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Purpose. >> enough of a purpose if you were one of those lawyers, usa versus manafort, one of the federal prosecutors work, that scare you? >> i don't think he's going to dismiss the case. some of the general comments he made don't go to the issue of whether there's a jurisdictional problem here. the motion is a jurisdictional motion. having read the papers, i think he will not dismiss it. but i do think he made those comments understanding that there was -- that they were going to be heard and that they would be used at least for some reason. >> so judge ellis is -- he turns 78 in a couple we...

Which is a real long shot legal experts say. it's possible, it's conceivable he may say this exceeds your mandate and this is a case properly handled by the u.s. attorney in virginia in the eastern district. >> i want to go to ruth marcus on this. ruth, donald trump, whether or not the argument that judge ellis put forward that americans don't want a special prosecutor with unfettered powers, donald trump went to work trying to denigrate the mueller team. listen to what he said at the nra. >> in all fairness, bob mueller worked for obama for eight years. you look at the statements that were ma...

A lot of things. we'll find out when we see the charges against him. that will be the big moment for him. >> the judge in california, in a separate case, declined to act there because he said he expected at some point in the near future, michael cohen will be indicted. how do you see it playing? >> i don't think giuliani helped his client. when he came on board, he was going to have this case wrapped up in two weeks. right? that was the promise. >> correct, he said that. >> the whole mueller thing was going to go away in two weeks. not only has that not happened, he's taken the president in de...

Interview in which he said this wasn't a campaign violation said, can you imagine if this had come out right before the election? the implication again to what everybody else in the country thinks rudy giuliani said that was the case. now he's walking that back. if you're a prosecutor in this thing, this is too easy. >> it's interesting. so if the prosecutors are looking into this, if they want to make this campaign violation count, they will look at these things, they will have them in the arsenal for inconsistent statements and so on and they know what the defense is going to be. what they'r...

But question whether people in the public who aren't already completely exasperated with the president's relationship with the truth are going to be moved by any of this. as a legal matter it's less completely clear to me the implications of this go -- make donald trump and the people around him life worse -- materially worse than they were before all of these allegations. there's, you know, a conspiracy case, there's questions about michael cohen's handling of client funds and bank statements and things like that. all of this is a big, big mess, but i'm not sure it makes the legal mess that m...