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These prep sessions. i worked up there awhile. ist its rare they prepare more than the morning of the hearing. >> thats frightening. >> there is a lot -- they are pulled in a lot of different directions. its rare to see hours and hours of members of congress doing prep sessions for hearings, so i would hope they could be disciplined because i think both sides have a story to tell if the republicans truly believe this is a collusion and witch hunt non-sense and that the democrats truly believe as...

>> probably not. its remarkable they have done these prep sessions. i worked up there awhile. ist its rare they prepare more than the morning of the hearing. >> thats frightening. >> there is a lot -- they are pulled in a lot of different directions. its rare to see hours and hours of members of congress doing prep sessions for hearings, so i would hope they could be disciplined because i think both sides have a story to tell if the republicans truly believe this is a collusion and witch hunt no...

It does create an odd situation that is not exactly normal for these types of situations. so i think it does raise some concern if youre the presidents lawyers as to what exactly is happening behind the scenes here and whether this changes the tenor of tomorrows hearing as far as the president is concerned. >> like mueller, zebley is now a private citizen. you are not necessarily bound by any gag orders from the department of justice. >> he is not. the justice department is objecting to this tes...

Extra prep sessions including prominent attorney norm eisen playing the role of mueller like some kind of presidential debate prep. today aides were scurrying back and forth, making phone calls, finalizing details. there were negotiations over new pressures from the justice department, questio. muellers attorney aaron zebley will be at the hearing tomorrow morning. if you see bob mueller turn to someone tomorrow, thats who will be conferring with him. questions like did your report find no obstr...

Members of congress freelance?h? >> i expect that it will be a coherent set of questions, although were going to have the interruption of republican members questioning mr. mueller in between. >> i know. but your two-hour prep session tomorrow -- we heard youre going to have a two-hour prep session on the democratic side of the committee. will you be doing that as a chain of questioning so one person follows up with the other when mr. mueller may not get to the point you want him to? will you be...

Serious. they look like theyre care about governing and they look like they care about the national security of the country. at the end of the day, thats what matters here. >> we talked about it a while back. something we were talking about and prepping for it, making this the most effective it can be. you hear about the prep that the democrats are doing, members of both committees holding one-on-one prep sessions, forcing mueller to respond to different scenarios. several lawmakers have had mul...

A self-inflicted wound in the sense that if he hadnt made the mistake last week, he wouldnt have been having to answer it. he did days of debate prep with some of the best debate preppers in the business. ron klain and anita dunn. people who have done debate prep cycle after cycle. and there were nervous e elminations coming out of those prep sessions. but in the moment, she prosecuted the case really well, but he could have deaded that thing with the right answer to her first question. he could...

Some of the different -- we didnt have nine people lining up on a debate press stage, but our national press secretary played some of the different roles. i think he played vice president biden most of the time. in these prep sessions what youre trying to do is milwaukee sure that kamala harris has the opportunity to tell americans sort of two things. one, she understands the issues keeping people up at night, and two, shes the best candidate to beat trump. >> there was a confusing moment for ha...

The amount that the next morning everybody is talking about but those moments dont happy accidently. can you peel back the curtain for us and tell us how the senator prepped for that moment last night? >> ill just say two things. i think what americans saw last night is kamala harris who dominated from the start of that debate to when she called out the interrupting and yelling and calling out the american people didnt want to see a food fight to the esh change you just saw with vice president b...

Came up with on her own? the only way to know is to put someone to the test. if theres one thing you know about the mueller team to date is that if you are going to go in and answer questions that you need to do so truthfully and completely because they already have gathered a lot of information, and theyre quite prepared to bring charges if you intentionally state falsehoods to the investigators or the grand jury. >> gene? >> all i can say is, to quote you, ari, mo mueller, mo problems. >> i wa...