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Six months. you have to wonder, at what point bob mueller says, enough of this negotiations. i m going to go ahead and th d obviously set off a huge showdown in court. rudy giuliani saying this weekend that they would fight that. they would take it as far as they could, up to the supreme court. it would be something that would extend the investigation. when we went out to try to get this document several weeks ago, what we thought was in the document were new facts about the case. the president s lawyers telling mueller new things about what the president knew or did or did not do, in terms of the investigation. when we got the document, it was about an intellectual underpinnings of why the president s lawyers think he was okay to do the things he did. it was an illuminating look at the president s view of his executive power. that is so important. the justice department is within the executive branch, and the president, within his authority, has a lot of control over it. ....
Full exchange had to do with a gag gift of vladimir putin-themed calendars. manu raju asked senator johnson whether it had all been a joke. he said, quote, it s a real possibility. we asked senator johnson to come on the program but never heard back from his staff or any secret society. i asked democratic congressman jim himes about it. these are all faux scandals that are thrown out there for the sole purpose of causing some americans to say, golly, i wonder whether the fbi is on the up and up because at some point bob mueller may come through with some conclusions. and it s important to the president s supporters to have that uncertainty out there. back now with our panel. joining us also is mike rogers and carl bernstein. dana, this is the second time we ve heard from senator johnson. you first time you would think after kind of floating this secret society idea and having it really turn out to be kind of a joke and also making claims about an informant backing up the claims, th ....
Senator johnson, you ll remember, seized on another strzok-page exchange referring to a secret society, suggesting it was evidence of corruption and secret off site meetings. he even claimed to have an informant on this. turns out sources tell cnn the full exchange had to do with a gag gift of vladimir putin-themed calendars. manu raju asked senator johnson whether it had all been a joke. he said, quote, it s a real possibility. we asked senator johnson to come on the program but never heard back from his staff or any secret society. i asked democratic congressman jim himes about it. these are all faux scandals that are thrown out there for the sole purpose of causing some americans to say, golly, i wonder whether the fbi is on the up and up because at some point bob mueller may come through with some conclusions. and it s important to the president s supporters to have that uncertainty out there. back now with our panel. joining us also is mike rogers and carl bernstein. dana, thi ....
They re so fearful they re going to lose both their majority in the house and potentially in the senate. sorry, david. we have to move on to mueller. all of this is set against mueller s investigation. no surprise, of course, that at some point bob mueller would interview president trump, of course. it seems that there are negotiations under way already, what is the scope and is it under oath. what are people saying about this? everybody expected this to happen. a lot of republicans are fearful in the capitol of letting trump be unleashed in this kind of interview. he has a very hard time when there s contentious people are questioning his integrity. and he could go off the reservation there. republicans are hoping to limit the scope of this however they can. certainly democrats are this is going to be they re going to want this to play out in the mid term election. ....
Russian lawyer contacted to say, hey, i got dirt that we can share with you there s obviously a sense that we re dealing with twiddle dumb. hi, we have something to tell you, the simple ways that they talk, the language, says they thought going after trump junior was an effective fishing mechanism, and it worked. i think the overwhelming amount of circumstantial evidence means you really have to suspend disbelief in order to think that there is no connection going on here. it goes back to the point that this mushroom cloud keeps growing and growing and it s not going away. and at some point bob mueller s going to come out with the facts. brian? i would say this. less than two weeks ago you had senator feinstein asked does she collusion between the trump campaign and russia, and her answer was no. so we have a lot of conjecture a lot of sloppiness on the campaign, perceived sloppiness, at least. when we have one of the top intelligence persons of the democratic party saying she says ....