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. >>> still ahead, wall street's >> i'mor robert frank in new city.ng on "nightly business report," did g just ll the suit? we'll take you inside one of manhattan' m top suitakers to find out what wall stree >>> facebook has admitted to inadvertently exposing the passwords belonging to hundreds of millions of its users.co ing to reports the social media company stored about 600 million passwords without encrypting them, meaning they were viewable as plain texts to some company employees. in a blog post, facebook did not say how many users were affected,ut it did say that it would start sending out notifications so users can passwords.ir most companies do encrypt passwords to prevent them from being stolen in the event of a data breach. >>> new crash tests are raising questions about the safety of some of america's most popular vehicles, pickks tr in fact a watchdog group says some pickups struggle to protect passengers in the front seat. phil lebeau has the detail >> reporter: the impact of new crash tests from the insurance institute for highway safety is unning. some of the most popul

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here with their takes are dom chu, kate rogers and robert frank. welcome, everyone. a lot to get through today first topic is a downgrade for facebook at needham moving the stock from buy to hold and putting a $170 price target on it now, the interesting thing is she's saying, lauren needham, the social giant's move toward privacy, the increased risk of regulation which we spoke about and executive departures recently will lead to a negative market effect, the opposite from what facebook's benefited from so far. >> as we talk about the idea that facebook is facing this huge hurdle, the other part of this is this idea that they're pivoting some of the strategy to be more focused on privacy they may be playing catch-up at this point because they have not exactly been the poster children for sharing or not sharing people's data. we've talked about this in the past but for a stock that's already run up by 30-some percent, you're talking about an idea in this downgrade where maybe it just got a little bit ahead of itself and that's the reason why people are a little bit c

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robert frank tates y of the richest from new york to california saw unexpected lamulti-billion d dropoffs in tax revenues in december and january. new york governor andrew cuomo saying last month that the state collected $2.3 billion less than he expected and he blamed the new federal tax law, which limited state andocal tax deductions. he claimed it was driving the wealthy out ofew york. >> s.a.l.t. encourages high income n yorkers t move to other states. and what you have to remember is even if a small number of high income taxpayers leave, it has a dramatic o effect this tax base. tax the rich, tax the rich, tax the rich. we did. now, god forbid, the rich leave. >> almost every other high tax state, california to connecticut, new jery and massachusetts reported major shortfalls in andom januaryred with the forecast. california's tax receipts came in $3.4 billion light. but tax experts and accountants tell me thel f wasn't probably due to the wealth flightut probably more to the stock market,ha specifically t big drop in december. the biggest source of the shortfalls was estimated payme

fornitly business report," i'm robert frank. >>> right now it may be g easie a job than to land a spot at a prestigious university t in fac department of labor said today there are 7.5 million job openings across the country. that t is therd highest level on record. but as we've heard, the problem ha that many employers have not been able to find enough skilled workers to fill those jobs. joining us now with how you can land one of t jses is our senior personal finance correspondent, sharonep rson. what are those skills that we keep hearing about that people are in such demand right now? >> a lot of people think they're hard skills, that you need to technology.west having technical skills is very important, but it's also important to have soft skil. career builder did a survey and asked hiring managers how important are the soft skills. they said 80% of the hiring managers want theseor skills than hard skills. be a team player, be able to w with many people on a team, pay attention to detail and focus on customer service, not just outside of your company but within other departments. m

so we shall see. >> all right robert frank, thanks got you -- how many stories you covering today >>h of coverage for you this morning >> you do. all right. let's bring in a real estate mogul who runs new york state's largest real estate brokerage firm president and ceo of the vector group. welcome, howard. good to see you. >> morning >> that was an interesting discussion we had yesterday. is there any way that you wouldn't see if you had some type of tax that's being proposed here? does real estate go down in your view >> i think it would be a disaster not just for real estate i think it'd be a disaster for the economy in new york. between construction jobs and other industries that will suffer from people not buying in new york >> i remember when during the financial crisis and bonuses went down. restaurants suffered because people were not ordering $200 and $300 bottle wine they were ordering something else do politicians not think about the unintended consequences at times like this? >> i think they should have learned their lesson with the amazon disaster. >> i mentioned that. >

