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Questions are being asked and we're not exactly sure how it fits into the mueller matrix. there are a couple of different things that he could be looking at. at the time, kushner was the main foreign -- the main contact with foreign contacts during the transition. he also was wearing the other hat of being a businessman as he was working to divest his interests. so mueller's team could be looking to see if there was any potential leverage or what kind of conversations were taking place, what was discussed in those conversations, anything from a quid pro quo to something more mundane. there's n...

Part of the campaign on the short period of time, not people who knew inner workings, didn't have a lot of influence in the case of george papadopoulos. national security adviser paul manafort, chairman of the trump campaign for a brief period. significant players, now in the cross hairs of special prosecutor, what does that say? >> that makes me think of this indictment that came out on friday against the 13 russian operatives. purely symbolic. we don't have an extradition treaty with russ so those folks will never see the inside of a federal courtroom. it is a speaking indictment. so mueller...

Constitutional crisis. i'm back with our panel. governor, let me start with you. is the president headed in that direction? do you think he will fire mueller or rosenstein? >> it certainly seems like it. here's the kicker. if he fires rosenstein, or if he fires mueller, and then he keeps going down this path, there is a lot of state attorneys general who are very eager to be helpful on this. so if mule is fired -- >> helpful to who? >> to finishing this process of making this investigation complete. so mueller's team could be hired by eric schneiderman, the attorney general of new york, or rac...

That the former spokesman for the president's legal team is scheduled to provide an interview with the special counsel in the next two weeks or so. he was a member of the initial legal team that was brought in. this is marc kasowitz who is also a personal attorney to the lawyer and we expect that mueller and the fbi agents on the special counsel team are going to ask questions about the air force one episode when the president and his aides crafted that statement about donald trump jr.'s meeting at trump tower in 2016 with the russians, with that russian lawyer. now also today we've learned th...

Not available from another source. that seems like a low bar here for the special prosecutor to meet. >> it is and particularly for the case that he's investigating. if he is looking at obstruction of justice, then really what was going through the president's mind when he fired james comey, what he knew about what was happening with michael flynn and the transition team is directly relevant to that case. it could even exonerate him. so mueller absolutely has to talk to the president. he cannot get what was happening in his mind from anyone else. i'll just note that kenneth starr was able to i...