mr. mueller couldn't be a member of the injury.arly put out of the jury pool because he simply would not be qualified to be a member of the jury because he would be clearly biassed. >> neil: but you extended it beyond that. i know he's hired quite the legal team. 16, my last count, i'm talking about mr. mueller, four of them have ties to the clinton administration or hillary clinton herself or to the obama administration, four were hillary clinton donors. i can see your concern there. others even knowing that, like ken starr, the former independent prosecutor going after bill clinton, told abc news of mr. mueller, this is a great, great team of complete professionals. so he wasn't worried. why are you? >> i guess i'm worried because i see the whole picture here. it was some of those appointments that made me decide that i had to say something here. we looked at the statute. the statute is clear. it's not only clear if there's a conflict, neil, it's clear if there's an appearance of conflict. for anyone to suggest there's not -- >>

mr. mueller is hurting his reputation.n way he has gone forward with this, he's not been an arbitrary justice. just fact that he is looking at the statutes that require him to disqualify himself and ignores it under mines his credibility as someone ostensibly upholding the law. i feel that i hope he has an epiphany because even if he gets away with it, it's undermining his ultimate credibility. lou: the expression you use, "getting away with it," tells it like it is. this is a man trying to get away with something he knows is illegal. he's ignoring the language and spirit of the statute and as with all of his conflicts of interest with his personal relationship or director james comey, or the man he's investigating fired or whether it be with his checkered career as a prosecutor himself and later the fbi in all of those cases that did not resolve the man has a checkered background. i don't understand the claim of special counsel because i think it's a highly questionable record. >> public opinion is what everyone else thin

mr. mueller is hurting his reputation.san way he has gone forward with this, he's not been an arbitrary justice. just fact that he is looking at the statutes that require him to disqualify himself and ignores it under mines his credibility as someone ostensibly upholding the law. i feel that i hope he has an epiphany because even if he gets away with it, it's undermining his ultimate credibility. lou: the expression you use, "getting away with it," tells it like it is. this is a man trying to get away with something he knows is illegal. he's ignoring the language and spirit of the statute and as with all of his conflicts of interest with his personal relationship or director james comey, or the man he's investigating fired or whether it be with his checkered career as a prosecutor himself and later the fbi in all of those cases that did not resolve the man has a checkered background. i don't understand the claim of special counsel because i think it's a highly questionable record. >> public opinion is what everyone else th

mr. mueller's looking into the president's finances on that point mr. cobb tells me i have no reason to believe that that's true. i also am just getting reaction in from jay sekulow. he's also of course a part of the president's legal team. he i think coes what we -- he echoes what we heard from mr. cobb and mr. dowd earlier. with respect to the impaneling of the grand jury, we have no reason to believe that the president is under investigation. the point i'll make about all of these statements taken together they are remarkably on the same message. they have clearly coordinated about this. the big question mark remains will the president follow suit? again, we're tracking that big campaign style rally he'll have in west virginia. >> it's interesting they continue to cite something that james comey said to the president, which was the impetus for the president himself coming under scrutiny for potential or possible obstruction of justice. an interesting talking point on a day like today. >> it's an interesting strategy for sure. and the fact that we now

we were recently told that mr mueller recently told that mr mueller recently hired an expert on fraudgn bribery cases. mr trump said mueller would cross a red line if you looked into his own financial affairs. does it make it more likely that mr mueller might be sacked, or does it make it harderfor the president to get rid of mueller? the great concern in washington, particularly among republicans, is that mr trump would indeed try to fire robert mueller. it's a doomsday scenario for the president. it could deepen the crisis and prolong it, and could trigger calls through impeachment, but the president has been treating this issue of looking into his finances as a red line issue. the red line is clearly being crossed. there are already subpoena is that had been issued on transactional issues with relation to his close aides, general flynn, and he has assembled a team with an obvious there shortly in looking at foreign bribery and financial fraud. professor, for those of us not well versed in how the american justice system works, what is the point of impact rolling up grand jury? what

