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Confidant, the legendary republican operative and conspiracy theorist with a nixon tattoo on his back tonight claims he's not a key unnamed person in robert mueller's indictment, despite strong indications otherwise. >> who says that lucifer is a russian? >> reporter: today, robert mueller did. the indictment says that in the heat of the 2016 campaign, around august 15th of that year, hackers working for russian military intelligence, posing as an intent called guccifer 2.0, quote, wrote to a person who was in regular contact with senior members of the presidential campaign of donald j. trump....

>> my first reaction is that there's nothing surprising about this. the regulations under which mueller was appointed, they are sound, legally, constitutionally. the judge said that. what i think is almost more important is that there's been a lot of challenges and a lot of talk about mueller notimately a. we say a court saying he was legitimately appointed and he has the right to bring cases like that. the judge obviously doesn't like this special counsel statute, which he said. he found this is all lawful, which is important as the mueller probe goes forward. >> donald trump praised this jud...

Whatever the findings are, to launch fresh political attacks behind robert mueller's russia probe, which the president has repeatedly referred to as a witch hunt. will any of this, mimi, have any sort of impact on the special counsel and his investigation? >> well, it certainly shouldn't. i mean, i think the people it will have an impact on are the people who, you know, trump's surrogates and trump's followers. they will use the report to, in their mind, discredit the mueller investigation. but it absolutely should not have any impact on it. that is a separate investigation. a separate team of...

Refused to go because trump insichts to stand for the anthem. he spread the narrative that they are antimilitary. the president tweeted we had many championships at the white house. and we had cubs and alabama and national anthem and more great music today at 3:00 p.m. sandra, it will be interesting. >> sandra: we'll watch. paul manafort seems to be back in robert mueller's cross hairs. >> reporter: yes, he is trying to put him in jail. there was a court filing in which mueller argued that there is cause to believe that manafort violated the law and attempted to tamper with the

>> i don't know. i haven't reviewed the filing. and you are catching me cold on this one. >> sandra: can you speak to the mueller investigation and where we are today, senator? >> sure. the investigation has been going on over a year and sometimes they do take time i think, and i hope that this investigation is drawing to a close in the next couple of months and i look forward to seeing whatever final work product mr. mueller puts out and the american people to review it. >> sandra: and the president taken the opportunity away. and i want to ask you about the book. and you have written out of ...