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Sessions meeting in the senate office in 2016, and georges series of meetings, phone calls, and e-mails with russians and people connected to the kremlin in the campaign. hicks denied knowing about the trump tower meeting in the house intelligence interview this week, according to a source. meanwhile, "washington post" says muellers team is investigating the period of time last summer when the president seemed determined to fire attorney general jeff sessions. the president livid at sessions for...

Anybody the american people elect. thats it. >> phil, have you ever been asked by president or you know, an elected visual who you voted for? >> no. and i served under mueller. i cant remember having a conversation at the table that involved politics. 2,000 plus conversations. the issue you have when you are at the fbi or cia, first you have to execute the law. at the cia your question is what did the president direct us to do overseas. it doesnt matter who you vote for and it shouldnt matter if...

Has. a couple questions, what has general flynn offered and what has he said about the white house and the authorization of conversations with the russians? what kind of e-mails has the team, the fbi team under mueller acquired around the meeting, the famous meeting last june with don jr.? what kind of financial transactions have they reviewed between russians or russian intermediaries? ill go back to my career at the fbi, 30 seconds or less. i remember following a terrorism suspect who was comm...

George, someone whos more anonymous, someone to take a meeting and not be spotted and perhaps further that conversation in the hopes of getting the goods on secretary clinton. >> right. and that is something that i think is so interesting. it is at a level of a theory as always when we report on this. we mention that gates and manafort presumed innocence and maintain innocence and some of these lines are open to interpretation. but the circumstantial repeat status of the number of people in thes...

I think, you know, that would be extraordinarily welcome news obviously at the white house, but the white house lawyers have apparently told the president that they expect him to be cleared by three different dates so far, you know, thanksgiving, christmas and it hasnt happened. >> a couple of theories here, julia, that first of all, that they are just telling him what he wants to hear, which is typically the case with his staff. or they are trying to set the stage for the narrative that why isn...

Russia. it was how divided the country is. if were going down the special counsel route and if the special counsels findings are going to be seen as partisan at the end of the day, i think this is just further divides the country and i think a lot of people that im hearing from are saying, why -- how is mueller different from clinton in that sense? think of the things that happened in the fbi under mueller. all of these things then become fair game for people to say see? >> neil: would it be the...

Many kilos of cocaine and tried to put it into an apartment in order to conceal the source of those funds, thats a separate offense of money-laundering. >> thats where you get the crimes stacking up to your point. >> as a former federal prosecutor who worked under muellers enron task force on complex fraud and a former counselor of president obama were have you lucky to have a lot of your expertise tonight, kathy ruemmler, thank you. thank you. coming up, a new report that indicates jared ku...

As eboni knows, grand juries do not make a habit of initiating hoaxes, not allowed to take on witch hunts. although we think there is nothing there, at least, the grand jury is not going to start going about this under muellers wishes, of course, unless they think there may be something there. do not forget, this is supposed to be in virginia. its in washington. mueller is dug in on washington. the judges love him. that is clintons stronghold. nothing could be something. you guys keep poo-pooing...

Ones he will hear from, are going to explain its a bad idea, that historically it has resonance of the saturday night massacre. >> even chris ruddy was saying he didnt think it was a good idea. >> thats right. that raised a couple possibilities. one, trial balloon. second, warning to mueller that this is under way. i doubt -- mueller doesnt strike me as the type who intimidates easily. but could be. third possibility is that the president really is not attune to what the reaction might be or mig...

Special prosecutor law that congress itself let lapse. im not certain that thats right. it could well be that they will say it shouldnt have happened but putting a law back together is too difficult. >> you worked at the fbi, do you think this would intimidate robert mueller? >> not the mueller i know. i worked under mueller. i didnt work for him personally. he is a man who i dont think bends to political winds. i will point out that he was appointed by george bush and he also was the head of th...