mr. mueller's inquiry is ramping up and that it will likely continue for months. mr. nvestigating russia's efforts to influence the 2016 election and whether president trump's campaign or associated colluded with the kremlin as part of that effort. a spokesman for mr. mueller declined to comment. mr. trump has vigorously disputed allegations of collusion. the president has called mr. mueller's inquiry a witch hunt and a nothing burger. so a grand jury is empanelled. senators are now with this in mind introducing two bipartisan bills today that could help protect the special counsel who is leading the russia investigation should the president decide to fire him. the justice department appointed robert mueller as the special counsel after the president fired james comey. president trump has been critical of mueller. at the time of the firing of comey, he admitted the russia investigation was on his mind. some senators have said that they're worried that trump may try to fire this man, james comey, as well. or i should say robert mueller. republican senator tom tillis of

mr. mueller's investigation is ramping up even more. he has obviously been doing that on a number of fronts and hiring some very, very expert attorneys. he has fbi agents working with him. when you move to the grand jury stage you are doing a couple thing. number one, instead of sending fbi agents to ask you to talk to you, to call you up say would you like to come in, you can subpoena people and compel testimony under penalty of perjury and if they don't testify, they can take the 5th if they need to but if they don't testify it is contempt of court. that is number one. number two, they -- the grand jury can issue subpoenas at the request of the special prosecutor. and those could be anywhere in the country or if there are documents out of the country, it would be possible to invoke special procedures with treaties to obtain documents through other countries. so, it's another step up suggesting mr. mueller is taking this very seriously and there's a lot to investigate. >> i was going to say, and certainly it is turning the heat up on t

mr. mueller might be overdone. want you to react to that. >> the president is not thinking about firing bob mueller. this is speculation that is out there, that is just incorrect. >> neil: would you advise him regardless of a grand jury that that would be a bad idea? >> look, my job is to -- my job is to deal with what? i have to deal with the facts as we have them and the case as we have it. the decision the president were to make on bob mueller is something that i'm not involved in and wouldn't be involved in. frankly the president has not raised with me, with our legal team, the dismissal of bob mueller. >> neil: what do you think of that? at this stage it's too late to consider it or is it? >> i think the fact of the matter is, one thing for sure, any legislation that suggests the president cannot fire mr. mueller is premature at least. the fact is, i think president trump is focused on a number of topics. none of them include fire manager mueller. >> neil: you think that would be a mistake, senator, if he did?

mr. mueller. he cannot be intimidated or saying that mr. or, what do you make of the development that mueller is using the grand jury. >> it is a serious issue to use a grand jury in order to get as much information as you can, the subpoenas powers, et cetera. if there are circumstances that require the grand jury to take action, it will take action. it shows he has all the tools he needs in order to hold people accountable who may have violated our laws. >> so the other big development tonight, you know, we're reporting here at cnn that mueller's team are focussed on financial ties between president trump, his associates and russia. they are looking at ties that can go back years before the actual election to see whether there was any sort of link between what happened then and what's happening now. this is specifically something the president told mueller not to do. he said it was a red line and i want to play part of his comments again for you. >> mueller was looking at your finances and your family's finances. is that a red line? >> i wo

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mr. mueller even sooner, he can instruct mr. rosenstein to have veto power every step of the way.f mr. rosenstein rebuffs the president's commands, mr. trump could replace him with a loyalist who will follow his instructions. neither bill deals with these scenarios and yes, sir they are the likeliest avenues for mr. trump to interfere with mr. mueller's work. joining us now, coauthor of that op-ed in the new york times. also, eli, and msnbc political analyst. daniel, first of all, i want to go to this report of communication between the president and robert mueller indirectly through the president's lawyer and the president's lawyer used the phrase back and forth. in a way that is unclear. what do you make of that? what are the ethics of that? >> these are difficult words to parse. i think it would be entirely proper for the target of an investigation to have communications. with the prosecutor. and i'm glad that president trump expressed his appreciation for robert mueller. i should we should all appreciate the work robert mueller is doing. >> is it proper to have communication w

mr. mueller., you used to work at fbi, cia, how does a grand jury right now help this investigation move forward? >> look, we've seen the white house talk about how they want this to move forward. i would point out except for the truthfulness of witnesses including don jr. who couldn't manage to say this is what happened in the meeting until the "new york times" broke it. that relates to the grand jury, if you can't trust the people you're interviewing, there are other avenues. one of them is more interviews with people on the pref ri, people who might know what happened. i would be more interested in the data. what the grand jury and the investigation is going to go after in terms of things like bank records, in terms of things like e-mail, phone, for example, did the trump organization have financial contacts with russians years ago who magically called during the campaign and said hey, can you meet my friend and talk to them about hillary clinton? the white house is obviously going to be anxiou

