she dismantled it in a 93-page ruling to andrew miller's allegation that the special counsel robert milleruch power with too little accountability, judge barrel howard shot back "the scope of the special counsel's power falls well within the boundaries of the constitution as the special counsel is supervised by an official who is himself accountable to the elected president." and that ruling meant that andrew miller had no more wiggle room. did he have to testify before the special counsel's grand jury. today. and again, he didn't show up. so today judge barrel howard held him in contempt of court for refusing to show up, for refusing to testify before the robert mueller grand jury. i'm no lawyer but to me this seems like a kamikaze mission. why do this? what is the strategy and where does this end? did it just end? does this guy potentially end up going to jail now? joining us again is chuck rosenburg, forrer u.s. attorney in the eastern district of virginia, chuck, thank you for sticking around to help me with this. >> my pleasure. >> i understand contempt of court in a control questiona

when may 18th turned around, andrew miller did not show up.hen the special counsel made it mandatory. the special counsel subpoenaed andrew miller to appear on june 8th. june 8th rolled around and he did not show up. then a federal judge ordered him to comply and ruled in fact he really did have to appear before the grand jury on june 29th. june 29th rolled around and this time andrew miller did not show up. he did file a former motion to quash the subpoena. to get rid of the speenl on the grounds that the whole rig ma role was all unkogs constitutional. the judge didn't just say no against the argument. she dismantled night 93-page ruling to andrew miller's allegation that the special counsel wields too much power with too little accountability. the judge shot back, the scope of the special counsel's power falls well within the boundaries of the constitution as the special counsel is supervised by an official who himself accountable to the elected president. that men andrew had no more wiggle room. he had to testify. today. and again he didn'

andrew miller was found in contempt but what's interesting here the judge put the contempt charge on hold while miller's lawyers appeal. that's the legal wrangling here but who is andrew miller. he's yet another associate of roger stone who's of interest to the special counsel. he worked for roger stone maintaining emails, but his lawyer has made clear he's only had limited contact with roger stone since 2014. stone has said previously that andrew miller played a limited role in the 2016 campaign, but stone released a statement today saying that miller had no knowledge of any russian collusion, knew nothing about wikileaks, so roger stone really there saying, you know, why does the special counsel want to talk to this guy, he shouldn't really be of interest to them in this broad russian collusion probe. the key here is that, you know, mueller's team they're keying in on roger stone, his interactions with wikileaks and now they want to talk to everyone in stone's orbit who is in touch with him around that time and really get what they know. andrew miller, he's defying this. we're seein

the third time this individual andrew miller failed to show up in court to testify before the grand jury. miller is the second witness connected to stone to cut and run. sam nunberg's public meltdown after receiving a subpoena in march. he was implicit. he did not want to incriminate his mentor. >> roger stone is like my father. i am not going to go in there for them to set up a case against roger. >> after all that nunberg did testify with the grand jury. >> ultimately, mueller wants to indict roger. i think this indictment, he is going to have a sexy charge, conspiracy to defraud. my opinion as i said to you, roger conspired against himself and not the russians. >> mueller's team has continued to subpoena witnesses linked to stone. kristin davis appeared before the grand jury just this afternoon. stone associate randy. stone is the vivid mentioned. quote on or about august 15 the conspirators posing as guccifer 2 .0. there is other evidence that stone could have colluded with agents including his own claim of having been in touch with wikileaks. >> in regard to the october surprise, wh

here now is paul came and are, he's an attorney for andrew miller.s not in jail at the time, even though he ignored that subpoena for the grand jury, how far is he willing to go in all of this and is he willing to go to jail to not testify? >> let me explain what happened. he was interviewed by two fbi agents back in may and it said everything he knew which is nothing other than what he read in the newspapers about guccifer 2.0 and they asked him to turn over documents. they turned over all the documents that he had and he said they would testify on june 29th. we followed a motion to quash that, the court heard the argument and ordered them to appear last friday. the day before we asked of the court he's not coming tomorrow, please hold him in contempt and we wanted him to do so in order for us to appeal. the judge obliged held him in contempt and stated his decision as long as you're appealing this case, we will not put him in jail or hold him in contempt anymore. on monday i noticed the appeal and this case is now being on an expedited briefing sch

andrew miller did not. he refused to comply with the subpoena and as a result the judge held him in contempt and issued a 93-page opinion. the judge put the contempt ruling on hold until monday so andrew miller's attorneys can go through the appeal process. they're arguing the appointment of special counsel mueller in and of itself is unconstitutional so they said by virtue of that fact their subpoenas shouldn't have to be complied with so they're in the midst of appealing that. andrew miller an associate of roger stone but refusing to comply with the subpoena today. >> there's another play, the guy who roger stone says was his wikileaks back channel has been supped to testify. >> that's right. he's a comedian, a radio talk show host, an associate once again with roger stone. he initially rebuffed robert mueller's request for a voluntary interview but then today his attorney tells us he was served with a subpoena and he plans to comply, the subpoena when he is supposed to go for the grand jury, that's set f

