the president's legal team argues that they've handed over all of the documents that they see exactlybert mueller's team sees for the most part, and that they see no reason for them to have to sit down with the president. now, that may not sit well with robert mueller. but as you know, anderson, the president has been very public, saying that he wants to sit down with robert mueller's team, that he would be happy to do it under oath. but we can tell you behind the scenes, anderson, his lawyers have been saying that not so fast, that that likely is not a good idea. as one source close to the president's legal team told me tonight, he is not testifying. so that really is the stance among the president's legal team, anderson. >> is there any sense of the time line of this, when all this is expected to reach a boiling point? obviously robert mueller is not going to wait around forever for an interview with the president. >> well, it's interesting because with the president's lawyers now seemingly digging in their heels to not allow their client, the president, to do an interview with robe

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 most part, all along has been encouraging the president to cooperate with the special counsel, making the point that it's important for any president to cooperate with an active investigation, katy? >> julia, what happened to the q&a that you were reporting on last year? the potential negotiation to have the president not

those arguments now what continues to remain clear of course is because legal team and julian assange himself have said time and time again that what's key and what he fears most is possible extradition to the u.s. let's take a listen. mr sands remains willing to answer to british justice in relation to any argument about breaching bail but not in the face of injustice in america. this place appears and has always been about the risk of extradition to the united states and not risk or manes real well it's also been made clear that even if at some point a court here in london does decide that julian a songe could potentially walk a free man his concern is some kind of guarantee of free passage again to would this potential extradition to the u.s. given that american authorities to see the least are one hundred happy with the work week elites have been doing and have said time and time again that they want to see him on u.s. soil. the united states do something to stop mr sausage we're looking at that right now that this guy is a traitor a treasonous and he has broken every law the unit

times." >> well, what's important, we believe, is that you had a senior member of the president's legal teamho has since left the team who is going or prepared to tell robert mueller, the special counsel, about this encounter, about this whole 48-hour period when the white house was putting together this statement about the trump tower meeting a year earlier. he is saying what he believes or he interpreted hope hicks' statement about a set of e-mails he believes were eventually going to come out. if we just back up for a second and explain what was going on, the day before the conference call, the white house had scrambled to put together a statement in response to the "new york times" about this trump tower meeting that happened a year earlier. this was the meeting between donald trump jr. and russians, including a russian lawyer, where they had offered dirt about hillary clinton. the white house statement said something completely different. the meeting was about something completely different and what he was saying the next day was this is all going to eventually get out because e-mails e

and so the legal team was aware at this time that these e-mails existed. and, of course, the times would subsequently report that the e-mails existed and exactly what was in them and donald trump saying, if you say if it's dirt like you say, i love it. >> i love it. >> they knew all that at the time that we first made this call, at the time that they made -- that they were putting that statement together. and the thing that, you know, got sort of my attention about this story is that you have next day this dispute over how -- mark corral owe saying, hey, guys, there are records and they're gonna come out. and it's in the context, right, of these multiple investigations that are going on. and that's when he says, hope says those documents will never come out because only a few people have them. and by his account, he's stunned. and either she's being sort of hopelessly naive because, of course, lawyers are going to turn these over and they're not going to deep six them. or she's suggesting somehow that they could all get together and destroy this evidence,

even if the herring does end songes way today and there's a big question mark over that now his legal team has been saying all along that they will still need guarantees guarantees that he could get safe passage or guarantees that you won't be arrested on the spot when he does walk out behind the scenes diplomats ecuadorian diplomats been trying to push this case along and sort of intensified the push in recent weeks and months last month it was revealed that had granted julian assange ecuadorian citizenship and diplomatic status that sort of trying to move all of this out of the diplomatic status that it's been in for eva six is the legal team in the hearing are all going about talking about the difficult conditions that julian assange is living on in this very small confined space in the embassy that just a few rooms. a few rooms big back in two thousand and sixteen as well the u.n. rules that gina saunders being arbitrarily detained that's something that's likely to mention in the hearing today and even last month a couple of doctors went to examine julian assange and they were appealin

