daniel lippman with "politico." much. >> thank you. >>> the governor of virginia has issued a state of emergency in charlottesville and parts of northern virginia due to possible unrest on the one-year anniversary of a white supremacist rally where 32-year-old heather heyer was killed. the unite the right rally, organized by neo-nazi groups to remove a statue of robert e. lee from a downtown park drew strong counterprotests. the rally broke into violence, prompting officials to declare the event illegal. the declaration will be in effect through the weekend and police officials say more than 700 state police will be activated to prevent any incidents like last year. >>> and the republican nominee for the u.s. senate in virginia, corey stewart, is responding to the surfacing of video from his 2017 virginia governor campaign in which he praised the confederacy for rebelling against the union. take a listen. >> this is the state of george washington, thomas jefferson, james madison and james monroe. it is a state that

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. >> johning us is daniel lippman. we are about six weeks out of the election.eople are saying this is possibly the weekend deadline bob mueller would have to file charges if there are any more coming down the pipeline. as the mueller investigation continues to inch closer to midterm elections could we see president trump step up his attacks against the fbi and the justice department? >> i think the pattern we have seen in this presidency is every week or two he ratchets up the attack goes. as he worries that mueller is potential closing in on him, then he's going to lash out, and he feels like a lot of his key people have turned on him. you know, in an interview he said allen weisselberg, the cfo of the trump organization, who is cooperating on a limited basis is a great guy. that's his term for trying to keep someone in the fold before they cooperate more. >> you know, i'm curious though about what the president expects in terms of coverage about don mcgahn's departure. he's the guy that put it out there on twitter before even speaking to him, right? >> yeah.

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