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It could take many, many months to get to the bottom of it. but even in if it's a charge against manafort or flynn or someone else, it seems there's so much new news all the time that it seems it would take a team of lawyers a long time to get to the bottom of it. but as i said, mueller does have a reputation of working with urgency and he has a team of 16 top prosecutors so they've been working days, nights and weekends to get this done. >> thank you very much. i want to bring in the conversation matthew miller. he's the former spokesperson for the justice department. thank you for being here...

Was put in charge of this probe, which was just about six months ago, maybe that question was starting to come due. i want to know what your reaction is to that recent reporting and those concerns by people who were worried about the independence of the investigation. >> i think it's clear that everyone from the president to his allies in congress to the conservative media have been orchestrating a drum beat against the special council, which includes raises questions about his budget, whether he should be fired. and i think that shows nervousness on his investigation, where he might go, ha wh...

This is the first indictment, first set of indictments, we'll see when the charges are unsealed. and there are more to come. >> part of the reporting that cnn has done tonight which is more background rather than it is sort of some new fact that they've dug up. the way they're characterizing their report tonight is that the deputy attorney general, rod rosenstein, who's overseeing all matters related to the russia investigation because of the recusal of attorney general jeff sessions, rod rosenstein as the person overseeing the mueller investigation, would he have had to see the proposed indic...

Becomes, you know, blocking an investigation that as borne fruit. it becomes a more questionable activity after he filed charges than it was before. >> one last question for you, matt. one of the stories that we were planning on leading with tonight before this news broke was the interesting and unexpected news out of the eastern district of virginia, was that the attorney, dana boente, who has played a number of stand in roles, being brought on as acting attorney general, acting deputy attorney general, he's now the acting assistant attorney general on security matters, he announced his resig...

T case. is the overture before or after june 15th, before or after you knew those things were stolen by the russian government. that puts a spotlight on cambridge analytica. they should probably explain the specifics of that time line so they knew what they were doing in making that overture and whether they knew they were offering to help a russia intelligence operations. so there's more reporting to do there. but even if the worst is true, it remains the fact they weren't working for the trump campaign at the time that overture happened so that still doesn't implicate the trump campaign in w...