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Welcome back, the last 24 hours or so, have yielded revealing new details in special counsel robert mueller's russia investigation. we learned mueller's team interviewed sarah sanders late last year. it's not clear what they talked about, but they probably asked her about the public statements defending the president. also, prosecutors have said for the first time they have proof roger stone communicated directly with wikileaks. the judge also put him and his lawyers under a partial gag order keeps them from speaking in and around the courthouse. it probably won't be happening any time soon. c...

He was asked what about the intelligence community's assessment that trump was the beneficiary purposefully of the kremlin operation, that they did this to help trump? he said that's still an open question and another time he said they have confidence in the intelligence community's assessment and wouldn't accept that fully. and on the question of collusion, he said collusion is an open question. wait a second. we have donald trump jr. e-mails showing collusion, at least that one act of collusion that donald trump, paul manafort, jared kushner got together with a russian 'emissary as part of t...

Kremlin operation, that they did this to help trump? he said that's still an open question and another time he said they have confidence in the intelligence community's assessment and wouldn't accept that fully. and on the question of collusion, he said collusion is an open question. wait a second. we have donald trump jr. e-mails showing collusion, at least that one act of collusion that donald trump, paul manafort, jared kushner got together with a russian emissary as part of the russian government operation to help donald trump. so he's really staying away from, you know, from basically giv...

From the government. it is certainly plausible that that's exactly the role that this person was playing. that's one thing. keep this in mind as well. so comes to the table offering this damaging information. this other issue, which this lawyer talked about, adoption and the magnitsky act. not a red herring, oh, just adoption. this is central to russia's interests wrashith regards to t u.s., because they stopped allowing u.s. adoption of russian babies as retaliation for the magnitsky act. an act enacted after the death of a russian dissident which punishes to great economic effect senior russ...

Counsel robert mueller? i'll let you know the result at the end of this program. joining me now, two experts with perfect backgrounds for this story. daniel hoffman, retired cia station chief who served five years in moscow, currently works as a vice president of the consulting group spg. and john brownly is former u.s. attorney, served at the justice department for a decade, now he runs the white collar criminal defense for the washington firm of holland and knight. he represented virginia governor bob mcdonnell. let me begin with you, daniel. does any operation like this get carried out with...