mr. mueller. one wonders who would actually do that. don't think the acting attorney general -- it would have to be mr. rosenstein because the attorney general has recused himself in these matters -- would have to do it. and i don't imagine he would do it. i don't think that's good policy. i'm sure that the president's advisers are recommending that he not do that. >> are you sure? because kellyanne conway was on cnn last night saying she likened this to a fishing expedition. >> i think the facts should go where they go. i'm not sure we should go back to the 1980s, but certainly we should cover the 2016 election. >> also today, there are leaked documents, transcripts from president trump's phone calls with foreign leaders. i want to read you one piece of exchange with the mexican president pena nieto. this is about the border wall. pena nieto says my condition continues to be very firm that mexico cannot pay for that wall. president trump says but you cannot say that to the press. the press is going to go with that and i cannot live wit

mr. mueller. what do you make of that? he only conclusion that i draw is that the investigation, the mueller investigation, is not winding down. it's ramping up. that's what i think anybody would say given the empaneling of this second grand jury. there's already one for general flynn in alexandria. beyond that, i can't be very helpful. nobody else can either. we're going to have an orgy of speculation, all uninformed. no one knows whether this is significant or insignificant or someplace in between. it's easy to say gee, why don't we wait until mueller does something? that's the logical appropriate thing to do. we all know that that is a joke. nobody is going to do that. >> neil: what i discovered in this, lee, and historians, that grand juries are empanelled roughly in the same time frame as this one was put together after the naming of a special prosecutor. like iran contra, bill clinton, this is par for the course. nothing sinister or toward here in these developments. outside it does get attention that maybe something

mr. mueller. former fbi director james comey said three times the president is not under investigation, and we have no reason to believe that has changed. and anderson a, one white house source says that the legal team is, quote, highly content about this development, which this source says is not causing any anxiety within the president's legal team. anderson? >> pamela brown with the reporting. paul begala, alice stewart and gloria brown marshall. gloria, just from a legal standpoint, the formation of a grand jury, it allows them to do subpoenas. but it doesn't necessarily mean that they know there is wrongdoing. >> they are trying to find out if there's been wrongdoing. i mean, there are millions of dollars of resources at hand. so it's not as though they don't believe that there is anything going on here but they have to get to the actual evidence. that means they have a chance to call witnesses to subpoena documents and to make sure that people are testifying and when they're testifying, they

mr. mueller. fbi director jim comey said three times the president is not under investigation and we have no reason to believe that has changed. they are highly content about this development, which this source says is not causing any anxiety within the president's legal team. anderson? >> pamela brown reporting, thank you. gloria, just from a legal standpoint, the formation of a grand jury, it allows them to do subpoenas but doesn't necessarily mean that they know that there is wrongdoing. >> they are trying to find out if there's been wrongdoing. i mean, there are millions of dollars of resources at hand. it's not as if they don't believe that there is anything going on here but they have to get to the actual evidence. that means they have a chance to call witnesses to subpoena documents and to make sure that people are testifying and when they're testifying, they are not testifying with the lawyers in the room. they can go out in the hallway, talk to a lawyer and come back in but the lawyer is

mr. mueller's work fairly. the white house is committed to fully cooperating with mr. mueller. this from jay sekulow who is another attorney for the president h. with respect to the kbalk of the grand jury, we have no reason to believe the president is under investigation. this seems to be the strategy, chuck, to really focus on that nugget, the fact that the president has said, james comey told him he was never under investigation. now, of course, that was a different time. that was when james comey was the fbi director. that's no longer the case. >> right. >> and a number of news outlets, including nbc news have reported that bob mueller is looking into whether the president obstructed justice. no reaction on twitter from the president, but of course he heads out to the very friendly territory of west virginia, so he could perhaps say something about this this evening. but we've talked about for months the fact that this is the issue that hangs over this administration like no other, chuck. >> look, i say this. i don't know if jay sekulow has this informing. maybe he would kn

