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i have a tip for robert mueller. other people messed with our elections, and they're right here in america. it's hillary clinton. there's the dnc. the fusion gps. and hillary's lawyer. they messed with the election. they stole the candidacy from bernie sanders and then they gave false information to a fisa court. mr. mueller, if you want to actually put some people in prison, start with the americans that perverted our election here in america. >> not only that, to damage, the damage to the bureau. and to the bureau's reputation. that people within the fbi, now we know, we've seen clear evidence of that, peter struk, lisa paige, james baker, general counsel, people within the fbi who had an agenda. that was not their role. not the polit bureau, not russia. this appears to be how it was run. >> sean: mccabe and comey and strzock and loretta lynch and paige had an agenda? you mean they exonerated hillary? i can't wait for the i.g. report to come out. if the i.g. does his job, that means the fix was, in the process was

i have a tip for robert mueller. other people messed with our elections, and they're right here in america. it's hillary clinton. there's the dnc. the fusion gps. and hillary's lawyer. they messed with the election. they stole the candidacy from bernie sanders and then they gave false information to a fisa court. mr. mueller, if you want to actually put some people in prison, start with the americans that perverted our election here in america. >> not only that, to damage, the damage to the bureau. and to the bureau's reputation. that people within the fbi, now we know, we've seen clear evidence of that, peter struk, lisa paige, james baker, general counsel, people within the fbi who had an agenda. that was not their role. not the polit bureau, not russia. this appears to be how it was run. >> sean: mccabe and comey and strzock and loretta lynch and paige had an agenda? you mean they exonerated hillary? i can't wait for the i.g. report to come out. if the i.g. does his job, that means the fix was, in the process was

>> look, certainly robert mueller seems like he's an honorable guy. you're saying there is a war between them. the president hasn't actually attacked robert mueller or his character this way max is attacking the president's character here. i think what is really interesting about what max wrote, there is nothing about policies, nothing about what is going on in the country. it is a personal -- it's just a personal attack on the president of the united states who he is as a person. i'm guessing, max, you don't know him but you decided to attack him in the column which is not relevant to anything that is happening in the country. i want you guys to put yourself in the mind or in the family of someone who lives in michigan who lost their job, has been driving school buses and trying to make ends meet, trying to put food on their table, wondering if their kids are going to stay in their town or move out of their city because the economy is so bad. and suddenly this wealthy guy gives up his private life, runs for office, starts passing policies and gets a

that is well within robert mueller's right. sources i've spoken with doubt that he would go that far, but it's certainly possible, anderson. then it could end up in court. that is something that the president's legal team does not want to see happen. you've heard the president say that he wants this wrapped up sooner rather than later. so it's sort of unclear where this will go from here because robert mueller has made it clear to the president's legal team he wants to do a sit-down interview with the president. but the legal team has said, no, we're not going to let you do it. you haven't met the threshold. >> and the president did always have the caveat, you know, i'm listening to the advice of my attorneys. >> yeah, exactly. at the time, you know, our thinking was the president has some cover. he can come out and say whatever he wants, that he wants to sit down with robert mueller to show that he has nothing to hide. but of course ultimately, he had the caveat that he would listen to his lawyers, who behind the scenes have b

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that is well within robert mueller's right. now sources i have spoken with doubt he could go that far. it's certainly possible. it could end nup in court. that's something the legal team doesn't want to see happen. the president wants this wrapped up sooner rather than later. it's unclear where it will go. robert mueller made it clear he wants to do a sit down interview with the president. the loam team said no we're not letting you do it. you haven't met the threshold. >> the president did have the caveat. listening to the advice of my attorney. >> exactly. at the time, our thinking was that the president has cover. he can come out and say whatever he wants. that he wants to sit down to show that he has nothing to hide. but of course ultimately as you said he the caveat he would listen to his lawyers. who behind the scenes having telling him for weeks he should not talk to robert mueller or testify. because it will be a perjury trap. >> thank you very much. i want to start the question. jeffrey we were talking about this in th