let's bring in robert frank. bert's taking a closer look at the wealthy people that made the payments. >> yeah. so the big names on top of this, of course, two actresses but for our audience they know more of the other names, more than 30 ceos, entrepreneurs and others including hodge, the former ceo of pimco, also bill mcglashan from tpg an he is a partner with bono making a lot of investments. manual henriquez that stock down almost 10% on the news an if you look at gordon kaplan, a most surprising one to me. he is the co-chairman of the global law firm wilke farr an phone calls and wiretaps of the call that have him agreeing to things clearly illegal and the chairman and ceo of dragon global, bob zangrillo and agustin hunee you s charged. also the parents wrote off the payments on the taxes since it was done through a fake charity. >> they have to repay that what happens now >> i think that's the least of their -- >> so sad. >> the fact that the organization was designated by the irs as a charitable organizatio

charged 33 parents who paid millions for bribes to get their kids into elite american universities robert frankore of these really jaw-dropping details robert. >> it's such an interesting story. hollywood stars felicity huffman and lori loughlin may be the most famous names in this college cheating scandal, but 30 ceos, entrepreneur and a top lawyer were charged with wire fraud and mail fraud today as part of that scheme to get their kids into college. some of those folks include doug hodge, william mcglashan, manuel h henriquez, founder of hercules capital. you also have gordon kaplan. he is the co-chairman of the global law firm wilke farr none of those charged or their lawyers could be immediately reached for comment. guys, back to you. >> some of the numbers, robert, are enormous a place in these colleges was costing a million dollars. >> yeah. and that was, again, to pay for false test scores and to get people into sort of the athletic recruiting end of things but it's a lot more expensive if you want to go the other route, which is to give money to the university as a donation as a philan

sachs announces it will allow more casual dress by its employees, is wall street going casual robert frankall street's tone bespoke suit-makers. good morning, frank. >> reporter: good morning, car as you mentioned, the levi's ipo this morning and all the talk about athleisure is a reminder that the traditional business suit has been falling out of favor for years, but goldman sachs's announcement it's going casual earlier this month just created a whole new era for these suit-makers and the tailors that have been dressing wall street for decades. suit sales falling from 13 million to 11 million last year. expected to fall even further to 10 million in the next few years. >> we have said for a while if goldman goes casual, there's going to be a problem, because goldman is such a bellwether for -- for the market and is such a trend setter among other firms. i think once a firm as prestigious as goldman says we're going casual, that's kind of the last domino, and i think we'll see a lot of other holdouts very quickly begin to adapt. >> so the future of suit-making probably looks a lot like th

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robert frank is digging through filings to see where the money went good morning >> good morning, carl worldwide foundation or kwf was designated as a charity so parents could write off 6 figure bribes from taxes. now the issues is looking at where the money went and whether some deductions could be clawed back the charity told the irs the purpose was to, quote, provide education that was normally unattainable to underprivileged students prosecutors say it was a front for wealthy parents to laundromater six figure bribes the irs forms so 7 million in contributions between 2013 and 2016, payouts of just more than five million more than a dozen colleges received money from them some of the groups were not named in the initial scandal and are new to the picture, along with usc and yale, university of texas, nyu, chapman, and university of miami received hundreds of thousands of dollars from kwf university of texas told us it is in the process of reviewing more than 250,000 it received. chapman said of the 150 k it received, it intends to review the relationship in depth to assure that our

our robert frank joins us with more on the migration of high earners and whether florida can keep thingsobert. >> reporter: good morning, carl, it's the tale of two tax regimes, high-taxed new york facing a revenue shortfall and population declines while low-tax florida is considering a tax cut after bigger than expected windfalls florida expected to finish the year with about $200 million in extra funds. governor ron desantis even floating the idea of cutting property and sales taxes then you have new york which is facing a $2.3 billion shortfall. governor andrew cuomo responding with talk about a new tax on those who own second homes in florida. florida is hoping those homes taxes. >> raise your taxes on the expensive homes. i hope new york hurries up and does that so we get another 5,000 people who move to florida. >> reporter: now the divergence may be fleeting from new york suffered after last year's stock market declines back in december, but the new federal tax law that limits state and local deductions could accelerate a shift in growth from high tax to low-tax states. new york g

state tax collectors robert frank has a story on the arms race between state auditors and wealthy neweaded for the exits. >> reporter: new york state audits 3,000 people a year who move to change tax residency after the new tax law, the audits will be more common and a lot more aggressive. new york collected $1 billion from residents changing tax residency, many to florida, between 2013 and 2017. abouthalf those audited lost the average amount collected was 144,000. tax lawyers say the audit rate for high income earners relocating is now 100% the myth is that as long as you're in florida for 183 days, you're legal but auditors focus on domicile, proving the permanent principal home is in florida, that includes pets. make sure your dog stays in florida and is kennelled when you travel your prized possessions should all be in florida along with your dentist, your country club, charities, and even your food. >> what they're looking for, they want the refrigerator in the new york apartment to have a can of beer, whatever else the person may want, a soda a. on the other hand, the refrigera

