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The president of the united states to discredit the investigation. he was making a legal argument to a legal community about the special counsel and about a particular lawsuit, he was not arguing this was a witch hunt. >> jennifer rodgers, as somebody whos spent time in courtrooms what do you make of what judge ellis was saying? it would be hard to think anything you wouldnt say about donald trump wouldnt be reverberated around the world. was he doing what judges sometimes do, chastising an enth...

With emmet flood. what is interesting is flood coming in at a late stage of the investigation. they have already produced thousands and thousands of documents that he will have to get his hands on, get familiar with. this is a little late in the game to be making such a big change. im not sure the president will be well-served by this. he needs people who know the history of everything they have given, everyone who has been interviewed. tough for him. >> dana: true. emmet flood has experience wi...

Tonight. on that same day that we found out he just hired rudy, we also learned that president trump had hired two more lawyers as well. martin and jane raskin, a husband and wife team who practice together in florida. because their hiring was announced at the same time as mr. giulianis hiring, it was assumed that they, too, were hired to represent the president on the russia investigation, on the mueller investigation. i mean, that was a little bit weird when rudy giuliani went on to say that e...

Assumed that they too were hired to represent the president on the russia investigation, on the mueller investigation. i mean, that was a little bit weird when rudy giuliani went on to say that evening that he was planning on ending the mueller investigation in two weeks. right? if thats your plan, why would you also need to hire two whole new lawyers to start working on that case on that same day if its just about to wrap up. it was a little weird. well, now today we can explain the weirdness t...

The firing of comey. theyre saying this is a clear conflict and we can make that case. and by the way, youve already made a good case about disqualifying the fbi because you think that their investigation has not been credible and has been contaminat contaminated. so the president wants to fire people, we are told. rosenstein primarily among them. perhaps even jeff sessions. and of course, theres always the question about does he want to fire mueller. do we know hes going to do any of these thin...

This. this took on a whole other level in the last 48 hours. >> can you say when you were con tangted? >> im not going to say when we were contacted. what i will say is were going to cooperate and do whatever we can to assist that investigation. were not going to require fbi raids to cooperate or tell the truth. our entire intent for the last five or six weeks of this case has been to expose the facts, expose the truth for the american people to learn as much as possible and what happened here. ...

Been in agreement that if the president wanted to fire bob mueller, if he wanted to change course here, then he had to essentially get somebody to do it for him. that somebody would have had to have been rod rosenstein, the deputy attorney general and for all intents and purposes, the acting attorney general in the mueller case. so if its the presidents view that he himself can do that, thats new. now, i dont know whether thats just their sort of legal opinion or whether thats because theyre tee...

Month that at that point although the president was not a target of the special counsels russia investigation, he is a subject of the that investigation and the mueller team wants to interview him for that reason. according to the washington post tonight, muellers team is preparing a report on its findings thus far specifically pertaining to the president and the issue of obstruction of justice. we have never heard before that they are doing that so that seems like big news. at this point "the w...

Him dropped because there was something wrong with mueller being the special counsel, manaforts argument was basically that mueller was running off on a wild goose chase and nobody was controlling him and he was an unaccountable prosecutor. in this case now we have a direct memo showing whatever you think about him, hes a very accountable prosecutor. hes answering to the deputy attorney general what hes pursuing but here is the thing i want you to know, something else from this filing that looks...

Investigation but he is a subject of the investigation. was that -- was that news to the presidents lawyers? did they suppose that or guess that? was this an important advance for them and their understanding of the legal jeopardy? >> there is a lot to unpack in your great question, soon you can get a job in the justice department, rachel. i would say first of all, it is not a surprise to most people monitoring this case, that the president is likely is a subject. his conduct is under review and...