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Think the american people dearly would like these investigations to paint. that is what was exactly the nature of the interference in the election? how focussed was it, what kind of assets were put into it, and to whom it was targeted. we still have a lot of unanswered questions here that go beyond criminal prosecution. >> let's take a listen to senator dianne feinstein, democrat of california, about donald trump jr., because she expects him to testify in front of the senate intel committee publicly. >> things keep changing. not by design but by just the press of other business on the committe...

Former federal prosecutor and now law professor at duke university. welcome to you. glad to have you back on the show. i want to ask you about the warrant. do you think mueller is honing in on an ultimate focus for the investigation? >> well, i think he's got multiple fronts that he's operating on at the same time, alex. i think one thing that clearly on the collusion front, you want to look at is what exactly was coming from russia in the way of interference in the election, and then you're going to look at any connections that might develop between that and the trump campaign. so you're sort...

Witnesses. they're not going to ignore any of this. the more we hear, the more it looks like at this point it's manafort and flynn who likely have the most criminal exposure to date and maybe the most intense subjects of focus for potential prosecution in kind of a first round that might be directed towards the development of witnesses. >> all right. good to see you. thank you so much. >> thanks, alex. great to be here. >> ivanka trump and her role in the white house. does she really have that much influence?

Counsel had stopped returning the phone calls of the committee. look, you've got witnesses here who congress wants to talk to, who have got serious potential criminal exposure, and in any ordinary circumstance, lawyers would be telling the witnesses to assert the fifth amendment privilege and not testify before congress. however, there's obviously huge political costs here. even for an individual like manafort, much less donald trump jr. to publicly state that they're not going to testify in front of congress. that would be extremely costly politically, so there's an incentive to kind of duck ...

Was to build support for ukraine's entry into the eu. this report is big for a few reasons. but it is also the first public indication that mueller is now deploying the process of compelling witness testimony before the grand jury. that's huge. it's also the latest indication the special counsel has, this increased focus on manafort. he is of course being investigated for his work for the pro russian ukrainian political party and offshore banking and real estate transactions and questions about money laundering, and another big procedural bombshell that you will surely remember rachel's report...