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Will stretch out the time. now, mueller may have to go back and double-check and he may have to get a whole new path for bringing whatever case he's going to bring forward. and this may extend the time, and now we've got whitaker at the justice department. who the hell knows what's going to happen the next few days or few weeks with all of this. i think it's one more reason why the mueller investigation ought to be protected by the congress because this has become so uncertain and so bizarre. >> john dean, it's like a three-dimensional future game of chess. is this something that you think pau...

Along other parallels. is that a possibility? >> it certainly is. it's possible cases have been farmed out for investigation or have even been filed under seal. for example, the erroneous unsealing suggesting that julian assange has been charged in the eastern district of virginia in that u.s. attorney's office. there could be a sealed indictment there. and other indictments against others in other districts as well already. >> what do you think, kim? >> yeah, sure. and i think the key there also, though, is that mr. whitaker of course is in charge of all of those u.s. attorney's offices. >> r...

To very carefully look through anything that he's put together. the reporting has been that he spent several sessions with the lawyers, one four-hour session, another three-hour session talking through those answers. and so i have no doubt that the lawyers are going to be heavily involved in whatever answers ultimately get to robert mueller. >> one thing that struck me today about this piece, kim, and you had been the independent counsel's office earlier, different than the special counsel, similar, dynamic in some ways, you're investigating the president. this piece today that ran object muel...

It could very likely be that mueller will point to indictments saying manafort helped make that happen. so watch that to happen in the next couple of weeks. >> that was the filing where they said we'll come back to you in a few weeks with more on how things are going with manafort. and the implication being that something will happen in the interim that shows the court how useful he has been as a cooperator. >> and both sides agreed to that. there was no fight over this delay. ordinarily you'd say, wait a minute, my client wants this done, move on. both sides agreed to that. i read into that t...

But the time frame is extremely compressed. we've got whitaker in place. in my observation, whitaker has one mission, one mandate, to mess with the special counsel investigation despite all the attestations to the contrary from senator graham and others. what does that mean? it means we're coming to a head here with regard to the timing of trump submitting his answers that he alleged did himself, all by himself, to the mueller team where we're going to come up on a line where mueller's going to say the time is now to submit those answers or i'm going to move otherwise. i keyed in on this, chri...