for two weeks robert mueller has been holding this guilty plea. so the headline here is 13 russians indicted today, plus one u.s. person, plus the key language that jumps out to me in what is a long indictment, that there are other coconspirators, quote, known and unknown to the grand jury, brian. >> what we've learned today is how much we don't know. really jumps off the page. >> it does. of course, it takes me back to the days of watergate when i did know. and i would like to know again. but it is true that mueller has properly been very silent, so we don't know what he knows, but someone does know. and there's much more to come. i just i also heard a y"yet" whn rosenstein made his announcement. he said there's knowingly involved in this from the trump campaign right now in this indictment. >> in these indictmen"in these the words. >> what i'm looking at is when is the next shoe going to drop, what is the next indictment, and who might be involved? and we do have these foreign people cooperating who could give a great deal of information to him.

i have a tip for robert mueller. some other people messed with our elections and they're right here in america. it's hillary clinton and fusion gps and hillary's lawyer. they messed with the election and stole the candidacy from bernie sanders and gave false information to a fisa court. so mr. mueller if you want to put people in prison start with the americans that perverted our election here in america. >> sean: well said. >> and not only that the damage to the bureau and the bureau's reputation that people within the fbi now we know we've seen clear evidence of that. andrew mccabe, others, james baker, the general counsel there were people clearly in the fbi with an agenda and that was not their role. this is not the politburo. >> you mean loretta lynch and page, they had an agenda? i can't wait for the i.g. report to come out. and if the i.g. does his job the fix was in and the process was screwed and it was all set up and rigged from day one. >> we don't have to extradite them. >> i talked to four former fbi off

as part of the plea deal he agreed to cooperate with robert mueller. his plea deal does not include all of the facts known to me regarding this offense. that indicates that he has told the special prosecutor much more information than is revealed in his plea deal today. the indictment of the 13 russians today says defendants also used the stolen identities of real u.s. persons. here's what the president had to say today when he was asked about all of this. >> do you feel vindicated in the mueller investigation? >> mr. president will you punish russia? will you punish russia? >> will you put sanctions on russia? nothing on russia, mr. president? >> join us for tea? >> joining our discussion jill wine-banks, ari melber, and ben wittes. >> ari, i know you have been studying this indictment and talking about it a great deal on the network today, including talking about it while studying it. as it stands tonight, now that you've had a little bit of time to breathe and digest it, give us your -- frame the significance of this indictment for us. >> you're rig

served under then fbi director robert mueller. welcome to you all. jeremy, this one is coming to you. how consequential will today end up being if and when we are ever at a point to look back on the mueller investigation. >> this was an enormously important and significant development today, brian. because a meticulous detail over the course of a 37-page indictment, which i urge everybody to read, the special counsel laid out the details behind last year's intelligence community assessment that russia meddled in the election to favor donald trump. and what bob mueller laid out today is that it went way beyond bots, beyond a few cyber personas on twitter. there were literally hundreds of individuals, spending millions of dollars, including people traveling to the united states, organizing rallies across many purple states in florida, pennsylvania, i was struck by this rally they set up, presumably coal miners in pennsylvania for donald trump. it exposed the depth of the russian effort to elect donald trump. >> i read this twice all the way through, an

rosenstein is robert mueller's director supervisor on the russia investigation. that puts him right in the president's cross hairs. asked about the house intel memo today, note how the president spoke. not about facts but in dark, vague almost threatening facts and offering no support for rosenstein. >> i think it's terrible. you want to know the truth, i think it's a disgrace. what's going on in this country i think it's a disgrace. the memo was sent to congress, it was declassified. ask congress is going to do whatever they're going to do, but i think it's a disgrace what's happening in our country. and when you look at that and so many other things that's going on, a lot of people should be ashamed of themselves and much worse than that. you figure that one out. >> something else we noticed today, the memo also answers a key question about what setoff the russia investigation in the first place. it confirms what the "the new york times" reported late last year, that this investigation was triggered by an australian diplomat who met trump campaign advisor georg

