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June, 2016. apparently he agreed to talk to mueller. and kushner, paul manafort, they were all at the meeting. what may goldstone know that no one else knows? why is he so important? >> i think mueller, i think we all want to know why he included in his e-mail to donald trump jr. saying the russians are offering incriminating information on hillary clinton. where did he get that language? did somebody instruct him to put that language in that e-mail? obviously thats something that the investigat...

She was prepsent. it could be thats what mueller wants to talk to her about. could be other things, the koeccomey firing. she could serve as witness to key decisions the president has made. it is not clear she was part of any team making the decisions, but certainly she could be a witness to the people sort of witnessing what theyre doing, how theyre coming to make some of the decisions. as we know, one of the things mueller is investigating is obstruction of justice by people within the white h...

Does that mean collusion in terms of interference in the election? not necessarily yet, but thats one of the things mueller is going to try and find out. is this real collusion? collusion is not incidentally a crime in itself, i believe. there is no title 18 crime of collusion, but were looking at outlines of a conspiracy to undermine the democratic election that took place in the united states and thats where these dots seem to be going if someone is trying to connect them. >> last question, ju...

This is the first indictment, first set of indictments, well see when the charges are unsealed. and there are more to come. >> part of the reporting that cnn has done tonight which is more background rather than it is sort of some new fact that theyve dug up. the way theyre characterizing their report tonight is that the deputy attorney general, rod rosenstein, whos overseeing all matters related to the russia investigation because of the recusal of attorney general jeff sessions, rod rosenstein...

Himself from all things mueller. thats an interesting data point as this unfolds this morning. >> charlie, im going to use this line that you just used, some of this remains murky. bless you. is it cold in here? >> its because ali makes this room so cold. >> because i got to the studio earlier so i got to set the room cooler. >> maybe hes sweaty. >> thank you, charlie. now youre part of the conversation. charlie and i can talk about sweat. >> its so cold. >> thanks for watching this hour of "msn...

Do i have an attorney general who is not going to do what i want him to do? >> its quite possible. and yet jeff sessions is still there and is living his best life. living the dream, fulfilling every conservative priority hes ever dreamed of. and thats not a bad outcome for noel francisco if he wants it. >> one of the things mueller is looking into is whether president trump obstructed justice by firing the fbi director, former fbi director james comey. do you think -- could firing rosenstein, p...

The principals, the dynamics, the backdrop and what ended up happening. >> what a scene. mr. mueller is someone who is known to be so careful with his words, as a meeting with the presidents legal team. and theyre having negotiations, tense negotiations about a potential presidential interview. and as the presidents lawyers continue to balk at the suggestion and say they need to have more information, mr. mueller brings up the possibility of a subpoena. and that gets set -- the presidents then l...

Appearing to lobby for a foreign country is something that is literally the least of the charges that manafort is facing, and its something that happens all the time in washington, and people try to correct retroactively, and they get sort and it seems like a really big overreaction to that charge. >> yeah, it is, but its probably the one place where he thought he could have some impact with the witnesses. if you look at the money launder charges, those are paper cases. those are transactions th...

With a belief that that would hasten the end of the investigation, as opposed to putting up road blocks that would take more time. one of the things that our reporting collectively here has told us about ty cobbs point of view within the discussions at the legal circle is that he would have been avoice in favor of the president submitting to an interview with mueller and his team under certain conditions, with parameters drawn and agreements made in advance, but that he thought that would be a s...

Can the special counsel force the president to answer questions? nbcs kelly odonnell is at the white house. and pete williams, in our washington bureau. kelly, start with you, just on this breaking news from the "new york times." matt apuzzo and mike schmidt reporting that ty cobb is out and that flood is in. where are we on this, and whats the white house saying publicly right now? >> reporter: so tar, kasie, the white house is telling us that ty cobb has been talking about retiring over aeredo...