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Muellers looking at other issues as well. >> money laundering. >> well, and obstruction of justice by the president. increasingly the interviews that hes had have focused on periods during the transition period and the presidency. the firing of james comey for example. those are issues of keen interest to the special counsel. just because he hasnt found evidence of collusion, that does not mean that hes done with all his investigative work. >> obstruction of justice is a good point. ned, does th...

Without some kind of embarrassing stumble that might set him back. so far hes performed in the pure sense of the word "performance" well enough that i dont think thats likely to happen. >> it is also notable that he was pretty tight-lipped on the special counsel investigation, although thats not entirely relevant to his new role at the state department. thank you. victoria newland, former u.s. ambassador to nato and former assistant secretary of state for european and your asian affairs. shes ...

We only know that she told, as she put it, white lies for donald trump, because yesterday she was in the setting where she had to tell the truth, ned? >> thats exactly right and i think you have to consider the nature of those white lies and why did she have to tell those white lies or whatever color the lies were in the first place? was there this issue, ari of corrupt intent? was there corrupt intent when on board air force one she was the one relaying messages from don jr. on the ground back ...

That is a decision he can make and he obviously has not informed other officials of concrete plans to do so, but it is certainly something he can decide. it goes against his thinking hes not going to telegraph exactly what hes doing, brianna. if he is making this decision, its quite clear he hasnt informed anyone else, brianna. >> kaitlan collins in west palm beach, thank you very much. we have ned wylen, and isaac wright is a former director for correct the record superpac and now a partner in ...

Maybe thats something that manafort is holding out for. >> if all of the roads so far, if they appear to lead to paul manafort, and i think weve got an interesting graphic here that illustrates some of the players and how they are all int interconnected. if all of the roads that the point appear to lead towards paul manafort, where does manafort lead, ned? >> well, thats the question. when manafort -- when an indictment against manafort was announced last year, youll recall that the trump admini...

Commitment before. lawmakers that talk a good game until they get hungry. they forget that. he joins us right now. this is incredible, ned. the timing of this after this $1.3 trillion spending measure, whatever excuses they came up with to sort of force this on us. now to claim that theyre going to show valor and show some discipline, its a little late for that. >> a little late. its like drunken sailors went out for a heavy drinking and say dont worry, were going for rehab in the morning. its p...

Elections. whats interesting about that document is two things. one is, it lists people by name. now, we only saw the manafort part of it. most of it is blacked out. but its interesting that muellers commission was to look at specific people. so they were already starting to look at. because of the fbis work. bac basically giving mul earl his homework assignment on what he should be teed up to do. secondly, its the commission from rosenstein to mueller specifically mentions this whole ukrainian ...

Jill wine-banks and also with us ned price, former senior director and spokesperson for the national security council and a former cia analyst. he is also a msnbc contributor. and ned, i want to go to jared kushners security clearance status as of now. it has been lowered to the lowest level. whats that the equivalent of in terms of other white house employees? >> well, lawrence, most senior officials in the white house, nearly all of them in fact would have a top secret clearance. not an interi...

Thousands of emails about clinton. it was a story told right here on "the beat" when i interviewed his campaign. she did say that he worked under orders, not as a rogue operator. >> he never did anything without the blessing of the campaign. so it was every time approved. >> with me now to break this down is attorney maya wiley, a former counselor to the city of new york, ned price who worked at the national security council, and editor of politico. im curious to go to everyone because i want to...

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