the exception is andrew miller.e is now being held in contempt for refusing to comply with a subpoena. so who is this guy and why is he refusing to cooperate with robert mueller's russia investigation? sarah murray is here with some answers. you have been digging into this story. what have you learned? >> we know that the special counsel has been circling around roger stone, they still haven't contacted him directly. so we're seeing all these former associates and friends speak to thesome's team or testify before the grand jury. but andrew miller has decided with the help of his legal team that he wants to mount this constitutional fight. he wants to try to take on mueller's authority to oversee this investigation and his lawyers say they are prepared to this to the supreme court. he is an interesting case because he is just a regular guy, a 34-year-old, for a while living in california where he was working as a pot farmer. he recently decided to move his family, his wife, young daughter, back to st. louis where he

a person most people in america haven't heard of, andrew miller defies a subpoena. think back to the elliott spitzer days, a lot of people heard of kristen davis, the manhattan madam. she's about to be a witness for the grand jury. you say, what? what does this have to do with russian election meddling or any trump campaign nefarious activity alleged? we do know they're both very good friends of roger stone. we do know roger stone says this is just because he's a good twitter reader and a good interview reader. roger stone knew in advance or signaled in advance about the wikileaks document dump. do we have any sense of how they think these stone associates can get them to a relevant piece of information? >> we know that they're circling around roger stone. for weeks they've been interviewing some of his key associates, people like michael caputo, long-time friend of roger stone, and others. they have not spoken with stone, which is also a suggestion they want to talk to people in his orbit before talking to him. i think it also signals more broadly the trump team wa

andrew miller apparently was more of a business relationship. but if he was roger stone's scheduler, he could be a bonanza of potentially incriminating information. as but one example, we came to learn when roger stone testified before the house intelligence committee behind closed doors, he was apparently asked about meetings with russians and he said he had none. however, we then heard he did have that little meeting that he forgot about with henry greenberg, not his real last name. he was a potential russian operative. mr. greenberg was looking for $2 million in exchange for dirt on hillary clinton. how mr. stone could forget that is sort of beyond belief. but what mr. mueller is going to be looking at is his schedule, his e-mail communications, his texts, anything he said orally to both miss davis and andrew miller, because that's actually going to be a fairly easy perjury charge to prove if the investigative team can get any corroboration for the fact that he didn't forget about the meeting, he concealed it from the house intelligence commi

let's talk about andrew miller. does miller know, do you think, that robert mueller would be interested in? >> i think robert mueller is looking at stone now because this is very legitimate. he has to figure out there are so many stories out there, what was roger's connection to assua assuage, if there was one. somebody that's critical is andrew, would be randy. andrew has controlled roger's schedule. he is young but a cfo type. he is organized, a ceo type. he does operations. something along those lines. he is like an adopted son to roger. >> you testified before the grand jury. andrew, he is fighting the subpoena. what would you tell him to do? >> he is fighting the subpoena on a very important issue that we in conservative legal circles have been interested in. there's a wall street journal editorial about it. it deals with the appointment kla clause. we are going over, why hasn't he, under the constitution, followed he had to get nominated by the senate. >> he think he should fight the subpoena? >> on constituti

not because of anything specific to andrew miller or robert stone, andrew miller case challenging his subpoena saying, i don't need to testify to the grand jury. that appears to be the vehicle, the way, conservative activists, much like paul manafort's legal defense team, are trying to put robert mueller on trial unlike those charged in the investigation. stick a pin in that appeal. that's potentially a very big deal. >>> today, also, in the ongoing case against the internet research agency and russian oligarch known as putin's chef and the other russians indicted for interfering in our election, a major brief was filed by the prosecution arguing for the legitimacy of the prosecution and indictment of the russians. the importance of this being filed today, this is one of those cases we thought had been handed off to the regular justice department. we thought robert mueller and the special counsel's office was no longer involved in this case. that brief today in that case was signed by robert mueller, and had a whole bunch of names of a whole bunch of lawyers on it all lawyers working