we have been reporting this is the stance of the president's legal team. a week ago we reported they believe robert mueller hasn't met the threshold to interview the president. they don't want him to sit down with mueller and his team. ty cobb said on the record he believes it's a perjury trap and want to prevent this from happening. they want to prevent any type of fishing expedition. the sources that we have spoken to have said first of all they belief that the president shouldn't be treated like anyone else and second of all they leave robert mueller hasn't shown the evidence or proof they have to sit down to talk to the president to understand his state of mind. they argue they handed over all the documents they see exactly what robert mueller's team sees for the most and see no reason to have to sit down with the president. now that may not sit well with robert mueller. as you know, the president has been very public saying he wants to sit down with robert mueller's team. he would be happy to do it. under oath. we can tell you behind the scenes his law

ignorant or misplaced idealism is no longer an acceptable excuse for lionizing these demons the legal team in the hearing or arguing about talking about the difficult conditions that julian assange is living on in this very small confined space in the embassy that just a few rooms. a few rooms big back in two thousand and sixteen as well the u.n. rules that gina sound is being arbitrarily detained that's something that's likely to mention in the hearing today and even last month a couple of doctors went to examine julian assange they were appealing for his release this saying that they dig famine to him and he desperately needs medical attention the sort of medical attention that you can get inside that these are all points that are being raised in the hearing that is taking place and we have to wait and see what happens and hope that the mainstream media end up agreeing on what was actually taking place inside that courtroom. and some of his embassy saga began back in two thousand and ten when sweden launched a rape allegations against him two years later silence and to the ecuadorian emb

twitter as he often does to say that this was big news and the hearing was actually continuing his legal team and julian assange himself have said time and time again that what's key and what he fears most is possible extradition to the u.s. let's take a listen mr sound remains willing to answer to british justice in relation to any argument about breaching bail but not a place in justice in america. this place appears and has always been about the risk of extradition to the united states and not risk remains real well it's also been made clear that even if at some point a court here in london does decide that julian assange could potentially walk a free man his concern is some kind of guarantee of free passage again too with this potential extradition to the u.s. given that american authorities to. see the we are happy with the work we have been doing and have said time and time again that they want to see him on u.s. soil the united states do something to stop mr sausage. that right now this guy is a traitor a treasonous and he has broken every law the united states the guy ought to be and

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as he often does to say that this was big news and the hearing was actually continuing because legal team and julian assange himself have said time and time again that what's key and what he fears most is possible extradition to the u.s. let's take a listen mr son's remains willing to answer to british justice in relation to any argument about breaching bail but not to face injustice in america. this case appears and has always been about the risk of extradition to the united states and that risk remains real while it's also been made clear that even if at some point a quarter here in london does decide that julian assange could potentially walk a free man his concern is some kind of guarantee of free passage again to would this potential extradition to the u.s. given that american authorities to see the least earth point i'm happy with the work week elites have been doing and have said time and time again that they want to see him on u.s. soil the united states do something to stop mr sausage. right now this guy's a traitor a treasonous and he has broken every law the united states the g

even if they're hearing his way today and that is a big his legal team said all along that they will need concrete guarantees from the british authorities that he'll either get safe passage or he won't be arrested and extradited straight on to the u.s. diplomats have been doing a lot of work behind the scenes in recent weeks and months ecuador has been trying to get this case moving along from this legal stalemate that it's been in the six years last month it was revealed that julian assange had been granted ecuadorian citizenship and diplomatic diplomatic status as well so the kind of lining up all the ducks in a row hoping that that will get things moving and of course back in two thousand and sixteen the u.n. ruled that julian assange is being of a terribly detained inside the embassy that will be something that lawyers will be emphasizing inside that hearing today so right now everybody keeping an eye on the front door and waiting to see how that hearing goes and what that means for the wiki satisfy. his polyploid the ecuadorian embassy and london we can now bring you the latest

