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It. the bottom line is there are only three questions that most americans want the answer to. was there obstruction, was there collusion and would donald trump have been indicted had he not been the president of the united states? those are three pretty simple questions but i don't think he'll -- i don't think you'll get the answers to those tomorrow sadly. >> let's bring in national political reporter for nbc news, carol lee, with lingering questions that mueller is likely to face. specifically, why donald trump jr. was the only american attendee of the infamous trump tower meeting in july of...

Invoke his fifth amendment right and donald trump's lawyer declined to comment on whether he did that. but as i said earlier, chairman schiff said you know that he intends to dive into evidence of the pieces of evidence that relate to the collusion portion of the investigation. he specifically mentioned this instance. this trump tower meeting so we're likely to see this come up. however, you know, whether robert mueller decides to add anything to what we don't know is a real open question and seems highly unlikely given everything that you guys know as well as anybody. you know, he just doesn'...

Stalemate and build a bipartisan consensus on a number of issues, one being immigration. while administration officials won't say what president trump might announce next week, they have said that he will offer a way forward on the shutdown. >> abby, thank you. abby philip at the white house. let's get more on this. congressman, thanks for joining us. the president says he never spoke to roger stone about wikileaks. we know from the mueller indictment that a senior trump campaign official was directed to contact stone. how important is roger stone to the collusion portion of the russia investi...

This way suggests they must have a pretty good reason for thinking that he's lying. >> yon dean, if the conventional wisdom is, you know, true and the collusion portion of the investigation is nearing an end, why would manafort mess up a federal plea deal? he obviously had some experience with this, does this make sense to you? >> it makes absolutely no sense, anderson. in fact as alluded to earlier it's stupid. he's not going to get this opportunity again. it already appears he gave a lot of hour, nine meetings where he's obviously provided some things they could cooperate. he's sacrificed no...

John how to phrase this question but how frigging stupid is this guy? >> very frigging stupid. to get a cooperation agreement and the chance for a lower sentence was very important to him. especially since he's 70 years old. to throw that away, to throw that benefit away by continuing to lie to the special counsel's office is incredibly reckless and self-defeating. now, in the filing today, manafort's lawyers said they disagree. >> he said he wasn't lying. >> he wasn't lying. but the fact that mueller's office blew this agreement up in this way suggests they must have a pretty good reason for ...