so andrew miller skipped out today. he was supposed to be in court. the judge found him in contempt. but he's refusing to be in court. so that's one side of this. the so-called manhattan madam, kristen davis, she did comply with the subpoena. she is before the grand jury today. of course, kristen davis notorious for once running that high-end prostitution ring that played a part in bringing down new york governor elliott spitzer. but key here, she's also a long-time friend and associate of roger stone. so she's before the grand jury. andrew miller, another associate of roger stone, not complying. he's been found in contempt. so jim, all of this swirling around roger stone, mueller's team really keying in on roger stone right now. >> okay, jessica schneider. thank you very much for all of that. for more on these developments, let's bring in cnn legal analyst laura coates and cnn chief political analyst gloria borger. the story seems to come back to roger stone from time to time. why is that? >> well, roger stone has been an associate of donald trump fo

andrew miller did not. he refused to comply with that subpoena.e here held him in contempt. he issued a 93-page opinion about it. what's interesting, though, is the judge actually put that contempt ruling on hold until monday. that's so andrew miller's attorneys can go through the appeal process here. they're arguing that the appointment of special counsel mueller in and of itself is unconstitutional, so they said just by virtue of that fact that their subpoenas shouldn't have to be complied with. so they're in the midst of appealing that as this all goes to the process. but, yeah, andrew miller, an associate of roger stone, but refusing to comply with the subpoena, refusing to go before the grand jury today. >> there is another player and the guy who roger stone says was his wikileaks back channel has been subpoenaed to testify. >> that's exactly right. randy creditco. he is a comedian, an associate with roger stone. it's interesting because he initially rebuffed mueller's request for an interview. but today he's attorney tells us he was served w

>> i don't know. >> andrew miller you said -- >> andrew did a lot of invoices.y roger, i would send an invoice to andrew. he's basically an adoptive son to roger. roger placed him in products. >> he was the cfo or the accountant. >> he's a very young man and he's good at these organized, things like that. >> defying subpoenas. you did at one point -- >> he has separate. >> you did agree to comply. what's your take of this strategy? >> this is a total distinction between what i did. i may have gone the course if i thought about it. he's gone to federal court about whether or not the special counsel office defies the aappointment very quickly. basically robert mueller had all this power, why didn't he face a confirmation? he reports to rosenstein, that's a nonsensical to me. >> meet the press and omarosa, also producing the conversation with general kelly. >> i think general kelly should have handled that termination much better than he did. i think the threat of legal action against her, what could she have done? questioning her integrity on the way out. that goe

that appeal -- this guy, andrew miller nobody has ever heard of, he apparently works as a house paintner st. louis. but his appeal is a bigger deal than he is. his appeal appears to be a sort of stalking horse, a vehicle to try to get the constitutionality of robert mueller's office of special counsel before the united states supreme court. so far they've succeeded dragging that argument as far as one court away from the supreme court. they have it up to the d.c. court of appeals. the reason i bring it up you should watch that case specifically. not because of anything specific to andrew mueller or roger stone. it's because the andrew miller case challenging his subpoena saying i don't need to testify to the grand jury, that appears to be the vehicle, the way, that conservative activists much like paul manafort's legal defense team are trying to put robert mueller on trial instead of any of those people charged in the investigation. stick a pin in that appeal. that's potentially a very big deal. >>> today, also, in the ongoing case against the internet research agency and russian oligarc

the third is a former aide of stone's named andrew miller, who refused today to comply with a subpoena. so he is now facing a contempt charge. why dodge if you have nothing to hide? let's get after it with miller's lawyer, mr. paul kamenar. welcome to "prime time," counselor. >> thank you, chris. good to be here. >> good to have you. let's test the case. is this about hiding? is this about ducking the truth if. >> absolutely not, chris. this is a constitutional challenge to the lawfulness of the special counsel mueller. what we did was challenge his constitutionality on the grounds that he was not properly appointed under article 2 of the constitution. and we said that if you're going to appoint him under the constitution, he has to be appointed by the head of the department. >> right. >> and the head of the department is jeff sessions, not rod rosenstein. >> right. you made that objection. it was ruled on by the judge in a 90-plus-page decision that every expert that we've had on about it and that i've talked to in the reporting feels confident about it. let me put up the key excerpt

in the last hour i had the lawyer for andrew miller on. he says it had to be contempt because i want to appeal there's a special counsel in the first place. this is the process. the judge ruled. the president seems pretty clear. they wind up justifying that an independent counsel is fine as long as you ever someone on top of them who is accountable to the president and here you have rod rosenstein. is this a legit case to you? >> we have already had this particular issue raised by paul manafort and it was struck down. the difference here is that m n morrison, which was a 5-4 decision, there was contention about whether this was a separation of powers issue. this is because the independent counsel was appointed under a statute created by congress. the question was mwhether this was intruding on the president's executive function. i think here we addressed that issue. the special counsel regulations are coming out of attorney general himself from the department of justice. there is a direct line, in other words, the president could fire muel

