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As that. the firing of the fbi director, james comey. and the firing of national security adviser michael flynn. so those are the ones that -- so those are what theyre talking about now. so his interests go beyond those four topics though. dont you think it goes beyond that? it goes beyond just simple collusion, i would think. thats why i asked john about is in an obstruction case. so this is not ending anytime soon. >> its sprawling. just think of all the buckets here. number one, gets to the b...

That. the question about whether cambridge analytica or nonfrom the trump campaign provided the russians with the raw facebook data and the disinformation campaign that somehow influenced the election. thats the big -- and will robert mueller look into that? >> well he is looking into it. remember in the indictments against the russians facebook is mentioned several times. there is this sort of not -- we dont know it yet but not yet proved connection between the different actors. what he will sa...

That cambridge analytica was a second rate data management. >> not helpful. >> that had to do with the trump campaign is a bogus explanation. we know when trump won there was focus on the data team led by or chaired by jared kushner and what they were able to do with the information cam principle analytica had. there are strong ties. whether mueller is connecting all of those circles we dont know yet. but he is looking. >> thats got to be the last word. thank you fascinating conversation. i coul...

And hard to report on is that literally no one in the white house knows what the president is thinking. >> well, there you have it right. they have no idea. >> they have no idea. i have senior people who are calling reporters to ask us what weve heard and got our read on whose in and out. you go with them with a tip or piece of reporting. their response is that sounds crazy but that sound entirely plausible. until the president says or tweet something his own staffers that are helping him manage...

Does suspect they have something. >> he certainly does. >> its consistent with what were hearing. whether mueller gets will is another question. what hes asking questions about, where hes investigating. weve heard this from sources that gloria and i asked about. weve heard it from steve bannon of "fire and fury." that both people who have been interviewed by the special counsel, that includes sam nunberg and others in the administration, believe that muellers focus is increasingly on business de...

Had with foreign leaders when carving out policy, what does that signal to you about what bob mueller has been looking at? >> he has been pretty good at not letting anything leak out of his investigation. optics are terrible. whether mueller goes after him in these charges other prosecutors might be look as well. weve seen his ability to be effective be deeply impaired, one, the worry of the investigation and also allies leaving, hope hicks, own pr person and his security clearance was downgrade...

They actually sat down and planned anything together. >> that is important. blake? >> i think the key question is go being going to be not these activities related to the facebook activities but whether mueller comes out with indictments related to the dnc hacks and the hacks of john poe des destas e. we already know trump said publicly at a rally, "russia, if youre listening, please hack hillary clintons e-mails". we know hes politically interested no interested in doing this. but we dont know ...

This dossier, justifying a lot of people involved in abuse of power during the obama administration setting up the mueller operation with targeting the ambush of general flynn leading to this plea deal and subsequent criminal actions and collectivity and prosecutorial decisions. the pfizer memo debate is about whether muellers operation is legitimate. >> i watched adam schiff, he was very disappointed. a lot of them mortified about this information coming out at this point. chris ray who schiff ...

>> can i add, one area in particular, i think, phil briefly alluded to this. is the whole financial side. people have talked a lot in a very loose way that oh, trump has all these connections to rush and they gave him money and he owes money to the russians. i dont know any hard facts. in area. there have been even conflicting reports about whether mueller has even subpoenas deutsche bank where both donald trump and jared kushner did a lot of banking. what those records show, if anything, regard...

The president and whether its robert mueller or members of his team. theyre floating things like a written questionnaire, submitting a signed affidavit saying hes innocent of what anything that the muellers team wanted to ask him about. the question is whether muellers team will go for something like that. >> no. >> and it seems like in talking to some experts that hes very unlikely to do that for all the reasons that you and i and other reporters want to talk to someone in person. you need to b...