workshop." ♪ >> a very conservative group of lawyers were working behind the scenes to assist the legal teams. >> from the beginning, this group of top-shelf attorneys nicknamed "the elves" had been working anonymously and unpaid on behalf of the jones team, conducting research and writing legal briefs for her case against the president. >> a partner at a law firm could not lend his talents to work pro bono for this powerless woman taking on the most powerful man in the world without risking losing their jobs. that's why there was so much secrecy around it. i had nothing to lose. >> in addition to ann coulter, the group was made up of a handful of lawyers from major law firmacross the country >> one of them was george conway, now hband of kellyanne conway. another was a fellow by the name of jerome marcus, in philadelphia. another lawyer named porter in chicago. >> they were doing work behind the scenes that i knew nothing about, paula knew nothing about, the lawyers knew nothing about. >> it's not clear they were doing anything unethical, but, clearly, they had a political agenda. >> the el

in connection to the initial allegations made against julian the songe by swedish officials his legal team has been saying since since those were dropped it's time to drop the arrest warrant however the judge here has decided that at this stage this would not happen quite yet so this was technically the last legal hurdle for julian assange to be able to walk outside the airport or an embassy and not be arrested now there was certainly some confusion earlier on in the courtroom where the judge said that at this point she's not persuaded that the arrest warrant should be lifted and up lots of journalists started to publishing headlines that the court had ruled against him and julian assange to want to twitter as he often does to say that this was big news and the hearing was actually continuing because legal team and julian assange himself have said time and time again that what's key and what he fears most is possible extradition to the u.s. let's take a listen mr sound remains willing to answer to british justice in relation to any argument about breaching bail but not to bend the fate of

he took me straight to the legal team, and i remember several meetings with the legal team. and were appalled and wa nted seriously and were appalled and wanted to do something about it. again, ifelt wanted to do something about it. again, i felt listens to, wanted to do something about it. again, ifelt listens to, despite the fact that i was in a junior position and was new to the development agency. i felt that i was supported and listen to. by the reaction i got from both of my —— both my boss at the time and the legal department, ifelt both my boss at the time and the legal department, i felt that was reported. but i would not be surprised now if it was not. but they still divided to put money into they still divided to put money into the chad project. —— pistol decided. but here is an individual who is now establishing a reputation among some who have worked with him, and yet there is no red flag against his name. and so if we move on from chad and get to haiti, where this story, in recent days, has come to a head, here, again, is mr roland van hauwermeiren, who is now

will come in you know despite any high expectations that julian the sanchez legal team and his supporters have been gathering outside this court room might have out it looks like the status quo for his case remains and he's not quite close to being able to leave the ecuadorian. embassy in london as he might have hoped now this latest ruling was focused of course on the potential of the arrest warrant against him being being lifted and last week we saw his legal team argue that it's time to lift that because the swedish investigation against him has long been dropped the judge said no to that more arguments were presented we could go in today the judge ruled on some of the arguments that the legal team had presented and basically up held that the arrest warrant that was put against him by british officials here in london is going to remain which would have been the final legal hurdle for him to be able to walk out of the embassy now this has not happened it seems that the judge inside this courtroom behind me seems to think that julian assange is just fine the way he is given the fact that

action to the initial allegations made against julian the songe by swedish officials his legal team has been saying since since those were dropped it's time to drop the arrest warrant however the judge here has decided that at this stage this would not happen quite yet so this was technically the last legal hurdle for julian assange to be able to walk outside the airport or an embassy and not be arrested now there was certainly some confusion earlier on in the courtroom where the judge said that at this point she's not persuaded that the arrest warrant should be lifted and up lots of journalists started up publishing headlines that the court had ruled against him and julian assange and went to twitter as he often does to say that this was big news and the hearing was actually continuing because legal team and julian assange himself have said time and time again that what's key and what he fears most is possible extradition to the west let's take a listen mr sound remains willing to answer to british justice in relation to any argument about breaching bail but not a huge fan base in just

