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Concerning the russian witch hunt were leaked to the media. no questions on collusion. oh, see. you have a madeup phony crime, collusion that never existed and an investigation begun with illegally leaked classified information. nice. first of all, the leak appears to have originated with the president's own legal team. more on that in a minute. second the list includes over a dozen questions about collusion. nevertheless, white house officials got in on the act too insisting there's really nothing to see here. >> the overwhelming majority of those questions don't focus on the underlying premi...

Oligarchs, kushner's efforts to set up a russian back channel and roger stone's outreach to wikileaks to the campaign, one question in particular suggests mueller may know a lot more than the rest of us. "what knowledge did you have of any outreach by your campaign including paul manafort to russia about potential assistance to the campaign?" that's kind of collusiony. there's no public information to date on any such outreach by manafort or the campaign. asked today why the president lied about the collusion questions, the white house declined to provide an explanation. >> he's talked about h...

He's a decorated vietnam veteran and former fbi director. why does the president keep saying this? >> well, he's attacking mueller's team because this is a political fight. there is obviously some legal components to this, but in the end, this is a political fight. if you look at what the clinton team did with ken starr, james cargo came out and declared war on starr and the investigation and dick morris wrote an entire game plan for how they were going after ken starr. they went after al domada who was investigating whitewater at the time. these are political fights. if you look at what's gon...

The investigation. he's a decorated vietnam veteran and former fbi director. why does the president keep saying this? >> well, he's attacking mueller's team because this is a political fight. there is obviously some legal components to this, but in the end, this is a political fight. if you look at what the clinton team did with ken starr, james cargo came out and declared war on starr and the investigation and dick morris wrote an entire game plan for how they were going after ken starr. they went after al domada who was investigating whitewater at the time. these are political fights. if you...

His eagerness to sit down for an interview for the very first time attacking mueller by name on twitter. robert bennett is a former federal prosecutor who represented bill clinton when he was sued by paula jones. bob, as one of the few people any this world who have represented a president facing a high stakes interrogation ultimately, what do you make of these questions? >> well, it's very clear when you read the questions that they're trying to, mr. mueller is trying to get into the head of the president. he's trying to determine what was his intent and what was his knowledge. that's the thr...