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The work that had been done over the years and came to the conclusion that we should not present charges to the grand jury at that time. >> it was decided, including me, we don't have enough to charge her. and i might say, at this point, there were six main people... that would have had information about this. vince foster's dead. jim mcdougal just died. two are in jail -- webb hubbell and susan mcdougal. two are in the white house. >> the creation of a draft indictment is not only ordinary, it's necessary. not to have a draft indictment would have been irresponsible. >> but we were obligated ...

In this draft indictment, in the indictment that was finally returned, the mention that the unwitting individuals in the trump campaign knew nothing about the russian interference in the election, at least as part of this conspiracy. i think by making that statement, and then having the deputy attorney general during a press conference very clearly state that this indictment is not charging anyone in the united states with being involved in this, i think they gave trump something to argue, to at least say there was no collusion as far as this illegal conspiracy. but that's not the end of the i...

This is what, in a sense we've been waiting to see if this will happen if robert mueller's team will bring any indictment related to the russia probe. this is an investigation that's been going on for a year. it had groups of investigators looking at possible collusion, looking at paul manafort, michael flynn, and also looking at obstruction of justice with the president's firing of james comey and the circumstances surrounding that. so, this is certainly a big significant step and an acceleration and indication that this investigation has accelerated to a point where they believe they have th...

The charges are joined. >> i was going to say, also, the thing you have to remember with the information that we have here now, is, it's possible, yes, that pressure is being used through these indictments to flip lower level people in the case. but it's also quite possible that on monday or tuesday of next week, someone, like manafort or somebody else who has been publicly identified in this case will voluntarily surrender with his lawyer, and that a deal may already have been made. and that the indictment is simply going to be handled in a lenient way, in exchange for testimony going down th...

Jury approved the charges in the mueller investigation. >> just to be clear, pam, we don't know what the charges are and who has been charged? >> that's correct. we have ideas of who has been charged but we are not naming those people. we don't believe they have notified yet. typically what happens is the grand jury will approve an indictment, it will stand or seal and it will go through a certain process which will take a few days or a couple of days to get the arrest warrant before the attorney is called asking for that person for the attorney to have the clients turn themselves in. we belie...