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Investigation in attacking mueller, and his lawyers have convinced him, hang in there, this is wrapping to a close. they said publicly things will be wrapping up early 2018. there is nothing wrong. nothing to do here. if they continue to be successful at restraining him, i do not expect a twitter rant in the morning. >> we'll talk to you monday. darlene, you cover this every day. can you remind the folks watching tonight how many of the president's troubles have been self-inflicted? for example, what of today was the result of self-inflicted wounds? >> well, after today, after learning about m...

The president's reaction according to one adviser was that mr. flynn, quote, is in a lot of trouble. with us to do tonight pb two reporters covering that place every day pb the car veen, white house reporter for the associated press. shannon pettypiece white house reporter for bloomberg. shannon no polite way to ask this do we expect a twitter counterattack over the weekend. >> i personally don't because the president's lawyers seem to have been have been incredibly effective as getting him to restrain from tweeting about anything to do with mueller and the russia investigations. if you look b...

Manafortindicted. what do you think of them saying another thing the other day? >> i believe there had been some indications that mr. manafort had been notified he was indicted earlier. not only was it by a number of folks in the media but i believe it had been confirmed either by a spokesman or roger stone so it is an unusual thing. i will say one thing i'm having trouble understanding is what the legal team is. they have been very aggressively attacking mueller and they did the same. it is an unusual thing for a defense team to do. it is hard for me to see the upside for that because the pro...

>> that is, again, i can't imagine any lawyer would ever advise that. i spoke with some of the people on the hill say they don't know what to do with that. how do you respond to that? how do you talk about that? how do you get up on a press conference about health care and have to talk about the president talking about, you know, pardoning himself. it just throwing everything in a tailspin. >> this is unprecedented. some people have the parallel between trump's attacks on mueller and former president clinton's attacks on ken starr. the idea of attacking mueller and throwing out the idea of par...

It's in the best interest of the president to let it play out. if he is innocent he should want these things to come to a conclusion and prove that point. do you think the white house and president will take that counsel into account? >> i sure hope they do. i'm baffled by the white house's general response to the investigation why they aren't being more transparent and more welcoming of these investigations. look, i think transparency is the friend of the administration here. president trump should be encouraging his associates to cooperate with these investigations and frankly he should be m...