>> comedian and host randy credico incredulous he was called to testify before robert mueller grand juryarrived at the courthouse with his therapy dog bianca and told them about the relationship of roger stone. stone claimed credico was his back channel to wikileaks founder julian assange during the 2016 campaign. credico has denied he was the intermediary and assange was a topic of inquiry of prosecutors inside of the grand jury room. >> i could go back and do what i was doing before. and that is advocating for the release and the freedom of julian assange who is a very close friend of mine. >> reporter: his court appearance is another sign that mueller's team might be moving in on roger stone. stone first attracted scrutiny in 2016 when he claimed to be in contact with julian assange and made this prediction on twitter that october. wednesday at hillary clinton is done. hashtag wikileaks. soon after stolen e-mails from clinton campaign chairman john podesta were published via wikileaks and used as campaign fodder by trump. >> i love wikileaks. >> reporter: u.s. intelligence has since c

>> so what randy credico, roger stone as we've been reporting claim to have information from wikileaksof time, certainly hinted at it and now it's believed this is what the mueller team is looking at and they want to know if randy credico was the person or part of perhaps several people who may have been communicating with wikileaks and then giving information to roger stone. >> and as far as we know, correct me if i'm wrong, shimon, but roger stone himself has not yet been subpoenaed. not yet testified before the grand jury, right? >> no, and that is significant, poppy for two reasons. first, we usually know if you're a target of an investigation mueller does not talk to you, does not interview you so that is significant and roger stone said to us he has not spoken to anyone on the mueller team and he himself has not been subpoenaed to appear before the grand jury. >> shimon, great reporting, thank you, my friend. with me now, elli hoenig. it's largely believed the person named in paragraph 44 of the indictment of those 12 russians for packing tied to the election was roger stone. it'

i will interview randy credico about what went down. >>> first, former fbi deputy director andrew mccabeack in march. but we are just now learning that he has been the subject of a grand jury investigation of his own for months. this stems from a doj investigation into whether mccabe misled internal investigators about his contacts with the media reporting on the probe into the clinton foundation. what does this mean for mccabe? are criminal charges coming up? what are you hearing about this? what's mccabe saying? >> kate, mccabe is not out of the woods yet. his attorney is batting down this new reporting out of the "washington post" confirming a grand jury has been used in this case. he says his client will ultimately be cleared and charges will not be brought. i want to read a little bit of a statement that mccabe's attorney gave to us. he says, this leak about a procedural step taken more than a month ago occurring in the midst of a disastrous week for the president is a sad and poorly veiled attempt to try to distract the american public. he questioning the timing of the reporting, b

his name is randy credico. he is a lot of things. radio personality, a stand-up comic who once appeared on "the tonight show" with johnny carson, and a political candidate here in new york. importantly, roger stone called him his back channel to wikileaks and assange. credico, accompanied by his comfort dog, was questioned for several hours today and has now been subpoenaed to do the same before the senate intel committee. there is also new reporting from bloomberg tonight. this is important. according to sources, former trump campaign chair paul manafort lawyers talked about a plea deal to avoid the upcoming second criminal trial. it's enough to qualify for a conversation with joyce vance, former u.s. attorney. in fact, in light of obama's reemergence today, we can remind our audience, joyce's name was among the first five nominations president obama made. joyce is a 25-year veteran as a federal prosecutor. joyce, i want to take things out of order and begin with the last thing we said. it is an interesting time, isn't it, for manaf

it was a busy day for mueller, randy credico who has links to julian assange and roger stone was back in there, in the grand jury room, testifying. of course, it makes you wonder, was mueller interested in wikileaks today or roger stone or both? we learned the answer. take a look. >> how much of the questioning have you -- of assange? >> very little. >> no, don't -- the major -- the majority of the questioning had to do with roger stone. specific questions we're not going to get into. >> you saw the lawyer trying to get credico not to answer. that is big news tonight. roger stone was the focus of the questions today in that grand jury room. let's take it together. bob mueller is hunting right now. trump's lawyers, meanwhile, sending their own mixed signals about whether donald trump will ever face mueller. rudy giuliani announced to much fanfare that trump wouldn't answer any questions about obstruction of justice, even in writing. that made headlines, he added later, well, nothing's totally off the table. that is the public message from trump's lawyer. but remember the private messag

his name is randy credico.sonality, a stand-up comic, and a political candidate here in new york. importantly, roger stone called him his back channel to wikileaks and assange. he was comforted by his dog for several hours today and has been subpoenaed to do the same before the senate intel committee. >>> there is also new reporting from bloomberg. according to sources, former trump campaign chair paul manafort lawyers talked about a plea deal to avoid the upcoming trial. it is enough to qualify for a conversation with joyce vance, former u.s. attorney. in light of obama's re-emergence today, we can remind the audience, joyce's name was among the first five nominations president obama made. joyce, i want to take things out of order and begin with the last thing we said. it is an interesting time, isn't it, for manafort's lawyers to be talking about a deal now. do you believe it? >> i do believe it. it makes sense to me because manafort has exposure in this second trial. it will also cost him a lot of money to m