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Probe is quite broad, i've read it carefully several times and i don't think there's a whole lot of question that something like -- that would arise out of the russia probe. that being said the big difference really between the white water investigation that i worked on and this one was that what was governing the white water investigation was an act of congress. the act of congress was passed because of the saturday night massacre. that is president nixon trying to game the system in his favor when there was an investigation of the white house. and here we are with history repeating itself. w...

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. >> right. >> so we can't siphon off the special prosecutor the way we could ken starr, a fourth branch of the government. now to the extent to which he's handing things off to the states we're in a situation where trump has very little control over that and he couldn't even do a pardon. that's significant. >> yeah, all right, barbara mcquaide and kim wehle, thank you. prosecutors mistakenly reveal criminal charges against wikileaks founder julian assange, one of the ce...

Some ways, you're investigating the president. this piece today that ran object mueller looking at a man named john hannah, mueller might be opening another front here, there's a clause in the mandate, open ended to the effect of any associated matters, could be a separate line of inquiry about efforts to influence the election by foreigners, the thinking being some regimes in the middle east. what do you think when you hear that in terms of the scope of what he may be working on? >> well, the mandate that was actually handed off by rod rosenstein, the deputy attorney general who previous to m...

Done, move on. both sides agreed to that. i read into that that manafort is cooperating and we'll see the flutes in the next couple weeks. >> you view this as whitaker bearing down a kind of clock ticking, and there's always been this kind of weird game of chicken with the president and mueller about answering the questions. partly because my understanding is a sense that the mueller report can't be written until the questions are answered and maggie havreman pointed this out today, one important point here, ascribing negative motive to mueller, mueller has been seeking answers from trump for ...

The act of congress was passed because of the saturday night massacre. that is president nixon trying to game the system in his favor when there was an investigation of the white house. and here we are with history repeating itself. we don't have a statute anymore. that statute was allowed to lapse after white water. and we only have an internal doj regulation. there's a lot that mr. whitaker could do to stymy this investigation, including amend that actual piece of paper that hands off the scope of the investigation, among many other things, actually, that he can do. there's a real question h...