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February 16th, brian, this is what mueller was working towards. the only reason the other indictments came first is because while he was looking for the evidence on these russians, along the way people, including people inside the u.s. government, commit new felonies by lying to investigators or they discovered felonies of other individuals like the tax fraud with paul manafort and a prosecutor has an obligation to deal with crimes they find. so along the way there was lies and obstruction that the prosecutor had to deal with. this is what he was driving at. and the other bad news that's in he...

A candidate who welcomed their interference and certainly wasn't going to denounce it. >> congressman, it's nicolle wallace. i know your committee has been investigating russian meddling as well. i shou i wonder if these indictments, which didn't have to be made public, but i've been told by a former prosecutor they were made public for strategic and perhaps legal reasons. but do they help the special counsel? do they help your committee try to put to get a conspiracy case, if there are people that can put together all the dots you just laid out? >> we hope this is a point where my colleagues ...

Happen. but there's always a chance, brian, always a chance that they make a mistake, they travel abroad to some country with which we do have an agreement, they're taken into custody because we have lodged what can called a red notice through interpol, they're arrested through that third country and they are extradited to the united states. again, i don't think any of those things are going to happen, but to my early point, this sends an incredibly important message, both to those people who broke the law, the russians and those people who were victimized by the law, all of american society. ...

Nicolle wallace. you've had a chance to look through this. you've had a chance to talk to folks. i've heard this called an asymmetrical attack on the united states. like 9/11, it used our own system on us. >> yeah. general hayden called this a political 9/11 when describing the scope and the impact and the fact it was something we hadn't imagined possible. that was part of why it was possible. i talked to a formal federal prosecutor in contact with this white house who said he would make two things abundantly clear. he took evidence to the grand jury and they returned 13