Robert Mueller Probe. At this point we dont know the precise nature of the charges nor who could be charged. Evan perez has more for us. Reporter a federal grand jury in washington approved the first charges in a special investigation led by Robert Mueller. The charges are sealed under by order of a federal judge. Its unclear what the charges are and at this point its not clear whether those under indictment have been notified. Mueller was appointed in may to lead the investigation into russian meddling in the 2016 u. S. Elections, and under the regulations governing the special counsel investigations, Deputy Attorney general Rod Rosenstein who has the oversight of the Russian Investigation would have been made aware of any charges before they were taken before the grand jury. On friday top lawyers who led the Mueller Probe were seen entering the courtroom at the d. C. Federal court where the grand jury meets to hear testimony in the Russian Investigation. After more then a year of investigation first began by the fbi, this is a big moment all involved have been waiting for. Evan perez, cnn washington. For more on this im joined by an attorney and cnn legal analyst. Thank you for joining us. Thanks. Here we go. First charges in the mueller investigation. So it will be unsealed next week. Does that necessarily mean someone will officially be charged. From what weve been told someone will be charged. We dont know if the special counsel has worked out some kind of arrangement with that persons counsel. Perhaps they have been notified and negotiating whether that person will turn themselves in on monday or tuesday. It could be a raid that happens possibly where there is Law Enforcement that goes to this individuals home or individuals. We dont know if its one or more people and theres some kind of arrest made. But were told that by monday or tuesday someone is likely to be in custody, someone will either come forward and turn themselves in or be arrested by Law Enforcement. At that point we should know more about what the actual charges are that are contained in that indictment. So, many people have been investigated. This has been going on for months. We dont know if this particular indictment will, in fact, shed light do we on the russian involvement in the election. Its too early to tell. Lots of speculation who has been indicted and what the indictment is. Our best estimate is this is probably the lowhanging fruit. This indictment is coming pretty early on in the mueller investigation. Its not likely at this early stage that this is one of the indictments thats related to the complex relationship between russia and the trump administration. Speculation is that this may be a Banking Transaction or a failure to register as a foreign lobbyist, something easy to prove. Something where the investigation doesnt have to be as expansive as the collusion allegations that we know that are out there that are being investigated by the special counsel. So not clear and also some speculation this may be someone that mueller wants to use to flip, to put pressure on to then give him someone higher up on the food chain. Thats something thats not unusual to happen, right . Happens all the time in these kinds of investigations particularly where there are numerous potential targets of an investigation that they use an indictment against someone, lets called at the bottom of the running, of the ladder and y pressure that person to help them get information for people at the top. At the top of this entire investigation is president donald trump. I want to ask you, is there any credence given to a grand jury indictment . Some say that a grand jury will indict anything. Is that fair . Oftentimes, you know, the statement is made that you can get a ham sandwich or a sandwich indicted. Clearly the standard is not as rigorous as that of beyond a reasonable doubt which is the standard if the person is tried in a court of law. We know special counsel mueller, his integrity, his experience i dont think an investigation that is as sensitive and as important as this is going to be presented to a grand jury unless theres substantial evidence to support the claims that are being presented. So i dont think this is going to be something that was done without a lot of thought, without a lot of strategy, and unless this investigative team, this really experienced team of lawyers believe that they can successfully, you know, find this person can be prosecuted and they can get a guilty verdict at a trial. Last question, james comey the former fbi director he came before cameras and held news conferences when he needed. What about Robert Mueller. How do you expect hell handle this next week. What we know about Robert Mueller hes the ultimate professional. Hes not been grandstanding. Hes not held any press conferences. Hes been playing his cards pretty close to the vest. I think hell continue to do so. This is the beginning of this investigation. And this is the beginning of indictments. This is not the end. So i dont expect mueller to do anything differently than what he has done to date which is to continue to be extremely professional, to investigate this with the utmost integrity and to continue to move forward with the investigation. And as i said, i think this is one or perhaps a couple of beginning indictments and if the investigation is as broad as it appears to be, there may be more indictments coming as this investigation continues. All right. Thank you for your comments. President trump has yet to comment on the mueller investigation, the story weve been breaking but hes speaking out on other controversial issues. His critics say hes more interested in distraction than disclosure. Reporter President Trump weighing in onion going Justice Department investigation, the white house insists its all a push for transparency but some are wondering is this just an effort to take off the attention from another Russian Investigation. President trump weighing in on a Justice Department investigation. I think the uranium sale to russia and the way it was done, so underhanded with tremendous amounts of money being passed, i actually think thats watergate modern age. Reporter raising questions about his intervention and approach to judicial matters. Sources tell cnn trump made it clear he wanted a gag order lifted so an fbi investigation could speak to congress. The probe was looking into russian efforts to gain influence in the uranium industry in the u. S. Under the obama administration. Trumps allies are coming to his defense insisting the president was well within his reits. Its not unusual for a president to weigh in. He believes as many others that the fbi informant should be free to say what he knows. But this was made let me repeat the judiciary chairman in the u. S. Senate Chuck Grassley made this request of the Justice Department last week. Reporter grassley the chairman of the judiciary Cincinnati Committee sent a letter to the Justice Department last week asking the agency to lift the nondisclosure agreement that was