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Scenarios. one white house official telling cnn today, were tea leaf reading like everyone else but emmitt flood has held meetings to determine how they might respond. their response will be based on what attorney general bill barr decides to release to congress about muellers conclusions and what, if anything, the president is asserted of as wrongdoing. >> its sort of interesting that a man, just out of the blue, writes a report. i got 63 million votes and now somebody just writes a report? i t...

There are seal eed indictments the d.c. courthouse and nobody knows who they are. it could be a big drug case or mueller related, it could be a sex crime case. nobody knows. but its a tea leaf that everybody that likes to read tea leaves is looking at. >> also unusual amount. >> unusual amount, thats correct. >> was that harry? >> yeah. i was just going to say its a high number. so thats part of whats going on in the overall tea leaf reading. >> harry, is this the sort of thing you expect when a...

Didnt plead guilty to those ten charges on which the virginia jury hung. those are all open. those wouldnt be barred by the new york double jeopardy laws. so there are a lot of legal moving pieces here >> you went back to being a prosecutor there for just a minute. >> always my default, brian, im sorry. >> hey, carol, lets walk right up to the reporting both of our news organizations are doing, and let me ask it this way. if i asked you to make a case that we shouldnt expect a mueller report rig...

Jury in virginia hug on. those are still open charges. manafort took responsibility but he did not please guilty on those charges that were hung. those are open and they would not be barred by the new york double jeopardy charges. >> you went back to being a ros cue tor for just a minute. carol, lets go to the reporting our news organizations are doing, if i asked you to make a case that we should not expect a mueller report right away, that we have been terribly wrong and i have heard a lot of ...

Announcement was made before the midterm elections, and theyll certainly talk that she might be appointed to become senator from south carolina if lindsey graham ends up in the administration. so time will tell. >> harris: thats a lot of tea leaf reading. i usually drink my tea. let me ask you this. you talk about her being in effective diplomat. what credit do you give nikki haley from across the political aisle for so many of the things that we are seeing unfold on a global stage now? >> i cer...

Party can do to jeff flake if he does not vote the way they want him to on this. again, this is a little bit of tea leaf reading, but bear with me, the fact that flake last friday was a yes on brett kavanaugh until he asked for this investigation, the fact he came out yesterday and said he was reasonably satisfied with the thoroughness of the fbi report and the fact he has not gotten to a full yes yet sits oddly with me. if he was comfortable before, he was comfortable with what the fbi has done...

So he didnt have anything new to go on. which led us all to believe they were going to be yes votes. i will just say, their procedural vote confirms that fact. so i think we will be in such a dramatic surprise moment if either one of them at this point, and again, anything could happen, would reverse their vote. what we see now is sort of fitting the pattern that the tea leaf reading beginning yesterday allowed us to head up. >> what we dont know is, a, if they finally made up their mind, and wh...

Camaraderie, or lack thereof, was anyone looking stern? thats not a fair question, sometimes you get clues. >> its all sort of tea leaf reading. it was an attentive jury. several members of the jury appeared to take careful notes. we know that they had a pretty good rapport. we saw them in the hallways together on breaks. on one occasion they celebrated one jurors birthday with a birthday cake. and there was at least one juror who appeared to be very skeptical about rick gates whose testimony is...

>> its also questionable whether you would do a subpoena before the election. >> correct. >> that timing -- your point is exactly right. as we get closer to the election, everything goes into a holding pattern, a frozen situation. >> correct. >> so does that benefit the white house maybe in the short-term? if the whole subpoena question carries over and this whole thing carries over into another year and then were past the 2018 cycle and into the 2020 cycle, dear lord. >> i think two things. num...

Last couple of paragraphs from rosenstein, sort of flexing muscles and making a plea to patriotism, which is an implicit charge of nonpatriotism on the part of trump and company. definitely coming out of the box with more confidence, and its tea leaf reading, but certainly todays indictment would bear out -- or yesterday that one of the things he may be thinking of, theres a lot to come here now, and its time for the department to go on the offensive in court and in the public relations campaign...