mr. mueller wants to have a grand jury here. could bit that basic and convenient that he would do something hike this? >> i don't think it's for the convenience of process cue tors but it's also true that they'll take the evidence where ever it goes so although they started out with one investigation which is collusion with the russian government it quickly grew to obstruction of justice in the white house but now it's grown to obstruction of justice or taking something of value from a foreign national in new york and i think the same grand jury could investigate all of those things but it maybe that the alexandria grand jury is expiring and they need a new grand jury. >> could bit that you have white house witnesses being called in just for their convenience? they could walk across the street or down pennsylvania avenue and be at the federal building and they can't complain about their time being misused. that could be it too. >> it could be. it could be yes. >> let's get to the serious stuff here. donald trump acts like there'

bob mueller is a highly decorated marine and spent his entire career in law enforcement going after truly bad guys. guess what, mr. president, bob mueller does not intimidate. >> let's watch this. >> do you think the white house should be concerned about the grand jury? >> of course the white house should be concerned. i worry about the government having the kind of power, notice what mueller is doing. he is changing the targets. he was supposedly going to look into russian collusion. the articles say it looks lying russian collusion will be hard to prove, maybe because it didn't happen. >> let me remind everyone what the president has said. it is a witch hunt, it's fake, last night i believe he called it a fabrication and we know these become fishing expeditions. you're just hoping jello against the wall and hoping something will stick. >> problem with the analogy is that they throw it against the wall because some of the jello sticks. that's a bad analogy for her to throw out. by the way, monica lewinsky stuck. they went after whitewater. the jello sticks. >> it can be very sticky and particularly concerning fo

mr. comey or mueller are conflicted? skepticism as a result of comey's misconduct and leaking those documents to get a special counsel appointed. he's got to be asking questions about how he was put in there and asking questions presumably of the witness that he's using mr. mueller about whether he did anything wrong. it's not so much about investigating president trump in collusion is investigating comey in the circumstances of mr. mueller's employment. i don't see how he can do it. it's about time for the justice department to get this investigation back under control. you can have a special counsel but not a rogue prosecutor like mueller seems to be. >> sean: you can't get another control it's not just speech was a conflict of interest, it's rod rosenstein. he is both prosecutor and witness in this particular case. he authored the memo telling the president to fire jim comey, how can he be fair and impartial and evaluate the impartiality of robert mueller? both men should step aside. >> sean: when we come back, why ar

mr. mueller. jake sekalow spoke with neil cavuto. >> the impaneling of grand jury in such ass like this, typically how they move forward. it is really very much a standard operating prejudice -- procedure. blake: pointed to the testimony of former fbi james comey who testified that the president as he knew it was not under investigation. another attorney dowed, we have no reason to believe that president trump is under investigation. a spokesperson for the special counsel's office would not confirm the initial wall street journal story. back to you in new york. cheryl: obviously grand juries are done in secret specially at that level. attorney general jeff sessions is out to announce a major crack-down on the leaks of classified information in the trump administration. announcement starts of probe. senator lindsey graham the leaks are not fair to president trump. >> the person who did this may think they have a noble outcome in mind but that is just chaos. you just can't have people in the governm

mr. mueller and his team out of the shadows and into the publicç square.an: no, absolutely not. rod rosenstein who is the deputy attorney general is in charge of this investigation. if rod rosenstein felt that mueller was out of control and spending money wiley and impaling a grand jury without justification is not necessary, you would see rod rosenstein say slow down. to get the political people involved at this point, it's basically saying, we don't like this investigation. i remember when people hadç questions earlier and coming up with issuing statements. it looked like something was being done to undercut the power of this investigation. >> sandra: someone has to look out for the taxpayer, right? >> melissa: absolutely. number one, when to start these, they get bigger and number to call, they don't result in anything happening. they may come out with this finding there is no point and starting them and there'sç no point in stopping them. i've watched so many now. >> marie: clinton got impeached because of one. >> melissa: there is a lot different si

mr. mueller. >> when you have got an investigation like this, it's typically how they move forward. it's a standard operating procedure. reporter: sarah huckabee-sanders was trying to build up the case in the immediate aftermat afterf this. another attorney for the president echoed the same comments saying quote we have no reason to believe president trump is under investigation. that's some of the argument that's starting to be built up at white house. spokesperson for the special counselor's office would not comment on this "wall street journal" story. gerri: john wood, so glad to have you here tonight of all night. let's start with this breaking news. the trump administration saying the grand jury is no big deal, it's to be expected. >> i do agree it's to be expected. any time there is a special counsel, that there almost always was a special grand jury impaneled. but it does tell us a little bit about the investigation. it tells us it's unlikely bob mueller's investigation is going away anytime soon. because news reports reported there was already a grand jury in alexandria inve

