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Investigation into the trump campaigns ties to russia. so thats where we start today, with some of our favorite reporters and friends, national investigative reporter with "the washington post," carol leonnig. ken vogel, political reporter at "the new york times." former u.s. attorney harry litman. at the table, associated press white house reporter jonathan lemire and johnny deutsche. harry, we left out five of your titles. we will get to those before we start talking to you. i have to start wi...

>> christopher peterson, former special adviser in the office of the director of the consumer fm protection bureau. were out of time but thank you for joining me. "deadline: white house" with nicolle wallace starts right now. hi, everyone, its 4:00 in new york. theres brand-new reporting today on a meeting thats being described as a potential fulcrum of special counsels robert mueller investigation into collusion between donald trumps campaign and the russians. theres also renewed skr scruti...

Be able to talk to his friends, these are his close associates but also he would have to be shut down from talking about anything other than the super bowl and tom brady. hes already kind of addressed this because i think he knows that this judge is known for gagging the manafort case. she put a gag order on the manafort team so they could not reach out to anybody as well. he talked about this be in an instagram post. he said i will fight and the deep state is worried. hes saying that even if he...

Their lies with roger stones own alleged lies. i think thats what the judge is trying to make clear to him, that he is essentially endanger himself. theres also the problem here that this judge, i think, realizes that she acted a little bit harshly in the manafort case. i think she was very quick to gag in that case and even prohibited the lawyers from speaking and i think, look, theres supreme court precedent that says a defendant has a right to defend himself and has a right to provide -- to p...

The speedy trial act. it normally requires a defendant to be brought to trial been 70 days. mueller said he seized terabytes of information from stone over the past year and a half or however long hes been investigating stone. hard drives full of stuff hes turning over to the defense. they need a chance to go through it. whats interesting is its clear from the filing that mueller has been on stone. has been subpoenaing documents from apple and other service providers, gathering all the communica...

A nonviolent crime with no history of violence. when asked by the judge in a show of force, they said we had a search warrant and we from afraid once he saw us he would destroy evidence. they had over a million, according to stone, of his e-mails and texts that they wanted to take, cancelled checks and things like that. >> neil: and that was the genesis of the charges anyway. they had in place. >> yes. >> neil: now what happens? >> he has an arraignment tomorrow before judge jackson, the one tha...

So that was last april from the special counsels office. six months later in october after so many strange reporting that somebody was maybe trying to shop false sexual harassment allegations about robert mueller to the press, the special counsels office put out a statement saying they had referred the matter to the fbi. finally the reporter at yahoo! news got the special counsels office to confirm a key filing from the special counsel in the paul manafort case would be public. there had been a ...

Departures from that policy based on the specific circumstances. there are countless different, you know, permutations of facts that might justify a departure from it. so i think its best handled by supervisory people. but i also think it has to be looked at centrally. im not saying that each case has to be approved centrally, but there has to be some monitoring of what is going on. one of the things that led to the sentencing guidelines was just big differences in the way the laws were being ap...

Is that a good idea if hes pardoning someone in some sort of exchange for something else -- >> or dangling a pardon like with the manafort case. whether or not that could be considered obstruction, thats a fascinating area that really wasnt explored. >> its also significant because his 19-page memo talks about how the president cannot be charged with obstruction of justice in barrs opinion for firing comey. here hes saying the president can be charged with obstruction of justice for promising a ...

Question in the case of determining when to not charge the most serious readily provable offense? >> no. i wont defer to my -- im not going to say i will defer to my subordinates. there might be a case i disagree with and i will assert myself on it. >> i see my time is expired. thank you, sir. >> thanks. well take a recess until 12:15. >> hello, everyone. we have been watching the confirmation hearing of attorney general nominee bill barr before the senate judiciary committee. a big focus on rus...