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Paul: all right. thank you, kim. still ahead, house democrats on a conference call at this hour planning their next steps now that the mueller problem has concluded. well go to capitol hill for the latest. ♪ ♪ choose glucerna, with slow release carbs to help manage blood sugar, and start making everyday progress. glucerna.

Status on his sentencing update. michael flynn, of course, cooperating witness in the mueller problem. thursday another hearing in roger stones case and friday the updated status of the sentencing of someone chris christie describes as a tour guide for both the southern district of new york and robert muellers probe. former deputy chairman rick gates. do any of the names stand out above the others as possible triggers for donald trump? >> nicolle, the truth is theyre all possible triggers for do...

200 points. earlier it was down more than 280 points. stocks started giving back their gains after the commerce department said construction spending dropped .6% in december. economist poll forecasted a poll of .2%. thank you for watching. "deadline: white house" with nicolle wallace starts right now. hi, everyone, its 4:00 in new york. how judiciary committee chairman gerald nadler is about to make donald trump long for the days when the only people were investigating him were the secret pros...

Weisselberg has been involved with the trump family for the last 50 years. knows where the bodies are buried. weisselberg and cohen together are lethal witnesses. >> there were a lot of other names mentioned. we have been talking for quite some time how theres increased scrutiny with regard to trump organization, looking whats happening inside the trump organization. who could be brought forward. could this create further legal troubles for the president if this were to go down? >> yes. trump is...

Not unusual. we frequently conduct investigations and build cases and prosecutions on the basis of cooperators and witnesses who have credibility problems. there are ways to address those problems in court, as long as the witness has admitted the misdeeds and the lies that hes stated prior to that fact and has taken some sort of responsibility and culpability for it. they can still provide testimony that is compelling and relevant to a prosecution. >> with what youve heard from the southern dist...

York district attorneys expected to charge manafort seemingly checkmating him. but before on the sentencing memo, you covered and reported extensively on what we learned, these tea leaves we glean about the mueller problem. as joyce referenced, we learned in some of the testimony in the transcript from a closed-door hearing that at least in andrew weissmanns mind, the contacts between manafort and kilimnik are at the center of the mueller probe. what does that sort of predict or foreshadow in te...

Kilimnik are central to whats being prosecuted. i dont know that well learn more in this sentencing memo. we could. the interesting possibility -- and we just dont know if it will come to pass or not -- would be if there is some sort of a conspiracy indictment in the works or if the report that goes up to the hill that goes to the attorney general first, if thats referencing conspiracy, that may be the point at which we learn what these conversations between kilimnik and manafort amounted to. >>...

These legal fees have been mounting and hes having a hard time paying them. i think making money is a top priority, and he uses social media to do that and he plays the victim card to do that. >> very interesting. joining me now, nbc news intelligence national security reporter ken dilanian to talk a little more about this as well. ive got to tell you, ken, one feature of some of this coverage weve done the mueller problem broadly has been judge is getting very irritated by the bad behavior of v...

Prosecutorial theory at the heart of the mueller problem is and these questions about operatives to russian intel, konstantin kilimnik and manafort but not just that, the lies told about those contacts. pick up on schiffs comment and pick up on whats played out this week, the revelation that the lies about the contacts with russians are whats at the heart of the mueller probe. >> well, i think the most significant thing about this week, nicolle, is the deep state conspiracies that theres a vast ...

Im joined by phone by former federal prosecutor paul butler who worked in the anti-corruption section of the d.c. federal prosecutors office. here with me on set, my colleague and a reporter on the mueller problem, tom winter, tracks many of these issues for us. paul butler, can you hear me? >> i can hear you loud and clear, ari. >> your view of the significance of this and then tom is going to walk us through the three things mueller won on. >> taking a look, a really quick look obviously at th...