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Podesta. >> so you were telling him that he could use this story even if it wasn't true? >> absolutely. >> the court papers show mueller sent corsi a draft plea agreement. it stipulated the special counsel would request a sentence of probation if he agreed to plead guilty of lying to investigators. c a corsi says he rejected the deal. anna, i want to take a quick step back and explain who jerome corsi is. he's an author, a conspiracy theorist, and why he's significant on to this russia story. >> that's right. he created this myth that president barack obama was not born in the united states an...

Reporting. anna scheckter is here. she just interviewed corsi, atmosphere the keystone associate. david jones, talented expert who brings a note of skepticism to the "guardian" story, and malcolm nance, author of "the plot to hack america." malco malcolm, why is this story important, if true? >> i think that if this story is true, this is the first real definitive evidence that we have of what i call the bridge. the bridge between russian intelligence, their subcontractor julian assange and wikileaks, and the trump team. and to tell you the truth, i have to -- i'm quite surprised that would ha...

Bad. or as david cornyn likes to say, bad if true. that is all a bunch of news we're getting to. then we have this. bob mueller doesn't leak much but here in our nbc newsroom we are holding a draft indictment of jerome corsi, the famed birther and roger stone associate that we now have, that we've obtained. not from mueller, but because our colleague and reporter anna scheckter has interviewed corsi today, breaking news. you obtained these materials. i want you to lay it all out there. your reporting is really invaluable to this story. before you do, let me show you the viewers a part of the i...

Saying, something's going to happen october 2nd. in fact, on october 3rd, julian assange announced that he was going to have a big dump coming soon, and on october 7th, the john podesta e-mails came out. >> it's fascinating. there's a lot of details. we don't usually see draft indictments out of the special counsel probe. corsi obviously decided to distribute it, says he's going to fight. i'm curious what you, if i may, your first rap name here on the beat, david, lil skeptic, i'm wondering what you, lil skeptic, make of this part of the story. >> first, anna, i was jealous when i read the sto...

That too. >> right. >> so all this stuff will be revealed. i think in mueller's sweet time. >> wasn't it ll cool j who said, you're lying about the lies that you're telling? >> that's exactly what he said. >> i didn't mean to take it words right out of your mouth, david. >> they were his words. >> so true. i've got to fit in a break. i just have to. we have so much more news. my special thanks to anna scheckter, david cornyn, malcolm nance. manafort on the hook for these new crimes. was he trying to be a double agent? and trump attacking the mueller probe, wonder why. later, new light on man...