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A newscast reviewing and analyzing top stories of the day as they happen. Said yes. We expect more detail. Shepard its my understanding there was testimony about a time when Paul Manafort essentially ran out of money. He did. Theyre saying in 2014, when his former top client, who the mueller team described as manaforts golden goose, ukrainian president victor yanukovych. Gates testified when he left it decreased the Income Stream. Heres how much the Income Stream was down. Gates testified that i...

There was substantial evidence of criminal intent by the president , in his view. Were going to see bob mueller walk out and were going to be watching for is he alone, is mr. Barr behind him or in the room, what are the first words that bob mueller wants to publicly utter . A man who is reticent, sometimes to a fault his supporters say. He clearly has something to say. Does he in any way elude to or cite what we know to be major disagreements with mr. Barr about what mueller found in his investi...

One of the sources i spoke to said now the president and his lawyers are still very much opposed to any interview. We know, john, the president s legal team has resumed some discussion with special counsel, with the special counsel in the weeks since the president responded to written questions. Mostly regarding collusion and the time period before the inauguration. The two sides had agreed to hold off on discussing any interview while the president wrote responses to those questions which were ...

Legal team has resumed some discussion with special counsel, with the special counsel in the weeks since the president responded to written questions. Mostly regarding collusion and the time period before the inauguration. The two sides had agreed to hold off on discussing any interview while the president wrote responses to those questions which were returned, as youll recall, just before thanksgiving. That was seen as a first step to concluding more than a year of back and forth between the tw...

11:01 am ET, April 25, 2024 Michael Drieben: Jack Smith's attorney takes the stage From CNN's John Fritz Michael Drieben departs the U.S.

Saying that they made the decision, going in, that they couldnt charge the president with a crime because it would be unconstitutional. it does seem when you read the report and this has sort of mystified a lot of people, it seems like they made the decision at the end, they gathered all the evidence, now can we say whether or not any of this evidence constitutes obstruction of justice on the part of the president, i guess we cant so therefore we cant decide whether it did. it seems that process...

We know, that it may be a subpoena fight involving at least somebody in the white house where there is an important issue thats being challenged. so, for example, the presence of michael drieben who is a constitutional lawyer. came to the special counsels office from the solicitor generals office. nonpartisan career justice department, attention to legal detail. his presence, if those two things go to together, as evan reported, would indicate that maybe this -- the issue they are litigating is ...

Order to the white house where maybe they are litigating some issue of executive privilege or something along those lines. >> the thing thats interesting, there have been no leaks from the special counsels team but a ton of leaks from the presidents legal team. more than leaks. the the presidents legal team often tells us what its doing in terms of the special counsels office which leads me to believe or wonder if this does have to do directly with the president or the white house, wouldnt it ha...

Extra measures. >> so any sense to you that this might have something to do with the white house or national security issue? >> well, its hard to say. because its grand jury and because our reporting is that its related to the special counsels investigation, i am inclined to think, based on what we know, that it may be a subpoena fight involving at least somebody in the white house where there is an important issue thats being challenged. so, for example, the presence of michael drieben who is a...

The legal team tells us what its doing in terms of the special counsels office which leads me to believe or wonder if this does have to do directly with the president or the white house. wouldnt it have leaked? >> no. because grand jury secrecy can be held in contempt. so grand jury rules are so severe that if somebody, no lawyer who wants to continue to practice law is going to leak information, no matter how sort of publicly interesting this case is. they are not going to leak information rega...