. >>> the college cheating scandal has the irs involved robert frank is here with the latest. >> court in think, the company at the center of the cheating scandal called the kwf, key wide world foundation as designated as a charity so parents could write off those six-figure bribes from their taxes. the irs is looking at where the money went the charity said its mission was to provide education that normally was unattainable to underprivileged students prosecutors say it was a front for wealthy parents to launder six-figure bribes. more than a dozen colleges and groups received money from kwf, some not named in the initial scandal. usc and yale, university of texas, nyu, chapman and the university of miami received together hundreds of thousands of dollars from kwf. those schools now saying they are investigating those funds and working with prosecutors the irs says it is investigating the parents who made a total of $25 million in donations to the foundation and then claimed it on their taxes which means that in addition to the mail fraud charges they already face, they could add to t

it's time for rapid fire here with takes on john fortt, robert frank and dom chu appear andrew rothman ars himself. >> we have of a ai anchor in new york city. >> andrew comes into the office and i say -- i make you come. >> i'm happy to be here. >> i watch the show. i don't get to be on the show it's great. >> he is looking around stealing the plasmas. >> i love this set i love the show and the zbleet thank you. first up today shares of snap are surging after a new note from btig upgrading to buy from neutral. noting they are set to rally thanks to better ad shares shares could surge over the next 12 months opinion they have doubled year to date what's going on here. >> i think the issue they got so discounted it's like buying milk duds because they are so cheap not because it's the favorite candy. it's akin to twitter not long ago. it didn't live up to expectations, but people got oh down on it that it became -- >> one of the things they noted this is rich greenfield at btig who never had a buy rating on snap he is a snap hater. but he mentioned in the five reasons why he likes the s

here with their takes are bill griffeth, courtney reagan and robert frank we're already talking about this one. shares of brown foreman are on pace for their worst day since 2009 the companio ceo warned tariff uncertainty is a big headwind. they make popular whiskeys they reported higher net sales for q3 but also posted a revenue miss >> i think this is a short-term problem. i mean, okay, so the algorithms read the headline and decided to get out of the stock today, but the tariffs we all know are going to go away at some point and it's not a problem if you look at a chart of brown-forman going back ten years, this stock has been going up for a long time it finally hit a wall last year. why? probably the talk about the tariffs. so i don't know. i see opportunity here >> and it didn't really come down too much. what was also interesting about the earnings report is the super premium stuff, the woodford reserve which is like $150 a bottle it's my job to bring you the most expensive stuff you've never heard it that's where they had 24% growth versus the jack daniels stock which is single

it's time for rapid fire here with their takes are dom chu, seema mody and robert frank. and let's talk about lyft which is now boosting its target price range for tomorrow's ipo to $70 to $72 a share it would be valued at more than $120 billion at that price originally it was $62 to $68 a share and jim cramer was saying earlier this would go to 100 depending on what the retail interest and participation is. here's the quote in particular if retail comes in big, as i think it will, you'll see 100 bucks for lyft which lost almost a billion dollars last year. >> we often talk about, every time there's an ipo and every time there's a hypothetical surge, i'm not saying lyft is going to be that way, but every time there is, people always talk about, these ipo companies didn't price effectively their bankers should have told them to price at a higher range. they are right now what's interesting is it's just a notch below where tom white and davidson came out with his price target he made waves by saying it's worth 75 bucks a share only 6% away from there at the midpoint >> we s

robert frank will tell us, is the suit and tie dead? , robert >> i might be the last guy in new york to be wearing this, becky. goldman sac maman sachs may hav the traditional power suit thul will wall street be wearing nee timate tale of the tape coming up after the break. imagine traveling hassle-free with your golf clubs. now you can, with shipsticks.com! no more lugging your clubs through the airport or risk having your clubs lost or damaged by the airlines. sending your own clubs ahead with shipsticks.com makes it fast & easy to get to your golf destination. with just a few clicks or a phone call, we'll pick up and deliver your clubs on-time, guaranteed, for as low as $39.99. shipsticks.com saves you time and money. make it simple. make it ship sticks. >> buy a decent suit go to morty, and tell him i sent you. >> that's the famous lunch scene in "wall street. it was at the twenty-one club. gordon geko always sharply dressed and giving bud fox some advice do you know, i think it was -- did churchill say only a cab would wear a -- he

