it was a real one, two, three, boom, boom, boom from bob muller and company. that's not set in stone if bob muller is persuaded that there is no crime here. you know, maybe he won't be indicted but certainly sends a message we're here to do business and the fact that you have a lawyer is not a barrier to entry for us. >> matt, do you have any insight into the timing here? this is -- you raised the relationship of two different timelines sort of coming into conflict here in the piece tonight. obviously, there are congressional inquiries proceeding that have shown a lot of interest in mr. manafort as well alongside the bob muller inquiry and the times around this fbi raid more dramatic than we thought fits very tightly with what was going on with manafort in congress, the morning that his house was raided he spoke to the senate intelligence committee and the following day spoke to the judiciary committee. is it something about his congressional testimony that sparked the timing or this urgency or this aggression from muller? >> sure. to be totally honest, we jus

bob muller. quoting from the journal, the lead tonight.pecial counsel robert mueller interviewed rod rosenstein. bout the firing of comey. questioning who is directly overseeing their investigation. this is an unusual circumstance. one of the things the special counsel bob muller is reportedly investigating is whether the firing of fbi director james comey was an effort on part of the president to obstruct justice by trying to interfere with the russia investigation. the president has publicly admitted that the russia investigation was on his mind when he fired fbi director james comey. rod rosenstein was involved in the firing of james comey since the white house sited his memo about comey's did behavior to justify the firing. we've been asking whether rod rosenstein would have to recuse himself from overseeing this part of the investigation since he appears to be a key witness or key part of the investigation. now we know from the wall street journal is that reportedly according to the journal sources, he was interviewed by the special c

i don't think congress is going to try to limit bob dole or as bob muller sticks with russia and the influence of russia on our election and on this administration or on any bought a new obstructed justice a connection with the russian investigation he's on safe ground now if he does what can started starts getting into whether the president lied under oath about a sex life or something like that i think congress might get a little upset and say that's that's not where a special counsel falls to go we been through that and that didn't work out so well what would happen if trump fired miller. oh they're bad. they're bad uproar over that i think congress would probably pass a special counsel statute or put someone else in his life it could also lead to calls to impeach president drop that would be a very bad. to democrats calling from teach me now are they premature is that a wrong move well i they go and pull democrats are calling for a base but i don't think democrats really want to make they cause the longer this goes on the worse it looks for the republican party and right now the

any kind of white house investigation these are goldmines for the you know whoever you know bob bob muller or whoever his predecessor a successor might be so yeah if it's true i think the white house has to be terrified of it and politico article by nancy cote said in a growing number of white house staffers a latina get out even though the one year mark is months away that report is true. and you're on top of this all to tell what's going on you know not only is it true it's been true for a number of weeks if not months not only has it been a really rough start to this ministration but it's also been a really tough place to work by all accounts there's been a lot of backbiting a lot of factions a lot of leaks a lot of people leaking bad stories about their colleagues and president trump has proven to be a pretty capricious boss to say the least though they really haven't had a coherent sort of launch off the ground and certainly the honeymoon period that woman expect from a new president hasn't materialized so i think a lot of people are sort of making the calculation that before you get

scott the wall street journal says the president )s lawyers are in contact with special prosecutor bob mullerng to convince muller the president did not commit obstruction of justice when vo he fired fbi director james comey. you )ll recall president trump outright said he fired comey (because ( of the russian investigation in an interview with nbc )s lester holt. the big takeaway today.. trump s lawyers seem to think obstruction charges are something they need to worry about. scott/vo treasury secretary steve mnuchin and his wife are under investigation by the inspector general of the treasury.. after their rather infamous flight to fort knox kentucky. his wife got into hot water for making fun of someone on the internet that day. but now there are questions as to why they used a government jet - cabinet members usually fly commercial.. scott and whether it was simply co- incidence they had to be at fort knox on a government jet at the very same time the path of the solar eclipse passed overhead. scott/vo mnuchin also says he )s not committed to putting harriet tubman on the 20-dollar bill.

would come out this morning when all this is happening and he knows more than we do about what bob muller requested. i'm curious when the president starts attacking the investigation or is raising questions about it. this has been a remarkable development being forced to be more transparent. the public can't see the ads, but being forced to cooperate and turn them over. why hoax? are we still depabating who won the popular vote and the legitimacy of the presidency? >> every time he calls it a hoax or downplays at a time when everyone around him, members of congress and the u.s. intelligence community all decided that clearly there was a link there and there were actions taken during the election. he ends upcoming off of being defensive and that's a position that his lawyers and advisers don't want him in for legal and political reasons. we saw this play out a little bit earlier this week at the un too. it was remarkable. you think about how many times and to what length president obama went to in his speeches and most recent speeches to talk about russia and the various challenges related

. >> bret: obviously, bob muller's investigation continue continues.ners first, then losers. >> my winner of the week is betsy devos who formally revoked that title ix guidance about rate accusations rape accusations at colleges. this is the administration working with universities to find justice instead of against them during my losers of the week are students at howard university who protested and held up james comey's former fbi jane comey's ability to speak at a common station there. everyone deserves to be able to have a voice on campus. this is, once again, wrong. >> bret: a.b., winners and losers? >> my winner is shannon green, new show, you go, girl. my loser is valerie plain -- tweeted out an article, "america's jews are driving wars." however, she got a headline and tweeted it in. >> bret: on rosh hashanah, i think. byron, winners and losers? >> the winner is nikki haley who had a very good week at the general assembly. got a lot of good notices, probably rose in the estimation for the president. the loser is lawrence o'donnell, the msnbc an

