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Suggests, would be a black mark against whoever did it. rosenstein also supervised muellers jurisdiction and said, you can investigate here, you can investigate here, and mueller has been fastidious about asking questions. and this is not something thats been public. we only know bits and pieces that came out, chiefly during the manafort case. if there is a new supervisor who is less protective of mueller, that person could limit muellers jurisdiction in ways that we will not know until very lon...

But you know, typically speaking in these kinds of meetings that witnesses have had with the special counsels office there have not been limits certainly on the kinds of things that theyre being asked about, and michael cohen i think can provide a variety of information. the question is going to be whether cohen finds it -- excuse me, mueller finds it valuable. whether mueller believes it either provides new information or whether it backs up other information that hes already received. its yet ...

>> mccabes statement, theres no denial of the sub tantive facts, just the denial they were the source of this. >> right. >> what do you think, jeffrey? does the president have a good case based on this to fire rosenstein? >> if he wants to, he certainly does. you know, he has obviously been unhappy with rod rosenstein just as hes unhappy with jeff sessions. the question is, does he want to take the political heat if he does fire rod rosenstein because, you know, as we all know rod rosenstein is ...

Business activities. among them a trump tower moscow project that he himself had tried to get off the ground at one point that was scuttled at the beginning of 2016. but you know, typically speaking in these kinds of meetings that witnesses have had with the special counsels office there have not been limits certainly on the kinds of things that theyre being asked about, and michael cohen i think can provide a variety of information. the question is going to be whether cohen finds it -- excuse m...

>> well, you know, i hate the iceberg cliche but i have used it for the mueller probe because time and time again weve learned when he makes public filings that hes looking at things or has discovered things we didnt know existed. to me a big question here is in this investigation, is whether mueller is digging deep into some of the financial issues. trumps finances are very opaque, not just with interactions with russia but just in general. big loans from deutsche bank, we dont understand the o...

Projecting this confidence while in investigation is ongoing. certainly he has been open potentially to some legal problems, and he hasnt been interviewed yet by robert mueller. he could still be. but, you know, in the meantime hes projecting this confidence. >> so where is his potential vulnerability? it centers around the trump tower meeting and his descriptions of that, whether they were truthful? >> yeah, i think so. i agree with rebecca that he looks confident there but he is a little tight...

The president. we know where we are now. the interview does not seem to be in the cards with rudy giuliani. do you think a subpoena at this point is inevitable? >> you know, the subpoena question is still an interesting one, and it probably turns more on whether mueller has the appetite to litigate that issue on appeal. but whats really remarkable here, as you point out, the prosecutor has bent over backwards to make this process accessible for the presidents team. and thats what good prosecutor...

Arrest in the coming days. i wanted to ask if thats the speculation youre hearing and secondly, what sort of response do you think well hear from the trump legal team? whether mueller does anything today or not. as the calendar turns into next week and that september deadline passes what should we anticipate hearing tr th ining from them? >> jonathan, we can expect theyll seize on anytime to say that is another reason that the investigation should be discredited. jonathan, your own reporting on ...

Whether mueller has the authority to run this investigation. now, we did get a colorful statement from roger stone about his former associate. ill read you part of it. he says that andrew miller is a good father, a devoted husband and a loyal friend. the efforts for squeeze him to bear false despicable. andrew miller has had a wide variety of job, but hes worked on and off for roger stone, as his driver, tech guy. so who knows what the special counsel might want from him. >> you say miller is ac...

There. just overwhelming news on the legal front for the trump team. what happened with paul manafort in terms of eight counts where hes found guilty of bank fraud and tax evasion, and now michael cohen, the long-time fixer and personal lawyer for the president pleading guilty to eight counts, two of which directly involve the president of the united states. clearly an unprecedented day for the government, for the president. shocking i think revelation by lanny davis that this isnt over. when i ...