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Think he's going to do the right thing and release parts of the report. he's not going to release the whole report. he will release parts. but that's my prediction. >> charles: robert? >> well, it's hard to say. depends on what is in that report. you can imagine andy mccarthy, my former colleague from the certain district of new york has touched on the right issues. you may have national security information in the report, which would be problematic to be re-luised. >> charles: and that can be redacted. >> it's difficult to do that and not provide appropriate context. you have the possibility ...

Side of that when i was a prosecutor. i understand that. i will say he's hired lawyers that don't appear to have any federal, criminal experience. he would be better off using the federal public defender and saving his money and keeping his mouth shut? >> do you really think? >> absolutely. >> his lawyers have no experience in what they're doing? >> i looked at their biographies on their web page. they don't seem to have federal experience at all. they seem to be crisis management lawyers as much as i can tell. >> you think it would be self-explanatory that he shouldn't reach out to potential ...

Stone saying i need to raise money and i need to be out there to do that? >> i understand. frankly i have clients that at times are struggling in that situation to pay for legal bills and i have been on the other side of that when i was a prosecutor. i understand that. he's hired lawyers that don't appear to have any federal, criminal experience. he would be better off using the federal public defender and saving his money and keeping his mouth shut? >> do you really think? >> absolutely. >> his lawyers have no experience in what they're doing? >> i looked at their biographies on their web pag...

According to oleg deripaska, millions of dollars. and then the guy shows up running donald trump's presidential campaign. you don't need to be sherlock holmes to look at that set of facts and say huh, this guy putin was pro-trump interfering in the election. i wonder if we should look into this manafort situation. so of course. and then he's back channeling to deripaska during the campaign, offering him inside data. i've never run a presidential campaign, but i imagine you're pretty busy when you're doing it. and it would be unusual that you have time on your hands to back channel to a russian...

An outlier on the campaign and not the core group of the president's family and top associates. then, of course, the manafort situation where they say that was about his business dealings. so we've got a differing stories, but today, giuliani is saying he speaks only for the president and not more broadly. >> he's also talking about the special counsel investigation as a whole and reacting to that news that, according to "the new york times," the fbi opened a counterintelligence investigation into the president to see if he was knowingly or unknowingly working as a russian agent. >> if he had ...