robert mueller's probes. also, president trump's financial dealings, could it go in separate directions with different branches of the government investigating all of this in different ways? it very likely will go in different directions but does it snip off mueller want the collusion part or the obstruction part of the investigation it if mueller feel he could very well make that publicly known, at least through communication to congress. that would allow these other investigations to go forward, and it sounds that he has a plea deal in the making with dates, was indicted with paul manafort. i wrote a column in the next morning saying that i think gates is going to flip, yet that indictment was designed to get gates to flip. anything ons has trump are the white house is speculative, and he is likely to have something on paul manafort. david: thank you so much, jonathan. i could hear you hesitate -- it is great to have you. [laughter] shery: just a reminder, we continue to wait for attorney general rod rosens

as part of the plea deal, he agreed to cooperate with robert mueller. it's noted, his plea deal does not include all of the facts known to me regarding this offense. that indicates that he has told the special prosecutor much more information than is revealed in his plea deal today. the indictment of the 13 russians today says defendants also used the stolen identities of real u.s. persons. here's what the president had to say today when he was asked about all of this. >> do you feel vindicated in the mueller investigation? >> mr. president will you punish russia? will you punish russia? >> will you put sanctions on russia? nothing on russia, mr. president? >> join us for tea? >> joining our discussion jill wine-banks, ari melber, and ben wittes. >> ari, i know you have been studying this indictment and talking about it a great deal on the network today, including talking about it while studying it. as it stands tonight, now that you've had a little bit of time to breathe and digest it, give us your -- frame the significance of this indictment for us. >

will he or won't he sit with robert mueller? >> well, that's the big question, katy. the president's legal team is say they expect within weeks to arrive at some agreement with the special counsel team. of course, they've been telling us that for weeks. not a whole lot of clarity on the issue of timing. but as we've reported, the president's legal team has been negotiating with the special counsel team to avoid a sit-down face-to-face interview, to include the president filling out a questionnaire or even signing an affidavit, you know, stating his side of the case. what is new, of course, is this reporting from "the new york times" that the president's attorneys are so afraid welcome given his history of making false or contradicting statements that he could end up perjuring himself. one thing to point out, john dowd is the president's personal attorney. he represents mr. trump himself. clearly, he would have some concerns about the president incriminating himself, but ty cobb is the white house lawyer. he represents the office of the presidency, and cobb, for the mo

mueller's investigation. >> so, pete, your takeaway from this, this charge, is simply that robert mueller is trying to put more pressure on paul manafort or is it something else? do you feel like you learned something different in finding out about this charge? >> i think there's probably a combination of things. turn up heat on manafort possibly. possibly turn up the heat about gates. and there's already some speculation that he may be prepared to plead. but the other thing is just this typical thing prosecutors do. they don't like to be lied to. they like to send a message to other people they're going to interview, you know, it's not nice to fool mother nature. if you like to us, we're going to throw the book at you. having said that, it's a single count of lying to the federal. i suppose if they really wanted to heavy up on this lawyer, they could charge him with one count for each statement, so that would be two counts, and then obstruction of justice. they haven't done that. so it does seem like they're trying to file the least charge, the smallest possible charge against him to get

i am vonnie quinn shery: breaking news and a robert mueller probe as lying and conspiracy counts against former trump campaign staffer and paul manafort deputy rick gates. joining us now is our chief washington correspondent kevin cirilli who joins us from cpac. criminal information has been filed in federal court in washington which often precedes a guilty plea. could we see it anytime soon? kevin: i think you will hear the -- i hear you will have a guilty plea today. when you look at the indictment charges that came down yesterday , all from tax evasion dating back as far as 2014. thatlican sources tell me that was well before the time any of them got involved with the donald trump campaign. this does not touch the president's in a circle from their perspective and no question the robert mueller probe is continuing. vonnie: it is fascinating because there were reports from outlets earlier that rick gates may be thinking about entering a guilty plea. this would proceed that. informationg of the on criminal activity and rising the pressure to enter the play? kevin: right. the charges the

