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>> dana: it one last question, the president has been very vocal calling the mueller investigation a rigged witch hunt. aside from a few of the stories that pop up, we dont actually hear from mueller, he hasnt spoken to the public in a year and a half. theres all this public p.r., doesnt have any effect on what mueller is doing? >> absolutely not. remember mueller is a soldier by profession, and he actually was asked to go to vietnam and try to wait out an injury. hes following his policy. prose...

Assessing whether mr. cohens income from his taxi medallion business was underreported in federal tax returns. one of the people said, the income included hundreds of thousands of dollars received in cash and other payments over the last five years. so what does this say to you, that theyre squeezing this guy big time right now? >> im hearing déjà vu. this is precisely in a way what paul manafort is on trial right now. underreporting his income, trying to evade tax payments and only gha obliga...

I was thinking about paul manafort. 3050 5 years in prison. what do you say to that? i give up. i mean, that is- that is unfathomable. michael, look, manaforts attempt to have the civil and criminal charges dismissed were pretty quickly thrown out. on what grounds did he try to challenge the deputy ag? >> what he tried to say was that mueller didnt have the mandate to investigate those charges that related to ukraine private business dealings and the failure to register as a foreign agent or fai...

Remember mueller and comey who botched one of the biggest cases in modern american history, the anthrax people. five people died, 17 injured. they frame and named the wrong man. an innocent name stephen hatfield. that mistake for which comey and mueller never apologized cost taxpayers more than $5 million. mueller and comey are the ones who are now involved. >> you believe that comey is in severe legal jeopardy. >> he absolutely is. he stole government documents. he converted for his own use, le...

What could be the concern for investigators. >> well, remember mueller and his investigative team and there have been thoughts before the president of the united states had obstructed justice or was involved in witness tampering. if he did it afterwards, hes checking to see if they were nice bit, not trying to influence the testimony that was there. so this is probably on the very low heest scale ofany allegations of obstruction or tampering. but it does are veal one great point here. that is t...

House. this may be about financial shenanigans and warren harding in the truman gang. and theres questions about white waters that dont go too far. remember mueller has donald trumps tax records, something no one else has really been able to have access to. and looking at his past business dealings in russia and also just the way hes operated over the decades, that could be a very slippery slope for this president. >> and just to clar fae, we dont know if mueller has the tax records. hold your t...

Failure to register as a foreign agent or failed to pay taxes on those monies. so he filed a motion to dismiss the indictment against him on the grounds that mueller was acting outside of his mandate. mueller responded to that with an opposition to the motion to dismiss. and in that motion as appendix b or c -- i forget -- he attached a letter that rosenstein wrote to him in -- on august 2nd. remember mueller is appointed may 17th. in that letter rosenstein says to mueller, you have my authority...