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Fiona hill relayed that bolton told her, quote, i am not part of whatever drug deal ambassador sondland and mick mulvaney are cooking up, adding, rudy giuliani is a hand grenade who is going to blow everybody up. still with us here tonight, maya wiley and bill kristol. maya, what does bolton get you if he goes all the way, and is sondland in a heap of trouble anyway? >> so lets start with sondland because thats easy. sondland is in a heap of trouble because if -- i mean we dont know his literal ...

Would ever do anything that gave rise to good cause. >> the two men are friends. more on that in a minute. lets bring in our lead-off panel for a tuesday night. peter baker, correspondent for the "new york times," myra wiley, former u.s. attorney for the southern district of new york, now with the new school here in new york.th and chuck rosenberg, former u.s. attorney, former senior fbi u. official. and chuck, id like to begin with you. did barr say enough? did he do enough to convince you that...

>> maya wylie, let me take the other side of the argument and that is for a republican aging nominee of donald trump, this man today really did try to stake his claim to independence, and he went out of his way to say the right things regarding the integrity of the investigation. r if youre donald trump, who has wistfully spoken of where is my roy kohn, might this be a case of watch what you wish for. youre nodding. >> i keep going back to why does william barr want this job, and i think hes get...

Of the investigation specifically that wasnt a witch hunt which, of course, we know as well that he would do what he could to protect it, that mueller would not be removed except for good cause as the regulations require, and that he, bill barr, couldnt imagine mueller doing anything that would rise to the level of good cause. those types of statements give me great comfort, and i think bill barr undoubtedly will be confirmed to the job. >> maya, as i tried to point out, were all assuming there ...

Had sent and put it on twitter so everybody could judge exactly what he said word for word, and people can determine for themselves what they believe he meant. what the democrats are seeing from this is, well, look, hes buying into what the fox news people say about hillary clinton and minimizing the possibility that there is a collusion, you know, predicate for this investigation that bob mueller is running in this e-mail. hes saying, no, thats overruling what i was saying. i was just making an...

Mueller doing anything that would rise to the level of good cause. those types of statements give me great comfort, and i think bill barr undoubtedly will be confirmed to the job. >> maya, as i tried to point out, were all assuming there will be a nicely bound 400-page report that will be easy for america to understand. what is this technical difference that barr seems to be hinting at that what he gets from mueller may be different than what he releases to the rest of us? >> i think mr. barr di...

Writing. >> just to underscore there, we dont know that there will be a mueller report. we dont tend to know anything about the mueller investigation in realtime. despite barrs assurances of support for mueller, he was also asked point blank about the future of the investigation. >> are there any circumstances that would cause you to terminate the investigation or any component of it or significantly restrict its funding? >> under the regulations, bob mueller could only be terminated for good ca...

That there is a collusion, you know, predicate for this investigation that bob mueller is running in this e-mail. hes saying, no, thats overruling what i was saying. i was just making an argument that there are lots of things out there and a lot of things the justice did not can and cant investigate. >> i cant thank the big three for being with us tonight after this long tuesday and points west. peter baker, maya wylie and chuck rosenberg, thank you. the news in london that is likely making vl...

Because what they are and what they do is protect us. and so to the extent that this constant drumbeat, this drip, drip, drip undermines them and their work, its deeply destructive. ill say one other thing. the fbi, the fbi at which i work both for jim comey and bob mueller is closely tethered to the rule of law and to the constitution. in fact, in the counterintelligence world, it is the most highly regulated and the most closely supervised investigative work that they do. so the notion that th...

Comes insuri comes in. and they say while he should get a little bit of credit for what he did do for cooperating, he shouldnt get much. they call for roughly four years. all of this as we are learning about michael cohen, bob mueller just filing a big, big document, you may have heard about. this is for paul manafort. now that document i can tell you has been filed under seal this means as of this hour we dont know whats inside it. but what we do know it is a big day for bob mueller. i want to ...