that freaked out his legal team. they are not entirely cool with this idea of a freewheeling conversation between the president and bob mueller. ty cobb has set on the record, he's worried it could be a perjury trap.again, we've got tensions between his legal team and the president who is full of confidence and wants to do it. i suspect he will actually end up sitting down with mueller but i don't know what terms will be negotiated, what this fear of questioning will be. i suspect his legal team will be quite happy if they can avoid that scenario. >>chris: will have to take a break but when we come back, deadlock over the dreamers prompted the last government shutdown. now congress is up to a thursday deadline. this thursday to pass another funding bill. will we see a compromise or another standoff or will congress kick the can down the road for a few more weeks? th ths every minute counts. and you don't have time for a cracked windshield. that's why we show you exactly when we'll be there. >> kids: ♪ safelite repair

and his departure from the legal team has only been a little nebulous, right? some people said he quit. some people said, no, he was fired. and nobody has come out and put a fine point on exactly why he left. and his departure was shortly before the president removed marc kasowitz from his legal team, his long-time lawyer, and decided to stick with a different legal team, john dowd, who is leading the discussions right now about what the president is going to -- you know, may or may not tell bob mueller. and i think it's very important that this -- the air force one statement that was given to us back in july is something that mueller has told the president that he -- the president's lawyers that he wants to talk about in the interview. and that is very much front and center in the debate over, the negotiations over whether the president is going to sit down and talk to mueller because there are some people who say the president doesn't need to talk about to bob mueller ant whether he was totally forthcoming with the "new york times" because lying to the "new y

ignorance or misplaced idealism is no longer an acceptable excuse for lionizing these demons his legal team will continue to battle it out here at the courtroom in london it's clear that what's key in terms of what happens to julian assange largely depends on any guarantees including from the u. was that he would not be taken there and this is continuing to be a major hurdle despite what happens here in london depending on the decisions that will come possibly as early as next week on february thirteenth now given the scale of the revelations of wiki leaks has published against the united states so little wonder many believe washington is keen to get its hands on him for instance wiki leaks expose the truth about torture. detention camp as well as damning u.s. military logs on the war in afghanistan the company also leaked the cia's spying tools as well as this material. let me know when you get. to see. three two three three. when this video which wiki leaks called collateral murder shows how american helicopters gunned down more than a dozen the rockies and more recently was obviously the

the president's legal team is considering a number of possible options for an interview with the special counsel. also written responses to question questions from the team or even an affidavit from the president. what is new, according to "the new york times," that the president's lawyers are so concerned that the president who has a history of contradicting himself and making false statements, that he could be charged with lying to investigators. that's a fairly remarkable thing for an attorney to say about a client. particularly one who happens to be president. but the president's advisers fear that he could contradict himself during what would be a wide-ranging interview. we asked the president's team of lawyers about all this. here's the response they issued to nbc news. it reads like this. the professional and active discussions between the osc, the office of the special counsel, and the president's personal lawyers regarding how and under what terms information will be exchanged are understandably private. not' whole lot to work with there. one can understand why he can't say more

it is another -- and face cross- examination from uber and their legal team. >> now, to the stock market.>> it was another wild ride today at the stock exchange. it went up and down all day before ending on a high note. traders are pretty long -- pretty calm as they write out the roller coaster. >> the stock market was dropping and rebounding all day. after several dramatic ups and downs, the dow closed with a gain of more than 560 points. in the midst of the turbulence, the president of the new york stock exchange came out to soothe investors and nerves. >> the markets are volatile at times and smooth at times. that is been the case for 225 years since this exchange was found right here on this corner. >> still, the last few trading sessions have not been routine. the dow plunged more than 4 1/2% on monday, the largest drop since 2011.>> the turbulence comes after nine years of stock market growth, which began with the end of the great recession. in the past year, stocks have shattered one record after another.>> investors began to forget what volatility feels like. >> it is not the new

