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It's not like anything has to make an announcement about that. how would we know if that's what's been happening since matt whitaker arrived three weeks ago tomorrow? that's why it is all the more interesting that tonight, we are getting a first look at what might be robert mueller's notebook. his sort of working file. because tonight, nbc news has obtained a draft criminal information, which is the kind -- it's basically an indictment when you agree to plead instead of having a trial. also, a draft plea agreement, also a draft statement of the offense. all these documents appear to have been ...

Notebook. his sort of working file. because tonight, nbc news has obtained a draft criminal information, which is the kind -- it's basically an indictment when you agree to plead instead of having a trial. also, a draft plea agreement, also a draft statement of the offense. all these documents appear to have been created by the special counsel's office, though we have no way of verifying that directly. the documents were reportedly created by robert mueller's office and sent by mueller to a man named jerome corsi, a long-time conservative writer who has been getting a lot of press recently for...

Of those e-mails, we haven't seen the communication between corsi and someone involved in wikileaks. we haven't seen an e-mail between corsi and julian assange, for instance, which is really damning. but torhe other piece of this i that the e-mails are coming from a draft statement of offense. there may be more to it that mueller just didn't lay out here, knowing that corsi is publicly talking toer everyone. >> and we only have a tiny clue of what mueller and his people really know. dana, is this the most damning evidence of collusion we have seen so far? >> i guess probably, but the last part...

In the middle of that media confusion yesterday, a justice department spokeswoman actually drafted a statement for attorney general jeff sessions to issue in the event that rod rosenstein was actually dismissed. that draft was never formally sent, but it was drafted, and the contents of the draft were leaked to both axios and "the new york times," and in part that leaked draft confirmed what we already suspected, that if rod rosenstein was out, that he was resigning or he was being forced to resign or he was fired, the current solicitor general, noel francisco would step in and take over as th...

A statement for jeff sessions to issue in the event that rosenstein was actually dismissed. that draft was never formally exce sent but it was drafted. in part, that leaked draft confirmed what we already suspected that if rod rosenstein was out and he was resigning or being forced to resign or fired, the current solicitor general, francisco would step in and take over as the top justice official in charge of the russia investigation. that's the person that robert mueller would have to report to and who he'll have to get permission from for important steps of his investigation, things like new...