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Went to rosenstein. rosenstein went to tax division to get their sign off on it after which he signed off on it and wrote a letter to confirm that expanded mandate. what the judge wants is the unredacted version of that. they produced the redacted version which relates only to manafort. the judge wants to see the broader investigation. they have now complied with that, im told and the judge hopefully will rule on the law and let the mueller case proceed. >> i didnt want to let you say that becau...

Target or subject or witness in a grand jury and you feel your client will not do well in that setting you suggest your client not appear. in this case where the grand jury subpoena is issued i dont believe he can resist that. i think giuliani is wrong when he said because he is president he can resist grand jury subpoena. it didnt work out that well for bill clinton. he has to face the reality that his client will likely have to testify. it may be that he or the real lawyers on the team can neg...

President will not take the fifth in this case? >> how can i be confident of that? when im facing a situation with the president and other lawyers are and every lawyer in america thinks he would be a fool to testify. i have a client who wants to testify. he said it yesterday. we said i hope we get a chance to tell him the risks that he is taking. >> plenty of chances to tell him. where we are right to be skeptical is just because the president says something does meantime he mean he is telling t...

Its called fighting back. joining us now is jim hiemz of connecticut. i will get to what the presidents tweet was. lets talk about rudy giuliani. when he says the president doesnt have to comply with the subpoena is that right? >> that is completely wrong. as a matter of law this has never been tested but also not in question. nixon was asked to produce tapes and bill clinton was compelled to participate in a civil case. the idea that the president would have to -- could be subpoenaed is not ope...

Investigation. >> right. >> that goes right back to obstruction of justice. >> the latter part of that line oh what a tangled web we weave is, "when we practice to deceive." these guys arent practicing much. it seems more like the keystone kops, except its the keystone kriminals. they didnt get the memo on how to lie. so this is what weve seen unfold this week. they also had some very good news this week. theres a judge in the paul manafort case, judge ellis, who essentially rebuked mueller and ...

Purpose. >> enough of a purpose if you were one of those lawyers, usa versus manafort, one of the federal prosecutors work, that scare you? >> i dont think hes going to dismiss the case. some of the general comments he made dont go to the issue of whether theres a jurisdictional problem here. the motion is a jurisdictional motion. having read the papers, i think he will not dismiss it. but i do think he made those comments understanding that there was -- that they were going to be heard and that...

Which is a real long shot legal experts say. its possible, its conceivable he may say this exceeds your mandate and this is a case properly handled by the u.s. attorney in virginia in the eastern district. >> i want to go to ruth marcus on this. ruth, donald trump, whether or not the argument that judge ellis put forward that americans dont want a special prosecutor with unfettered powers, donald trump went to work trying to denigrate the mueller team. listen to what he said at the nra. >> in al...

A lot of things. well find out when we see the charges against him. that will be the big moment for him. >> the judge in california, in a separate case, declined to act there because he said he expected at some point in the near future, michael cohen will be indicted. how do you see it playing? >> i dont think giuliani helped his client. when he came on board, he was going to have this case wrapped up in two weeks. right? that was the promise. >> correct, he said that. >> the whole mueller thing...

Interview in which he said this wasnt a campaign violation said, can you imagine if this had come out right before the election? the implication again to what everybody else in the country thinks rudy giuliani said that was the case. now hes walking that back. if youre a prosecutor in this thing, this is too easy. >> its interesting. so if the prosecutors are looking into this, if they want to make this campaign violation count, they will look at these things, they will have them in the arsenal ...

But question whether people in the public who arent already completely exasperated with the presidents relationship with the truth are going to be moved by any of this. as a legal matter its less completely clear to me the implications of this go -- make donald trump and the people around him life worse -- materially worse than they were before all of these allegations. theres, you know, a conspiracy case, theres questions about michael cohens handling of client funds and bank statements and thi...