andrew miller is intentionally denying his subpoena. it seems to be a strategy. had already challenged the special counsel's thortds. a judge threatened to challenge that down. we sought a close acquaintance yesterday. roger stone is under scrutiny because he communicated with wikileaks and guccifer 2.0, which was a russian front for russian intelligence, hacked emails and distributed them on wikileaks. randy creditco may be able to shed light on that. it's unclear what davis would know. >> still up in the air as this potential sitdown with the president. what do you know about this? >> anyone reporting on this will say we'll believe it when we see it. they've been going on since januarier the possible scope of an interview. there have been counter offers. we don't have the special counsel's side of the team. they don't want the president to be asked about obstruction of justice. they also suggested he write answers to the special counsel's questions. any prosecutor you talk to says mueller will unlikely not go for that. >> they talk about it. a trial that is goi

and also, another person as you said who mueller wanted to question was andrew miller. he was subpoenaed. he is defying that subpoena. he's now being held in contempt. judge ordered him to be held in contempt. the lawyer appealing that. he is a long time associate of roger stone. he did work for him on website and e-mails and a person that mueller wants to question about perhaps all about work that they were doing for roger stone during the 2016 campaign. >> and why is mueller so interested in roger stone? it seems there are all of these people connected to stone who are now in the cross hairs of this investigation. >> yeah. certainly does. also seems that they're moving quickly to -- for grand jury action for something to happen. all these people we know of at least three now that have -- mueller wants to appear before the grand jury. that are connected to roger stone. so it could be for many reasons. for one, roger stone had communications with what we now know was a russian intelligence officials according to the fbi and department of justice. communicating with him.

with watching this trial, i'm not a legal expert, but, again, you know, even when it comes to andrew miller, like is there a defensive position for him to take if he wants to be held in contempt of court? is that something -- >> so in a way, miller wants to be held in contempt because that allows him to appeal that issue. you don't always get to appeal everything a judge does. there are only certain things. essentially by upping the ante, miller's team is saying hold me in contempt, now i can appeal it, now i can challenge some of the things that went into that original grand jury subpoena. >> go ahead. >> possibly appeal the jacket that roger stone is wearing? it looks like he stole something from pee wee's play house. kind of ridiculous. and the president promised to surround himself with the best people. if this is his best, we're in a load of trouble because everyone he seems to touch has so much scandal, so much ill repute, so much bad behavior. this is not what we expect out of our oval office. >> let's talk about a few more people he's surrounding himself with. jay sekulow and rudy g

so andrew miller will appear. and today trump's former campaign chairman faced another day in court. prosecutors slamming paul manafort for a fourth day showing he lied on his taxes, lies, lies, and more lies is the story from prosecutors and let's be clear, roger stone and paul manafort were not coffee boys like team trump has tried to dismiss another trump aide who pleaded guilty in the russia informati information. >> mr. manafort who is a respected man. >> will stone or manafort flip on trump. >> we heard some of the most damaging testimony from paul manafort's accounts and one in particular. she is cindy laporta, she got an immunity deal from the special counsel in order to testify and what she represents is an insider, someone who according to prosecutors and her own testimony she was involved in the conspiracy to help paul manafort move some of this money from these offshore accounts and in cyprus that he did not dedlid declare to the irs and then he fudge it had numbers so he could lie on his income taxes.

they were looking at andrew miller another associate of stone, they are looking at other people who are of, relating and concerning stone. so what it means to me is they are trying, that is the special counsel, to get that nexus to russia. what does roger stone know and who would know what he knows but people familiar with him, his associates and people who have an understanding of his m.o., mod does operandi and that would be of course someone who you are the godfather to your two-year-old son. it should be noted the special counsel asked the question as to whether he was actually the father of the son. it demonstrates to me that the special counsel is trying to establish that link to russia so once and for all we can put to bed the question who if anyone on trump's campaign was excluding -- excuse me, conspiring with russia. >> it's what she knows, if she knows anything injury ma inn to what request he you posed. i was talking to this document tearian on roger stone. they are all this footage, they were saying the most recent part of the arc of the relationship that was kristin davis

you have andrew miller, roger stone's former associate to testify before the grand jury. credico. sure seems like mueller focused on people around roger stone. >> certainly. i mean, up until now, everyone thought that perhap's mueller's focus to squeeze people for the target of donald trump and seems with paul manafort, with michael cohen and roger stone, maybe concentric circles and inner circle, people he's focused on saying you yourself have a problem. it's not just collusion but whatever he also uncovers in the process of that particular crime. and in doing so he's finding one person after another who's in that inner orbit who is saying, well, maybe it's you who's the new target. don't worry about what i want with respect to donald trump. >> this does lead to trump because i've always thought stone would be at the center of collusion there was. he seems to have been in touch with wikileaks. mueller's very focused on that relationship right now. look how far -- how distant is roger stone from donald trump? there's e-mails. we could help on the timing of that. doesn't t

