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Of him by the president, is that they are demanding that rosenstein hand over materials about mueller's ongoing investigation, and these are materials he can't hand over and these are materials that he now insistently says he will not hand over. at the start of this week rosenstein formally rejected in writing te writing these latest efforts from the members of congress to get full scope of everyone and everything mueller's been authorized to look at. the following day there was rosenstein in public saying the justice department will not be extorted. then today, not to put too fine a point on ...

The president's legal team, as part of their conversations with bob mueller. we received them from somebody who is not part of the legal team. so we're just trying to be trance parent about where they came from. i have not heard anyone say that it's not accurate and we thought it was important to release to the public what bob mueller's looking at right now. >> how comprehensive is this list? is this everything mueller's got on his mind? is this a sampling of one part of the investigation? >> i think it covers a lot of grouchbtd, and i wou ground and i would assume these are opening questions,...

Their probe. this is very different from the president of the united states trying to stop finding out what happened between him and russia. this is actually trying to get at what happened between the trump campaign and russia. kind of the opposite, i would say. >> well, it is an election year. and this is a case that's going to take perhaps years before you actually can depose anybody, as we heard here, all of the different delay tactics that are there that would continue to push this off, perhaps three months, six months, et cetera, down the road for different avenues here. i guess, with a p...

Communications, the possible financial crimes ala manafort and gates. this is a broad stroke of what are primary issues of conversation but not an exclusive list. >> okay. so that said -- you know you're right about that. none of these topics certainly represent everything mueller is interested in. but notably there is nothing in here about trump's personal finances, trip to moscow, nothing about the steele dossier. what do you think. >> i have to say none of the four topics surprise me very much. we have heard a lot about all four of the topics in the past. certainly the fact that the preside...

But it also indicates this the firing of flynn -- the conversations with respect to the sanctions which flynn was engaged in implicate coordination, the so-called collusion investigation. so from these four topics i think you see mueller focused on coordination and also obstruction ever justice. i'm surprised this is the list. i would be more surprised if this was the complete list. because i think there are other things that mueller has on his mind, the wickky leaks communications, the possible financial crimes ala manafort and gates. this is a broad stroke of what are primary issues of conve...