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Role a special prosecutor, that investigation and that grand jury were already looking at michael flynn. hes taken over all of that and hes working with a new grand jury. i dont think you can rule out that michael flynn is not part of this inquiry. >> rick: 16 attorneys have not been put on this molar case -- mueller case. what does that tell you about this? >> it tells you this is a very serious investigation and as you pointed out before, its going to be going on for quite possibly a long time...

Just said about mueller. orks -- oh, mueller will be diving into this. >> yeah, he will be. you know what he is staffing up. he has a lot of lawyers working on his team now. there is no sign this is going to be a short investigation. indeed it may go on a few years. its something the white house is prepared for. i was interviewing a pretty senior official in the west wing late last week while the president was overseas. we were talking about russia and the mueller case. he said look we feel like...

Conviction of dick cheneys aid scooter libby on that count. so these investigations, you know, do have a way of sprawling out and, you know, that could well happen in the mueller case. >> well, the intent there, i think, that we learned from comeys testimony and not talking directly about flynn could take us down that lane, the perjury issue of what he did -- >> no question. >> what he did and didnt do in interactions with sergey kislyak. thank you for your time, matthew. great article. >> appre...

The if those tapes existed. >> absolutely, thomas. and hes not bound to comply with this house committee unless subpoenaed to do so and i dont think the republicans would do that in this case. his own party seems to be tep pid in their support of him as of late. whats really baffling to me is every p.r. person would say if at some point tapes exist, drop the tapes. just dump everything. dump the entire story. get it all out on the table. have one or two bad media cycles. rather than the drip, dr...

He wouldnt allow comey to testify. if he really believed you had an obstruction of justice case, would you let the only and best witness go through this? >> isnt that a good point. does mueller have some type of conclusion that hes now trying to back fill through the work hes doing? why let comey testify? >> well, i think the senator raises a reasonable point, but on the other hand, mueller has to deal with competing interests, right? there are simultaneous congressional hearings. he has his own...

In washington where his lawyers think they have a handle on the depth and breadth of that investigation and now he has this thing going on in new york where his lawyers dont know everything that the feds are looking at and they dont quite know what the case would be and what the actual conduct is thats under investigation. but they do know that michael cohen is out there and that he wants to cooperate. and that he apparently has some stuff that at the very least is embarrassing to the president....

Focusing on yohai for the past six months, and reuters says muellers team has already interviewed him. meanwhile, there are also developments in robert muellers fight to keep the judge in paul manaforts virginia case from tossing out some of the charges. today muellers team gave the judge a full, unedited version of the justice department memo that lays out the scope of this inquiry and what crimes he is authorized to pursue. as we mentioned, the president weighed in today on twitter on the russ...

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Rendering the special counsels investigation to be irresponsible and really ending this investigation. theyve been looking for some cause, some reason to go after rod rosenstein, the deputy attorney general, to go after mueller, to really make it clear to the public that this probe has gone too far. and they feel like this is potentially that reason. >> phil, this is just a lay question. it may go beyond your scope, but can you imagine another case where we would rip off the identity and expose ...

Actually ought to fire the deputy attorney general. as you know, hes been in his cross hairs for quite some time. but i think the michael cohen raid has taken it to a very different level. and this would all be, of course, firing rosenstein would allow him to put a greater pressure on the special counsel. but there are lots of different voices in that room. there are people trying to calm the president down saying wait, dont do anything yet. some of his attorneys are el toing us that hes not goi...