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>> there is another case in d.c. thats more about foreign lobbying and money laundering. and muellers team, cnn learned, three times more evidence. its considered to be a not as strong case as this one. >> yeah. we obviously -- there are 18 counts. you could look and say theres a lot of evidence they have to get through and doing their due diligence. you obviously have a judge a little unorthodox. and so, its important that theyre doing that. i dont read anything into this. you know? i think we ...

He did, that is a disgrace. that is disqualifying for mueller. >> reporter: trump reveling in what he sees as rave reviews. >> i know that ive gotten tremendous response from having done that because security clearances are very important to me. >> reporter: but the reviews havent all been positive. in a stinging rebuke, more than a dozen former intelligence officials issued a joint statement criticizing the move, calling it ill considered, unprecedented and an attempt to stifle free speech. the...

Investigation, for the credibility of the investigation if they find manafort not guilty? >> see, i dont actually feel like it would be that bad but i know people say that because i think mueller is depending more on other things than just paul manafort. i mean, this trial isnt about russia. per se. its about h its about his finances. i think people say if he gets off that, oh well, the whole thing is over but theres so much stuff mueller is doing. i mean -- >> what do you do? >> the question is...

>> mr. mueller has a lot of conflicts, also. directly yourself. so you know that. mr. mueller is highly conflicted. in fact, comey is like his best friend. i could go into conflict after conflict. but sadly mr. muellers conflicted. >> reporter: the president encouraging mueller to wrap things up. >> let mihm write his report. we did nothing. theres no collusion. >> reporter: now, jake, the big question now is whether or not the president is actually going to follow through on the threats to stri...

>> all right. jessica schneider, thanks so much. appreciate it. were an day two of deliberations and the jury wanted to leave by 5:00 p.m. today. manaforts lawyers said thats a good sign for his client. is it? >> it is in part that theyre trying to comb through everything with great detail which says to you perhaps the case although dry may not be as cut and dry for all of the 18 counts. some questions, reasonable doubt question, not putting a lot of tock in it. its hard and justice brennan used...

>> thats true. a broader important point is that mueller has a lot of information about michael cohen and i think that is going to be a very fruitful area of inquiry and all of this is really a lot of legal jeopardy for the president. we can talk about the politics of issues but legal jeopardy is a very different issue. and the closer he gets to legal jeopardy, the more difficult it is. >> is this why all of a sudden hes more willing if not eager to make a deal with the u.s. attorney in new york...

Willingly engaged in the kind of contact that is absolutely illegal, so this notion of him as a dupe is just ridiculous. hes an adult male who should be judged that way. one other quick thing about michael cohen. we have been talking about michael cohen in the context of stormy daniels. i just want to remind viewers that michael cohen is mentioned four times in the steele dossier. the idea that michael cohen is a fixer on the stormy daniels front for trump but not in some ways implicated in the ...

Willingly engaged in the kind of contact that is absolutely illegal, so this notion of him as a dupe is just ridiculous. hes an adult male who should be judged that way. one other quick thing about michael cohen. we have been talking about michael cohen in the context of stormy daniels. i just want to remind viewers that michael cohen is mentioned four times in the steele dossier. the idea that michael cohen is a fixer on the stormy daniels front for trump but not in some ways implicated in the ...

Of how you see the various tracks of this, russian investigation and also financial. >> sure. i dont think that asking kushner about his role in the firing of comey necessarily does anything to advance the obstruction of justice claim. obstruction of justice claim is really on the president and what he did to interfere with the investigation. i think its on the margins relevant to that. well see whether or not mueller thinks that firing of comey, asking of his national security team to get out i...

During the break and if you could kind of give an overview of how you see the various tracks of this as both russia investigation and also financial. >> sure. i dont think that asking kushner about his role in the firing of comey necessarily does anything to advance the obstruction of justice claim. the obstruction of justice claim is really on the president and what he did to interfere with the investigation. i think, you know, its on the margins relevant to that. and well see whether or not mu...