumps long-term personal attorney, michael cohen. what does this scrutiny tell you? >> it really goes back to the porn star, stormy daniels. i know her real name is stephanie clifford or something like that. but it goes back to that. because, remember, he admitted recently that he made a personal payment. he said it was unrelated to the trump campaign or the trump orga...

Organization. but he himself just decided because either he was an altruistic person or just really wanted to give away $130,000 to somebody and did so just of his own accord. that raised a lot of red flags and suspicion, because it seemed as though he was acting on behalf of somebody else. why? because he said he was merely facilitating a transaction. when he used that word "facilitated," it made muellers team say, well, obviously you were acting as a go-between. so a go-between who and someone...

>> reporter: president trump using one of his favorite phrases to deny the bombshell report from the "new york times," that he called for special counsel robert muellers firing last june. but a source confirms to cnn that trump did call for muellers firing and that white house counsel don mcbeggahn refd the order. trumps effort to remove mueller came just a month after he created a firestorm by firing fbi director james comey. two people told the "times" the president expressed concern over what...