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District. as michael cohen said yesterday, they are handling financial issues, perhaps fraud issues, insurance issues and so forth. >> lots of issues underway based on what we heard from michael cohen yesterday. what do you need to follow up on when cohen returns to testify before your committee next wednesday? >> there's actually still a good bit of stuff that we need to go over. basically, there are three buckets of things that we have been dealing with. the obstruction issues, the money laundering issues and, of course, the collusion or conspiracy issues. there's still some, i think, of all...

Investigation like this? >> well, certainly very rare. we know that richard nixon faced impeachment and therefore was impeached by the house, didn't face senate trial and resigned in a deal that was negotiated because he was under investigation. agnew resigned after being under fbi investigation and after they proved that they had the goods on him, taking cash inside the white house. we don't know the details of this. nbc news has not indentally confirmed this but we know certainly that robert mueller has been investigating him as a target. what we don't know is fully what extent that was a co...

Current justice department doctrine. if mueller believes that trump is obstructing justice and presents a report to congress, there's very little that barr did can do about that. and there is a legal argument to be made that trump had an absolute right to fire the fbi director and, therefore, mueller can't question that. i think that's a minority view but appears to be mr. barr's view. it's not clear that it will affect what robert mueller ultimately does. >> let me come back to you to wrap up final thoughts. you started this conversation with carol's reporting in the washington post. what doe...

Announced his entire senior staff the president asked him to stay on through 2020. and that he agreed to stay on through 2020. over the summer, it was one of these periods of rumors that kelly was about to leave. there had been rumors about that all along the time of kelly's tenure as chief of staff. >> there had been like some really loud -- exchanges. >> kelly said yes, i'll stay on. the president might have asked me to stay longer but i'm exciting through 2020. you have to wonder what has led to this blowup now. one answer may be our colleague's reporting yesterday about mueller. about the ...

Testifying before the tv cameras under oath and the mueller report on this should have been out a long time ago. you know, there were a discreet set of actions taken in a short period of time in the first month or so of donald trump's presidency. it doesn't take two years to uncover the facts on those. all of the key witnesses could have been questioned, and should have testified in public by now and we should have answers on all of these matters by now. >> except for one. i mean, brother mike is exactly right, we should know more about this. but the fact that the president's lawyers managed t...