mr. mueller's hand, the flesh on his hand make contact with the plaintiff's butt? she said yes. everyone is talking about how well taylor did on the stand yesterday. here's the question, how has taylor been getting from the hotel to the courthouse without being photographed? it's believed they are traveling from an underground garage to an underground restricted garage at the federal building adjacent to the courthouse. a lot of windows are blacked out and there's a black curtain behind the driver. >> this trial is expected to go into next week. >>> let's talk about chris pratt and anna faris. chris is making his first public appearance since the shocking split, and here is what we know now. less then a week after announcing his separation from anna, we learned chris is going to be at the teen's choice awards this sunday as a nominee. no word yet on his did it. we hope he brings his son jack with him. the last time he was at the teen choice awards. >> we're all very excited and grateful to be working, so yeah, it's good. >> he's up for two awards, choice movie ship with is costa

mr mueller denies the charges. stay with bbc news. and the top story here in the uk: the food standards agency says 700,000 potentially contaminated eggs from dutch farms have been sent to the uk, up from an earlier estimate ofjust 21,000. the agency said it was very unlikely that there was a risk to public health. now on bbc news, all the latest business news live from singapore. more troubles for the founder and formal boss of uber. a lawsuit for fraud. and how much is too much? we break down what expecting parents should be expecting for their newborns. good morning, asia. hello, world. welcome to another edition of asia business report. it's a friday. thank you forjoining us. i'm rico hizon. we start off with uber. the former chief executive has had a tough few months. he was forced out of hisjob in tough few months. he was forced out of his job in june tough few months. he was forced out of hisjob injune after a series of embarrassments for the company. now he is being sued by a venture capitalfirm forfraud. he is being sued by a

mr. mueller is looking at money laundering.on that it would have been done in an effort to hide the payoffs most likely by routing they will through offshore banking centers. how does that work and would there ultimately be records to catch it? >> there would be records. and we have a very important federal agency which is mostly irs people who are very good at finding needles of money in hay stacks of global commerce. the transactions donald has been involved wrgs i'm sure he's worried about, will end up being connected to deutsch bank, the bank that was laundering money for the russians. the purchases of properties from him at high prices. and hopefully, mueller will go all the way back to the 1980s, and donald's inexplicable deepen tanglement that i go to in depth, with a major international drug traffic per he went to bat for. >> so final thought, more money, more problems. >> one of the lawyer i talked to comes out of the cases in new york city and he said don't kid yourself. if he has grand jury now, he is looking to indi

mr. mueller. what he did was despicable and horrifying and shocking. >> this lawsuit is symbolic.s doing it to draw greater attention to sexual harassment and assault and women who have been through what she said she has been through. >> and her supporters said they are glad she is standing up. >> taylor swift's testimony was powerful. a little sassy, but just the right amount. >> i'm supporting her and this traumatic experience she is going through. >> you know the event. >> that's the main reason i wanted to come is to get that experience. it's kind of a big case. i think for women's rights. i think that's awesome. >> by representing women who have been sexually harass and assaulted and you probably will not find a singing woman in the music industry who has not been sexually harassed or assaulted at time or another. by giving that voice to put in stark terms, it's a great look for her and an important statement to make. >> even though the trial is expected to last a few more days, it's hard to contemplate any other witness filling in any better. for night line in denver. ♪ >> t

mr. mueller." and "we have no reason to believe president trump is under investigation." i am being told by the presidents legal teams at all this is fairly routine, that they would expect robert mueller would impanel a grand jury. clearly he has a lot of evidence he needs to go through, a lot of testimony he needs to hear. his investigation is just getting underway. for him to impanel a grand jury in an investigation as complicated as this one, it's likely to be. they are not surprised. anytime there's news like this, politically it's not particularly good for the president or the people close to the president who were involved in the investigation. if you want to add to the sense that this is a serious investigation, there is another report tonight that the grand jury we are talking about, the mueller grand jury, has subpoenaed information, records about the june 2016 meeting with donald, jr., and the russian lawyer. >> donald trump, jr. and a number of other players. jared kushner, paul manafort

