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Efforts to get hillary clinton's e-mails from russian hackers. back with me, maria teresa, malcolm, and joining us is msnbc intelligence analyst nave naveed jamali. the mueller investigation and the fact that he's seeking the first grand jury testimony, issuing subpoenas in recent days, seeking testimony from public relations execs who worked on the campaign that was organized by paul manafort, again, this goes back years, but why would these people that had associations with manafort in the past be so relevant in the present? >> well, what mueller is doing is he is drawing a circle around man...

Bigger fish? >> it's what prosecutors always try to do. if you want to look historically at a parallel, it was really the key to blowing the lid off of watergate. prosecutors and congressional committees were moving along and it wasn't until john dean turned and began to give investigators a road map that they were really able to understand what was happening in watergate and be able to prove the case. so i think it's absolutely what bob mueller will try to do here. and the question of whether manafort is ever willing to cooperate goes to a couple things. one, does he have something worth tell...

They realize this investigation real and serious and potentially dealing with criminal activity here for the fbi on conduct such a dramatic raid on the manafort apartment. >> and senator blumenthal, if there is a next shoe to drop here, where are you looking? >> i would be looking to potential plea agreements involving manafort or michael flynn. they seem to be the most vulnerable right now. but i also unfortunately would be looking to additional trump threats. he's called it a witch hunt and a home. he is trying to draw red lines around financial dealings, other kinds of intimidation and this...

Him and people around vladimir putin is also now registered as an agent for pro russian political groups in the ukraine. the kind of work that most people i know wouldn't take. so tell me what to make of both these developments on the investigation side. >> well, nicolle, we knew that manafort had done this work, of course, during the campaign. and trump hired him any way. we didn't know how many millions he had made and now it appears his firm is declaring $17 million in income and an enormous sum of money for two years of work for this pro russian party in ukraine. it raises a question of wh...

Now. if vladimir putin likes donald trump that's a good thing to now where this is the worst the relationship has been. he talks again of cold war stances. this reset is going the way of the bush reset and obama reset that the president is now learning relationship is not just person to person. >> i think the russians were always a little bit cautious with their expectations because they know how the cycle of history has usually treated the russian-u.s. relationship. but there was a moment of optimism early on. there was excitement about the disruption to the u.s. election. you were hearing rh...