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Natasha bertrand. jill, as the lawyer among us, what do you make of the trump lawyers claim that the prosecutor had no right to obtain the trump transition e-mails? >> i think you have summed up todays news quite well. it is a hallow complaint from trumps lawyers. if they had a legitimate complaint, they would have gone to court. they wouldnt have gone to congress, who can talk about it but cant do anything about it. and it seems to me that it is possibly one more step that is being taken to und...

Still aways off before any major conclusions can be drawn. and that this investigation is still ongoing. >> you brought up the transition e-mails. so lets ask about that right now. obviously, the transition team is complaining that they were unlawfully obtained. now, these are e-mails with a dot gov, you know, return address. any legal argument to that case, that these should not be available to the special counsel? >> john, the tell here is that the letter from the trump teams lawyers went to c...

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Nbc news also reporting that, quote, by the time of the warning in late july or august, at least seven trump campaign officials had been in contact with the russians or people linked to russia, according to public reports. there is no public evidence that the campaign reported any of that to the fbi. in fact, after the warning, donald trump jr. swapped twitter messages with wikileaks which the u.s. intelligence community believed to be acting as an agent of russia. todays revelations from nbc ne...

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Office of gaining unauthorized access to tens of thousands of transition e-mails. they say some of the e-mails handed over with protected by attorney-client privilege, but a spokesman for mueller denies the e-mails were obtained unlawfully. cnns boris sanchez has the latest from the white house. >> reporter: christine and dave, this boils down to a dispute about who actually owns these tens of thousands of e-mails that were exchanged between trump transition officials during the transition last ...

Russia while president trump and other conservatives continue to attack u.s. intelligence agencies and the russia investigation. the latest allegation of wrong doing by the special counsel team comes from the trump transition team accusing robert mueller of unlawfully obtaining thousands of transition e-mails. it claims the e-mails were private property even though they were on government servers and registered to dot-gov addresses. the special counsel is usually tight lipped. this time it is de...

Even more new information in terms of whats going on in terms of the lawyers helping president trump now, saying that mueller got ahold of documents and that he wasnt authorized? tell us more. >> reporter: this is quite a bit complicated. but an attorney for the trump transition team has written a letter to several committees in congress making the claim of its special counsel robert mueller had unauthorized access to tens of thousands of transition e-mails and that he did not disclose the posse...

Election and inauguration last year. that is in part funded by taxpayers and in part money they raised. of course, they had e-mails. those e-mails have been stored by the general services administration, part of the federal government and many e-mails found their way into the hands of prosecutors. this morning special counsel robert mueller under fire from the trump transition team. an attorney for the transition confirmed he sent a letter to congress complaining about quote unauthorized private...