as part of the plea deal he agreed to cooperate with robert mueller. his plea deal does not include all of the facts known to me regarding this offense. that indicates that he has told the special prosecutor much more information than is revealed in his plea deal today. the indictment of the 13 russians today says defendants also used the stolen identities of real u.s. persons. here's what the president had to say today when he was asked about all of this. >> do you feel vindicated in the mueller investigation? >> mr. president will you punish russia? will you punish russia? >> will you put sanctions on russia? nothing on russia, mr. president? >> join us for tea? >> joining our discussion jill win wine-banks, ari melber, and ben w wittes. >> ari, i know you have been studying this indictment and talking about it a great deal on the network today, including talking about it while studying it. as it stands tonight, now that you've had a little bit of time to breathe and digest it, give us your -- frame the significance of this indictment for us. >> you'

and of obviously, we saw that robert mueller was adding cyber prosecutor. so there were signs they were clearly looking at the cyber operations and social media operations but the extent of that, i mean, i've been covering this stuff for 15 years. i've never seen anything like this spelled out in federal court records before. this is essentially the road map to russia's covert influence operations. just a small part of it. it's an astonishing day. >> and listen to what this exposes and reveals about our own human intelligence effort, kind of heartening if you're cheering on the home team here, as we hope everybody is. mr. miller, 20 hours of in front of mueller's steam for steve bannon. what do you make of that? >> what happened during the campaign, i suspect he's probably most interesting to bob mueller's team for what he saw in that first six months in the white house. if you go back to the obstruction of justice investigation, all the key events really happened right after the president took office when he started his first series of conversations with j

robert mueller is pulled out of his own private practice. he's brought back into this public investigatory special counsel role, and newt gingrich said way back then robert mueller is a superb choice, he has impeccable in honesty and integrity. the media needs to calm down. you say, and obviously newt gingrich felt, and others, that he was going to conduct this investigation by the book. has he shown anything other than doing that? >> no. and, in fact, what we have seen is that he has conducted this investigation in precisely the way that you would expect bob mueller to be leading an fbi investigation. i mean, this is, in many ways, despite the unprecedented public uproar around it, a very simple, straightforward fbi investigation. they've been using the traditional techniques, sort of the fbi is deeply experienced at taking down organizations, you know, drug cartels, street gangs, organized crime families. and so they start off the outside, start at the bottom and work their way in concentric circles into the center of the investigation. th

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breaking news, another bombshell in special counsel robert mueller's russia investigation. a source familiar with the proceedings telling us that former trump campaign aide rick gates is expected to plead guilty today, an indication gates is cooperating with the special counsel. this comes a day after robert mueller filed a 32-count indictment against both gates and former trump campaign chairman paul manafort, charging both men with additional crimes, with committing tax fraud, bank fraud and allegedly laundering $30 million. all this while president trump today has been giving a 90-minute off-script red meat speech to the annual conservative political action committee, a speech focused only partly on guns and his alliance with the nra, and more in tune with a campaign rally than a presidential address. joining me now, nbc's intelligence and national security reporter ken dilanian, msnbc political analyst peter baker, chief white house correspondent at the "new york times," msnbc contributor chuck rosenberg, former u.s. attorney and senior fbi official and msnbc political

robert mueller is pulled out of his own private practice. he's brought back into this public investigatory special counsel role, and newt gingrich said way back then robert mueller is a superb choice, he has impeccable in honesty and integrity. the media needs to calm down. you say, and obviously newt gingrich felt, and others, that he was going to conduct this investigation by the book. has he shown anything other than doing that? >> no. and, in fact, what we have seen is that he has conducted this investigation in precisely the way that you would expect bob mueller to be leading an fbi investigation. i mean, this is, in many ways, despite the unprecedented public uproar around it, a very simple, straightforward fbi investigation. they've been using the the fbi is deeply experienced at taking down organizations, you know, drug cartels, street gangs, organized crime families. and so they start off the outside, start at the bottom and work their way in concentric circles into the center of the investigation. that's what you saw with gorge pap