robert frank joins us with more on that. what happened, robert?telling cnbc that the pied-a-terre tax, that would be a second tax on homes in new york valued at more than $5 million is unlikely to pass as it's been proposed the real estate lobby has been fighting hard. it had been too erroneous. this is the big thing. it would have required the city to overhaul its complex system of valuing properties especially co-o co-ops politicians finally understood what it would cause. but brad hoylman tweeting saying the real estate lobbyists who say the rich wouldn't buy apartments with the pied-a-terre tax deserve an oscar for acting. which is what the head of new york's top broker predicted on "squawk box" just two weeks ago. >> i don't think it's going to happen the way it's laid out now. i think the governor is a smart man and would come to the senses to what it would do to the economy of new york, new york city especially. i think there'll be something. i don't think it'll be as severe and i don't think it'll be an annual payment >> new tax would rais

robert frank joins us with more. robert >> good morning.rnor andrew cuomo announcing his support for the so-called tax. the tax on secondary homes in new york city would raise about $9 billion over time for the mta. it already has support from the assembly, senate, and city council and mayor, looks like a done deal at this point. you could call it the ken griffin tax. bought that condo in january they told us this morning that the rich that own multi million dollar second homes in the city can easily afford it >> we're leaving a lot of money on the table in new york city. these are individuals who don't make new york city their primary residence and therefore don't pay income taxes and that's money that's left on the table for things like the subway system and things like affordable housing, for things like the infrastructure of our city >> all right so here is how it would work it would apply to properties valued $5 million or more not the primary residences or primary residences of the owner's parents or children. the rate would be gradua

robert frank is back at hq with more on why the college consultant business has been booming. >> reportercheating scandal has cast a spotlight on one of the fastest growing industries in education, and that's college consultants there are now about 8,000 private educational consultants in the u.s that's quadruple the number of just five years ago. revenues estimated at about $400 million a year if you add in test prep and tutors the numbers are expected to be in the billions. college consultants say william rick singer, the guy at the center of the cheating ring was a bad apple in an otherwise important industry that helps guide students through their college process, and demand is soaring for kids and kids of younger ages. >> every other day i have a second grader or third grader's parent calling me asking what can we do as a second grader to help with the college admissions process and i say there's nothing we can do. the only thing for to you do is that your child do what he wants to do. if he's interested in art, ceramics, painting, music, let your child explore that's passions or tal

. >> robert frank is here with a look at the fate of the family's massive fortune. >> yes, they are worthve given hundreds of millions to museums and charities around the world but now the famed sackler family is under siege for its role the $270 million settlement in oklahoma today involved $75 million personally from the sackler family itself. that's a small price given that court documents show they earned $4 billion from purdue pharma between 2008 and 2016, but the costs could escalate as aditi mentioned, there are 1600 other lawsuits waiting for trial. for years the family has argued that they were merely passive investors in purdue. but the documents in the massachusetts case filed revealed the family was actively involved in decisions relating to oxycontin museums and charity groups refusing further gifts from the family, even looking at possibly returning funds. the tate museums in london and guggenheim in new york said they would not accept furthergifts from the family. the louvre and metropolitan museum of science have also received donations but their fortune will likely remain

robert frank joins us now with more on that good morning >> good morning.cing yesterday his support for a so-called pied-a-terre tax in new york city. it's got some support from the city and senate and council. you could call it the ken griffin tax. this is an idea that first came around in 2014 but it languished in the legislature until ken griffin bought that $238 million condo in january which sparked new calls for the tax. city speaker cory johnson tweeting, enough it's time for a pied-a-terr tax. it would apply to properties at $5 million or more that are not the primary residences or the residences of their parents or children it would rise from 0.5% to 4%. plus a fee of $370,000 for properties over $25 million. now, ken griffin just as an example would owe about $9 million a year on his property the tax would raise about $650 million a year in total. the real estate industry, of course, gearing up for a fight the board of new york saying a tax would lead to proposed sales activity. >> let's talk a lot more about this i imagine there's going to be a d

