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And that is why the judge said today, you have some nerve mr. manafort how you have to prepare two trials, because you really only had to prepare for one. that was your choice, not mine. >> another filing from a top flight attorney in the mueller team and they want to use what is prior bad acts. applying to the court or a motion to the court to use those. they want to talk about his lobbying as long as 30 years. manafort had knowledge in the fara and of its registration requirements it is also r...

Hims behavior, there is an increasing sense of panic setting in. there may be a strategy and there may be tactics and there are things they are trying to do to missouri this out of the legal realm into the political realm and try to make it a politic argument, but everything that trump is doing, just the kind of essence of it suggests not just projection of guilt but that he feels the net is closing in around him. >> thats what i believe. >> on the mueller side and the michael cohen side there a...

Does. ta -- doesnt talk much. >> you are not getting anything. we are not getting anything out of the mueller team unless they file something core. we have thought maybe by the end of the summer that this issue would come to some sort of resolution and whether the president winds up getting subpoenaed. that is ongoing. the fact that this has been going on for so long tells you the thought probably also on the mueller side. do they really want to subpoena the president. >> giuliani kept setting d...

Mueller feels any pressure other than the pressure to do his work as quickly as possible. bob mueller is not moved by headlines or stories, only concerned about the facts. that is what hes interested in. he knows bob mueller well and he also knows the president in his tactics or reflexes. and thats the sense you get, that the presidents frustration is he keeps saying, close the investigation, narrow the investigation. and mueller keeps ignoring him. and so what happens on the schoolyard with the...

So i think that trump is, is very wise to be very cautious going forward. and to not make any, hes likely to make more outlandish statements, but not make any more outlandish statements as it relates to that. >> judge ellis is looking for manafort, the deep dive in his financial background well before the campaign. thats what hes looking for. rick, i want to talk about the leaked copy of the 49 questions mueller wants to ask the president, published in "the new york times" this week. does that d...

Presidents outside legal team with a list of some 52 questions that mueller wants to ask the president if they do sit down together. so some cooperation there from the mueller side. handing over those questions. alan dershowitz, the noted constitutional attorney that had dinner at the white house with president trump, weighing in on this this morning saying he thinks the president should respond to the questions with some written answers but shouldnt get anywhere near the special counsel in pers...

Et tu, jay? >> in march muellers team agreed to provide the presidents lawyers with more specific information about the subjects prosecutors wished to discuss with the preds. according to three sources, trump lawyer jay sekulow compiled a list of 49 questions that the team believed the president would be asked. so everything in the tweet the president put out yesterday, almost everything was incorrect. mainly that it would have been leaked from the mueller side. that it was a witch hunt. quite c...

Second. couple quick questions. jonathan turley, obviously the news about bob mueller, saying, well, you know, fantastic. you can say what you want to say, but youve got the power to pardon, but i have the power to subpoena. where do we go from here -- >> a little chilling, isnt it? >> if robert mueller decides to subpoena the president? >> not a good place from the perspective of the president. he can follow the rather checkered legacy of richard nixon and bill clinton. this did not work out we...

Resist that request for an interview. >> also, you know, look, we dont know where they came from. it is suggestive that it seems like these are notes have a conversation that makes it more likely that it came from the trump side than the mueller side, but its not dispositive. we do know this, the presidents tweet is once again wrong. no questions on collusion. there are lots of questions on collusion. remember, collusion is not a crime. its a suggestion of a type of activity. conspiracy would be...

The questions is somebody who is involved in the russia issue. in other words, there are no other people involved in any of the obstruction or any other issues. everybody is in there because of the possible russia connection. >> its a great point you make because some of the critics here have said, oh, maybe theyve lost sight of that, and as youre pointing out we dont believe this to be a leak from the mueller side. theyre all over it. >> in every single one of these questions involving another ...