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Judiciary, were talking about legislation works. hes constantly trying to circumvent the traditional processes whether its opening up the government, actually presenting a bill that can be legislated against, that can be debated against on the house floor, on the senate floor, about this wall, about immigration reform. i think if you were to talk to the majority of members of congress everyone would agree we need to modernize our immigration system. everyone would agree we need to modernize how ...

Of course they want to do that. mueller indicted 12 russian agents in july. whats the goal beyond that here? >> i think the message is simple. i wouldnt be worried about the corruption of the documents, the information being released. we should have expected that. the message i think from the mueller team is whether its the media or the american people if you are watching this case and more broadly and whether the russians are continuing to try to influence american perspectives on everything fr...

>> may not be anything more complicated than to get the latest communications on his computer that are otherwise not privileged. >> neil: they can get a warrant for that. >> and they had one. otherwise you wouldnt capture that if you had a subpoena. youre telling the target of the investigation, oh, im looking for these things. already evidence in the case that he obstructed justice, you might understand why the fbi would take those precautions. >> neil: trial of something like this could be a w...

Is being turned around and used against us in a disinformation campaign? >> well, i wouldnt say that im heartened, but it validates what many people have been suspecting all along. you know, when youre talking about dealing with dimitri prigozhin, the head of concord management, who also runs a mercenary organization in syria that tried to attack u.s. special forces, he is the dirty tricks operative, the erik prince of vladimir putin. so i think robert mueller, by exposing his activities today, ...

Disinformation campaign? >> well, i wouldnt say that im heartened, but it validates what many people have been suspecting all along. you know, when youre talking about dealing with dimitri prigozhin, the head of concord management, who also runs a mercenary organization in syria that tried to attack u.s. special forces, he is the dirty tricks operative, the erik prince of vladimir putin. so i think robert mueller, by exposing his activities today, can get further restrictions against them hopefu...

Is being turned around and used against us in a disinformation campaign? >> well, i wouldnt say that im heartened, but it validates what many people have been suspecting all along. you know, when youre talking about dealing with dimitri prigozhin, the head of concord management, who also runs a mercenary organization in syria that tried to attack u.s. special forces, he is the dirty tricks operative, the erik prince of vladimir putin. so i think robert mueller, by exposing his activities today, ...

You said that and weve heard that time and time again. you write at one point its impossible to deny how absolutely out of control the white house staff, again myself included, was at times. can you explain that? was it the lack of organization from the very beginning or was it the cast of characters? >> there are several reasons for that. i think part of it is trumps management style, open door policy in the oval office. he had a weak chief of staff who was not able to impose the process and th...

More now on the chaos in the west wing. back with cliff sims, author of "the team of vipers: my 500 extraordinary days in the trump white house." the idea of therebying chaos one thing that particularly angers the president you just said that and weve heard that time and time again. you write at one point "its impossible to deny how absolutely out of control the white house staff, again, myself included, was at times." can you explain? was it just the lack of organization from the very beginning...

Given this massive split between the president and his own intel chiefs, what does this say about the process the president goes through? and the preparedness for the potential for a foreign policy crisis? >> well, its a stunning example and an illustration that our foreign policymaking processes are chaotic, dysfunctional and especially broken right now. it takes a lot for the heads of the u.s. intelligence community to come out and tell the congress on the record and publicly on three major is...

Know, you filed these charges against these russians here, because the u.s. has a legal system that has processes like discovery a by-product of that is that these bad actors get a vision inside that case. mueller is saying they weapon sized it to attack the investigation. we cannot give them the classified information. it would go right to russia and right to the kremlin and right to some of the worst actors today doing putins dirty work. >> intriguing footnote, cnn was offered up these documen...