do you think we'll learn, frank, about why some of those -- robert mueller would appear from this reporting and others in peter's newspaper and others, and this organization, reached a fork in the road around this question of interviewing the president. they landed on written answers. they got to another fork in the road, they landed on written answers only about collusion. do you think the written report will offer some paper trail around when the frame of the obstruction investigation was locked in when they decided that if the conduct was so clearly to obstruct the investigation, but they couldn't interview him, they reached this conclusion they wouldn't charge? >> so a couple of thoughts. one is we absolutely need to know the process that led mueller to this decision and, two, i think the answer is in the appendsies. and here's why. from what i know about how mueller works on these very sensitive issues is he will memorialize this for the record, but it's not likely that it's in the body of the report. that's why i still get nervous when i hear the ag say 400-page report and we all appl

robert frank joins us with more. >> last month andrew cuomo blamed a $2.3 billion revenue shortfall oning out of new york >> tax the rich, tax the rich, tax the rich we did now god forbid the rich leave. >> but tax experts and accountants tell me there's a different reason the stock market fall in december look at california, connecticut, new jersey, massachusetts. they all reported major shortfalls in december and january compared with their forecasts. california's tax receipts came in $3.4 billion light. now, the biggest short of the shortfalls was the estimated payments now, those are tax payments for non-wage income mostly from investments or businesses. tax advisers say wealthy investors sold to get the tax losses that lowered their overall tax bills but created a shortfall for the states moody's saying in a report that the revenue decline was owed in part to a volatile stock market's impact on that capital gains income now the markets are back which bodes well for this year, but states are bracing for a lot more surprises once we see the effects of the tax law. >> so this is just

and frank figliuzzi, former fbi assistant director for counterintelligence who in the past has worked for robertller. and frank, point of personal privilege. i'd like to go with you first to hear you out on bob mueller, why you think he punted on this central point. but also please follow up with the counterintelligence part of this investigation. the mueller report that we haven't been able to see yet. >> certainly, brian. so i'm as perplexed and puzzled as the guests you had on earlier, but knowing bob mueller and how he works, there's a couple possibilities here. there's probably more than a couple possibilities but one of them is he had a strategy that was aimed at giving congress the opportunity to take care of business because he may have firmly believed that it was not his province to do so with regard to a president and regard to a shaky call on a criminal matter. the other is that somehow he made it crystal clear to the attorney general that he wanted to do something or had a strategy but the attorney general took that and turned into the summary we now have. and i think we -- none of u

he's accused of paying $250,000 to get his son admitted to the university of southern california robert frankf the story which is kind of like an onion almost. >> yeah. we had phil mickelson yesterday -- >> the guy dealt with a lot of different people so it was a legitimate thing for awhile >> it's like madoff. he is a legitimate security business and so he had his legitimate securities business then the side business. and what this whole scandal has done is cast a spotlight and legitimate parts of college education. that's college consultants there are 8,000 private educational consultants in the u.s. that's quadruple the number of four years ago if you add in test prep and tutors, the numbers are estimated to be close to $12 billion a year now, college consultants say that william rick zinger that's the guy we were just talking about, the man at the center of this cheating ring he was just a bad apple in an otherwise important industry that helps guide students in their college process. demand is soaring for kids of younger and younger ages >> every other day i have a second grader or third

. >>> the college cheating scandal now has the irs involved robert frank joins us with the latest development to this now it's emerging there is actually a tax side of this. the company at the center of the cheating scandal called key worldwide financial was designated as a charity so parents could write off the six figure bribes from their taxes now the irs is looking at where the money went and whether some of those deductions could actually be clawed back. now, kwf was approved as a charity by the irs in 2014 $7 million in contributions between 2013 and 2016. and total payouts of about $5 million. now singer who's the head of it took no official salary. more than a dozen colleges and groups received money from that. some were not named in that initial scandal. you have theuniversity of texas, nyu, chapman, and the university of miami. they all received hundreds of thousands of dollars from kwf. the university of texas told us they're in the process of reviewing more than $250,000 it receive received chapman said of the 150k they got, they're looking to make sure none of their principles ha

