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There were hacks of a number of different democratic institutions, and there was also a lot of thought and cave put into what is the best timeline to start releasing this material? one of the other interesting aspects, again, when you put this indictment together from what we know from the investigation and some of the other plea documents is you have that june 9th meeting in trump tower where the trump campaign at the highest levels offered derogatory information on hillary clinton. the many essage that goes back the kremlin is woedwie'd love t help but we're disappointed at what you produced...

Mueller puts the date, july 27th, in the indictment, but even the time. they want us to know that this happened after donald trump made that speech and i think that's a pretty significant tell as well. >> so we're lucky to have you, given your mastery of the timeline. viewers hearing you may think, okay, if they already had stuff in april which they were sharing, at least information about that, what exactly was different about what they were pursuing in july? >> well, what we've seen is there were hacks of a number of different democratic institutions, and there was also a lot of thought and ...

Make sure he didn't have any information that could exonerate flynn. but now we've seen what has been laid out in these plea documents, could it have actually been a potential trap for kushner to see if he would lie? >> well i don't know that the special counsel's office would conduct an interview for the purpose of conducting -- sort of setting a trap, so to speak. but certainly the relevance of the flynn documents shows that a particular focus of the special counsel's office is the december meetings that were set up that jared kushner seems to have been involved in with the russian ambassado...

The white house and i add as much as we've learned today, chuck, there is still so much we don't know. this is a among the slimmest plea documents i've seen, cooperation agreements. >> interesting. i was curious about that there. from what you have read in this, what clue does it give you about the direction where it's going? obstruction of justice direction? or in the collusion direction or is this frankly, both paths and this takes him down both. >> could be both. difficult to know based on what we have and the only thing i think we know for sure, mueller is a lot more than he's given us. ke...

With flynn, who was a senior white house official. >> they can't distance themselves from president trump's national security adviser, who has acknowledged a crime. >> reporter: now, senior white house officials said the obama administration, quote, authorized flynn's conversation with kislyak, but a former obama administration national security official just told me that that claim from the trump white house is, quote, laughable. as for the president, we are told he feels, quote, sorry for michael flynn tonight and that he is thinking about flynn and his family. brianna? >> all right. jim aco...