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Jeopardy for the president. we're learning more about the trump-mueller relationship. the day after he interviewed robert mueller to be the director of the fbi, trump was in an oval office meeting when an aid announced that mueller had been appointed the special counsel to investigate the trump campaign. trump and attorney general jeff session, who attended both meetings were blind sided according to a person familiar with both meetings. the president immediately blasted sessions for not knowing the announcement was coming and challenged how the person he just interviewed for the fbi job and w...

President that throws it back in the news every minute of every day? >> he does, whether it's by design or dumb luck, it's had an effect for him. he's worn down this investigation. he's worn down mueller. now, he's had accomplices, comey has been the perfect foil here in destroying the credibility of the investigation, too. nonetheless, trump's relentlessness, the wearing it down, has put it in a precarious position. if this manafort trial does not succeed, this investigation has got real problems. >> this tweet about manafort is really incredible. it's always someone's else's fault. the gover...

Of donald trump in 2015 and 2016, i felt at times he was dangling that dangerous possibility out there. but in a way that he could still drawback from it. what sarah sanders said today, i guarantee you is one-third of what donald trump must have said to her in the oval office. in other words, i think he was probably even harsher than she was right there. what she's essentially saying is, hey, you ask me tough questions that i consider to be unfair here in the white house. that's what you're going to get out there. susan is absolutely right and you're right. this is part of the campaign by dona...

Very significant. it does seem a little peculiar that rudy, if that is what happened, would disclose it in this way. >> although he seemed to be saying that cohen was lying about this meeting anyway, so he was bringing it up just to bat it back down. >> but why even go down there. what's that's puzzling about this. >> there is also this piece, broadly seen under the umbrella of president trump and his legal team, rudy guiliani, escalating now. in the last 48 hours, attacks against the special counsel and attacks against the investigation, and attacks against michael cohen. i think i've actuall...

Trump. there is so much to unpack with that tweet, which we will do later. but can you believe he would claim that russia definitely doesn't want him to win? just one week after vladimir putin, standing next to president trump, told the world that he definitely does? >> did you want president trump to win the election and did you direct any of your officials to help him do that? >> translator: yes, i did. yes, i did. because he talked about bringing the u.s./russia relationship back to normal. >> and can you believe that this president has raged against the russia investigation by threatening ...