mr. mueller should be looking at it. it also means the lawyers misled the public, and probably violated their obligations as lawyers. they should have never said anything, other than my client informs me. that's a basic. unless you know for a fact something, you don't assert it. in this case, i will hoping they are misled. that they weren't deliberately part of misleading the public but they should not have said what they said. >> you had this tweet. you said knowingly drafting a false statement for a person who is a witness in a criminal investigation is itself a crime. >> no father in his right mind would draft or weigh in on a false statement to be made by his son, a false public statement about a matter in which there is an ongoing criminal investigation. once he says something in a public statement, he would be very likely to say the same thing to a special prosecutor. and lying to the special prosecutor a crime feflt lies under oath, it becomes perjury. so this is a common strategy for obstructing justice, to get a

mr. mueller is hurting his reputation. >> maxine waters.

mr. mueller's work and remain to fully cooperating. mr. comey told the president at least three times he is not under investigation and we have heard nothing that would change that. the only concern at the white house is that this be done fast and fairly. that's ty cobb among the president's lawyers. the president flew to west virginia to deliver a speech tonight doubling down on his contention that there is nothing to see here where russia involvement is concerned. tonight again he called the whole thing a hoax. >> the russia story is a total fabrication. it's just an excuse for the greatest loss in the history of american politics. that's all it is. [ cheers and applause ] >> it just makes them feel better when they have nothing else to talk about. what the prosecutors should be looking at are hillary clinton's 33,000 deleted emails. and they should be looking at the paid russian speeches. and the owned russian companies. or let them look at the uranium she sold that is now in the hands of very angry russians. most people know there were

mr. mueller. james comey said three times the president is not under investigation and we have no reason to believe that has changed. so what does that response from the white house tell you? >> let's get to the response from his client, president trump. very confident, very straight forward and very willing to appear to want to work and try to get this over with. in contrast you look at how president trump has addressed this. he has threatened that this investigation needs to end. he has called it fake over and over. he called it a witch hunt. quite frankly he has taunted the investigators including special counsel mueller to not do the investigation. clearly he is doing the right thing there for his client to at least try to show that they are trying to cooperate. if i was in trouble i would want him representing me and not donald trump. >> i want you to listen to this because as you know cnn is now reporting federal investigators have seized on donald trump and his associate's financial ties to

mr. mueller's work. joining us now, coauthor of that op-ed in the new york times.lso, eli, and msnbc political analyst. daniel, first of all, i want to go to this report of communication between the president and robert mueller indirectly through the president's lawyer and the president's lawyer used the phrase back and forth. in a way that is unclear. what do you make of that? what are the ethics of that? >> these are difficult words to parts. i think it would be entirely proper for the target of an investigation to have communications. with the prosecutor. and i'm glad that president trump expressed his appreciation for robert mueller i thi. i should we should all appreciate the work robert muler is doing. >> is it proper to have communication with the counsel, with the heard involved but to have the head of the government that prosecutor works for communicating with the prosecutor indirectly strikes me as something different. >> i think that we should be concerned about interactions between the trump administration and special counsel. trump administration has a

mr. mueller to move on?t like we are. >> yeah. >>> nischelle turner here to talk about the "bachelor in paradise" premiere after the hype and scandal last night. we are going to see what happened in that pool between demario and corinne, right? >> not really, kev, but we all know no one was more interested than showing the tale of the tape than demario. so what did he think? "e.t." online's lauren zima was with the bachelor of the hour. >> i feel guilty. like, because my mom, like, didn't sign up for this. >> ultimately, do you feel vindicated today? >> yes. today, i honestly can say that i feel like the -- like, you know, the public, they wanted to see. she is lucid, and i'm lucid. we're swimming around. >> come on. >> yes! >> i love that. >> corinne and demario hit it off instantly in paradise but accusations of inappropriate behavior shut down production just two days in. host chris harrison was seen awkwardly addressing the incident on an empty set, but never really seemed to answer the question, what re

mr. muellerer.ten to what president trump said about all of this tonight in wa wa. >> the russia story is a total fabrication. it's just an excuse for the greatest loss in the history of american politics. that's all it is. >> interesting little bit of a pivot from the president. usually he bashes us, the free media about this but not this time. he's going with the democrats. interesting pivot there. but let's dus cuswhat these developments mean to the investigation. former federal prosecutor for the federal district of new york. thank you for being with us tonight. >> good to be here. >> so let me start with you. how would you prioritize? what is impressive to you? >> there are two things. i prioritize them as equal though. follow the money and take the meeting that is so critical in which there is a meeting about russia with russians and the second meeting in which they're deciding how to cover it up and the president writes the letter for trump jr. those are really important things to focus on an