. >> and, frank figliuzzi, did robert mueller waste millions and millions of dollars in two years of the american people's time? >> boy, i have to tell you, that clip from sanders' interview has really got my blood pressure up. if we think that two years were wasted when we discovered beyond a shadow of a doubt that a foreign adversary had meddled through their in tell jensen services with our electoral process, if we think that's a waste of time, we're in sorry shape because we're headed into another presidential election cycle and the russian bots and social media propaganda are still out there and we're still not going to properly address the threat if we think this was a waste of time. >> ben rhodes, as a former deputy national security advisor, the russian threat just a waste of time? >> knowledge. and, in fact, it's only growing. let's remember here, the russians engaged in a multifaceted complicated asymmetric war essentially to intervene in our politics, including in our 2016 election. that's only been confirmed by what we learned because of bob mueller's work. and we know th

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attorney who worked on the staffs of robert mueller and james comey, is here. frank figliuzzi, former fbi assistant director for counterintelligence, bloomberg opinion executive editor tim o'brien and ring stengel, former undersecretary of state for federal diplomacy at the table. all, lucky for us, msnbc contributors. let me start with you, chuck rosenberg. i'm beginning to think we got it wrong again when it comes to special counsel mueller in that what may be happening is less than a grand finale and more of like a relay race, handing off bataans to various other jurisdictions. is that possible? >> very possible. in fact several relay races. the report he's writing is important because of what he was asked to do to examine russian interference in our election is important. but there's a lot of other stuff going on, nicolle, including the southern district of new york. even when robert mueller and his team finish their report, i am -- and i'm keenly interested in reading it, i am just as keenly focused on federal prosecutors in manhattan, what they're doing. rememb

robert mueller report, coming up. rt, coming up. >>> good morning. i'm pam cook. >> i'm frank mallicoat. >> we love fridays. good morning to you. i know frank, we love dry weather. >> lately. it has been a long winter. >> pam is good with the snow. >> a little bit of sunshine over the sierra snow and into the weekend as we say hello to some dry weather. giving a i view as we take a peek at that dark start. in addition to partly cloudy skies, we have a little bit of fog to deal with. low 40s to start your morning in napa. a bit of a chill in the air. temperature for the afternoon relatively mild. we will be a little breezy as that transition in our weather pattern comes our way. we do have a little bit of moisture out there and that residual moisture helping to add to the possibility of fog along our valley floors. areas of napa reporting 1/4 mile visibility. over at novato, down to about zero. starting out, be prepared that you may come across some patchy dense fog. as we get into your lunch hour, partly cloudy skies for most and picking occupy still a little bit of moisture up over our higher elevations bu

showed the special counsel began looking at cohen almost immediately after robert mueller was appointed. good evening, everyone. i frankomerville. >> and i'm julie haener. we learned that mueller steam obtained search warrants for cohen data. live coverage tonight from foxnews ray bogan. he's on capitol hill in washington with new details. ray? >> reporter: frank and julie, good evening. it has been months of waiting for these court documents, but now that they are released we can finally see that the investigation into cohen started well beyond before when we known back in july 2017. the nearly 900 pages released shall requests from investigators to obtain and review emails from 2016 and 2017, and that the special counsel steam fought warrants and corresponded during the presidential campaign. >> he was a subject since the day the peschel council showed a. they must have known he was part of the key things they were looking at. >> reporter: however, 19 pages that relate to campaign-finance violations under the title the illegal campaign contributions scheme were heavily or entirely redacted. >> so that also says that

. >> frank figluzzi we had a little fun last night. robertueller owns a baseball cap and a valid driver's license, and drove a car to work this week. julia ainsley walked into a restaurant in washington tonight sat at a both that had just been vacated by one robert mueller. a guy who has been a kind of public ghost like figure with those of us repeating those pictures over and over again. we know he's going to be available to barr to talk him through the report he authored. is there any other work that they may have to sweep up that even though the special counsel's work is done. that could still require more hours and work from mueller as he's trying to get a foot out the door. >> there are more signs that he's feeling more relaxed. one of those things left to do, i still believe that because this started as a counter intelligence investigation. he owes the senate and house intelligence committees a briefing. >> he's waiting to do that. you don't just run to the hill with at least -- without at least a phone call. he needs to get that green

robert is right. the guidelines are so high in this case and the frank fraud is such an important charge -- >> charleson. one second. give me a second. the judge has gavelled in. i want to go to doug mckelway right now. doug? >> yeah, just to bring you up to date. we understand why things are a little late in proceeding here. the judge t.f. ellis did show up and told the parties that he's participating in a naturalization ceremony a couple floors down. he will be back. he wanted to make sure both sides were aware of the charges and what is happening. they agreed to that. and then he made a reference -- come here a sec. he made a reference to russian collusion, the russian said. what was that about? >> he said -- >> he said that they're not here for collusion, russian collusion allegations which is an interesting thing that he would make any reference to that given the fact that none of these charges, none of these convictions have anything to do with russian collusion. i know that he flies -- sometimes he's quick on the draw and speaks his mind freely. perhaps it was a statement about russian collusio