he iw cooperating with robert mueller's probe into russian meddlingtin the u.s. el. and navigating trouble on the nile. a new dam is creating a major rift, raising the stakes of a conflict over water. >> the reason we are here is to understand and get an explanation why egypt is so opposed to this dam ethiopia is building way out the nile. welcome to our viewers on public television in america and around the globe. the un security council has delayed a vote on demanding a 30 day humanitarian cease-fire in the diplomatic wrangling comes as there are more airstrikes on the rebel-held area of eastern ghouta. the bbc's middle east editor jeremy bowen starts our coverage. jeremy: this is what happens in eastern ghouta as diplomacy stuttered. the enclave was pounded. 400,000 or so people spent most of the day underground. s ove them, russian jets with their syrian allre in action, as the russians demanded guarantees that the rebe fighters would respect any truce. in eastern ghouta, men from civil defense risk their lives to rescue civilians. even though the buildings could

she's spoken with robert mueller. she's already spoken with the senate members investigating russia but again the white house said she's been thinking about this. we know that the president has come out on the record now and talked about what an ally she has been and how much she meant to her. and hicks wishes the president the best in his continuing leadership moving forward. but there is pushback from the white house. already we've gotten a slap of the hand saying don't you dare try to tie this to russia, you media people, because this is not about russia, this is about hicks wanting to move on. no talking about a replacement and nothing from hope hicks. go ahead. >> no. they are the ones with the credibility problem. i'll be honest, i feel like everything coming out of the white house because of what we learned, that she occasionally tells lies, white lies, it means every statement from a white house source has to be caveated with occasionally some things were untrue. how do we know this is true. >> reporter: all w

claims it proves special council robert mueller's investigation is based on an improper act. that act would be relying on the christopher steele dossier funded by dnc. whether there was an illegal action in place is another story. with me with questions surrounding this memo is msnbc legal analyst. danny, great to have you here this morning. this argues carter page should never have been sought out by the department of justice and the fisa warrant should not have been granted. if these allegations are correct, was an actual crime committed? >> the memo is a noble statement of the goals of fisa and the fisa courts, it's just not legally accurate. here is why. the memo a little that the fisa warrant application included biased information, and it also omitted information that was important. the answer to that is, yeah, that happens every day in not only fisa courts but in regular search warrants alone. the omission of facts isn't always fatal to a search warrant application. and at the same time a potential informa informant's bias, a bias is part of the search warrant process.

>> robert mueller is a special counsel. he is independent in a sort of a way. he is part of the department of justice but it's not justice the regular criminal division of the department of justice who took this action. and the congress has done nothing to protect us and to protect the election that coming up in 2018, months away. we need to be taking action. i am very worried about this ongoing threat to democracy. if we can't freely elect people, then we are in serious trouble, and why is this not happening? why does donald trump not implement the sanctions that congress has voted? why isn't he doing something to stop the russians from interfering and meddling in our elections and doing the sowing discord among americans? >> danny, let me bring you into the conversation here. with that broader context, we've been following what's happening in florida, the role of bots and trolls in the aftermath of the shooting there. there's a whole ecosystem here. much of which has been portrayed by russians. what does this is a about the broader context here? >> we've seen

and the real villains are robert mueller, hillary clinton, and the fbi. he even gave it a new name, #releasethememo. and he got it trending a twitter with russian bots. it's been a huge hit leading to today's season finale with help from fox news. >> i have a special message for robert mueller, your witch hunt is now over, time to close the doors. that's the importance of a news breaking opening monologue. this is far worse than watergate this is an abuse of surveillance and intelligence to win an election. >> you are describing the elements of a palace coup. the entire mueller investigation is a lie built on a foundation of corruption. >> several republicans who have seen the document say it exposes massive and terrifying abuses of our civil liberties, more troubling than the underlying crime in watergate, that's for sure. >> sean, this is bigger than anything anybody can imagine. >> this is federal law enforcement officials obstructing justice. >> members of congress who have seen this memo have called it shocking, alarming, and said it mirrors kgb styl

