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Discussions with others about the russian businesses, there could be a lot of others that they're talking ability there. >> right. and what it only underscores for me is that this ought to be the responsibility of the congress. because if we're relying purely on mueller to get us the answers to these questions, i'm not sure we're going to get them. if you look really closely at the language in the cohen sentencing memos, including the one by the special counsel, there's language that could have been used to flag the fact that they're going to use the information cohen gave them to bring additi...

Evidence that's been collected thus far. it's an amazing investigation that's been traveling on its own. it's done completely with discretion. it's amazing we don't know what's at stake, because if it's worth it for the democrats to send him something as in mueller receiving and whitaker receiving potential destruction of evidence so the american public knows exactly what mueller knows. >> also the focus is a relationship to the president when it comes to the president and the relationship to whitaker and the back and forth in the past 24 hours, you have the president backing away from whitake...

Means with this somewhat cryptic statement? >> it might be cryptic but it's sharp. she's dealing a blow to giuliani's credibility. her team came out and said he hasn't had any conversations with her on this topic. and this mirrors other things we have seen out of giuliani lately. even mike pompeo to say he doesn't have an inside track with knowledge on north korea. basically, giuliani, a lawyer, is functioning in these circles more like a spokesman at this point. he and trump get along well personally. they have the same tv-friendly style. that means he can go on the airwaves and capture an en...

The legal significance of this is former federal prosecutor doug birds. doug, good morning to you. >> good morning. >> nbc has learned that bannon hired bill burke to represent him when he speaks to the intel committee in a closed session on tuesday. this is the same lawyer who's also representing white house counsel don mcgahn and former white house chief of stat reince priebus in mueller's russia investigation. sources say bannon's testimony doesn't have any connection with the special counsel's investigation, but is there a conflict of interest here? >> well, they are saying there's no conn...

They going to drill down on exactly what he knew about the meeting in trump tower, of course, because you had the report in the michael wolff book about that. he put some harsh labels on it, so they're going to want to know, what did you base that on, what specifically do you know about what took place, how it was set up, and who was involved. >> does this appearance open the door to mueller interviewing bannon? >> i think it does, actually. it's funny because you started out with the idea, oh, it doesn't involve mueller, but i don't see it that way at all. i think mueller could certainly seek...