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Organizations who attempt to influence the american people with bad or misleading information. >> as you know, congressman, the special counsel robert mueller issued grand jury subpoenas related to donald trump jr.'s 2016 meeting with trump tower in the city with russians. what does that move tell you? >> i think director mueller is a very skilled investigator. he's very knowledgeable. i think he runs the traps correctly. what we're seeing in this trumpmania is now you have democrats and republicans working with together to protect director mueller and give him some kind of independence. that'...

They want to make sure mueller stays within the boundaries. "he will have to stay within his mandate. if there's drifting, we're going to object," but richard blumenthal who sits on one of the committee is investigating russia's interference in the election says looking into mueller's team raises serious questions. >> trying to draw lines, redlines or boundaries, and then intimidating or threatening a prosecutor, i think verges on potential objection of justice. >> sandra: , newt gingrich questioning why mueller would put such a team together, suggesting that something sinister may be a play. ...

If the statute is satisfied if someone attempts to impede the functioning of any department of government. and that could certainly include. >> do we have that. >> it could include the federal election commission. people would want to know additional facts before they made a conclusive decision whether that law was violated. but certainly all the elements appear to be there. i think that there are potential statutes that have been violated here, conspiracy is the word we would use. and i'm sure mueller and his team are -- are working hard to get to the bottom of it. >> barbara mckad, thank you...

They h they said the following. will that inclusion of weissman on this team be -- is it good ammunition, i guess, for the president? >> well, i think in some ways, i'm sure mueller is not just putting together a very good team but he is also open to provoking both president trump and to son-in-law jared kushner, who, of course was at the head the observer into those kinds of attacks. i think we are basically seeing repeat, in some ways, ironically of the campaign. on the one side you have the best and the brightest and the most experienced people. and on the other hand, you have more of a sma...

About what was going on. we don't know if it went further than that. we -- we knew he was in touch with kilimnik throughout the campaign meeting with kilimnik, talking to him often but we don't know more than that. we don't know how he fits into the larger part of the picture. the most interesting thing about manafort that i come back to is that he was there for the don jr. meeting. he was there at trump tower in june of 2016 when the russians came offering the dirt on hillary clinton. he claimed the meeting was about adoption, he handed over his notes to congressional investigators, i'm sure ...