of count intelligence under then fbi director robert mueller. mr. anderson, heard someone smart say on investigation that among the things we gave away today, unforced errors, we've now told the russians when we were conducting electronic surveillance, in case they want to go back over anything they said, in case they want to go back over their steps. what's your reaction to what happened today? and what was lost today? >> well, i think, first of all, brian, i think you're right, some of the things being talked about on the media and the news, all because of the memo that came out, which really subverted the whole process set up to handle these type of situations, in a classified and secure environment. it does give our adversaries insight into exactly how we look at, review, and in some cases extend coverages into our national security world. so i think that's something that needs to be looked at and addressed. >> oddly what it shows the world is how rigorous a process it is to get a fisa warrant, and there are so many reasons for those steps a

the president is being encouraged to refuse an interview with the special counsel, robert mueller, so he doesn't incriminate himself, potentially. what does that tell you? >> well, it's time for the president to come clean with the american people about what happened. and i remember a candidate for the presidency who said that only the mob invokes the fifth amendment. and if you don't have anything to hide, innocent people don't invoke the fifth amendment. he should follow his own advice. that candidate was donald trump incident of 2016. and just sit down and answer the questions so we can all move on. >> but if the president does refuse to be interviewed, what happens next? >> well, bob mueller has a choice. he can seek a grand jury subpoena, and then the president doesn't have any lawyers in the room. and he could invoke the fifth amendment or he could testify to the grand jury. it shouldn't come to that, because cooperative witnesses who don't have anything to worry about don't get dragged in front of the grand jury. and he should, you know, he should keep his original promise to j

scarlet: robert mueller's indictment is affecting tech. here to discuss is bloomberg technology anchor, emily chiang. significant implications for facebook. i am here with our senior executive editor for bloomberg tech and our reporter who covers facebook and twitter. what have we learned here and what are the implications? confirmsndictment there were russian actors who weaponize to social media. -- weaponized social media. one had 100,000 followers. facebook ads called hillary clinton satan. urged african-americans not to vote. social networks had gotten a lot of heat for allowing this kind of activity. what we learned in this indictment is that the conspiracy was a little bit more sophisticated. separate plea deal with un-american in county who sold these conspirators identities they used on paypal accounts. hard of this activity was to find and more sophisticated than we anticipated. been: as someone who has covering this, what is the most surprising part of this indictment? sarah: these efforts were things that facebook could not have

he said i never felt that the president was going to fire robert mueller. he didn't say the president didn't say he was going to fire robert mueller. i think a lot of people now are thinking, well, you know -- the president says a lot of things. he gets angry and says he's going to do something and he doesn't do it. it certainly seems based on the reporting we've seen with michael wolff book and the "the new york times" that the president wanted to fire robert mueller. it certainly seems from his demeanor from his tweets that he still wants to fire robert mueller. whether his staff can prevail upon him, including his ex-staff like reince priebus not to fire him, well, i think that's an open question. but whether the president wanted and wants to fire robert mueller, i don't think there's any doubt. >> you don't think there's any question there. we talked at the top of this hour about the latest tweet from the president. adam schiff has responded on twitter. mr. president, i see you've had a busy morning of executive time. instead of tweeting false smears, t

michael zeldin, cnn legal analyst and special assistant to robert mueller. we might get shimon back. he has information about the

i hear that robert mueller is looking at jared kushner's contacts in qatar and china. is that a subject of interest for the house intelligence committee as well? >> well, we've not gotten to that point. i will say that mr. kushner is a businessman, obviously. i think it is curious for mr. kushner to meet with this person a week after, with the trump campaign effort to solidify a deal. >> raised concerns. that it could pose a conflict of interest. is there anything in particular that worries you? >> well, i'm always concerned when you have folks who are in federal positions, misusing their authority. i think it is a concern for all of us. sometimes it happens unknowingly. in this case, it can be deliberate but we have yet to see. we'll wait for director mueller's investigation and see where the house intel committee picks it up from there. >> the president is sounding off on twitter, as you know of in light the indictments. obama was president up to and beyond the 2016 election so why didn't he do something about russian meddling? closed quote. he's not the only one bla

