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House and trump are attacking mueller. mueller has to consult with the deputy attorney general rod rosenstein who works for trump by the way. once there's something outside of his jurisdiction which this would be he has to consult with the deputy attorney general. then he decides do i send this to the manhattan attorney general office or keep it within the special counsel. here he sent it outside. then what has to happen is they have to go to a special unit in the justice department because a lawyer's involved and you have confidential documents. you have attorney/client documents and communic...

Sense of how difficult this is, the attorney/client privilege is what's at stake. so when the fbi goes in and gets all this information, the bank records, the documents from michael cohen's office, they have to be concerned about them. there are two teams being involve to make sure any information given over to the visitors doesn't violate that attorney/client privilege. i want to note that paul manafort is the only other person where we've seen search warrants, knocks on the doors from the fbi. documents seized from the private residence of someone that's the subject of the investigation. and...

That get made and remade. i think what's underlying the substantive question that's been underlying all the turmoil for the legal staff in the last few weeks is that the president finally decided he wanted to discard the advice he's been taking the last year which is to not attack bob mueller directly. that is what the legal team had insisted over months and months and months. don't attack mueller directly because that will antagonize him. you can say whatever else you want, but don't attack him directly. that stuck for many, many months, and recently that has changed and the president has beg...

Lawyer in the russian investigation, john dowd quitting today. dowd former marine core captain, main contact with mueller in the russia investigation. he had pressed the president to lay off attacking mueller personally of course it worked for a while but as we saw this week the president completely disregarding that. personally attacking mueller by name for the first time tweet the mueller probe should never have been started there was no collusion and no crime. and why does the mueller team have 13 hardened democrats, some big crooked hillary supporters and zero republicans, that along with ...

If he tried to do that. but does this, right now, increase the pressure on him to try again? >> well, look, i think one thing we have learned about president trump is that he does not accept the unwritten norms or limitations on the exercise of presidential power. in the presidency, as really in all aspects of his life, he has shown that he pushes until someone or something pushes back enough to make him stop. and i think he looks at the republican congressional reaction to this latest escalation, the tweets attacking mueller by name, and what he sees is hand-wringing without any action behind...