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But i think we're going to see the full range, alpha to omega, of possible outcomes hereof what happened with mike flynn tonight and what we're going to see about paul manafort later in the week. >> judge, paul manafort has tonight to sleep on it. he's got tomorrow. he's got thursday, and his lawyers have a telephone. they can call robert mueller and start talking again. >> the problem is that his credibility -- whatever is left of his credibility was shot. and, in fact, in some ways mueller was strategizing. you can see how this works together. it was a bit of flynn and a manafort show. if yo...

Reported on previously. roger stone was involved in writing stories about his alleged back channel randy credico who he says was his confirmed source for the wikileaks information and rural is taking seriously that roger stone is out there telling people like jerome corsi and other associates to write stories about credico being his back channels. now that we have these e-mails nbc revealed, it looks like maybe roger stone had a different back channel. maybe he had somebody telling him what assange would release. >> and all this manafort conspiring, according to mueller's charges, comes at a t...

Whether the trump campaign did actually collude with russia to influence the 2016 election. that is still a big if. along with manafort, assange is denying the story. speaking of back channels. new reporting from nbc news obtained a draft court filing from the special counsel revealing an e-mail exchange between jerome corsi and roger stone. corsi lays out the timeline for the wikileaks e-mail dump. quote, word is friend in embassy plans two more dumps. corsi wrote august 2nd, 2016 referring to wikileaks founder julian assange. one shortly second in october. impact plan to be very damaging. ...

Generally there are objections to west wing staff. usually have to do with the job that the staff is doing on behalf of their husbands. you know, they don't think that their husbands are being served particularly well by any particular aide. and then they might make that known, kind of, through back channels. that's what pillow talk is for, right? well, in this case, it happened very publicly. and another interesting distinction here is that the issue that the first lady seems to have with this staffer is not that she was doing a bad job for the president, it was that she didn't like the way s...

Saudi arabia situation. why? >> because he knows it's a risk for him personally and the administration. one of the things we learned erlt in the process is there was a phone call between jared kushner and mbs early in the process, and mbs called him to pry and prespin the situation. also on the phone call was john bolton, the national security adviser. that's in part because the administration was aware as not being able to be seen as having back channels in the case, and they needed to signal to mbs this would be a problem that needed to be figured out, and kushner is stepping back, a perhaps...