now i'm sure there will be attacks on robert mueller, et cetera. you know, to get indictments like this, you've got to show a court, you know, real hard proof that you can trace interference in the election back to this agency here and these individuals involved. so it will be interesting to see what they come back with to continue to express doubts or maybe they don't. it's hard to see how this doesn't blow up those attempts to undermine the intelligence committee's assessment as to who was behind the russian interfere aengs and just the very fact that russia interfered in the election. >> as we follow this breaking news, these developments really driving home the point that the intelligence community was right, and the president was wrong on this. evidence exists of meddling. there is no so-called hoax. and joining me now to talk about this is a democrat on the house intelligence and judiciary committees eric swalwell with us. what's your reaction to the indictments of 13 russian nationals involved, per the special counsel, with meddling in the 2

you believe in robert mueller; is that right? >> i believe in this situation he should be going ahead with this investigation. i hope it's done fairly, obviously. that remains to be seen. he should be left alone to do his work and hopeful physical we'll get a fair evaluation of what he sees happened in american history. >> thank you, congressman, for joining us. >>> the white house you press briefing room. sarah sand eers will be briefin. the white house has decided that syria will pay the heavy price for any attack. will the trump administration make good on that? we'll discuss that. all the breaking news when we come back. ying dutchman. poetry in motion. and there it is, the "baby bird". breathtaking. a sumo wrestler figure skating? surprising. what's not surprising? how much money heather saved by switching to geico. fifteen minutes could save you fifteen percent or more. if you have moderate to severe or psoriatic arthritis, little things can be a big deal. that's why there's otezla. otezla is not an injection or a cream. it

why could he be of such interest to robert mueller? david: he was a top aide, andl even after pnafort resigned, or was fired from the trump campaign in august 2016,ne rick gates remon the campaign all the way through the inaugural. he was on the plane with trump, on the plane with top aides. if you are robert mueller, you want to know what conversations he had with attorneyeneral jeff sessions, who had meeting with the russians, with former national security advisor michael flynn. he probably heard a lot. he was close to the president and the top aides and that is mwhatller is going to zone in on. laura: there are three former trump campaign aides who are cooperating with a special counsel. david: absolutely, and that is worrisome, but this is like a we know the pieces, but we don't know all the pieces robert mueller is dealing with. is the big fish paul manafort? this loo he is on an island on his own. he put out a statement saying he will continue to fight the charges, that he is innocent. but we don't know what else mueller has on t

so robert mueller knows how to flip people. and we have seen that again today. >> frank, tell me more about that, what is it like to be in a room with bob mueller when he's putting these kind of screws to somebody? >> so, look, he gives direction well to his senior staff. he surrounds himself with people who have the skillsets to do that. and he's created that dream team in the special counsel's office right now. but what he does is, he is relentless in drilling down on the facts. he is data-driven and data-analytics driven. so if you're going to try to smoke him, if you're going to try to weasel around him as a defendant, there's no way you're going to escape his command of the facts. and that's ultimately what wins the day. >> jennifer, what has rick gates agreed to give up here? what does he have to do for bob mueller? >> so he has to meet with them whenever they want. he has to tell them the truth about anything. he has to not commit more crimes and he has to testify, whenever they call him and wherever they call him. so ce

>> well, wolf, cnn has learned the special counsel, robert mueller, is now asking questions about jared kushner's personal business dealings during the presidential transition. we're told by people familiar with the investigation that mueller's lawyers are asking about discussions kushner had with potential chinese and qatar qatari investors. this is the first he wanted to know about his concerns around russia. it surrounded around this building. 666 fifth avenue which kushner's company owns. financing is in debt by over a billion dollars. it is not clear what is behind mueller's specific interest in the financing. and we're told that special counsel hasn't asked the kushner companies for information and hasn't asked for interviews with other executives from the company. a spokesman for the special counsel has declined to comment. moments ago within the last hour, abby lowell provided this statement. it says another anonymous source with questionable motives now contradicts the facts in all of mr. kushner's extensive cooperation with all inquiries. there has not been a single question a

