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From this next week and, you know, on the executive privilege case, your panelists made a pretty convincing argument trump would be hard pressed to follow through with that and if he really wanted executive privilege, again, he would not have fired comey. remember, many presidents including president george w. bush wanted to fire the fbi director and avoided doing so in part for some of these reasons. >> im going to put yut on the spot for a really quick answer on the significance of bob mueller...

Saudi arabia, israel, italy and belgium for his first overseas trip. it would seem to make more sense to have made an announcement or a decision of this type while in the united states. not something done overseas. so that leads us to think that the timing today is notable. one of those days where, dont get a cup of coffee. dont call your mother. stay close. >> please do that for us. the author of anatomy of terroror, in your books, black banner, you talk about the fbi under mueller. youve seen ...

>> shepard: cnn is reporting theyre about to interview bannon. nbc says they have a lot of reporting on don jr. and jeff sessions. >> and remember, there were documents asked for from deutsche bank about the financial relationships between organizations, entities that had done business with the trump organization through deutsche bank. that raised the question of money moving -- >> shepard: the money laundering part. >> manafort is facing issues on that as well. we dont know where this is going ...

Under mueller as fbi director, under james comey, and hes been there since 1986. he has a long history there, he has been in recent months as john just mentioned swirled up in this controversy, not only about the election and what his wife took on campaign contributions in the run for virginia state senate but also text messages and whatever this memo is going to be and we will likely see it in a matter of days, one would think the release of this memo -- the former attorney general doesnt know ...

We have to continue to focus on who is robert gates and of course who is paul manafort. i want to bring in our msnbc chief legal correspondent. and danny sevellas, criminal defense attorney and msnbc legal analyst. whats your take? >> this is a significant development. donald trump has -- >> you know, i have to correct myself. i said robert gates. i meant rick gates. >> robert gates is defense secretary, another famous gates. >> yes. >> this is a significant development. weve never seen high-lev...