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Infrastructure around the country. >> a lot to assess. pamela, what's the significance of this move by mueller? >> this is the first time we know robert mueller's team is demanding documents related to the president. for context in january, the trump organization turned over thousands of documents to mueller's team. it appears in this situation the fact they use a serious investigative tool, subpoena, to compel documents, either they feel like the trump organization didn't hand over all the necessary documents or want to be sure they have all of the documents. either way, this is clearly getti...

Inexperienced had never -- the campaign staffers had never really dealt with something like this before, isn't going to -- i don't think work in mueller's eyes. because the team's eyes because it's just -- this is something that should be -- should have been reported, and there should have been a streamline as to how to deal with it. >> and who cares? who cares if they were inexperienced? they should -- there has to be -- this is the united states. this is the bedrock of democracy. there has to be a system in place set up for disclosures in order for who folks are discussing. and so the questi...

Community, i.e. james comey, are not going to operate on anyone's time line but your own. >> julia, what is your take on this timing? >> i agree with kevin. i think it's interesting, i guess, you know, why -- where it comes out as it comes into 2018. i mean, i think it's going to be interesting to see how this plays out in the election cycle. i think, however, i'm not saying there's any political lines between it. but, i mean i think it does play into like i said, with the senate panel, and them trying to wrap up, i think it's going to play into that as well as the other congressional panels, ...

>> it just seems like there's a specific, intended purpose to undermine the president. there's nothing to hide. there is no collusion. >> the special counsel's team has also come under fire as recently as this weekend simply for obtaining access to thousands of e-mails sent and received by trump officials during the transition. the lawyer for the transition has said the documents were not illegally obtained, something mueller's team denied. here is the president on that. >> reporter: mr. president, do you believe your transition team e-mails were improperly taken? >> not looking good. it's not...

For example, the dossier basically says paul manafort was acting as a go-between, between russian intelligence and the trump campaign. obviously that's not proven, that's something mueller and the congress are investigating. the final thing i think that seems important here is just the degree to which the status of this document, which this document has been at the center of a lot of the reporting, the earliest reporting that it was comey who had to pull the president aside at a briefing and say this was out there. what does seem clear, and i want you to tell me whether this is how you underst...