unclear and there s reporting all over the map regarding how far along that man might be in his investigation. if confirmed and hearings start next week, the incoming a.g. william barr would oversee the russia investigation even though he wrote in a now famous and unsolicited memo that the mueller investigation was ill conceived and mueller should not be permitted to demand that the president submit to interrogation about alleged obstruction. well, with us to talk about all of it tonight, the attorney neal katyal. he served as the government s top lawyer before the supreme court, acting solicitor general during the obama administration in that capacity. argued 37 cases before the supreme court. perhaps most notably he s a veteran of the d.o.j., where he drafted the special counsel regulations under way mr. mueller was appointed. counselor, thank you very much for coming back on our broadcast as always. what do you make of the rosenstein departure? do you think too much has been made
tonight trump storms out of a shutdown meeting with democrats and whether it was genuine anger or a straight up political stunt, tomorrow brings his photo op visit to the southern border. in the meantime your federal government remains shut down. rod rosenstein leaving the justice department but a source close to the deputy a.g. tells abc news he won t leave the mueller investigation high and dry. and tonight new reporting on the counterassault. the white house legal team and their plan to fight back against what s about to be an exploding number of investigations. all of it as the 11th hour gets under way on a wednesday night. and good evening once again from our nbc news headquarters here in new york. day 720 of the trump administration. day 19 of the government shutdown. and there is no sign of a way out as talks collapsed again today. tomorrow the president travels to the u.s.-mexico border to make his case once again for a wall, or what he now refers to as a barrier of steel sla
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criminal or congressional investigation. and the supreme court made that point very clear. thank you very much. msnbc news reporting that rod rosenstein plans to leave the justice department once the mueller probe is finished. that story in two minutes. in t .
what good is private polling data? as you said paul manafort spend the last two years in his spend the last ten years in his career working in you ukrain for pro-russian interests. the guy who was his closest advisor was trained by russian intelligence. and so he s coming into this american context having been steeped in ukrainian and russian political culture. he doesn t really know where the boundaries are when he enters this thing. and you ve got to wonder about this part of it. we have some reporting that indicates the whole internal investigation that would later become the mueller investigation, that it starts because there s intercepts of russian intelligence people talking about manafort colluding with russians over the campaign. and again this was obvious at