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In the wake of the first guilty plea and criminal indictments in the russia probe last month, it's clear the president still faces potential legal jeopardy on multiple fronts. there are his international bngs entangments, thanks -- the special counsel has already signalled he's not afraid of follow the money indicting paul manafort and manafort's deputy rick gates on fraud and money laundering charges. there was, of course, the president's decision to fire fbi director james comey in the midst of the russia probe. a move that he explicitly told our own nbc's lester holt was connected to the on...

That's a year earlier. there is a sense in which he's being cultivated, even before. and he's also central -- jill, the protecting -- protecting flynn is central to what the actions the president takes with respect to comey and then there is the question of sessions. i mean, there is an open question of whether he will take further action towards the department of justice, towards rosenstein or towards mueller to thwart the investigation if it starts getting even closer to him. >> absolutely. and he certainly has indicated it, but i think he has been tamped down by his lawyers who have said yo...

My trial team was pretty adamant that we should indict the president. >> fascinating. >> and thought that we had grounds for doing it. >> huh. >> but we also had someone saying impeachment is the right method, not indictment. there is now a ken starr memo that says you can indict a sitting president. so it's an open question now whether you could or not indict the president. >> i mean, what's remarkable about this is just that, you know, we were talking about the smoking gun or the bridge, when you're talking about the collusion case, the first order case, a lot remains murky about that and wh...

Moving parts and a lot of missing pieces. the russians were trying a lot of different approaches, throwing spaghetti at the wall and seeing what would stick. i'm not sure it's a beautiful one piece of pasta. >> who knows. we don't know what we don't know. to one -- to miriam's point, it does seem to me there was enough in what we do know that the russians could conclude these people will play ball, donald trump will defend our interests in public and probably as president so we'd like to see him elected. so we should really, like, kick it into higher gear because we've now sort of run it up th...

Parking the money in there? how much do you have a sense that russian oligarchs who are doing that are sort of in contact with some greater political intelligence agenda? >> i think what you said is absolutely correct, that russians love to buy property in new york and miami and london to park their cash abroad and to have a place to flee. if you are successful in russia, if you reach a certain level of success then you have been blessed by the state. does that mean that you receive orders from the state that you must participate in this grand collusion exercise to get trump elected? not neces...