. >> they worked with bob muller and that is the one part of the conversation we are focussed on andn you think of who is at the table, you have ty cobb. these are all lawyers trying to help him get through this. why is it that one lawyer has documents locked in a that he is not sharing with other lawyers on the team. i want to know what's in that safe and what they reveal and if they are relevant. >> great questions. we will see where he goes from here. thanks very much. as president trump considers killing the nuclear deal with iran, the country's president delivers a blistering response about what could happen if the u.s. made that move. a cnn exclusive interview. he is in charge of a nuclear armed north korea. kim jung un got a nickname for president trump involving an old elton john song. sfx: t-mobile mnemonic t-mobile's unlimited now includes netflix on us. that's right, netflix on us. get four unlimited lines for just forty bucks each. taxes and fees included. and now, netflix included. so go ahead, binge on us. another reason why t-mobile is america's best unlimited network.

it not uncommon for people without culpability and if the investigators or bob muller thinks there isy can ask or bring it to the attention of the lawyer and say you got a conflict, you can't do that and ultimately go to the grand jury judge, judge supervising the grand jury selection process and say i'm going to make a motion to have this lawyer conflicted out of the case entirely. i can see why it might create some concern but as a general ry frequently. >> there's a we to correct it if it's a problem. >> exactly. >> this is why i wanted you to explain these things in plain terms. >> it is ironic because the president didn't like the original letter because he wanted to say that comey would not say that he was not under investigation. now, it's really hard to draw any other conclusion. >> paul fishman, former u.s. attorney for the great state of new jersey, thank you. appreciate it. we'll be right back. stay with us. don't let dust and allergens get between you and life's beautiful moments. flonase outperforms the #1 non-drowsy allergy pill. it helps block 6 key inflammatory substan

they are worried that bob muller and his team will credit comey's testimony and doing everything theyo rally their base to discredit comey. it shows you just how nervous the white house is about the obstruction aspect of this case. >> elih, were you surprised by the same moment and language and wording she was intent to get through? >> it's hard to be surprised by much these days, brian. but it was interesting and obvious they were ready for that question and had prepared that answer and i think we've seen this. we've seen this for months now ever since the comey hearing drew all of our attention. this white house and this president have, you know, really had no problem attacking jim comey pubpublicly. this is a battle against comey. the attack on a guy who leaked information to the press and politicized this investigation during a political campaign, whose poll lit siizing this now. they want americans to be skeptical clearly the information that comey put out about his engagements and meetings with the president, the white house that he put out through a friend to the press, that wa

introduced on the heels of report that president trump was contemplating firing special counsel bob muller. a man who has broad bipartisan support and who has served this country with honor and distinction.g i think my colleagues, from both parties, agree that firing him would be a grave mistake. for example, senator grahamio has said that unless special counsel muller did somethingsa wrong, firing him, and i quote, could begin, could beir the beginning of the end of the trump presidency. senator markey has gone so far to say doing so would be a full-blown constitutional crisis. firing special counsel muller would be that much more concerning given widespread understanding that individuals post to the president, or even the president himself have tried to tip the scales of the russian investigation.n. we've all heard president trump's reaction when attorneyse general sessions recused himself from the russia investigation. even though the attorney general acted properly, the president berated him because the recusal led to the appointment of the special counsel.hear several months ago, we a

muller investigation. and it shows if nothing else that bob mueller and his investigators may have something to use perhapss leverage to try to flip paul manafort as this investigation gets closer to reaching a conclusion and the possibility of charges being brought. >> i have so many questions for both of you. joyce, question one "a" four as you pors parse this statement, anything jump out at you? >> it's a typical strategy. we have a saying this birmingham if defendants don't have a case to try they try the police or in this case the prosecutors, right. so this is what would you expect to see, this attempt to push back when the prosecution is getting or the investigation is getting a little bit too close to their client. this is really a lot of smoke, not much fire, nothing here that would terminate an indictment against mr. manafort if one were brought. >> joyce, does this look to you anything but an attempt to flip a big witness? >> it is clear that we are seeing mueller's team get closer to making manafort an offer that it will be very difficult for him to refuse. there have been reports that he has n

why bob mueller's special counsel probe is so important because there aren't any alumnis of the trump transition team are working on it. the white house claims that they're cooperating with muller'srobe and thaf ear turning over documents in the process of producing more information for mueller. and it's so important that mueller has his own investigation. >> i agree with you on that. i have a lot more faith in mueller than i do on the hill. trump also praised wikileaks, the website that served as a con dunt for russian hacked material, discussing the substance of the material of collusion. hillary clinton said trump mentioned wikileaks 160 times just in october last year before the election. she asked why. why is he pumping up the importance of wikileaks which is working with the russians. let's take a look at some of those examples. >> by the way, did you see another one, another one came in today. this wikileaks is like a treasure trove. this wikileaks is unbelievable. what we've learned about her and her people. we love wikileaks. bow th boy they are really -- wikileaks. boy that wikileaks has done a job on her, hasn't it? i tell you, this wikileaks stuff is unbelievable. it