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Trump tower meeting is what of course mueller's investigators would like to know because the president has given, you know, varying responses about this. here's some audio in an interview that the president gave to the "the new york times" in july of 2017 trying to answer that question. >> i didn't look at it very closely. i just heard there was an email requesting a meeting or something -- requesting a meeting that they had information on hillary clinton, and i said, i mean, that's standard political stuff. >> did you know at the time they had the email? >> no, i didn't know anything about it...

Sen sensitive information. don jr. replied saying if that's what you say, if it's what you say i love it especially later in the summer. so was she connected to putin? >> there's no way this information would have ended up being offered or supposedly offered without the kremlin sanctioning it. there is no way they gave this interview without putin himself saying it is okay to go on american television and to say you were working with us. >> this the president's direct role and lying about the nature of it. >> of course they should be. of course mueller's team knowing whether she is somebody th...

Offered or supposedly offered to the campaign without the kremlin sanctioning it. in the same way there is no way she gave this interview without vladimir putin himself saying it is okay to go on american television and to say you were working with us. this was a putinesque show of force. >> the president's direct role and lying about the nature of it, what do you think? >> of course they should be. of course mueller's team probably knows whether she is an agent, whether she is an asset in a variety of ways. they are not naive that is a person -- >> this is more than adoption. >> it was always...

They will demand witnesses to appear when they need to. and so the result will be different. but they also are looking at a different aspect. they're looking at potential criminal violations, which will reveal itself in a different way than a report that comes from a congressional committee which is supposed to lay out a narrative that gets at actually what happened across the entire event. >> of course mueller has a grand jury, you know, which is an objective mechanism that we don't have in any of these political investigations. of course, we do see here that this is part of the white house p...

It raises the issue of campaign finance issues. it reminds people of what happened with john edwards and not reporting different disclosures and different in-kind contributions and the what not. and it makes sense that mueller's team would investigate this very thing. because it has so many parallels of what happened with john edwards. one of the people on the federal elections commission at the time john edwards was having an affair with and talking about flying her privately because of being pregnant, et cetera. one of the people who said it was not an in-kind transfer or a campaign contribu...