might shed some light on why in recent days we have been hearing from the president's legal team some new legal theories that they've been floating about why maybe the president can't or shouldn't or it's not appropriate for him to be interviewed by the special counsel. and that might be because that the special counsel's focussing so much on the june 2016 meeting that events surrounding that would not be protected by executive privilege because, of course, he wasn't president then. >> right. >> well, chris cillizza, "the times" also makes the point that according to corallo, he was concerned that hope hicks' statement was being made without any lawyer on the phone and the president was on the phone and therefore attorney/client privilege cannot be invoked. >> right. i'm echoing jeff here a little bit, which is it doesn't strike me necessarily as a giant legal problem, it just -- this particular tidbit. it just strikes me as you read that piece and think, this is really the gang who can't shoot straight. the idea that you would have a conversation like the one that "the times" is repo

i think again we got tensions between his legal team and the president of the united states, who was confidence and wants to do it. i suspect he will actually end up sitting down with mueller but i don't know what terms will be negotiated, with the spirit of questioning will be. i suspect his legal team will be right happy if they can avoid that scenario. >> chris: we will have to take a break here, but when we come back, deadlock over the dreamers prompted the last government shutdown. now congress is up against a thursday deadline, yes, this thursday, to pass another fun day miller we see another compromise or will congress just kick the can down the road for another few weeks? ♪ >> so tonight i am extending an open hand to work with members of both parties, democrats and republicans, to protect our citizens of every background, color, religion, and creed. >> chris: president trump appealing for common ground in a state of the union address this week, and we are back now with the panel. the president laid out his agenda for 2018, and he touted the strong economy that we saw at the

he contacted the legal team and he resigned shortly there after, believing he was probably in legal peril himself spoefl seems really compelling. we've not heard hope hicks' side of the story yet. perhaps there's documentary evidence. if she has in fact concealed the truth about this phone call, she will be in a lot of trouble. >> we've seen this over and over again in the sexual harassment scandal that's are unfolding. these to you prosecutor types, and i mean in the nicest way, contemporaneous comments you make to people this your life and notes you take mean. so to prosecutors. why is that? >> they mean a lot because nobody thinks to make these things up in the moment. it seems so clear to us, months down the road, when we know how all of this has unfolded. back at the time that mr. corallo was privy to this, none of the nuances emerged. so whatever he said at the time, much the same way we feel with jim comey's contemporaneous notes, before this controversy had really blossomed. we knew it was there. we didn't know all the details. so these are good indications of what the truth was.

mark corallo quit the legal team last year. mr. corallo planned to tell investigators that miss hicks said during the call that emails written by donald trump jr. before the trump tower meeting, in which the younger mr. trump said he was eager to receive political dirt almost mrs. clinton from the russians will never get out. that left mr. corallo with concerns that miss hicks could be contemplating obstructing justice, the people said. matt, let's go right into it. i want to go back to that moment when donald trump was flying back in the g-20, on air force one, and they are drafting a statement in response to your reporting, "new york times" reporting about don jr., jared kushner, paul manafort meeting with a russian lawyer. this is the first statement the one that ultimately ended up misleading. who was there and what were they trying to write? >> we had gone to them. when he gone to the white house and said look we'll write a story about this meeting. we know the meeting happened. we know who was in the meeting. tell us what it'

i think again we got tensions between his legal team and the president of the united states, who was confidence and wants to do it. i suspect he will actually end up sitting down with mueller but i don't know what terms will be negotiated, with the spirit of questioning will be. i suspect his legal team will be right happy if they can avoid that scenario. >> chris: we will have to take a break here, but when we come back, deadlock over the dreamers prompted the last government shutdown. now congress is up against a thursday deadline, yes, this thursday, to pass another fun day miller we see another compromise or will congress just kick the can down the road for another few weeks? ♪ at&t has a network with thousands of best-in-class security experts. which means... more of the eye balls you want watching the network... & less of the ones you don't... more experts preventing security issues & less security threats impacting our customers. more of a highly secure network with more security products available for further protection & less per month than comcast for business internet. swi

