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White house chief of staff mark meadows, waldron who was cooking up this plot to access voting machines in swing states. what is the legal significance or liability for meadows to be aware of an attempt to access and perhaps interfere with voting machines? >> so mark meadows has long been the kind of key to a potential cooperator who could blow this whole thing open, right? hes privy to what trump knew, he is really the funnel kind of for information coming into the white house and going out fro...

Effort to have him cooperate in the department of justice investigation. and then when he made it clear he wasnt planning to do that, then no reason to hold back any further. once you indict somebody in a criminal case like this, you sort of have given up on them as a potential cooperator. i think one of the reasons make mark meadows hasnt been charged yet is either it may be possible hes going to be charged in a bigger conspiracy or theres still hope he might cooperate. with navarro, as with ba...

Potential cooperator, play it cool, be natural. do what you would normally do. weisselberg could be going into the office and collecting more information while hes there. so the fact hes going in doesnt necessarily tell me that much. >> youve spoken about how much alan weisselberg knows about the former president and the family. how big is that for the case? >> its not a must have. its a nice to have. a lot of people online were flipping out over this over the last like day or so saying, oh, if ...

With regards to the others, the investigation will continue. if there is no evidence, no case that is established against any other defendant, normally what happens is the case just ends without any notice to the public, which could be very unsatisfying. if charges are filed, well know when it happens. theres certainly individuals named in that plea agreement in the southern district of florida by name as people who had some potential criminal exposure. those appear to be employees who assisted ...

Going to have to possibly approach it differently now that manaforts imploded and ha corsi also. by the way, i think corsi probably, mueller probably bounced him rather than vice versa. in any event, hes no longer a potential cooperator. >> interesting you should say that. listen, another question for you, manaforts lawyers were apparently telling the trump team everything that was going on with the investigation. you wrote a great piece in the west titled "the manafort witness deal implosion is...

By the way, i think corsi probably, mueller probably bounced him rather than vice versa. in any event, hes no longer a potential cooperator. >> interesting you should say that. listen, another question for you, manaforts lawyers were apparently telling the trump team everything that was going on with the investigation. you wrote a great piece in the "washington post" titled. the manafort witness deal implosion is a very big deal." mueller is full little entitled to subpoena manafort council kevi...

Cooperate and hell have to tell everything he knows. he still have to do jail time less but some, verses if hes pardoned, he we dont waont ph walk out of that prison right now. the related question is what is the president doing? >> is there a chance that lets just say there is something to know, is there a chance that paul manafort does not know it? is there a chance that a lot of folks for months now have gotten this thing all wrong that maybe manafort y manafort, yes, guilty of all financial ...

From him. i think sometimes hes just trying to get through the day and hes not necessarily thinking about a long-term strategy. its sort of putting out every fire as they come up. but i will say this is coming to a different point in michael cohens life since his hotel room and office and home were searched by fbi agents. were coming to a point where document collection and going through the documents is over. he is switching over to a new attorney and he still has not from my reporting been tal...

But i will say this is coming to a different point in michael cohens life since his hotel room and office and home were searched by fbi agents. were coming to a point where document collection and going through the documents is over. he is switching over to a new attorney and he still has not from my reporting been talked to by the government or approached by the government. were beginning a new phase here. and its unclear how that new phase is going to work out. >> youre talking about how the p...

Robert mueller may have flipped his third cooperating witness. cnn reporting muellers team is in the process of putting together a plea deal for rick gates. sources familiar with the case tell cnn gates has already had criminal lawyers call a queen for a day interview in which a defendant answers any questions from the prosecutors team including about his own case and other potential criminal activity he witnessed. for more what it could mean for the investigation, im joined by joyce vance, form...