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Business. we do not know what else he was asked about. we also dont know whether there were any follow-up interviews. you can see fabrizio is going in and out of the special counsels office there. our reporters stand there, keep an eye on the office were the ones who noticed this. so the question is, wolf, did any of this go back to the president? the president himself was asked about whether he knew that manafort had provided this information to the russians. take a listen to what he had to sa ...

A big problem here and that mueller knows a lot more than anybody else does right now. >> well, this goes back -- look, this filing, sahil, is about obviously manafort is trying to say we have been cooperating with you. dont think this is all about fight, you know, whether mueller wants to tear up the cooperation agreement and basically shove him in jail. this filing also seems to describe that mr. manafort -- that confinement is harming mr. manaforts health. >> this comes around the same time a...

Has been any interference with the investigation? >> none of that. the reason for that we now know, up until yesterday whitaker was not exercising the oversight role. rosenstein was. now that the memo has been written by the department of justice, matt whitaker has made clear he will over see the investigation, until former attorney general, bill barr, is confirmed as the next attorney general. let me read you the statement from bill barr, the letter he wrote, the recommendations he had to say a...

So muellers obstruction theory is fatally misconceived. muellers obstruction theory is fatally mi fatally misconceived. thats the opinion of the person that might be the next attorney general. i dont know how he knows muellers theory, but if he does its fatally misconceived. >> let me start by agreeing with ken about one thing. bill barr is a very dextinguishd attorney, and he served honorably, and that was then. then we have a situation as a private lawyer he volunteered to send a 19-page memo ...

General, matt whitaker, decided he should not recuse himself from the special counsels russia investigation. an official advised otherwise, but in a letter to congressional leaders, dog leaders say whitaker has a lot of respect for mueller. joining us to discuss, the author, kenneth star, and cnn chief legal analyst, jeffrey toobin. i think we under explained what happened. matthew whitaker decided not to ask for an official ethics he view because? >> he was going to get an official to recuse hi...

Campaign, but theres an appearance of conflict so we think you should step aside, and he says, nah. >> i dont think so. both attorney generals, mr. whitaker and mr. barr, they were chosen by the president not in spite of their conflict of interest, but because of their conflict of interest. the only reason donald trump is aware mr. whitaker exists is because he was on cnn criticizing mueller. hes an undistinguished attorney. mr. barr, a very different story. a very distinguished attorney. the on...

Intriguing one, whether mueller played manafort or whether manafort played mueller. mueller got a lot of information, manafort stopped that second trial from occurring, pled to 10 counts. he would have been convicted of more than that, cooperated so he can argue that to the judge and still is making a play for a pardon. >> bret: thats real question and the president has said that its still on the table about a pardon manafort speak of which the president as woe mentioned earlier putting out that...

Bad for somebody. where the speculation comes in is trying to read redactions. >> looking at it as a nonlawyer, which i often like to remind everybody. i look at it common sense wise. youve got one guy, his lawyer fixer. every time he got in trouble with a woman or a scandal, he calls up michael cohen. hes the guy he calls in the middle of the night. then the general who is going to be head of national security for him. it seems to between the two of them, the guy the hotel and the miss america ...

Something about why michael l flynn lied about conversations with russian ambassador sergey kislyak ostensibly about the lifting of sanctions? >> we very well might. i think what well see from this agreement is obviously well see kind of a description of the significance of this cooperation. the extent of its cooperation. well see some description of the crimes. i think the question of how much detail well see about the involvement of others. whether mueller makes that public in this report or w...

To trump and two connected to campaign finance laws, for lying to congress about trump tower moscow plans. whats your reaction here? >> obviously cohen doesnt want to go to prison. we will see how the judge feels in that case. whether mueller weighs in with something else. the president in his tweets is sending a clear signal. if you give any information about me, im going to hang you out to dry. he wants to see cohen go away for a long time versus roger stone. he has not been questioned by inve...