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Dirt on hillary clinton. should they have gone back said, hey, listen, we have is a meeting. somebody saying they were from the russian government and had information on hillary clinton? >> you would think that the campaign would be extraordinarily careful about these types of contacts and if the fbi came and said to you, look, we think theyre trying to infiltrate, at that point, most campaigns if i were counsel to a campaign would say, please, disclose. go back and disclose any contacts we are ...

The transition e-mails, insisting it was an issue for the transition team, not the west wing. they said the president had not changed his approach to cooperating with the special counsel and that he had not discussed dismissing mr. mueller. okey dokey. if thats really the case, why isnt white house telling langhoffer to back off? >> well, thats the sort of interesting thing about this, is that they sort of -- the white house sort of wanted it to have both ways. in some ways, they wanted to under...

[ inaudible question ] >> no, im not. >> muellers office facing increased scrutiny over reports of possible political bias within the special counsel team. democrats say republicans are trying to taint the investigation to get mueller fired. >> over the weekend, lawyers for the trump transition team accused the special counsel office of gaining unauthorized access to tens of thousands of transition e-mails. some of the e-mails were protected by attorney-client privilege. a spokesperson for muell...

Action if robert mueller did something that was against the law? >> well, i think they would argue theyre informing congress of what the gsa did here. and that congress should look at the laws that govern gsa to make it more clearly going forward. there had been some talk late yesterday that the trump campaign was going to do something, was going to send a letter to mueller and try and, you know, adjudicate that with him. the curious part about that is the white house itself, which has produced ...

Russia would likely try to infiltrate his campaign. this comes as part of president trumps legal team is waging war on robert mueller. lets get to our reporters and analysts. with me, "washington post" white house bureau chief and msnbc political analyst phil rucker. also getting ken delanian, our nbc news national security reporter hooked up now and co-author of that exclusive nbc news reporting. phil, start with you and these, this -- strategy now by the trump legal team to say that mueller il...

That would put them in the position before the 2018 election of seeming to want to overturn the will of their own voters. >> alice shifting gears to russia if i can for a moment right now, this weekend the trump transition team sending a letter to congress saying the trump transition e-mails were unlawfully obtained, pushing back hard on some evidence that apparently the special counsels investigation has obtained over the last several months. smart strategy to wage this fight? >> look, ive said...

Because we dont know yet if mueller is going to precede against trump personally. above all the president is a survivor and so it -- >> real quickly about the transition e-mails obtained bite robert mueller, the special counsel does it appear to you he got them inappropriately? >> no. absolutely not. i was the deputy general counsel of the obama transition in 08. we told everybody you are putting e-mails on a government server. there is no expectation of privacy in those e-mails. so these legal ...

Im cyril vanier. >> im natalie allen. here are the top stories. >> the thomas wildfire, the third largest in californias history. huge winds fueled the blaze which burned close to 110,000 hectares. thats almost 270,000 acres. the fire has led to the deaths of at least two people and 12,000 more residents have been evacuated on saturday. officials say thomas is only about 40% contained at this stage. >> the office of special counsel robert mueller is denying it obtained thousands of trump transit...

And the day after, the president called doug jones and congratulated him on a well-run campaign and said i look forward to working with you when you get here. we hope that, frankly, doug jones will help us change the climate here in washington where we can actually begin to work in a bipartisan manner. the question is will doug jones work to represent the people of alabama or side with lz warren or chuck schumer on their agenda. >> if you knew the president was going to support roy moore, would ...

Sanctions early in his @min station, congress took step that the white house has done almost nothing to impose those legislative sanctions. there is a lot of questions about why the white house is not taking steps. its about the government telling them that they have the obligation to implement them. >> we will talk about the transition e-mails. the trump transition teams an agreement. they are understanding that there would ever be such an understanding. the transition teams have been national ...