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These documents likely the e-mails to trump tower. we know that a few days later, donald trump said he was going to talk about all the bad things the clintons did, then he didn't. then a week later, guccifer 2.0 starts publishing this dirt, these e-mails and it copies right on through the campaign with donald trump encouraging everybody to look at the wikileaks site and then you've got his hinedge man roger stone had communications with guccifer 2.0 and wikileaks. the outline of what has happened here is pretty obvious at this point. >> as someone who obviously went through the watergate proce...

These e-mails and it copies right on through the campaign with donald trump encouraging everybody to look at the wikileaks site and then you've got hedge man roger stone had had communications with guccifer 2.0 and wikileaks. the outline of what has happened here is pretty obvious at this point. >> as someone who obviously went through the watergate process, do you think -- what is your reaction to hearing that mcgahn threatened to fire? because it sounds similar to you know, what happened over the department of justice under nixon when they were ordered to get rid of archibald cox. >> yes, i ...

Unfortunately, mr. smith won't be a witness in this case. >> right. >> final question for you. robert mueller has hired a whole bunch of extra folks form office. they've been getting scrutiny about who they donated to. i wonder if this was a thing happened in the watergate process. the reporting requirements hadn't been passed because they were passed as a result of watergate. but if there was scrutiny with the office you were working with. >> absolutely. as you recall the prosecutor, was the solicitor general. always a claim that he was hiring kennedy democrats even though there were a number...

Matter of best practices, or abundance of ution, all the legal mumbo jumbo that comes out of there, that mueller is drawing lessons from history? >> i think that's right. this is sped up. the watergate process took a lot longer. we have at least shadows on the wall of investigations of collusion with the russians and perhaps financial crimes, perhaps obstruction of justice and perhaps some connection among all of those things. to leap from chapter 1 to chapter 16, if and we're a long way from that, but if mueller finds that there is a connection, for instance, between collusion and taking mone...

Included the obstruction of justice for which nixon was driven out of office. so for donald trump to find out, if he's finding out tonight, that this investigation is going to go beyond the original focus of it, that's not great news for him. >> it's interesting you say that. because you're refusing to in the watergate timeline which many have oebds took so much longer, it appears that publicly, but as you said, within government the understanding of how wide this scope was came later. so do you infer anything as a matt of breast practices or abundance of caution, all the legal mumbo jumbo tha...