mr. mueller seams to me at best inappropriate and possibly extremely bad.t could even be considered as some kind of a threat when they communicate with him for no reason. so there's a lot of things that he should be doing that he isn't doing. >> yeah. >> and getting a better legal team might be one of the things he should be doing. >> and maybe not beating up on potential witness paul manafort. i don't know. just might be a strategy too. >> joy, may i add something real quick? >> very quickly. >> back to what we were saying earlier, that even though the president never truly trusted paul manafort, there is still unease within trump's inner circle as to what paul manafort does or doesn't know. they aren't sure. so within the white house, even though there is this intense distrust towards paul manafort, they're not sure exactly what will become of it if mueller really sits him down and has him spill his guts. they just don't know. >> yep. therein lies the rub. thank you, guys. appreciate it. >>> coming up, donald trump today continued to pretend that vice pre

mr. mueller's residents and he has cooperated with law enforcement. end quote. let's go backo the video you saw a moment ago. saturday's fire in arlington allegedly caused by a guy who attacked a woman, set a carpet on fire and pushed an infant in a stroller toward the flame. this happened on columbia pike near south jefferson street. taylor took off before police could get there. the woman and the baby, they were also able to escape. that's good. police arrested taylor when he o the scene hours later. >>> a scary fine in montgomery county. a grenade found there brought the bomb squad out. it was found at deer mills park. the ordinance turned out to be an inactive training device resembling a grenade. crews wrapped the device in a towel and put it in the back of a pickup truck. investigators don't know where it came from. >>> another attack in the streets of paris. a man drove his car into a group of soldiers as they were changing shift. six people are hurt and serious injuries. they call it -- police later captured the suspect after wounding him during a gun fi

mr. mueller." listen to what president trump said about all of this tonight in west virginia. >> the russia story is a total fabrication. it is just an excuse for the greatest loss in the history of american politics. that's all it is. >> interesting little bit of a pivot there from the president. usually he bashes us, the free media, about in and that it is our obsession. not this time. he is going at the democrats. interesting little political pivot there. let's discuss what the developments mean to the investigation specifically. we have john flanery, former federal prosecutor for the southern district of new york and cnn commentator matthew whittaker, former united states attorney. thank you for being here. >> good to be here. >> mr. flannery, let me start with you. of these developments how would you prioritize? what is impressive to you? >> there are two things. i prioritize them as equal though, follow the money and take the meeting that is so critical in which there is a meeting about russi

mr. mueller means business or at least means handing out clients to the lawyers who need clients and can give out for a long time. there's little time to keep a client paying out for years and the u.s. government is the best client of all, a bottomless pit of cash easy for the plucking. from new york, line for democrats. go ahead. caller: good morning. i want to make a comment about the investigation. yes, i think his son is guilty and him, too, because we look at just his campaign, he was asking for putin's emails. how did he know he had the emails? you understand? there has to be some kind of -- w you say it, some kind of coordination. also he had a lot of intelligence about the people that he was running against. i don't think -- about what he id yesterday, the comment is disrespectful. wants n also the guy who to testify and the congress doesn't want to let him. that's covering up the whole mess. host: from union washington, line for republicans. glenn, go ahead. caller: good morning. i have a couple quick statements. i agree first of all with the caller before last that talked about

mr mueller has denied the accusation, though admits he may have inadvertently touched her skirt.eteor shower tonight. astronomers say hundreds of meteors will streak across the sky in a display that may be visible around the world. the display should peak at around ”pm this evening. clear skies permitting, it will be seen in most parts of the uk. police in texas have released dramatic footage of a most unlikely car crash. the accident happened when the car drove through a set of safety barriers. the driver was treated at hospital but is expected to be ok. a p pa re ntly apparently the car fell six floors. but everyone was ok, including the person in the car which came down, the rok just minor person in the car which came down, the rokjust minor injuries. amazing. world leaders have called for calm after a week of fierce exchanges between the united states and north korea. last night, president trump warned pyongyang the us military was "locked and loaded" should missiles be fired toward its territory in the pacific. north korea said america was driving the situation to nuclear wa