a former trump legal team spokesman marc carullo will tell special counsel mueller.hey're sourcing it to three people unnamed. the e-mails, quote, will never get out. a lawyer for hope hicks denies carullo's allegation. he said she never sail actually said that. the e-mails, of course, did get out. the panel is back with us. joining us as well is van jones and jack kingston. jack, "the times" piece makes the point that even if hope hicks was suggesting that the e-mails could be kept secret, it would be too late because copies of them had already been requested and prepared to send to capitol hill. does any of that give her wiggle room? >> it certainly does. and in fairness to hope hicks, the fact that she says that they might never get out doesn't necessarily mean that she was talking about destroying them or hiding them. >> right, could have been, just, they're not going to get out, they're not going to get released. >> right. they're private e-mails on donald trump jr.'s personal server. i don't think that this is necessarily completely incriminating about hope hic

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was a case of life or death love has asperger's syndrome and a depressive illness his family and legal team said that he was at high risk of suicide and the u.s. incarceration system couldn't guarantee his safety it was very unfortunate the prosecution tried to paint the mental health conditions as being made up six protectionists come february to and that contributes to the stigma of people with them so this isn't as important. ministration of criminal justice and also for the humanitarian accommodation of people whose brains work differently so the case was remarkably similar to that of another british man accused of hacking into u.s. government websites gary mckinnon who has autism back in two thousand and twelve his extradition was also blocked but it was that then home secretary theresa may who did it since then the powers to block an extradition have been transferred to the british courts and larry loves case was its first test but not all his legal troubles are over it's possible the americans might decide to appeal i don't know if that's going to. no not that they have two weeks to

that this is a court of law and not a theater throughout the legal battle the alleged attack is legal team had argued that his was a case of life or death love has asperger's syndrome and a depressive illness his family and legal team said that he was at high risk of suicide and the u.s. incarceration system couldn't guarantee his safety it was very unfortunate the prosecution tried to paint a mental health conditions as being made up that fiction has come for and that contributes to the stigma of people with them so this is such an important. ministration of criminal justice and also the humanitarian accommodation of people whose brains work differently so the case was remarkably similar to that of another british man accused of hacking into u.s. government websites gary mckinnon who has autism back in two thousand and twelve his extradition was also blocked but it was that then home secretary theresa may who did it since then the powers to block an extradition have been transferred to the british courts and larry loves case was its first test but not all his legal troubles are over it's

that this is a court of law and not a theater throughout the legal battle the alleged attack is legal team had argued that his was a case of life or death love has asperger's syndrome and a depressive illness his family and legal team said that he was at high risk of suicide and the u.s. incarceration system couldn't guarantee his safety it was very unfortunate the prosecution tried to paint the mental health conditions as being made up fixation is compatibility to it and that contributes to the stigma of people with them so this isn't as important for. ministration of criminal justice and also for the humanitarian accommodation of people whose brains work differently so the case was remarkably similar to that of another british man accused of hacking into u.s. government websites gary mckinnon who has autism back in two thousand and twelve his extradition was also blocked but it was that then home secretary theresa may who did it since then the powers to block an extradition have been transferred to the british courts and larry loves case was its first test but not all his legal troubles

this a senior member of the legal team who will testify to the mueller investigation he was concerned about how this whole 24 hours went down. this is the day after the statement had been put out the misleading statement aboard air force one. describing that trump tower meeting in a certain way. and we know the meeting happened in a very different manner. >> no question. as you referred to there the initial statement from the white house said that this trump tower meeting was about russian or rather u.s. adoption of russian children. when i believe it was the "new york times" broke the news within 24 hours there were e-mails to show donald trump jr. went into the meeting expecting to get damaging information from the russians. hope hicks her lawyer hz a statement out. responding to the story. as most reporters know it's not my practice to comment in response to questions from the media. this warrants a response. she never said that. the idea that hope hicks ever suggested e-mails or documents would be consoled or destroyed is completely false. mark, according to to your report. one of