but certainly the mueller investigation, bringing kristin davis, andrew miller, wanting to bring allhese people around roger in his orbit before a grand jury certainly telegraphs that they're getting closer and closer to roger. >> shelby, take a listen to roger's latest description of what he won't do. >> there's no circumstance in which i intend to be pressured in order to testify against the president. first of all, i have nothing that i could say about him that would be negative. and secondarily, i'm just not going to do that. i wouldn't rule out cooperating with the special counsel if i can be helpful in some area. but there's no circumstance under which i would testify against the president. >> those two don't really go together. he's saying he won't testify against the president, but he has nothing to testify against. i mean, his arguments are interesting. they change from day-to-day. i would say reporting on him is a fascinating thing because he's a very intelligent, well spoken, and tricky person. i mean, that's what he prides himself on. so anytime you approach him with some

start with andrew miller. what does that tell you? the fact he's refused to testify about the seriousness of the allegations or what roger stone might face? >> good morning, david. what it tells me is that first of all the investigative circle continues to constrict around roger stone and if mr. miller's attorneys can be credited, they are saying that the reason that he's refusing to testify is because they're looking for a vehicle to kind of bubble up the issue to the appellate court. what issue is that? the issue of the legitimacy of the mueller investigation. now, i would say from my perspective, this seems to be pretty futile, because multiple judges have already determined that the investigation is appropriate. the appointment of mr. mueller by deputy attorney general rod rosenstein was lawful, done in accordance with rules, procedures and policies of the department of justice. this seems to about futile effort, maybe an attempt to delay but i think we're going to see that gentleman having to comply with that grand jury subpoena.

it's andrew miller. >> that's right. >> another stone associate, and randy cretico. >> right. miller was held in contempt of court today. he is refusing to testify. kristin davis told me miller was actually handling stone's scheduling during these several months leading up to the election and acting as his assistant. so he is probably the person they really want to talk to. >> john, what do you make of this? >> well, the way it looks to me is the madam, kristin davis, she wasn't available until may 2016 because she was in custody for her crimes. but limiting our analysis of what she could do to the jobs that she had with stone is plainly not what they are interested in. what they are interested in is things he said during or after the campaign about his connection to assange and wikileaks and how he was a cutout or middle person or has knowledge of what communication stone had seeking information about hillary clinton after it was lifted by the russian hackers. so i think it's pretty clear what they are looking for. now, why they would put her in the grand jury, well, there ar

my long-time traveling aide andrew miller was held in contempt because of his refusal to testify. >>e all the questions she was asked, though, kristen davis, were they all about you? because you had referenced that those who have been questioned, they're making it clear that they think that the feds were in possession of, right, your texts, your e-mails. was she also under that impression from what your lawyers have communicated? >> yes, i think that's fair to say. the point of course of this is that there is no evidence and there is no witness who can testify truthfully to say that i either colluded with the russians, collaborated or was involved in any other illegal activity in connection with the 2016 election. >> so kristen davis as you point out, right, not the first person to go in front of the grand jury. five total, andrew miller, you mentioned another one, sam nunberg, michael caputo, your pan to the wikileaks founder julian julian assange. all of them are on there. you're the un named american mentioned of five russian intelligence officers. why, roger, do you think mueller

another stone association, andrew miller, skipped out on his grand jury to try to test mueller in some way. and now we've got this radio host, randy credico, who was supposedly a link, and will have to testify. do you think roger stone will be charged? >> he's been named in an indictment. in fact, he was named in one of the most serious indictments that robert mueller has issued against those russians. >> right. >> intelligence operatives. deployed by vladimir putin. he was not identified by name. but he was, in effect, named. so he faces so many very serious exposure. frank's absolutely right. the developments of this last week, even though we tend to focus on the circus and the side shows that giuliani/sekulow showed today, andrew miller was held in contempt of court. >> which is very significant. >> for refusing to appear in the grand jury. he has, as far as i can see, very little grounds for asserting any sort of privilege or any basis to not cooperate. plus there are those other associates who are close to roger stone and where roger stone's exposure is, very seriously, is his con

