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Interesting. i suppose sarah sanders will be asked about that. at the same time, there are all kinds of other weighty issues about what rudy giuliani said yesterday with respect to the president and these legal options that theyre apparently weighing behind the scenes, as to whether or not the president will sit down with robert muellers team and answer questions about some of these areas they want to cover as weve been reporting. the mueller team is floating the possibility of whittling down so...

To come and meet with them and sit and touk with them. >> we will see what the white house and the president decide on. that thank you very much for that report. president trumps twitter rant is raising some serious concerns among republican lawmakers as well. lets go live to our congressional correspondent phil mattingly what are you hearing, phil? >> reporter: its unese and exaspiration. shelley mchaskell says it concerns her, susan collins called it highly intel pratt and others says frankly ...

10,000 years of human civilization. he said maybe some people dont want to hear that but its line hes going with. he says this is going to be the new normal, that we need to get creative as to how we battle these fires. its going to be costly. lives are going to be lost. but this is the normal that we now have to deal with. and wolf, this fire, 35% contained but 15 others burning across california. wolf? >> heartbreaking situation. all right, nick, thank you. nick watt reporting. coming up, brea...

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Ps and qs. that theyre competent, theyre responsible. and i think it certainly fosters the investigation because people tend to be more cooperative when the special counsel is successful. were not going to go to trial. were going to take a plea deal. and guess what, were also going to cooperate. and cooperation, wolf, means that others could be embroid in the investigation. >> theyre moving quickly in that trial, as we see, in day one and day two. everybody stick around. theres more breaking new...

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Latest. >> reporter: wolf, there was a big bombshell in court. prosecutors indicated they might not call rick gates as a witness. they left that as an open question. this could be muellers team just playing coy, trying to keep the defense guessing on their strategy. it could be also the defense played their hand too soon, indicating yesterday in opening statements that they would use any testimony from rick gates to discredit him. or it could have been the prosecution just wanted to continue its...

This cloud hanging over me -- >> but congressman, we dont know what robert mueller has come up with in this investigation. we didnt know, for example, he was going to indict and charge all these russians, for example. he may have specific information that you dont know about, and youre a member of the intelligence committee, that we dont know about. hes working his sources, as they say. >> yeah. and he does have additional information that we didnt pursue. it wasnt the purview of the intelligenc...

A, if it had i think its very likely it would have been leaked or there would have been some indication of it. the second thing is many organizations, not just house intel but the senate and others have looked at this for a long, long time. i think if there had been evidence -- >> ive got to tell you, congressman, ive covered washington for a long time. the mueller team, they have avoided leaking anything. the leaks are coming from other sources, people who have testified before various investig...

Be different than border security. >> no, actually i dont, jim. >> there could be more ages, fencing, it doesnt necessarily mean a physical wall. >> that is part of the negotiation we expect congress to have. >> democrats are saying they may not be in favor of this kind of deal. they say things, but no thanks. >> jim, i am not negotiating with you. i will let congress take care of that. >> what we are witnessing is the erosion of our freedoms and in s of covering the president. there are moments...