preventing the informant from speaking to congress. But trumps comments raise the question already hes looking for transparency or looking to draw attention away from other russian matters like potential collusion between the Trump Campaign and russia in 2016. They made up the whole russia hoax. Now its turning out that the hoax has turned around and you look at whats happened with russia and you look at the uranium deal, and you look at the fake dossier, thats all turned around. Reporter trumps remarks despite the fact his top Security Officials agree russia tried to interfere in the u. S. Election. Today trump once again denounced the russian probes tweeting its now commonly agreed after many months of costly looking that there was no collusion between russia and trump, or collusion with h. C. But no consensus whether collusion occurred. The uranium issue is merely the president s latest foray into the latest allegations. I want Jeff Sessions to be much tougher on leaks from intelligence agencies. Reporter now trump weighing into judicial matters was his decision to fire james comey, something well within his authority but the president paid a steep political price. It was that move that led to the naming of a special counsel to head the Russian Investigation. Cnn contributor Carl Bernstein said President Trump is taking the wrong road when it comments to commenting on the Russian Investigation. Here he is. What weve seen all week, though, is once again the president of the United States instead of encouraging this special counsel to get to the bottom of the russia investigation and what happened and what russia did and whether or not there were any members of his entourage, trumps entourage involved encouraging the russians to interfere the president of the United States sought to muddy the waters once again making Hillary Clinton the issue instead of the conduct of the president himself and those around him. Its very conspicuous. We have a long way to go. Lets sit back and see what develops. A lot to talk about this. Lets bring in our associate professor from the university of london live in our london bureau. A pleasure to have you. Weve seen the president and his staff refer to the russian probe as costly, unnecessary. Describing it as unfruitful. Over the week the white house moved the goal post to his rival for the presidency. Lets listen. Congress spent a great deal of time on this, a better part of a year. All of your news organizations have spent probably a lot of money on this as well which we would consider probably a pretty big waste. I think that our position hasnt changed since day one and i think were seeing now if there was any collusion with russia it was between the dnc and clintons and not our campaign. Just a moment ago we saw the president working to reframe this saying its all coming back on clinton the democrats, the increased drum beat on uranium one, the dossier. Given the fact we now know charges have been filed does that move the goal post back to the central theme, questions about russia and possible collusion . It does. I think, of course, this explains a lot of President Trumps efforts to divert once again the attention towards Hillary Clinton, calling on the state department to release her emails, looking at the uranium question. And the diversionary strategy i dont think plays to his advantage. What the president would be best placed to let the integrity of the investigations go forward to remain silent until he needs to speak about these, to wait and see what happens. One of the very interesting things here is President Trump as we know is about to go on a very long, very important, very extended foreign trip to asia and if you remember back to his first foreign trip the investigations he did just as he was leaving, a lot happened while on the road and very unsettling i think for the people of the United States to have a lot going on over the question of russia, when the president is abroad and when the president is actively seeking to deflect and move the conversation away from the essential question about russias collusion, the Trump Campaigns collusion but especially russias campaign to unsettle the u. S. Elections. Critics describe it as an attempt to muddy the water politically. If thats happening, indeed, what action do you expect the president will take now that we know things are moving in this investigation . Well, again, the president is in a funny position. Hes trying to push very hard domestically on tax reform. He wants one legislative win before the end of the year and this is his best hope. Its very complicated. Theres some momentum around it. Hes about to get on an airplane and deal with the most important Foreign Policy crisis which is north korea. Hes going all across asia. Of course hes going to have because of the gravity of this issue, because of the extent to which he takes it tremendously personally hell have this question of russia and what happens on monday if indeed somebody is charged, depending on who that is and how he interprets that hes going to be very, very distracted by this issue when in his mind should be on asia and his tax reform legislation. Again this news were talking about first reported on cnn the fact we now know charges are forthcoming. Important to point this out too. We dont know the nature of these charges and we dont know who could be charged in this investigation. If this does come close to trump world do you expect the administration will be cooperative or might we see what weve seen historically a series of distractions . I think, you know, what weve seen since yesterday, right, with the renewed calls for Hillary Clintons emails to be released and the statements that have come out of the white house, inevitably the tone thats been set the pattern thats been set well see a lot of efforts to distract, to shift the conversation, to deflect and divert any focus on President Trump and those people who have worked with him. But i suspect that internally within the white house there will be some effort to try and, to collect and direct the focus. But i dont hold a great deal of hope for that happening. 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We go live to barcelona for the mood there as people realize whats happened and with the news and how its playing out there. Reporter well, its relatively quiet here in barcelona outside of the Central Government headquarters, quiet compared to the scenes of jubilation from last night. A couple of new developments to talk about this morning. Madrid has announced that Mariano Rajoy brey will appoint spains deputy Prime Minister to oversee catalonia during this period of emergency. Also announced by the interior ministry they are effectively sacking the head of the local police here in catalonia. Hes already under investigation on allegations of sedition. As part of that investigation too the catalan activists already in prison relating to activities in the build up to the october 1st referendum which was deemed illegal. So now it has been officially sacked by m