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This. this took on a whole other level in the last 48 hours. >> can you say when you were con tangted? >> i'm not going to say when we were contacted. what i will say is we're going to cooperate and do whatever we can to assist that investigation. we're not going to require fbi raids to cooperate or tell the truth. our entire intent for the last five or six weeks of this case has been to expose the facts, expose the truth for the american people to learn as much as possible and what happened here. to the extent that we can assist in the investigation and accomplish that, that's what we're goin...

Been in agreement that if the president wanted to fire bob mueller, if he wanted to change course here, then he had to essentially get somebody to do it for him. that somebody would have had to have been rod rosenstein, the deputy attorney general and for all intents and purposes, the acting attorney general in the mueller case. so if it's the president's view that he himself can do that, that's new. now, i don't know whether that's just their sort of legal opinion or whether that's because they're teeing up to do something or what. yeah, that's new information. >> ashley parker, you've had so...

Month that at that point although the president was not a target of the special counsel's russia investigation, he is a subject of the that investigation and the mueller team wants to interview him for that reason. according to the washington post tonight, mueller's team is preparing a report on its findings thus far specifically pertaining to the president and the issue of obstruction of justice. we have never heard before that they are doing that so that seems like big news. at this point "the washington post" is out ahead and alone on that story from reporters carol leonnig and bob costa. n...

Him dropped because there was something wrong with mueller being the special counsel, manafort's argument was basically that mueller was running off on a wild goose chase and nobody was controlling him and he was an unaccountable prosecutor. in this case now we have a direct memo showing whatever you think about him, he's a very accountable prosecutor. he's answering to the deputy attorney general what he's pursuing but here is the thing i want you to know, something else from this filing that looks to me like it's something really important. it's from deep in this file on page 42. mueller's p...

Investigation but he is a subject of the investigation. was that -- was that news to the president's lawyers? did they suppose that or guess that? was this an important advance for them and their understanding of the legal jeopardy? >> there is a lot to unpack in your great question, soon you can get a job in the justice department, rachel. i would say first of all, it is not a surprise to most people monitoring this case, that the president is likely is a subject. his conduct is under review and investigation by a grand jury. frs being told you're not a target and you're a subject while your ...