. >> which is part of andrew miller, constitutionality of the entire mueller operation. it seems to me that you know, we don't know what is going to happen, but to your point about he farmed other stuff out, stone seems like he is sitting right there in the tractor beam of the mueller investigation. >> all of the signs are that mueller is closing in on stone and if we are going to see a case, it is extremely likely we will see it in a few weeks. he doesn't want to be accused of bringing cases in the course of the election. so you know, this may drag out until post election, but i would think given the pace of activity that it is reasonable to think that we could be seeing something soon. one other thing worth mentioning, yes, we have been focused on communications that tone appeared to have or advanced knowledge appeared to have about what wikileaks was going to be releasing, theed to desa time in the barrel. stone also running this operation, called stop the steal which was an election poll watching event that was designed to intimidate voters or suppress african americ

were you surprised, we heard news that andrew miller is being held in contempt of court.of the special council. so what is your take on that? did you expect him to appear or did you think this was going to happen? >> no, i was surprised, elizabeth. because the norm and we've seen this before with others, i won't necessarily name them, they may give indications in the media i'm not going to comply with the subpoena and almost always they do, it's court process, it's pretty serious. the lawyer was saying, this is a little confusing, that the reason he didn't appear is because he wanted to be held in contempt so they could appeal the original ruling about it. that seems a little confusing and a little off. i don't know that you necessarily had to go through the contempt situation to do that. but again, to answerer question, i was surprised, yes. elizabeth: seems a little convoluted, just from the -- >> yes. elizabeth: for me, someone who has been following the trial. were you surprised by gates' testimony? was that well-played by the mueller team? did they expect that? did i

it is andrew miller. he was asked to go before a grand jury. he is not involved with russia, hackers or wikileak t she's concerned mueller will get caught up in questions about the financial entanglements. >> thank you. brian todd reporting. >>> coming up, top republicans debate the fate of the attorney general of the united states. one said the president lost confidence in jeff sessions, another says sessions should stay exactly where he is. what impact would a new attorney general have on the russia investigation? stay with us. you are in the "situation room." so you have, your headphones, chair, new laptop, 24/7 tech support. yep, thanks guys. i think he might need some support. yes. start them off right, with the school supplies they need at low prices all summer long. now save $150 on this dell notebook at office depot officemax. all the tools you need for every step of the way. make it, squarespace it was always our singular focus. to do whatever it takes, use every possible resource. to fight cancer. and never lose sight of the patients

this week, another former of roger stone andrew miller, yet another indication of how the special counsel team seem to be circling around roger stone. sarah murray, cnn, washington. >> this is certainly a tawdry development as a part of this investigation. joining me to discuss, a former director at the nixon presidential library and michael moore, former u.s. attorney for the middle district of georgia. thank you both for joining us this morning. tim, let me start with you. so interviewing a former new york madam, what's going on here? where is that leading us? >> i'm not sure where it's leading us. but i suspect that this has to do, as mr. stone has said, himself, this has to do with the special prosecutor's interests in the relationship if any between mr. stone an wikileaks and gucifer 2.0 a going indictment described as actually an alias for russian military intelligence. it's perfectly logical what you want to do is figure out from the associates of the people that are of interest whether or not these improprietys occurred. i would point out mr. stone in his statement to cnn did say

andrew miller is a stone associate who tried to fight mueller's subpoena by arguinging it was unconstitutionaley just subpoenaed another man. and as another close stone friend, the woman known as the manhattan madam is taking the stand before the grand jury in this investigation. dillen bank. he directed a netflix film called get me roger stone. you may know him better than anyone. do you think he's feeling the heat? >> many things he's done in his past that may not be related to the russian interference but they may be trying to use as leverage over him. what are you tell us about his relationship with kristen davis? >> well, originally they were elliott spitzer an tagnists. and that's when she went to prison also for a prostitution. that's why she's the manhattan madam. except she was furious she end said up in riker's stripped searched by male guards repeatedly and spitzer had no legal repercussions even though he's the one who helped change the law to help put her in prison. she met roger at a radio statan said you should go into politics. we can team up against spitzer together. >> there'

this is andrew miller, former -- during the campaign was held in contempt for defining a subpoena toestify in court earlier this month. meanwhile, cross the river in alexandria virginia, a fraud trial.paul manafort rolled into his ninth day. democrats tying this back to the president himself. >> as far as this and there is no honor among thieves, right? you don't know who to believe. you don't know if you can believe the president, rick gates, paul manafort, stone. don't know that you can believe any of them. this is one of those things where we have to trust the jury system and see what comes out of it. >> a try get off to a late start essay by nearly 5 hours. today is still unclear as to why. because i don't know what the delay is about. but the robert mueller team has taken hits this week there is no doubt. the big star witness, rick gates, really got beaten up a little bit. >> we know the presiding judge received a motion for the team at which they complained about a comment that ellis made suggestion that the lawyer should stop asking about loans, paul manafort had been to light

