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Special counsels investigation. trump said he didnt recall his conversations with stone and his discussions about wikileaks and the democratic hack. a fact in the report now clearer from the stone trial that democrats jumped on when questioning mueller this summer. >> sit fair then that the president denied knowledge of himself or anyone else discussing wikileaks dumps with mr. stone? >> yes, yes. >> reporter: the question of whether trump will pardon his friend still remains. multiple sources t...

On this program the president nominated him to be the director of national intelligence and he withdrew his name. here is what my sources are telling me. i am hearing that mitch mcconnell and richard burr basically blew him off. he called them to have a meeting with them and they said no, no, no, were busy we have the budget we cant do it and then they came up and said well i dont know. i dont really know him. they could have been more forceful in following the presidents nomination, and the pre...

Presidents nomination, and the presidents pick but they didnt , and i understand that partly was because they felt they could not deliver susan collins vote because susan collins said john ratcliffe was awfully rough on mueller so am i to believe here that john ratcliffe did not get the job because he did his job too well? in questioning mueller? >> i hope not. john ratcliffe was offered the d ni job before mueller ever set foot on campus, on the congressional campus, so all those stories about ...

To be that he was trashing the that 46%. mueller investigation, saying hes got to try to drive what donald trump wanted to hear, particularly on television tribalism to try to move as many in that mueller hearing. of that white vote as possible. thats what got trumps attention. >> that seems to be the entire >> how much is left? reality tv land were in this cornell, you know this best. presidency, that is how you get how many white angry people that a job. get on television, talk the are really ...

Of the mueller testimony. but this afternoon the white house press secretary reacted to all of this saying that mueller wasnt just explaining generally speaking a president can be indicted backup mueller and doj made it clear no more indictments are coming from the investigation. a direct response from the white house press secretary to something that seemed to particularly irritate president trump this amp when he was speaking to reporters, erin. >> abbey thank you very much. and certainly woul...

Of red herrings to distract from a very damming testimony from the special counsel about the conduct of the president. >> graph who wrote a minute, every minute of public testimony or statement hes ever given, his top three bits of advice for lawmakers questioning mueller is one, the former special counsel is better at this than you are in his words, two mueller doesnt care about what you care about and three, he doesnt play word games and hes already done your work. could mueller, i mean, does ...

We all want whats best for our parents, so call today. were just hours away until one of the most anticipated testimonies ever on capitol hill. special counsel robert mueller will be questioned by the house judiciary and intelligence committee and the justice department guidance reiterated he is bound by the confines of what is in his 448-page report. so what might be the keys to questioning mueller? preet bharara, the former u.s. attorney for the southern district of new york worked closely w...

Democratic congressman jim hines, he serves on the intelligence committee and will be questioning mueller tomorrow. great to have you here. >> good morning, alisyn. >> how did that letter that arrived from the department of justice change anything for tomorrow? >> i dont think it changes anything tomorrow. one of the challenges if you watch muellers testimony to congress. historically hes a man of few words. one of the challenges we will have is to sort of give the questions that bring the repor...

The special counsel prepares to me before two house committees tomorrow on the investigation. brad wenstrup joined us earlier, and he will be one of them questioning mueller tomorrow. >> i think that mr. mueller will try to stay within that scope. we have all read the report, so there isnt much to go into. i think we will see some theater. there is obviously an obsession to go after president trump and his team. i think that is going to be just one more opportunity for them to try to make a publ...

That you are going to see cory booker really hammer away at joe biden on. but i think biden is going to be up there defending his past positions and also, as i said before, just trying to show that he can move the ball forward. >> hes going to have a tough job on debate night. arlette saenz, thank you so much. dont forget to catch two nights of debates, july 30th and july 31st. that will be right here on cnn. so who is playing robert mueller in these mock hearings that are going on on capitol ...