>> there is a divide in the president's legal team. almost the entire universe advising trumps lawyers versus tie cob who is part of the president's advisory circle. he has been about a strategy of being fully compliant. i have been hearing, and we have all been hearing concerns about this for a while. >> given depositions he has given in the past. >> in depositions in the past he has been pretty aware of where the line is. much more so than truth. those were civil depositions. and most people think he could end up there with a number of investigators who are looking to trap him. that is their perspective. you won't know what else has testified to. he won't be able to help himself because of his pension of exaggerations. where this ends up remains to go seen. and then there is a legal battle over it which would draw this out for some time. >> when could go to the supreme court. >> the supreme court has ruled in two previous cases. this would be a different circumstance. clinton showed that a president could be deposed in a civil case b

we have learned from "the new york times" that most members of the president's legal team want him to refuse an interview with special counsel mueller and his team. also, the white house says the president has met with mueller's boss, the deputy attorney general rod rosenstein, to discuss this house democratic memo refuting the republican memo allegations about fbi misconduct. but this "washington post" report about the president's order to the pentagon for a military parade gives us another perspective on the administration's priorities. written by greg jaffy and phillip rucker who will join us in just a moment, this article says, "president trump's vision of soldiers marching and tanks rolling down the boulevards of washington is moving closer to reality in the pentagon and white house, where officials say they have begun to plan a grand military parade later this year showcasing the might of america's armed forces. trump has long mused publicly and privately about wanting such a parade, but a january 18th meeting between trump and top generals in the pentagon's tank, a room reserve

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well let's also keep in mind that a sundress legal team has said over and over that even if the judge here today does decide to lift the arrest warrant against other weak you leaks founder what he and his team are going to want is some kind of guarantee or free passage to avoid some of these scenarios that we just heard having been mentioned by the us time and time again we can also remember that organizations such as the united nations have found the situation the julian assange and finds himself in to be arbitrary detention and unlawful we do know that the durian officials have said that the situation in which the son finds himself is unsustainable and that some kind of solution needs to be found so really a lot of questions about what could potentially happen if the judge here in this courtroom does decides to lift this arrest warrant julian assange and we will be in there following exactly what happens and bringing you the latest once the decision is made we appreciate that thank you that's on us to say a check and bringing us the latest from outside that courtroom in london thank

that this is a court of law and not a theater throughout the legal battle the alleged attack is legal team heard it argued that his was a case of life or death love has asperger's syndrome and a depressive illness his family and legal team said that he was at high risk of suicide and the u.s. incarceration system couldn't guarantee his safety it was very unfortunate the prosecution tried to paint the mental health conditions as being made up six collection is confabulated and that contributes to the stigma of people with and so this isn't as important for. ministration of criminal justice and also for the humanitarian accommodation of people whose brains work differently so the case was remarkably similar to that of another british man accused of hacking into u.s. government websites gary mckinnon who has autism back in two thousand and twelve his extradition was also blocked but it was that then home secretary theresa may who did it since then the powers to block an extradition have been transferred to the british courts and larry loves case was its first test but not all his legal troubl

his legal team-- he has a whole bunch of lawyers-- his legal team told him that mueller's investigationd of 2017. sir, i'm just as disappointed as you are, but for a slightly different reason. ( laughter ) and we, all of us out here, us sane people watching this, knew that what they were saying was just spin, but trump believed it, just like he believes the selective good news they put in front of him. now he's angry and nervous and he's got that shiny button on his desk telling him he can make all of his problems go away. luckily, our in-house news network, "real news tonight," is ready to reassure our troubled leader. >> welcome to "real news tonight." i'm jim anchorton. >> and i'm jill newslady. our top story-- the robert mueller investigation is going to be fair. >> and it's over. >> well, soon. >> when? >> practically now. maybe in three more sleeps. >> i love sleep. there's no f.b.i. there. >> and donald trump can rest easy because robert mueller's investigation is basically done. >> yeah, he's free to go back to being our big, strong president. >> you know, jim, i wish i was a ch