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Investigation that july 27th, candidate trump called on russia to hack Hillary Clintons email, something for the first time they did five hours later, correct . Correct. And you also found that on august 2nd, mr. Manafort met with a person tied to russian intelligence. Mr. Kilimnik gave him internal Campaign Strategy aware that russia was intending to do a misinformation social media campaign. Correct . Not certain of the time. But the fact that that meeting. The meeting took place is accurate. ...

And answer from earlier in the day, because either he was confused by the question or he didnt clarify with the decision he wanted. for robert mueller to say that generally president trumps answers were not always truthful is a fairly stunning proclamation and not one by the way that is in the mueller report. >> and virtually, and very much in contrast to the rest of his testimony. that was the kind of question he was refusing to answer all through the hearing. so to hear him on that one occasio...

He might not know about those phone records. you can be sure robert mueller. and the whole notion of a live interview, remember what were reporting now at the beginning of the at least for the first time we know some of the answers that the president gave in these written q & a sessions that this is and was part of a very extensive negotiation between team trump and team mueller about how to get the presidents answers. and at least with regard to collusion, this is what they came up with, writte...

Whitaker is just not trusted. all along, when he was put into that position as chief of staff to jeff sessions, people felt he was put there to spy on the department of justice so that the white house and the president could keep an eye on whats going on there. so, you know, well see what happens. look, i think the career people, as you know, are going to keep doing what theyre doing. theres a lot of really great people there. some very senior level people who have been senate-confirmed there, a...

Written q & a, no. the way that cnn has reported before, myself and other colleagues, is that the plan was to agree to these written questions just in and around the question of collusion, meaning only before donald trump was president trump. and then if robert mueller wants to have more questions answered, then they will come back and talk about a potential sitdown. but at that point, the presidents legal team is making very clear they think that they have a good argument in -- if and when it g...

Swing votes were guys like kennedy or hugo black. so who knows what they would rule. secondly, i think if you are getting written answers from the president, you are really getting them from his lawyers and his lawyers know that in an oral deposition, he does have the tendency to talk himself into trouble. so that would be forestalled in a written q&a. but we dont know what mueller knows. so it is possible that mueller has him dead to rights on this or that and he asks an impossible question tha...

Senate. we have a responsibility to hear judge kavanaugh under oath. professor ford under oath on these allegations. had we had that information before the committee takes action and the debate for kavanaugh. >> it was a mistake for your colleagues for the democrats not to question kavanaugh about these allegations during the confirmation hearing four days of open question and answers during the closed door meetings that senators had with him, during the written q&a allowed. was it a mistake not...

Investigators if he somehow contradicted himself or didnt tell the truth. so this written q&a has been part of this range of options. and we saw that again in "the new york times" piece. they would love to have it in a dream world where they could get written questions from muellers team and be able to sit down and parse out each word, how they want to respond. but of course, we know that investigators dont like that. they like to be able to read the body language of the person theyre talking to...

Still, this is an opportunity for the special counsel to either answer some questions that make the issue go away or to certainly press the president about what he specifically was involved in and what else hes being told. so it becomes very important. >> and you know, the president has been telling his friends that he would like to, in fact, talk to special counsel. hes done this many times. dont forget, hes a serially litigious person. >> and thes lots of people cocky enough to think i can dea...