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Many years. and these attacks on the special prosecutor are uncalled for. the policy in the bush white house was not to comment on pending criminal investigations. no comment by the president or anybody else. and they would do themselves an enormous favor if they focused on doing their job and focusing on policy while robert mueller does his job. >> malcolm, you have the "new york times" reporting mueller is looking into various things about michael flynn's finances, who was paying him, whether turkey was paying him. that's not directly related to russia. how does the financial entangle thes o...

Documents related to flynn, and they've questioned witnesses about whether he was secretly paid by the turkish government during the final months of the trump presidential campaign. this according to people close to the investigation who spoke with the times tonight. now, the request is reportedly not yet any kind of formal subpoena. but it is to be clear a new step. quote, the document request is the first known instance of mueller's team asking the white house to hand over records. president trump's lawyers know that any resistance to this would only speed up mueller leaning on the grand jur...

To begin. walter dellinger. sam buell is a professor of law at duke university, a former federal prosecutor. lead prosecutor in fact for that enron task force which has some overlap with some of what mueller is doing now. and michael isikoff, a chief investigative reporter for yahoo news. walter, folks are just digesting "the new york times" reportrepor folks at home my want to understand what does it mean when we say this is one of the first document requests that mueller has sent to the white house. >> well, it means a couple of things. one, i think, ari, in a later segment, we're going to w...

Surprised, but at a certain point, it's now august. we've been being surprised about things since january. the norms are out the window. i mean at some point we have to start to accept the fact that this is normal -- now the new normal for how the white house is going to behave. i think that mueller's people and mueller himself can be under no illusions. they are going to be absolutely savagely attack at every turn in everything they do in this investigation. it's going to be their professionalism -- >> yeah, you're saying let's not act so surprised every night. if someone shows you who they a...

Remember during the election, how much anger. >> sure. >> you talk about this passion, this rhetoric, this intensity on the left is what newt gingrich says. there's intensity on the right too. >> no question. guys, stick with us. we want to get your thoughts on this new reporting this morning on the russia investigation. cnn has learned special counsel robert mueller plans to meet with the trump administration's top intelligence officials. meantime "the washington post" reporting mueller is expanding his probe to include possible obstruction of justice by president trump. mueller's investigato...