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>> from how i know mueller works when he was director of the fbi, he papers the file very well. i would specific somewhere in a footnote or appendix to his report we will see his thought processes why he didnt do this. it will be recorded and discussions with rosenstein will be memorialized and will come out on discussions on the hill. if youre told this repeatedly and why the public needs to see this report, if mueller was told emphatically by the presidents attorney, we will plead the fifth am...

In the nixon case, three of the justices who voted against him were nixons own appointees. >> interesting. what do you make of why muellers team of prosecutors would, according to gates defense team not want rick gates to cooperate at this time with the house probe? >> thats the right move. thats exactly what i would do. it tells me something important. mueller or the southern district but the prosecutors intend to use gates in a big way going forward. they intend to use him as a trial witness, ...

Just so much information on michael cohen able to see his emails, who hes communicating with and then seeing where he was moving. when the southern district of new york gets the referral in february of 2018, they get their own search warrants thats continuing on that, so continuing to seek email records and then forward looking phone data as well. >> okay. so some of this stuff is quite redacted and that is because there are all kinds of ongoing investigations and those are the things we cant lo...

The report would even involve mueller, according to a new "washington post" report. joining me now, former federal prosecutor doug burns to sort all this out. doug, welcome to you and good morning. >> thank you. >> can you explain to us the importance of why muellers name should have been mentioned in those e-mails requesting a comment, if the story was about michael cohen? is that not something that peter carr, the spokesperson, should have assumed? >> well, the key to understanding this and un...

Before about the crazy story about him manipulating the polls. the michael cohen stories, anything he touched, theyre starting to tumble out. and you said earlier that you thought that this was one piece, perhaps, of why mueller was so much happier with the level of cooperation he had with cohen. this was an example. i dont think just like the earlier thing, i dont think this is the only one of those. were going to start to see more and more of these. this may be -- this is a bombshell. i think ...

Thing we were talking about before about the crazy story about him manipulating the polls. the michael cohen stories, anything he touched, theyre starting to tumble out. and you said earlier that you thought that this was one piece, perhaps, of why mueller was so much happier with the level of cooperation he had with cohen. this was an example. i dont think just like the earlier thing, i dont think this is the ochnly one of those. were going to start to see more and more of these. this may be --...

Russian ambassador not to escalate the obama sanctions on russia, told the fbi agents quote, not really. i dont remember. he also said he was vacationing in the dominican republic without access to news or blackberry and didnt even know about the sanctions. however, in the plea agreement general flynn was forced to admit that, quote, he called the russian ambassador from the dominican republic after a conversation with a transition official at mar-a-lago and requested that russia not escalate th...

Oh, i cant talk. it cant be crime fraud related. >> there is a question in legal circles, and youre the lawyer, i just play one, that why mueller chose to do it this way. and, you know, there are some who say this is a total s subterfuge and its actually part of the investigation into the president. hes going to use michael cohen. there are other people who argue that it is separate and that, in fact, he said this is not within my jurisdiction and that i am doing this -- i came across this and i...

Saw paul manafort the first person to be charged. we havent figured out why he hasnt cooperated in the same way that rick gates has. were assuming rick gates is cooperating because of his guilty plea. were getting more information of why mueller is continuing go after manafort and continuing to generate these headlines. this person a. this person who rick gates communicated with who is a known russian intelligence officer and who rick gates knew what has a russian intelligence officer in 2016. t...

Josh rafael, rick dearborn, keith schiller, and a cast of others. thank you! appreciate it. when we come back, were learning about the man of mystery with ties to both team trump and a middle east country is cooperating with robert mueller. well, well tell you whos talking now and what it could mean for his investigation. plus, why mueller is scrutiny nizi scrutinizing the presidents personal attorney. there are two types of people in the world. those who fear the future... and those who emb...