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1st. Now, he is saying he doesnt know if it will be over by September The 1st but he thinks that Robert Mueller should be able to wrap it up by then. He told me if it goes much past the beginning of september then everybody who is involved in this investigation could be accused in interfering with the election. Because if this thing does drag on, it gets closer and closer to those all important mid terms. The response to mueller went out about an hour ago. We got two statements from the presiden...

Lets hope they get a break there. adam klotz, thank you so much. >> reporter: yep with. eric: robert mueller could be approaching the end of his investigation. an increasing number of his top investigators are leaving the office and returning to the private sector. just days ago the house voted unanimously to make muellers report public, all this after paul manaforts second sentencing this week. his former deputy, rick gates, continuing to cooperate with the government, and the special counsels ...

Confirmation hearing next week before the senate. you have william barr, the presidents pick for attorney general. elevated importance now that we know rod rosenstein is stepping down. will he allow the mueller probe to continue undeterred? hes called it grossly irresponsible but he has rosensteins full support. does he have your support? >> his memo is disturbing, concerning. the other element of this, we have to see if hell make public commitments not only to allow the mueller investigation to...

History. >> jesse: i think i know what you were talking about when you said the judge was looking for something. theyve been sending up smoke signals that maybe he was going to pull the plea. they become until the judge i was set up. i didnt really live. the judge was kind of asking are you really going to go that far. the minute muellers team heard that was a possibility, they just dangled that turkey consulting thing that he was he was unregistered as a foreign agent. they are going to hit him...

Witches days. instead he is going to mar-a-lago for christmas. >> jedidiah: i wouldnt want to anger the witches. i wouldnt want them casting a spell on me. they make the bigger argument that they are a minority group and like other minority groups that trump has been antagonistic towards, they are speaking for other people and broadening it out. >> jesse: we will have a witch on watters world this weekend to respond to these claims. you think im kidding. im not. >> greg: i know youre not. >> jes...

Empire. so it may be that manafort had some money that he thought was safe that his family could live on and by stating in detail where that money was, it could have caused problems for his family. were speculating here, but this is so unusual for somebody to make a deal with a federal prosecutor and then walk away from the deal at the risk of spending the rest of his life in prison. its got to be a really big, important fact that manafort is hiding. >> its remarkable. paul, thank you very much....

Much information that we dont know about that they have been able to work through to try and see where hes lying, where hes telling the truth. it is really a stunning turn in this entire investigation now. >> a lot of lying going around. thanks very much. lets bring in our legal analyst. he raises an interesting point there that if the counsel is willing to jetison manafort here, they know from other sources things that went on that hes not being truthful about. what does that tell you about how...

Is mr. manafort has two choices. he can renig or go to jail for a longer time. >> "politico" makes an interesting point this morning about whether a government shutdown could sideline mueller and his team. of the seven appropriations bills that need to get passed, is the commerce justice science bill which has some funding for muellers probe of the white house. if there is a shut down, it will be up to president donald trump whether to make mueller essential already keep him sidelined until cong...

They have likely now lost their star witness? and if so, is this good news for the president? >> i dont think it is a major problem for the mueller team. i say that because, remember, they had already convicted mueller in virginia on substantial accounts. manafort, im sorry, on substantial accounts. he was probably facing conviction on d.c. on other counts as well. through the years, manaforts information was supposedly only relevant to older contacts with foreign agents, not stuff that happened...

Wrapped up by. now, while giuliani would not go into the details of the counter offer. he did tell fox news its not a refusal, but at the same time, its not a completely unreasonable position i can see a way he told me in which they, mueller, may agree with it giuliani says the chances of mueller accepting the offer depend on two things. how much they want an interview with the president and b, the degree to which they are willing to say this may be our last chance to get the sitdown with the pr...