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Is scheduled for a hearing tomorrow at 10:00 a.m. that relates to his lawyer's efforts to withdraw from his case. in the meantime, after weeks of working with rick gates, prominent white collar criminal defense attorney, tom green, he has officially entered an appearance as gates' attorney. that happened today. now, this is significant, because tom green has been talking with mueller's team about a potential plea deal for gates more than a month behind the scenes. so a guilty plea could still be possible. in addition, mueller's investigators were scheduled to interview former trump campaign ad...

Plans to speak to the former spokesman for the trump legal team, mark corallo, who resigned earlier this summer. the significance is big given this story breaking in the "new york times" just tonight which reports mueller plans to ask corallo about the statement president trump and his advisers drafted, turns out, as a cover story to explain the trump tower meeting that don junior accepted with several russian nationals. the "times" says "mr. corallo is planning to tell mr. mueller about a previously undisclosed conference call with mr. trump and hope hicks, white house communications director...

The president's pleasure and was not under, quote, presidential control. that rules lays out a rationale that could be used this year if trump does go on to try to get the d.o.j. to fire mueller. in fact mueller may already have, just like ralph nader there, a legal challenge written to his own potential future firing, after all, this is news tonight, but the times reports mueller himself learned about it long ago during his interviews and if don mcgahn didn't personaler himself, he presumably would have told mueller about it in his own november interview. and the battle took a lot more turns,...

If you've come up with an argument there are personal things about this one particular man that require him to be fired from that job, that disqualify him from that job, all you're doing is setting up the justice department to replace him with a different person, to appoint a different special counsel who doesn't have the same conflicts of interest but does have the same powers, the same team and access to all the same evidence that mueller had. it's a bad move to pick personal conflicts of interest for the means or the premise you're going to use for firing a special counsel, but that is appa...

Out to get him in the justice department, including allies like jeff sessions who are politically tainted, or he's trying to cover something up. >> to be clear, it's okay to muse about this, to be angry about this. it's another thing to have done it. is there anything problematic about saying it if you don't go through with it? >> he did give the order according to the report. that is some sort of action. whether that raises to a legal problem, i think that depends. but i think all of this evidence, everything that natasha pointed out in the tweet, and then amber added to, does go to the issue...