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To see files on the informant before trump sits down with mueller. joining me now former watergate prosecutor nick acker man, nbc analyst danny savalos and professor of law at georgetown law school paul butler. nick, you have rudy giuliani saying he wants to see the classified information for one purpose only -- to show it to donald trumps attorneys and derail the mueller investigation. >> exactly right. this is precisely what happened during the watergate investigation. john dean sat in on the ...

Consciousness of guilt. all of these lies and deception by trump and his cronies about forgetting about these meetings with the russians and when they offered to help trump get elected, thats incriminatincri. there is never going to be a smoking gun videotape of donald trump and vladimir putin getting together and agrees that putin will help trump get elected. thats not how it works. thats not what the law requires. conspiracy to defraud the united states has to be proved by all of the kinds of ...

One would argue there isnt a big smoking gun we expected. thats why you see the poll numbers. for example, consider the fact that at least two of the defendants were indicted for section 1001, making false statements which is arguely -- im just playing devils advocate to nick here. when you have a section 1001 false statement case that was created after the fact. it was created by the mueller investigation. you have the manafort case where hes arguing, look, none of this stuff had anything to do...

Be able to basically mold their stories around what other people were saying. thats what this is all about. thats why rudy giuliani wants this. i know rudy giuliani. i served with him for six months when he was u.s. attorney. he would never in a million years have ever, ever allowed this kind of information to be given to a defense lawyer. this is total buffoonery right now. its just another example of this administration trying to obstruct the mueller probe. >> danny, you know, there are two wa...

Modern era who wont release his tax returns and that is a perfectly legal choice of his, by the way. trump also, though, is the first president since nixon who has tried so hard to conceal them. and as a special counsel strengthens this ongoing investigation at least into trumps associates, some are probing the parallels between these two situations. during the nixon investigation, watergate prosecutor nick ackerman was handling that nixon tax issue. and there were many avenues for the special i...