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President tried to fire mueller. it gets to one of the many dramas playing out in town. hes a conservative author. haes friend of roger stone. mueller trying to piece together whether they had inside information about the e-mails. the russians shacked from the democrats. they say why arent all of these people in prison? james comey is there, hillary clinton is there. i think thats hillary clintons aid thats there and rob rosen sterose

Whats interesting here is that rudy giuliani, donald trumps lawyer has been saying theres a joint defense agreement. the thing about that legal experts tell me is that as soon as paul manafort began cooperating with robert mueller that joint defense agreement was null and void. they no longer have a common legal interest. what does that mean? that means these conversations between manaforts lawyers and trumps lawyers are no longer subject to the attorney-client privilege. in theory, robert muell...

Not willing to dump, throw them under the bus. look what he did to the republicans that didnt endorse him or embrace him as he put it in the election. he laughed at them. he loved saying youre fired. thats his giggle. his kids are different. its clear he cares about ivanka and her husband jared. my instinct has been at some point mueller is going to prosecute them. trump cant hold out his kids to be indicted because people told him he cant pardon them. doesnt he have to stop mueller in his track...

Beyond the series of coincidences. >> do you think the president has the legal team me needs to take on mueller it seems like mueller has yet to lose. >> prosecutors has a tremendous advantage. as they point out, you dont mess with prosecutors. theyll come after you, theyll threaten your family and make you plead guilty. president trump had a point >> mueller has a tremendous when advantage, as adam schiff he alluded to that a special said counsel will come after you civil libertarians like me h...

The potential witness who would be interviewed. >> so, susan, i dont know what the challenge, where you would begin with a challenge on representing president trump on, for example, obstruction. while theres all this discussion about whether or not hell talk to mueller or answer questions on paper. isnt the allegation of obstruction in plain sight, on nbc news, in his tweets, even his attacks on jeff sessions at this point one could read a lot in that this president is trying to push things away...

>> certainly connections to the president. one thing is the justice department is sending a strong message. were on our game. weve got our facts. were ready to go after these people. i think also farming some of it out to other parts of the justice department makes it a little harder for trump to play the im firing mueller card and calling everything off. i think thats one really important point. the other thing is -- >> because you make the point mueller referred the michael cohen case to the s...

These are conditions that are not legally required. rudy giuliani is trying to put in place some terms that robert mueller can agree to. but i dont see why robert mueller would agree to show his whole entire hand to giuliani just to get president trump to sit down with him for an interview. no doubt he wants to talk to him. his other option is to serve a subpoena on him. that brings with it the potential the litigation and some really contentious arguments about those issues. im sure he would ra...

Emmet flood real lawyer. from a power house firm, williams and connolly, the kind you go to for a case like this. we should assume behind the scenes hes doing what any defense attorney woulddo, which is to assumeheyre out to get your client and you have to protect your client. and hes thinking mainly about indictment after impeachment, impeachment is a concern, but as a defense attorney his main jo job is to keep the client out of jail. so, one thing hes looking -- expected -- i wouldnt say look...

Presidents tweets with respect to the travel bans where he has run into trouble in the courts about what he said publicly. its indisputable that the way he speaks to the public differently and the way he pardoned people last week. they may be permissible, but for his lawyers to say gosh this is a solemn office and we have to protect his time because hes doing important things with his time, that doesnt become credible. ultimately i think at some point mueller will have to decide whether he pulls...

Out there that the white house counsel, don mcgahn, said this letter cannot go. and he made sure that the president met with sessions and rosenstein who oversaw comey, and thats when the memo from rosenstein was created and a letter endorsing that from sessions was signed. >> so, so out there could never be publicly released, but not so out there that it didnt end up somehow -- >> rosenstein had a copy of the letter when he wrote his memo. he knew what was in that when he wrote the memo. now, th...