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>> there is another case in d.c. that's more about foreign lobbying and money laundering. and mueller's team, cnn learned, three times more evidence. it's considered to be a not as strong case as this one. >> yeah. we obviously -- there are 18 counts. you could look and say there's a lot of evidence they have to get through and doing their due diligence. you obviously have a judge a little unorthodox. and so, it's important that they're doing that. i don't read anything into this. you know? i think we tend to look at these things through a political lens. mueller is going through this in a leg...

He did, that is a disgrace. that is disqualifying for mueller. >> reporter: trump reveling in what he sees as rave reviews. >> i know that i've gotten tremendous response from having done that because security clearances are very important to me. >> reporter: but the reviews haven't all been positive. in a stinging rebuke, more than a dozen former intelligence officials issued a joint statement criticizing the move, calling it ill considered, unprecedented and an attempt to stifle free speech. the president in his own words today drawing a direct line of revoking clearances and the russia inve...

Investigation, for the credibility of the investigation if they find manafort not guilty? >> see, i don't actually feel like it would be that bad but i know people say that because i think mueller is depending more on other things than just paul manafort. i mean, this trial isn't about russia. per se. it's about h it's about his finances. i think people say if he gets off that, oh well, the whole thing is over but there's so much stuff mueller is doing. i mean -- >> what do you do? >> the question is that it would be a hit for mueller. i mean, if they cannot find him guilty on some of the char...

>> mr. mueller has a lot of conflicts, also. directly yourself. so you know that. mr. mueller is highly conflicted. in fact, comey is like his best friend. i could go into conflict after conflict. but sadly mr. mueller's conflicted. >> reporter: the president encouraging mueller to wrap things up. >> let mihm write his report. we did nothing. there's no collusion. >> reporter: now, jake, the big question now is whether or not the president is actually going to follow through on the threats to strip other officials of the clearances or if they're just that -- empty threats. jake? >> all right. ...

>> all right. jessica schneider, thanks so much. appreciate it. we're an day two of deliberations and the jury wanted to leave by 5:00 p.m. today. manafort's lawyers said that's a good sign for his client. is it? >> it is in part that they're trying to comb through everything with great detail which says to you perhaps the case although dry may not be as cut and dry for all of the 18 counts. some questions, reasonable doubt question, not putting a lot of tock in it. it's hard and justice brennan used to say it's hard to measure human belief. how much do you believe something or little do you b...