just last we heard that andrew miller, associate of roger stone will be compelled to testify on the grandso looking to talk to the russian popstar who had a part in the june ninth meeting in trump tower. this will continue, unfortunately.arthel: mercedes, final 30 seconds. >> no, exactly right. it definitely is being reported and in fact the judge in this case, in the manafort trial was very critical of the special prosecutor being part of the case. it is clear at least to the jury saying why are you prosecuting this case? it should have been referred back to the federal prosecutors, should not have stayed with the special prosecutor speed and squeezing manafort to the point that they believe there was a possibility that manafort would flip against the president. all in all, this is nothing to do with it. arthel: mercedes, david, thank you both. >> take care.>> thank you. mike: the national role-- the n association under fire. and the president promising to become aggressively involved in the midterm elections. will he will perhaps hurt republican candidates? (vo) when bandits stole the l

secretarial work, usually when she needed money roger stone would have her as an assistant but she said andrew millerdled stone's schedule several months before the election, the crucial time when wicky leeks was releasing the dnc e-mails. >> the possible inference is mueller wants to put in front of the grand jury people who can say where roger was and when he was telling the truth about where he was. >> exactly right. and she met with a prosecutor last week and seemed to be a real rush to get her in front of the grand jury, get her on the record just a week later many they're moving in. >> seth what does it imply. >> it implies mr. stone should get ready for an orange jumpsuit. you have multiple people being pulled in the one that concerns me the most his driver. if the feds start pulling in your driver or plumber, you got to be really, really concerned about where you sit. >> the other piece it to this is timing. was mentioning it seemed like an urgent thing to get this material in front of the grand jury. could be for reasons unrelated. anything's possible. or could be a desire to put material on

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a federal judge tossed out a challenge from andrew miller who tried to block subpoenas from the special counsel. miller worked with stone during the 2016 presidential campaign. two other known stone associates have also been called to testify. still with us, jeremy brash, carol leonnig, matt apuzzo, and phil rucker. jeremy, talk about the significance of these russians now being subpoenaed by robert mueller, what is he trying to do, what is he trying to prove, and what will he do next? >> the agalarov worked with trump to build the trump tower in moscow during the presidential election in 2016, it started to take shape in late 2015 and early 2016. they are the ones who went back to the russian government and said, we would like to send a russian delegation to trump tower to talk about how we're supporting the campaign in june 2016. they're integral to the ties between the trump family, the trump organization, and the russian government. they were the go-between. just because you are a cheesy pop star doesn't mean that you're also not a cutout for russian intelligence. >> matt apuzzo, th

and another colleague of stones andrew miller did not appear for a -- testimony before a grand jury. >> we had one thing that he was refusing to do, namely go before the grand jury in order for us to get the contempt and the appeal. >> reporter: rudy giuliani says he wants this investigation to be wrapped up by september 1, it seems clear that that is not going to happen. randy credico says he intends to appear before the grand jury in the fall. >>> we're also following explosive allegations in a new book by former white house aid and tv personality amarosa newman. boris sanchez has details from new jersey where the president is at his bedminster golf club. there's references in the book that amarosa called the president a racist and that the president tried to buy her silence, what can you tell us? >> reporter: really appalling allegations coming from amarosa manigold newman who says that president trump tried to pay her hush money to keep her from telling this story, as the white house pushes back on the idea that the president is a bigot, thousands of white national is are getting

present, but after he was served with a subpoena, and asked to testify without a number of topics, andrew millerfight back. >> they have trekked in to meet with robert mueller's team or toffee before his grand jury. it hasn't always been pleasant. >> i was there for three hours, i would compare it to a proctology appointment with a very largehanded doctor. >> the office of special counsel is seeking to subpoena my longtime associate, a libber tear in. a current house painter is refusing to testify before the grand jury and racing a constitutional challenge to mr. mueller has the authority to oversee the russia probe. miller's attorney is prepared to take the fight to the supreme court and miller is an ideal client. >> he worked on gary johnson's campaign. in 2016. he doesn't, didn't vote for trump, doesn't like trump's policy so he is committed for a restricted government power, and what we have here with robert mueller is basically a super u.s. attorney. >> reporter: miller is one of a half dozen of stone's friends and former associates summoned by mueller's team. miller worked for stone on of

