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Youre saying hes betting on something. i dont know what a bet is. >> okay, look -- >> hes doing his job. >> maybe he doesnt know hes betting. im tell you, maybe he didnt know it. hes risked the credibility of his investigation by going this far and this aggressively and this dramatically because if he doesnt find something, the rest of what hes trying to do -- he may find something later. the president is going to be able to credibly say they went after my personal lawyer, tried to get into my p...

Agents know about the information they seem to be seeking. so that is first. the second thing ill say is, when this investigation started, the one crime that we knew had been committed was that somebody had hacked the dnc mails. before we knew there was an obstruction of justice or before it happened and before we knew what flynn did or didnt say and who he didnt meet with -- the ambassador, but we knew the dnc had been hacked and we also knew that the e-mails that had been hacked had been relea...

At that point mueller had only been appointed a few weeks prior. so a source tells us it was white house counsel don mcgahn who refused to order the justice department to fire mueller, but the threat to actually resign, mcgahn didnt make it directly to the president. mcgahn refused the presidents call because we know he disagreed with president trumps reasoning. so the president had expressed concern about three possible conflicts of interest. first, the special counsel had actually been a membe...

He breaking developments in the russia investigation. pete williams is in our washington bureau. and you have confirmed now this morning that the attorney general went and sat for an interview with the special counsels investigators? >> right. did so last week. and it lasted several hours. were told that he had a lawyer with him. we assume that that lawyer was chuck cooper, a former justice department official. during the reagan administration. who has been seen publicly with sessions in some of...

Will be in front of the house. that gives them even more leverage with the house because if there were a dispute over executive privilege it would take months to resolve if it went to court and at that point mueller could be so far out in front that it becomes irrelevant. they are going to have to take what they get and move forward. >> harris: i want to get onto fusion gps and a second but a last question about all of this, what happens next with the robert mueller investigation in terms of ste...

Our normal rules of law, undermine his own department of justice, undermine or justice system. this is unprecedented even in watergate, nobody went so far as those people that you played at the beginning of this segment who are really calling in to question the entire integrity and fairness of our legal system when there is absolutely no basis to question it. everything that mueller has done has been aboveboard. its been proper. the indictments have been proper. the investigative techniques he h...

Muellers team before michael flynny plea dae came out and at the time we were hearing from sources that it was simply to make sure he didnt have any exins do you think there was more to that interview that mueller had with kushner? >> i think theres absolutely more and i think that anyone who has spoken with mueller to this point should be very afraid. at this point mueller now has a key witness, as has been stated by the other and iist and can ge him firsthand eyewitness accounts of as light to...

Fbi. there is a lot to look out and a lot thats still need to be done and the special counsel team, they dont have their full team yet. theyre expecting to move more offices and need more space. their budget has not been finalized. we dont know. tall prosecu-- all prosecutors lawyers are going to be assigned to special counsel office. >> right. there is still those private interviews that took place and we know at some point mueller and his team, this is outside of capitol hill will be interview...

The day when the mueller investigation is all said and done. >> well, talking to mueller is different. im saying like deposed in a way where we would find out about it. >> oh. well, it seems to me if mueller does do as jim comey suggested yesterday that he sort of expects him to do, which is to take up an obstruction of justice investigation here, it seems to me that at some point mueller is going to need to depose donald trump. >> so what is your big take-away from yesterday, david? >> well, th...

Efficient workman-like job on prosecuting flynn and well go from there. >> how will they get flynn to talk? the prosecutor? >> you just close the vice. you keep coming at him and getting all of the evidence. and there will be a lot of it. there will be the payments, the ones you mention. theres at least two more. there will be all kinds of money transfers and a lot of evidence. if we can just slow down and not get so excited in this town -- >> youre scary. im thinking of the movie "casino" where...