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Signs tonight that robert mueller is nearing the end of his investigation, true? can you tell us? >> there are clues today that we saw in court where roger stone appeared. the u.s. attorney for the washington d.c. u.s. attorney's office here in the district spoke. he told the court he sort of took the lead here at the arraignment. the prosecutors from the special counsel's office who were there said they would be trying this case jointly with the washington d.c. u.s. attorney's office. this could possibly suggestion that the special counsel's office does not expect to be around for very long, ...

For mueller explained to the judge today that mueller's team and the d.c. u.s. attorney, they will be jointly trying this case against roger stone. so that was interesting. that was sort of the most interesting thing that happened today in court. on the deference side, roger stone's defense lawyers entered a plea of not guilty on his behalf to the seven felony charges. unless that changes, that will mean that we should expect there will be a criminal trial for roger stone on the seven felony trials -- seven felony charges. now, we don't know when exactly that would happen if his case does, in ...

Their paperwork to the court, which would allow them to represent their client. it is not a great beginning for roger stone's legal team in terms of the way they are screwing up the basic question of whether they are allowed to represent him just getting the basic paperwork in. when it came to the actual arraignment today, it was straightforward. they waived the actual reading of the indictment. the prosecution side of the isle included both attorneys from the u.s. attorney's office in d.c. and attorneys from robert mueller's office, the special counsel's office. one of the pros kau tor prosec...

Maybe the prospect of a long prison sentence is not something that was interesting to somebody who is young and 30 years old and has a whole life ahead of her. i think what is also interesting here is, you know, this case initially was something looked at by the special prosecutor, and my understanding is was then parcelled out to a particular u.s. attorney, in the michael cohen case, the southern district, and in the butina case to the southern district of colombia. as we saw in the michael cohen case, once he decided to cooperate he not only cooperated with or attempted to cooperate -- not b...

Department as attorney general and head of criminal division, and then when he left office after bill clinton was elected, he was working in private practice and really just missed the mission of the justice department. so he came back to the washington, d.c. u.s. attorney's office as a line assistant, and that would be equivalent of being a general and signing up to be a private because you want to be there when you're storming the beaches of normandy. who does that but somebody with humility and is all about the j job. >> it -- i think he loves his country and loves the justice