one of them is andrew miller is being held in contempt for refusing to testify before a grand jury hearing evidence into the russia investigation. another roger stone's associate kristen davis did testify today. this was after she voluntarily spoke to investigators last week. randy who has been reported to be the back channel between stone and wikileaks have been subpoenaed to appear before the grand jury on september 7th, randy credico. this investigation will not be over. sam nunberg has already testified and he was on this network today and offered this prediction. >> ultimately mueller wants to indict -- >> let's bring in our lead off panels on a friday night. our encounter intelligence who have worked for robert mueller, ken vogel and white house reporter for politico who has been busy today, annie, for reasons we'll get to. frank, what do you make and more importantly what will robert mueller and his team make of the president's co-counsel on the radio today? >> there is only one conclusion that i am able to draw from this onslaught of the last several days of public appearance of tw

in the andrew miller case they said mueller was outside the scope of his authority.esident's case he would argue executive privilege, fifth amendment. the d.c. court would have to make decision. it is appealable issue. could go up to the united states supreme court. connell: unless like president clinton did agree to the testimony. >> if it goes legal way it takes time. i think it would come after the midterms. i don't think mueller wants to affect or influence -- connell: david is our legal analyst, there may be some political gain for the president. you think so or no? >> i think that his base is so riled up right now, actually buys into this message this is witch-hunt, they would actually be more supportive of him refusing to sit down with bob mueller, going through the process of being subpoenaed, bring it to the supreme court. connell: that is interesting. we've got to go, david, thank you. gabby as well. we'll move on, get back to markets. what we're just talking about, the midterms, and whether the market gains that we have up on the screen here can give the g

he's andrew miller, a stone associate b who tried to fight mueller's subpoena.ded down a 93-page opinion indicating that mueller's appointment is valid. miller and his lawyer are now gearing up for another round of the legal battles hoping to appeal the grand jury order once again. owl of this shhappening as muelr subpoenaed the man who he said was the wikileaks back channel and the manhattan madam is taking the stand. is so, they're back, asha ramgappa. and paul callan, our cnn legal analyst. so i should also point out that roger stone is saying he has nothing to worry about, these people tell the truth to the grand jury. but beginning with you, asha, the walls are closing in on him. >> the walls are closing in and the stakes are higher. if we look at this recent indictment that mueller filed against those 12 gru officers, there's a part of that indictment which identifies an individual with whom guccifer 2.0, this is the russian intelligence hacker, was in touch with an individual who had regular contact with senior members of the campaign. boasted in 20 16 th

andrew miller who is another former associate of roger stone is also being called to testify in front of tgrand jury. if you look into roger stone's back story, there is a reason they might be interested in talking to him. he is at times bragged about being associated with wikileaks. i think we even have a sound bite of him beginning to walk that back. >> i certainly acknowledge that i was in touch with trump campaign officials, and i have testified under oath to the house intelligence committee that i certainly had a 24-word exchange with the persona, guccifer 2.0. >> this is him trying to explain an interaction not with wikileaks which he bragged with having a back channel with, but guccifer 2.0. roger stone admits that he did have private messages he exchanged be guccifer 2.0 but essentially is saying they were innocuous. the reason mueller's team seems particularly interested in stone is that there were times during the campaign where it almost seemed like roger stone knew what was coming. he would tweet things like he did in october 2016 saying wednesday hillary clinton is done.

another former aide andrew miller didn't appear for a scheduled grand jury hearing and held in contempt. his attorney telling reporters. >> we supplied all the documents that they wanted. so we had to have one thing that he was refusing to do, namely go before the grand jury. and in order for us to get the contempt and to appeal. >> now as you know rudy giuliani has said that he hopes that this investigation is over by september 1st. it seems clear that that is not going to happen. ed the lawyer telling us that he plans to testify before the grand jury on september 7th. >> the plot thickens. joining us to discuss paul kalin. read the tea leaves for us when it comes to roger stone and all the people close to him that mueller wants to talk to what is clear. >> you know, ana, you have to have the back story first on roger stone. he has been the sort of the king of dirty tricks for the republican party going back as far as richard nixon. as a matter of fact he has a picture of richard nixon literally tattooed on his back. he is -- the hats aren't just the strange thing about him. 's very st

or not it is an illegal investigation, even if that weren't his tag line at this time, you have andrew miller who was the assistant of roger stone who was trying to make that very argument in court and to the very reason he is defying the subpoena, has been held in contempt in washington, d.c. for that very reason, because he is trying to establish that because robert mueller in his mind has not o day to day oversight by rod rosenstein, he is a man with very little oversight, zero accountability, which means this is an illegal act, he is always going outside his mandate. that's his argument. it will fail because of the language of the statute as written to protect him. all of this is spaghetti on the wall and he is using the media. what john is talking about, his perception of the gullible as a focus group. >> i tell you as i said earlier, we're going to keep doing our jobs. david, the president had 15 months to claim this nbc interview was false. he didn't, overtim time, guilia referenced it as fact and to support his arguments. >> yes. >> several times. do you see a reason for this now and