i think he understands the most mister mueller can do is write a report so he is not playing to a courtling to the public and the house of representatives. what rudy is doing is not only acceptable but smart. >> how scathing will a counter report be? >> not sure it will be scathing. i don't know they are going to attack the mueller office in that rebuttal. rudy is calling it a rebuttal. they are anticipating with the mueller report mass and rather than lock their client into an unfriendly den or one which the president perceives as being unfair they will put his position in their own report. they have the mueller report and the president's rebuttal. >> mueller does not want an impact on the senate house race this year, two months from election day what does he do? >> they go about their work. the manafort trial is starting in a week or two. nobody can control that. it is arguably could have some impact on the elections but that can't be controlled so he will go about his work. he won't make the same mistake jim comey made into anything dramatic between our the election that could affect

>> you just rephrase the question about mister mueller and previously it was about the investigation if i'm understanding the question rectally, no discussions of the kind you are asking . >> you're saying no, you haven't talked to anyone in the white house about robert mueller, the special counsel. >> you rephrase the question again, senator. of course i know mister mueller personally from my prior experience in the, i haven't seen him in a long time but i knew himwhen we work together the bush administration . but i've had no discussions of the kind that i think you are asking about . >> well, i'm asking about the kind you are thinking about. >> i haven't had any discussions of the kind i am thinking about either . >> i'm going to take that as a no which you are giving under oath and put aside the humor for the moment. >> i'm not trying to be humorous, i'm trying to be accurate. for example, if someone says your courthouse -- >> i'm talking about discussions with anyone who works for the president of the united states in the white house about the special counsel and so far rightly,

of course i know mister mueller personally from my prior experience. i haven't seen him in a long time but i knew him when we worked together in the bush administration. but i have no discussions of the kind that i think you're asking about. >> well, i'm asking about the kind you're thinking about. >> i haven't had any discussions of the kind i'm thinking about either . >> i'm going to take that as a no that you are getting under oath and we can put aside the humor for the moment. >> i'm not trying to be humorous, i'm trying to be accurate . for example, if someone says in your corporate house -- >> i'm talking about discussions with anybody who works for the president in the white house about the special counsel . so far, your answer has been ambiguous. you dodged the question, you docket, you get the question again and again and i'm going to move on because i have other ground to cover. have you had conversations about the special counsel investigation with anyone at the halfwits, benson and torres firm. >> i've never done anything like that. >> are

mueller's probe. >> tough day for mister manafort.has accepted responsibility and wanted to make sure his family is able to remain safe. this goes back many years. everybody should remember that. jillian: the deal allows him to avoid a second trial in washington dc and a virginia jury convicted him of eight counts of bank and tax fraud, donald trump denying wrongdoing in a telephone interview with the wall street journal saying the manafort case has nothing to do with him. avenatti connell: john kerry actively undermining us policy on iran by advising officials in europe and iran on the 2015 nuclear deal which the trump administration withdrew from earlier this year. richardson has more from the state department. >> reporter: unprecedented and inappropriate. secretary of state mike pompeo's assessment of the man who occupied his office two years ago. the secretary claims john kerry and other obama administration officials are advising european and iranian diplomats to wait out the trump administration to salvage the iran nuclear deal.