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Privileg not an accountant client privilege? right? >> no. >> and did bob mueller, does he have donald trump's tax returns? would he have access to those? a question that swirled around sd? does he have full -- >> never been able to answer that in a reporting way. no one has been able to in any way. talk to folks, prosecutors, current and former doj types they say there's no way you would do a big, white collar investigation without starting with the tax returns. >> no bar to him, given the kind of prosecutorial power he has, no way he would be prohibited from those returns? >> a request he ha...

Is the one character who knows all of that. he has kind of full visibility into the financial portrait of the trump organization and of donald trump personally, and has had that visibility for decades now. so he has a lot of value to the mueller team, you know, if, in fact, he is questioned on this. >> michael schmidt, you've been reporting on this, too, and we know this has been the president's kind of red line as concerns of the mueller investigation broadly, but what is your reporting telling you what exactly it is they want from weiselberg? >> weiselberg knows about -- as we heard from the...

Have done this. many presidents have been lawyers. they could have operated a law firm while in office, technically done that. if they took on foreign clients they would have run into this. the difference no other presidents have push this hard to profit while in office. so it's unlikely to be the kind of thing that has a systemic or a threat to the trump presidency but important that judges are saying very clearly we will, if forced by a president acting so brazenly while in office we'll oversee this. >> gene robinson i want to ask you, you have a situation where a lot of people have pointed ...

By russian hacking attempts. don't put it in your ads. don't spend money pushing a claim that was hacked? >> speaking, before i get to that question, speaking of hacking. still stuns me. last week, week before, the republicans voted down a bill that would have added additional money to protect our voting apparatus. talking about hacking into people's e-mails. actually said, no, no. we're not going to spend money to make sure the process of 2018 and '20 going forward is protected. the same technology. hacking is hacking. if we ever get to the point where people are doubting electio elections, i...