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The manafort case, they weren't interested in manafort, they were interested in squeezing manafort against president trump. turned out there was nothing against president trump. there was no illegal collusion, no collusion any kind with the russians and the investigation should have ended the day that the decision was made, but it continued on and on with collateral crimes, many of which were not even committed, and others if they were committed could've easily been prosecuted by ordinary prosecutors. >> laura: bingo. >> i think will see the death knell of the special prosecutor's office. >> l...

Looked like he was at a hunting lodge, to bob mueller? >> he was 100% right. mueller should've come to a conclusion. cthink if he had come to a conclusion, it would've been there was no obstruction of justice, he was probably pressured by his staff members not to come to that conclusion. he should have come to that conclusion very should've said that he didn't say is that there should probably no longer be any special counsel. the mueller investigation was the final nail in the coffin of special councils, special prosecutors. the attorney general could do this himself. a staff people, civil se...

Obstruction of justice. even just with the failure to register, we see how aggressive mueller is being. only seven people have been charged with that crime in the last 40 years. so, again, it's all about squeezing manafort. here this is when we understand that robert mueller knows a whole lot more than we do. rick gates, manafort's guy, is cooperating with mueller. i think he's got to have told mueller something. mueller really wants manafort to strike a deal to cooperate. >> is this because he needs manafort to nail him on collusion? this is his big star witness that he knows -- after all, ma...

Register we see how aggressive mueller is being. only seven people have been charged with that crime in the last 40 years. so again, it's all about squeezing manafort. here this is when we understand that robert mueller knows a whole lot more than we do. rick gates, manafort's guy is cooperating with mueller. i think he's got to have told mueller something. mueller really wants manafort to strike a deal to cooperate. >> the question is. >> is this because he needs manafort to nail him on collusion? this is his big star witness? after all, manafort has all these relations with ukraine. if he wo...

It's not uncommon for federal judges to slap the government around and then rule in the government's favor. a lot of legal observers are still expecting that to happen here. >> that he will still give the special counsel this leeway to charge him with extra crimes? >> yeah, because the hurdle to dismiss these charges is pretty high. but some of the things he said, you don't really care about mr. manafort's bank fraud, you really care about getting information mr. manafort can give you that would reflect on mr. trump and lead to his prosecution or impeachment. >> by the way, i would characteriz...