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Privately indicated that the bulk of his work might be done by the summer, so it would not unfairly overshadow the midterm elections. way back in april "the washington post" reporting mueller indicating to the president's legal team he would release a report on obstruction by june or july. that said, the deadline clearly came and went. if the at the time was that mueller wanted an interview with the president before concluding that part of the probe but even if he subpoenas the president to testify, as you heard from the former deputy independent counsel sol wisenberg last night it would take ...

Identify the individuals? >> that's right. the more you identify the individuals, you hear them on the tapes or they're mentioned, all of these people become additional potential witnesses and the government salivates because they know they can approach them, tell them how serious the situation is and say, you have two choices. you can either cooperate or you can go it alone against the full might of the government. >> i want to quickly ask you this. we are getting reporting mueller is looking into trump's tweets within the russian investigation. what's the precedent for that? >> the precedent...

Something valuable to give up about the president or someone else more senior than him like maybe jared kushner or donald trump jr., or he has to hope and wait for a pardon. those are his only options because the weight of the evidence against him is pretty serious. >> yeah, it's not looking good. counselor, i'm going to give you the last word after reading this to you about how they intend to perhaps prep the president for sitting down with mueller. this is from politico. the planning meetings to be held during off hours at the white house and perhaps over games of golf at trump's private cou...

He's going to sit down, but it looks more hopeful than it did a day or so ago. as we mentioned here last night, giuliani told nbc news that mueller's office acknowledged to trump's team that they can't indict a sitting president. earlier today, giuliani provided some more detail on that interaction during a different interview on fox news. >> it came up this way. we -- i asked him specifically if they realized or acknowledged they didn't have the power to indict, both under the justice department memo, which gives them their power in essence, confines their power, and under the constitution. a...

Both washington, d.c. and the commonwealth of virginia. the charges range from tax evasion to bank fraud. manafort has pleaded notably not guilty. he's slated to be tried later this year. jeffrey yohai was once a manafort business partner, was divorced from manafort's daughter last august. both reuters and nbc news are reporting mueller has been focusing on yohai for the past six months, and reuters says mueller's team has already interviewed him. meanwhile, there are also developments in robert mueller's fight to keep the judge in paul manafort's virginia case from tossing out some of the cha...