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Woodward and bernstein book on watergate. all the presidents men. so many people involved in this caper, the screw, the information and the dirt out of this little president from ukraine. >> the way this project is structured is also classic trump. remember during the mueller investigation, one issue that appeared was trump sending his subordinates or directing his subordinates to try to pressure mueller, to try to pressure sessions to reverse his recusal. trump insulated himself and surrounding...

And what grabbed me tonight was the breadth of it. its like the line from the woodward and bernstein book on watergate. all the presidents men. so many people involved in this caper, the screw, the information and the dirt out of this little president from ukraine. >> the way this project is structured is also classic trump. remember during the mueller investigation, one area that appeared was trump sending his subordinates or directing his subordinates to try to pressure mueller, to try to pres...

Statement in addition opening remarks from the chairman and the members. we do not know whats in muellers opening statement, but his spokes people said his opening statement didnt have to be cleared with the justice department and has not been cleared with the justice department. thats important and interesting because nobody know what is hes going to say. it also means that even though the justice department has been trying to pressure mueller about his testimony and the constraints they want o...

Will make an opening statement of some kind. this means that in terms of your wednesday, you should plan to be in your chair and watching and ready to go at least by 8:30 a.m. eastern time which is when they gavel in the session because mueller is giving an opening statement in addition to opening remarks. we do not know whats in muellers opening statement but his spokesperson told reporters today that the opening statement didnt have to be cleared with the justice department and it has not been...

Who has worked with robert mueller, forgive me, but ill ask you to climb into his thinking a little bit. this is the high-profile prosecution and you have paul manafort sent to prison for a considerable period of time. as youre gearing up for the roger stone case and youre winding down with the michael flynn case and youre winding down with the rick gates case and youre preparing a final report. what is robert mueller thinking right now? is he thinking about the politics of this and paul manafor...

Investigation, and by these other offices taking this up, we can make sure that those who are responsible for breaking the law are brought to justice. >> an effort to shut down the mueller investigation different from what weve seen before? is there something new youve referred to? >> well, no. weve seen pressure from the white house all along to shut down mueller. we saw recently matt whitaker, this hand-picked acting attorney general, talked about how he could privately cripple the mueller inv...

Appointment he received. >> what do you make of whitakers comment, that mueller could be almost done? >> lets say he got a little much over his skis. it seemed to me, people commenting on the investigations particularly when they are not the investigations they are conducting. all kinds of questions get raised about this. the question is, was he trying to please donald trump? >> who wants it to be over. >> -- who wants it to be over? was he trying to pressure mueller to get it done? and the thin...

Thats not his job. i mean, his job is to supervise the distribution of the report but reviewing decisions, i dont know if that was just a brain freeze on his part, and he was just sort of saying words. >> right. and thats certainly what some democrats at the very least found chilling, concerning. >> it is chilling. now, in his defense, he may not know what hes talking about. but i dont think thats, i think, the best you can say. >> thats always a great defense. >> it is -- ignorance of the law s...

>> thats always a great defense. >> ignorance of the law is sometimes an excuse. >> gloria, whats the sense in washington about what whitaker said, does anyone know whats going to happen to that report? >> no one knows what he meant. he got out over his skis, but no one knows what he was trying to say. when you listen to him, you have to think, look, is he trying to pressure mueller to end this quickly? was he sending a message to the president, dont worry, all of these decisions that mueller ma...

There has to be something of substance. there wouldve been no deal cut either way. anybody tell mike lawyer knows that. with regard to your point, this is a three-pronged responsibility that mueller is tasked with. one of it is the russian meddling in our election. that could be where hes going with this. he has pressured and use this tactic to pressure mueller to come to this point right now. the big thing is being done was not in the room, but manafort was. thats where hell have more informati...