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It would be a detour. here's where whitaker's oversight might come into play whether he would try to revent it. it could ripen into a political battle. charges of witch hunt. as a legal matter, it's aim peckable step. as a political and practical matter, it's a tactical question for mueller. my best guess is he will shy away from it. it's ripe for the pickings if he wants it. >> mr. rosenburg, you've been sitting by patiently. my next question is for you. cnn is reporting trump told mueller in writing with he wasn't told about wikileaks and wasn't made aware of the 016 trump tower meeting. you...

Was somehow a middle man here or the plant in the campaign or provided the avenue through which russians worked with trump. these things remain, you know, in the air. and though it is a big question, you know, why was a campaign chairman brought in who did have these incredibly close contacts? you don't normally walk around washington and find somebody in bed with russian oligarchs and russian president's allies for years. it is an incredibly unusual al profile. then to have that run a campaign. >> i want to talk about this, harry, the "journal" is reporting mueller has questioned witnesses ab...

Let's start with national security analyst matthew rosenburg and former u.s. attorney harry litman. harry, you're up first. does it seem like mueller is tightening the screws and the investigation is closing in? >> well, yes and no. he's about the last part, the big chunk that to date had not been actually delineated, the whole sort of american side of the russian interference, but there's been some slip and in these screws, right? both manafort and corsi came to the the table near cooperating in a way that would have zeroed in on stone and probably others. and now they've taken a step back. i...

Communications were confidential is really very weak now. once manafort started to cooperate, there was nos common interest between them and no privilege. it would be a detour. here's where whitaker's oversight might come into play whether he would try to revent it. it could ripen into a political battle. as a legal matter, it's aim peckable step. as a political and practical matter, it's a tactical question for mueller. my best guess is he will shy away from it. it's ripe for the pickings if he wants it. >> mr. rosenburg, you've been sitting by patiently. my next question is for you. cnn is r...

Going to have to possibly approach it differently now that manafort's imploded and ha corsi also. by the way, i think corsi probably, mueller probably bounced him rather than vice versa. in any event, he's no longer a potential cooperator. >> interesting you should say that. listen, another question for you, manafort's lawyers were apparently telling the trump team everything that was going on with the investigation. you wrote a great piece in the west titled "the manafort witness deal implosion is a very big deal." mueller is full little entitled to subpoena manafort council kevin downing and...