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Investigation into the trump campaign's ties to russia. so that's where we start today, with some of our favorite reporters and friends, national investigative reporter with "the washington post," carol leonnig. ken vogel, political reporter at "the new york times." former u.s. attorney harry litman. at the table, associated press white house reporter jonathan lemire and johnny deutsche. harry, we left out five of your titles. we will get to those before we start talking to you. i have to start with ken and carol, some unbelievable reporting from you and your colleagues this week. you guys hav...

>> christopher peterson, former special adviser in the office of the director of the consumer fm protection bureau. we're out of time but thank you for joining me. "deadline: white house" with nicolle wallace starts right now. hi, everyone, it's 4:00 in new york. there's brand-new reporting today on a meeting that's being described as a potential fulcrum of special counsel's robert mueller investigation into collusion between donald trump's campaign and the russians. there's also renewed skr scruti daytona's pro-putin statements and background gathering. all of those in the manafort case. ...

Be able to talk to his friends, these are his close associates but also he would have to be shut down from talking about anything other than the super bowl and tom brady. he's already kind of addressed this because i think he knows that this judge is known for gagging the manafort case. she put a gag order on the manafort team so they could not reach out to anybody as well. he talked about this be in an instagram post. he said i will fight and the deep state is worried. he's saying that even if he was given a gag order by the judge that he pretty quickly would probably violate it. i think that...

Their lies with roger stone's own alleged lies. i think that's what the judge is trying to make clear to him, that he is essentially endanger himself. there's also the problem here that this judge, i think, realizes that she acted a little bit harshly in the manafort case. i think she was very quick to gag in that case and even prohibited the lawyers from speaking and i think, look, there's supreme court precedent that says a defendant has a right to defend himself and has a right to provide -- to produce a strenuous defense. i think the judge has to weigh both of those things and i think that...

The speedy trial act. it normally requires a defendant to be brought to trial been 70 days. mueller said he seized terabytes of information from stone over the past year and a half or however long he's been investigating stone. hard drives full of stuff he's turning over to the defense. they need a chance to go through it. what's interesting is it's clear from the filing that mueller has been on stone. has been subpoenaing documents from apple and other service providers, gathering all the communications stone has stored in the cloud. that's in addition to whatever he seized in the searches in...