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The federal investigations have ensnared many of donald trump's most senior aides, and as prosecutors probe deeper into the remaining senior aides, as well as the people at the trump org, some of the names that are left in both worlds are obviously donald trump's own family. now many prosecutors are actually especially cautious when it comes to splitting families against each other in a probe, but not this one. the "hardball" federal peruse andrew weissmann, many call him mueller's legal pit bull, and some of trump's most enthusiastic legal defenders have tougher words for weissmann than even ...

>> do you have a painting metaphor for this? >> no, but i'll build on yourself because it's excellent. >> because she is at a really good school. we're just normal pundits here. >> a rap word maybe will come to mind. that's a really good analogy. when you're reading through the transcript they got wasn't until late last year. so they are building this methodically. >> still going. >> a lot of people knocked this probe for being slow and long, but actually, they're continuing to get information that proves to be very valuable. the last thing i would note that is really important in this transcr...

Government's arsenal. i don't like andrew weissmann heading this prosecution. >>that was trump's former lawyer. he doesn't like it. well, that brings us to tonight's special report, the reason why team trump fears weissmann, and what it actually says about the future of trump's family and how the probe may reportedly look at people as it draws to a potential close. so let's get into it. weissmann known for tough and sometimes controversial tactics. lately trump allies have seized on, for example, this new fooj of roger stone's home rage to try to impugn this investigation. it was a weissmann t...

Guidelines require agents to pursue evidence by the least obtrusive means possible. sending armed agents to his door in the middle of the night is not the least obtrusive means possible. >> weissmann honed his hardball strategy in one of the most far-reaching, aggressive and controversial prosecutions in modern american law, the enron investigation. that probe was high stakes because president george w. bush had deep ties to that texas energy company. so his doj tried to show there would be no favoritism. so they appointed a special task force run by the fbi director at the time bob mueller. t...

Work in atlantic city that he's had these kind of, shall we say, shady connections. and it seems, given the all-star team mueller has pull together, they've approached donald trump in this way. so there's concrete evidence, the analogy orients us perfectly. i think there is something real about how donald trump is being treated and how donald trump operates. and so it's not farfetched at all. >> there's a lot of attempts to draw parallels, the mueller probe is like the enron probe. the mueller probe is -- the mueller probe is like the gotty prosecution. >> a lot of people make that comparison ...