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Special counsel robert mueller issued grand jury subpoenas focus on the meeting last summer at trump tower between the president's son, top campaign advisers, a russian lawyer and other russians. mueller is seeking testimony from all the people inside the meeting. this as the "new york times" is reporting mueller wants white house documents on michael flynn's ties to turkey. lots of talk this week about grand juries. it can get confusing, especially in a case this complicated. i want to bring in cnn legal analyst danny to break this down. how is a grand jury different from a trial jury? >> it'...

Media and so on to manipulate elections has not been confined to the united states. we've been finding this in france, where i spent a lot of time examining this. in germany, as well, where their big election is coming up this fall. the russians have used social media mostly in trying to manipulate elections according to their own benefit, if you will. so the fact that the fbi had found this kind of interest by russia, the manipulations going into the campaign and through the campaign to election day, that is central, i think, to this case. it could very well mean, again, another important str...

That could be a very interesting string to pull on. when you start to put all that together, suddenly, flynn and his absence for many months now from the white house, the interest in him begins to make some considerable sense from the mueller's investigation point of view. >> danny, with grand jury subpoenas, does it mean that any potential indictments are days, weeks, months away, if at all? >> it's possible. remember, with grand juries, they can be convened for investigation and ultimately to indict. there is no such thing as a purely investigative grand jury. they all have the power to indi...

Now, the times wants to know if this was a secret government contract, and mueller wants to know, quote, if the flynn intel group made kickbacks to the businessmen for helping conceal the source of the money. you may remember if you have watched our coverage that flynn already violated the federal rules on registering as a foreign agent. he later conceded that in order to update his filing. what this new request tonight is about is it suggests to us that the special counsel is further following the money. "the new york times" saying that these hidden payments could potentially be considered fo...

Were obtained in some fashion, whether through cooperation or perhaps compelling him into a grand jury and immunizing him ultimately, something like that, or even convicting him and then taking his testimony, well then that would certainly cast the obstruction of justice case against the president with regard to asking comey to drop the investigation of flynn in a much starker light. >> michael, why is this coming out now? >> well, because mueller is stepping up his investigation. he's requesting documents from the white house, and inevitably that's going to come out. there's two points that i...