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Across the board. he has a team of terrific investigators and lawyers obviously are working diligently and have been for some time. if the public knows, theres no question mueller knows that and a whole lot more. >> what can he do about this, given whittaker is the oversight, his boss, essentially? >> i dont know theres much mueller can do about this in particular. this really goes to the oversight congress should be having. muellers job is to investigate and where appropriate bring charges and ...

The first place. >> we have reporting tonight that mueller may submit a report to the attorney general as early as february. thats tricky timing because we dont know in mid-february who the attorney general is going to be. is it still going to be the acting attorney general matt whitaker or bill barr, the attorney general nominee, will that be held up and what happens to the report. give me some thinking on that. >> that was important reporting from pete williams and from ken. i noted that he wa...

The first place. >> we have reporting tonight that mueller may submit a report to the attorney general as early as february. thats tricky timing because we dont know in mid-february who the attorney general is going to be. is it still going to be the acting attorney general matt whitaker or bill barr, the attorney general nominee, will that be held up and what happens to the report. give me some thinking on that. >> that was important reporting from pete williams and from ken. i noted that he wa...

>> new revelations may also be coming from a source once in trumps inner circle. >> maul manafort pleading guilty today to two charges as part of a employee deal. >> paul manafort is now cooperating with robert muellers investigation. his presence at the meeting looms large. >> paul manafort is a man with a lot of russian connections. he knew exactly how the russians operated. he should have known what was happening there and why that meeting was perilous. >> the question of knowingly cooperatin...

Me metadata or some computer evidence showing that it came from my computer or my iphone. if you can authenticate the tweet, theres no reasons why tweets are not statements like any others that might be against your interests that get introduced against you when used in court. lets go way back before any trial. theres no question mueller is looking at these tweets and has already reviewed all of them and does so on an on going basis. they are a glimpse into the mind of the person making those st...

Diplomats to russia. and no, were not going to allow the russians to come here and question mueller. were not going to do that. if it takes a law, then we can do it in the national defense authorization act along with dozens, it not hundreds of other things that are apparently in process of being discussed between putin and the president. we dont know. >> what does your gut say about why the white house would commit, would publicly say, by way of the secretary of state, that theres an upcoming m...

Reacting to this extraordinary demand from rudy giuliani and his legal team, to have that information provided in advance of or as a condition of the interview? >> the question mueller will have now is whether to move forward with the subpoena, does he move forward and subpoena the president to compel him to testify before a grand jury, because the president has not done a voluntary interview. that would be the most significant decision mueller has had to make in regards to the president since h...

Justice because if youre saying he cannot, you are saying that the president can do anything within the realm of human being and not be held liable. the whole mind set of having absolute power and we deserve better than that. if he has don nothing wrong, let us see the evidence that suggest that. rob: okay, ryan, if he has done nothing wrong he should testify, but is there cause to be concern if youre the president because if you look at what they got michael flynn on, its not that big of a char...

Joining us, carol lee, who cowrote the nbc news story. also joining us, danny is a val owes. carol, what do we know about these meetings are of interest to muellers team? >> if you take the seychelles on its own, it is of interest to robert mueller because of the possibility that this was a planned meeting designed to try to create some sort of back channel between trump transition officials and the russians. and it was involving officials from the uae. now, what happened there was that eric opi...

On here? why is this still going on? >> this is the second or third lawyer hes been negotiating. >> correct. we sat down, we told him here are the questions we want to ask him. we sat down and said, look, were not looking to indict the president, were trying to do these things, get it wrapped up by september. why are we still negotiating? heres the subpoena. thats the question mueller will have to make. >> the genuinely sick thing is the number of enablers the president has among people who used...