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Are now calling for the opening of impeachment proceedings. welcome to thursday. it's "meet the press daily." i'm chuck todd right here in rainy washington. bob mueller handed the baton to congress, and now the president and his attorney general are hitting mueller. the president not only attacked mueller's credibility, he soed disinformation about mueller's public statement. in a way you could say he was attempting to obstruct mueller's analysis of the case. >> he said essentially you're innocent. i'm innocent of all charges. >> if we had had confidence that the president clearly did commit a...

Revolutionized the representation of foreign governments in washington and they made a lot of money doing it and they did it for years and they were mainstream in the republican party. so it's just -- they are a fascinating firm to look at. >> also speak while we have you to what you saw in court today because this was tougher questioning about at least who should take this case. >> it was remarkable hearing. it was supposed to be a routine hearing on paul manafort's motion to dismiss the charges against him in virginia. the republican pointed judge t.s. ellis just teed off on the entire premi...

Redacted secret authorization that rosenstein gave mueller to go after extra stuff. we don't know exactly what because it's a black box. what did you think of this -- this memo being raised in that hearing today? >> well, you know, the judge kind of was suspicious of bob mueller's office when they said everything that's redacted there is unrelated to the manafort prosecution. we've revealed when we filed this document earlier that portion of the document and he seemed to suggest that he thought something else was going on. i mean, we would all like to see it to get the full scope of the invest...

Charges arose from their investigation. the mueller lawyers responded that, look, paul manafort was a key figure in the trump campaign, they investigated his ties to russia, this he followed the money and these are the crimes they found in terms of bank fraud and money laundering. the judge pretty much said, look, you just want to squeeze paul manafort to flip on donald trump. which is manifestly true. but the mueller team didn't want to admit that in court, ari. >> you have the ability to squeeze people, the jurisdictional question is more narrow, which is should this get farmed out to anothe...

In virginia. this judge hitting mueller's team with several tough questions on that front, but bob mueller's prosecutors had an answer. they say they followed the money and found that these allegations against manafort are still tied to their collusion investigation. meanwhile, cnbc reporting mueller is focusing sharply on rick gates and his links to trump aide roger stone. if you watched "the beat" you know we've covered roger stone a lot. he is a long time confidant to president trump, he pushed trump to consider running for president as far back as the '80s. in a moment we will hear from a ...