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That hearing dealt with whether mueller exceeded his authority by indicting manafort on charges of laundering millions of dollars while acts as an unregistered agent of the ukranian government. lawyers from manafort who has pled not guilty to the charges argue that the charges have nothing to do with mueller's central mission of determining whether anyone in the trump campaign had links to the russian government. but federal prosecutors argue that mueller did not exceed his authority by indicting manafort in relation to his precampaign work because he lhad served at trump's chairman. >> good t...

The debate and the political mud slinging aside, will endure long after the book tour is over is that comey leaves unanswered the two central questions of the mueller probe, did the president obstruct justice and does vladimir putin have something on him. >> and you know, really the data that was put together, the evidence on those questions really didn't begin to even be compiled until after comey had been fired. so, there's been a lot of conversation about whether mueller will be happy to see one of his potential witnesses parading about, discussing his book. and i think part of the response...

Say we always need to start with diplomacy. certainly, they knew there would be military action. it was made clear there would be strikes. we did not see a response from russia just yet. we do need to keep our eyes open to any sort of retaliation, but it does make this a very tenuous situation. >> let me ask you a couple of separate questions about the russia investigation. first, the legislation that's a bipartisan legislation and tom tillis, lindsay graham and cory booker, essentially to protect robert mueller's status as a special counsel and protect him from being fired. tom tillis making ...

Strategic. harvard law professor alan dershowitz. >> they are telling you he's not a target, merely a subject. he is a witness and everybody has to testify as a witness. it is not legal pressure but his public pressure. >> the special counsel's office offered no comment on whether mueller will prepare an interim report, addressing allegations of obstruction and pollution. a source told fox the matter was discussed but not finalized. with an interview still under consideration, legal experts counseled president trump must be thoroughly prepared. >> he has to remember that the special counsel's ...

Any matter is not currently under investigation, should be opened, whether any matter is currently under investigation requires further resources or whether any matters merit the appointment of a special counsel. so he certainly is leaving the door open for now, but sort of sidestepping the issue by appointing huber who has the ability to bring charges. >> laura jarrett, making sense of all of that for us from the state department, thank you. let's discuss this more with our panel, we have cnn politics senior writer juana summers and paul callan. we're getting some sense here of what mueller i...