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To end? and most importantly, the question is as much about how the president is going to respond as it is how the special counsel is going to continue this. because that is one of the big, big concerns. nobody ever expected the president to fire james comey at the end of january, showing the timeline. of course, that led to special counsel robert mueller's appointment and led to where we are today. and although they're saying at the white house no one is even talking about firing robert mueller, you never know what's going to happen. >> if i was a senator, i would be wondering do i want to be...

Be in for a real battle, because they're taking on the president's son-in-law. in terms of speculation where this is going, on the assumption that jared kushner is the very senior member of the presidential transition team, what is alleged in the statement of facts is simply that there was a direction to contact officials from foreign governments in december of 2016, well into the transition, including russia, to learn where each government stood on, in this example, the resolution and to influence those governments to delay the vote or defeat the resolution in connection with israel. >> isn't...

One that traditionally has been brought. that's the first thing. the second thing is making false statements on financial disclosure forms is a bit of a tricky prosecution to bring, because people have innocent reasons as to why they don't capture everything that should be disclosed on a financial disclosure form. this one is different. this one is a false statements charge where the justice department knew exactly what michael flynn had been discussing with kislyak, because the conversations were recorded. >> i've got to get to a break. we only have one hour tonight. but i have to say, in my ...

Over and over and over again that nobody in his campaign had anything to do with russia. and we learned today that's simply not true. michael flynn, former national security adviser and a key member of the trump campaign, pleading guilty to lying to the fbi about his conversations with russia's then ambassador to the united states. you can't call him peripheral. you can't call him a coffee boy. you can't even say he was only part of the administration for a short time. even though white house lawyer ty cobb said exactly that today, to no surprise. because michael flynn was right in the inner c...

Speculation. but both julia and phil said months ago this is where we would be -- >> there's no question we were going to get here. i think any reasonable observer looking at things back as far as may understood that two people in this investigation had exposure. paul manafort and michael flynn. whether anybody else has exposure, no one has speculated about, and no one really knows. >> stick around, everybody. stay with me. when we come back, i want you to weigh in on the president's attempts to shut down the russian investigation. we'll talk about who he pressured, when, and what it could mea...