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Prizewinning bureau chief for "the washington post," and jonathan lemire white house reporter for associated press. phil, i'd like to begin with you. you've written and reported people are rattled inside the west wing and elsewhere. let's put it this way, every senior and for that junior white house aide current and former will go to bed tonight not knowing if they will hear their voice on tomorrow's released surepetitious recording. >> that's right, right brian. the only way they would go to bed without that worry is if they know they never had a conversation with omarosa. she's made clear no...

I think what's happening here is we're all on the outside speculating, looking at some of the documents we've seen and trying to piece it together. mueller has the whole picture, and we are going to see that. and i think that's why i've been really content even, you know, as somebody who travels in the world of politics of saying you know what, let's let that investigation play out. out in these districts where people are running for office they don't have to talk about bob mueller all day, every day. he's going to do his work. and i think that's why i think from a political standpoint for dem...

>> there's certainly a number of contenders who you just listed. but, yes, there is something perhaps uniquely dangerous to this west wing that omarosa could provide. she was there every day. we do not know how many recordings she has. >> apparently had her iphone with her the whole time. >> we know she had a recording in the situation room. she was saying she was trying to protect herself. and the way she repeatedly used that interview, the idea with katey, whistle-blower. >> that's a term of ours. >> you're right. and perhaps signaling where she wants to go down this road. and there are peop...

Attention, to keep the president from tweeting, to keep from engaging on this book tour. they knew the book was coming but they didn't want to do anything that would breathe life into her allegations or promote the book sales or what have you. but clearly the president could not restrain himself and he's been tweeting for several days now and escalating his attacks on her. >> phil, i want to remeend you of course you and ashley parker have put out a piece of journalism about this relationship tonight where you say, now, like in the film series jurassic park where the dinosaurs turn on the scie...

He's going to do his work. and i think that's why i think from a political standpoint for democrats it's particularly important interest them to just focus on their districts and on the work at hand and allow the investigation to proceed. and where somebody like an omarosa comes in is that she throws a monkey wrench in all of the public discussion about this, but mueller is holder the cards. >> phil, last question, last word to you also calls for rampant speculation which i know you love. rudy did say on cnn tonight he thinks the reason the mueller team hasn't gotten back to the trump team is ...