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>> the president has a great desire to come forward and tell the truth if he gets a fair hearing. our job is to make sure he gets a fair hearing, meaning jay sekulow and the raskin people, jane and marty, and me. our job is to make sure that he gets a fair hearing from mueller. now, we're not convinced that he will, but we had the first hopeful communication with them last night, what i think is a result of our saying we put in five letters to them, never gotten a response. we finally did. i don't want to dismiss it because i think it was a good faith attempt to really narrow the focus quite d...

Role of this fbi informant and perhaps exposing this person's identity. there's a belief within trump's orbit from people my colleagues and i spoke to today that if that role is detailed publicly, if the identity of this source is disclosed publicly, that that could help build the foundation for removing mueller, for rendering the special counsel's investigation to be irresponsible and really ending this investigation. they've been looking for some cause, some reason to go after rod rosenstein, the deputy attorney general, to go after mueller, to really make it clear to the public that this pr...

Lead agent and the lawyer that worked at the fbi that came out, that showed this anti-trump bias or questions that they were able to raise about the deputy fbi -- former fbi director andrew mccabe. that's where the success is. that's where they've really cut to the bone because it's pretty hard to do it on mueller. people find it very hard to go after his credibility, and the fbi, given all of the different roles that it has had in the 2016 election, whether it was hillary, whether it was trump, there's a lot to pull on. and it has, as we were saying, crossfire hurricane, my colleagues pointed...

Tries to figure out how to move forward? >> hey, jill, we are still -- we american people -- not used to hearing sarcasm from the american president as we did today. we read the words from his twitter account. congratulations, america. it was not, it turns out, about the president's council on physical fitness or anything of the sort. but it was a kind of trolling the mueller effort and reminding especially everyone in his base that this continues -- this cloud continues. >> yeah, absolutely. it was a series of three kind of extraordinary tweets from him. the president's in an interesting posi...

We already have in our society, and now you've got the special counsel trying to sort this out. number one, what did they do, and he he's made some progress with regard to russian activity, and now how did the russian activity relate to the trump campaign and the trump administration? >> michael zeldin, i'm just wondering from a legal standpoint, as a former prosecutor, i just want to tell you here are some of the questions that the "new york times" has gotten that mueller wants to ask. what did you know about phone calls that mr. flynn made with the russian ambassador sergey kislyak in late d...