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Mueller. instead he is letting the response build tweeting this is an illegally brought rigged witch hunt. stay tuned. >> i think the tweets are ad nauseam. he obviously likes to suck all the oxygen out of the room. >> reporter: rudy giuliani says an answer to the mueller question is coming soon but he is dropping hints that the legal team is worried a trap is being set. >> he knows the answers to every question that he wants to ask. he is going to ask them. did you tell comey to go easy on flynn? the president will say no i didn't. why do you want to get him under oath? you want to trap him i...

He defended it by saying, these guys were new. i figured i would give them the answer since they would get the answer, anyway, going through proper channels. it's a perfectly appropriate question for the fbi director, or you can help the president find out, what does comey know about general flynn and who else has been recorded if they're tapping these conversations? which is it? >> if you look further in the memos, there is another scene where reince priebus and comey are in reince's office and talking and sort of talking through how is this supposed to work. so you do get a sense that this i...

Lawyer. and rudy has a sort of 1980s legal mindset. trump's head is in the 1980s. rudy is that, and he knows the southern district of new york. he comes out of there. he will defend trump capably on tv. trump trusts him, which i think is important in terms of having trust with your lawyer. i think it's a good hire on trump's part. >> i agree completely, at least from the communications standpoint. you have a known face who is a good combative on tv. >> i think this is a win for trump. >> now you have someone in the room, mueller in massachusetts, rudy in new york, rudy was obviously mayor on 9...

>> this is the president we're talking about, but is he boxed in, in a sense, at least on the mueller question. rudy giuliani saying he's a man of integrity, i trust him, i've worked with him. rudy says, you don't want to have a special counsel, but if you're going to have one, this is the guy for it. does that box someone in? >> i think the president needs somebody to play the role of the cabinet but also bring the president along with him. so mattis goes in and talks to the president and tells him, look, i know torture, i've seen torture, torture doesn't work. trump actually shifted his opin...

Also they're suing folks like paul manafort, george papadopoulos and others all alleging a grand racketeering, hacking and fraud conspiracy here, john. >> okay. shimon, stand by as we continue to track this lawsuit. is there a federal case here? >> reporter: i think there is a very unusual federal case here. the question is will it be thrown out by the federal court? there are 11 different causes of action in the case. i think the most interesting theory is what we call a rico theory. that's the rico racketeering section that was designed by congress originally to go after organized criminals....