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Tonight. for an audience of one. have you and all of your reporting given indications this thing is going to wrap up anywhere close to soon? >> i think what we have learned as the investigation continues is that it is possible that mueller will be able to lob off part. the obstruction probe. spf may be able to wrap some point this summer. as "the washington post" points out, mueller wants to see trump interviewed. he wants to get to the key question that underlies obstruction. and that is intent. what was his intent about air force one and the trump tower meeting. and decided to fire gjim come...

Report. that timeline hinged in part on reaching a decision on a presidential interview. now, according to two sources, mueller's team may be able to close the obstruction probe more quickly since they will not need to prepare for the interview or follow up on what the president says. now, when they say "they may be able to close the obstruction part of their inquiry," that is not good news for the president or for the white house. back to the piece, quote, three sources familiar with the investigation said the findings mueller has collected on trump's attempt to obstruct justice include his i...

Is right in the heart of this obstruction probe. i can't see the director or former director who cares so deeply about the justice department muddling up mueller's work. >> barbara, let's talk about the executive privilege, the idea of retroactively taking away this executive privilege or claiming executive privilege and sort of trying to nullify everything that robert mueller has from interviews with the trump circle. from a legal perspective, robert costa was saying lawyers are very dubious about the fact that this can be done. what's your take? >> it's an absolute non-starter. once the priv...

Opposition to that consideration by cdon mcgahn. >> why would this come out now seven months later? >> i think it is a different time and i think because bob mueller is asking questions about this. he is looking into this as part of the obstruction probe. people know about it and that is how the media is able to know about it now. >> julia ainsley, appreciate it. and joining me now is senator cory booker. he is a member of the judiciary committee. he is the co-author of a protection ability to protect the r special counsel from being fired. we're happy to have you. what is your first reaction,...

It was phrased and how much the president pushed hard for this, it could become part of an obstruction probe. >> reporter: i think that's right. the reason this is important, obviously the president has said repeatedly, as he did again on twitter today, there is no collusion. that's why there's all this attention on these other issues, because they couldn't prove the collusion here. who knows whether they do or don't find collusion, but there does appear, based on this reporting as you confirmed by our colleagues here on nbc news, there appears increasingly to be serious questions about whethe...