the "the new york times" now reporting that the special counsel robert mueller is zeroing in on that trump tower meeting in new york city between donald trump jr. and russias and the involvement of the white house communications director hope hicks. let's go to our white house reporter jerry diamond. what do they say is the reason the special prosecutor robert mueller is now looking at hope hicks' role in all of this? >> reporter: that's right. we know for a long time the special counsel has been fascinated and really honing in on this alleged trump tower meeting that happened back in 2016 but he's also very interested in the statement that was crafted by the president and his aids aboard air force one. that was a response to that meeting, the initial report about that meeting in the "the new york times" that donald trump jr. had met with this russian lawyer who was alleging to provide incriminating information about hillary clinton and so now the "the new york times" is reporting that mark ca roll lowe who is is a spokesman for the president's personal legal team is expected to test

what could be a new strategy for the president as robert mueller's investigation gets closer to him and later my conversation with senator elizabeth warren. we'll begin with a major shake-up for the trump administration. the man who resigned from the white house today held the title of white house staff secretary. make no mistake, there may have been no one with more daily access to the president of the united states than robert porter. he announced his resignation following allegations of physical abuse by his two former wives, allegations he denies. the white house including chief of staff john kelly is left answering questions about its knowledge of those allegations during his employ and those allegations prevented him from getting a security clearance. porter has held the position since the start of the trump administration. his role was strengthened under john kelly and he was instrumental along with kelly in vetting any information that would reach the president's desk. porter reportedly helped draft president trump's state of the union address last week. he traveled with the pre

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>> it tells you don't mess with robert mueller. lots of people come in and don't tell the full truth and prosecutors start working with them. they say, come on, you've got to tell us the full story. here it looks like, according the mueller's office, this associate with skadden arps lied. this relates to the ukraine part of the investigation. greg craig, the former white house counsel under president obama led an investigation in the ukraine about viktor yanukovych who was the president there, they prepared a report, that has been subject of some controversy, but it also is something that mueller was looking into it because it connects to manafort. it connects to gates. according to mueller, this lawyer made a false statement in the course of the investigation. if i can just say one thing that i think we need to say out of fairness, this appears to have absolutely nothing to do with donald trump, with the white house, with collusion. it appears to be a very discreet indictment. >> as far as we know right now. we keep on learning ne

and we don't know what robert mueller knows. that is always the most important thing to remember in this story. especially on this night, which as i just said, might be memo eve. this might be the night before the great memo release of 2018. here's how the big memo release thing is going to go down. the three and a half page memo written by members of the house intelligence republican staff committee may come out tomorrow. unless the president realizes the memo doesn't help him at all. but if it does come out. a week later, a 10-page memo written by the democrats will come out and that will refute the republican memo. and in the meantime the republican memo will be treated like the bible by trump supporters and picked apart by experienced reporters and analysts and lawyers, including on this network. the republican memo will have little credibility left by the time the democratic memo comes along and blows the whole memo story away. unless the republican memo is used as a pretext for firing deputy attorney general rod rosenstein

>>> special counsel robert mueller has handed down 13 indictments. first we're tracking down developments in the florida high school massacre. the fbi acknowledged it failed to follow proper protocol after a person close to the gunman called an fbi tip line to express concerns about behavior. so this is what we want to know. how did this report slip through the cracks? >> it fell through cracks because that crucial tip was never reported by the fbi to its own field office in miami. we've gotten disturbing new details on several warning spines were missed about this killer, including that very detailed tip to the fbi. >> new and alarming details of missed and a mishandled warning signs. the fbi says it was given information on a tip line on january 5. it provides information nikolas cruz was erratic, and showed the potential of conducting a school shooting. this was never passed on to the miami field office. >> the potential of the fbi to miss something is always there. we do our best. we have protocols to prevent these things. we'll be looking into w