robert mueller and james comey at the fbi. former assistant fbi director for counterintelligence, frank figliuzzi. betsy woodrough, former chief of staff. former chief counsel, ron klain at the table, and mimi rocah is back. i have to tastart with you, fra figliuzzi because we talk so much, we talk on this show all the time about what mueller knows, what the southern district of new york knows. the answer is mountains and mountains and mountains of things that we don't know about yet. >> let's continue with the mountain theme and switch it to a frozen mountain, an iceberg. let's say that once again, nicol nico nicolle, we're getting increasing glimpses of the submerged part of the iceberg, the part we haven't seen yet. as that becomes more and more transparent to us, we learned today, this is what popped out at me, that remember what mueller's all about. he starts as a counterintelligence, russian counterintelligence investigation, we know from andy mccabe that mccabe had added an obstruction element in there involving the president and that gets handed off to mueller and what does mueller do? he

what do you think it was that led robert mueller to conclude the investigation was done, it was time to hand it over? franki think a lot of the reaction and actions of the special counsel for the last year and a half has been to protect the integrity of the investigation. it is taking place at the highest levels of government. it was rightly so, a lot of focus on protecting that integrity. you think what has happened now is he has gone to the end of his, at least his mandate as far as the investigation is concerned. just because this is over does not mean everything is over. there are still all of that work going on in the southern district of new york. still some outstanding prosecutions and indictments relative to the special counsel's investigation itself. and, who knows how many other cases have been handed off to other u.s. attorney's office is around the country? i think this does is it is a signal that bob mueller was doing is now completed, but that does not mean the investigations are over. there is so much more to go. emily: we are continuing to get statements from congressional leaders. a tweet

let me remind everybody the question robert mueller was trying to answer, does donald trump work for russia? on that note, frank figliuzzi, aaron blake, berit, thank you for joining us and spending time with us and making us smarter. >>> when we come back, following the money trail all the way to the trump administration. the ripple effects being felt at the new york attorney general's office today. that story next. that story next. the nerves in your colon. miralax works with the water in your body to unblock your system naturally. and it doesn't cause bloating, cramping, gas, or sudden urgency. miralax. look for the pink cap. itreat them all as if, they are hot and energized. stay away from any downed wire, call 911 and call pg&e right after so we can both respond out and keep the public safe. pg&e wants you to plan ahead by mapping out escape routes and preparing a go kit, in case you need to get out quickly. for more information on how to be prepared and keep your family safe, visit pge.com/safety. election for new york attorney general in november, she sent a powerful warning to donald trump saying, quote,

robert mueller report, coming up. >>> good morning. thank you for joining us here on mornings on 2. friday more than, march 29th. i'm pam cook. >> you made it. i'm frank mallicoat in for dave clark. rosemary has got it perfect this weekend. because the weekend looks great, monday, tuesday, not so much. >> let's worry about the weekend. >> more rain next week but the weekend is sunny. >> that's right. mother nature is delivering. sunny skies, warm are weather. saturday and sunday looks to be the warmest day. at this hour, we are drying out. just a few sprinkles left especially for the higher elevations. we may squeeze out a for you showers. the rest of us turning partly cloud you for the afternoon.

frank somerville. got your weather. rosemary will have the forecast. robert mueller's investigation over after two years but there is a lot we don't know. >> new indictments are expected but calls from democrats in congress to make it public. >> shot by police and today a mural where it happened will be unveiled. >> it will be dedicated to oscar grant. more on the event and the big names lending their support for the oscar grant foundation. >>> the jackpot keeps growing and another draw took held to see if anyone wins its all in powerball. >> we will talk about how much a winning ticket could be worth. we have more on that powerball fever and any superstitions on where to buy a ticket. but for rosemary, what does our weekend have in store? i know that we are expecting rain but i did walk out the door and i'm like oh. it is still coming down. but we are on the tail end. >> the tail end of this. having drying conditions for the next hour or so. how about that? >> thank you. i appreciate that. stay in your pajamas. once you get out and about you should be in goo

. >> as we wrap up here, frank, i couldn't help but listen to you guys chat during the break. i'm curious, we've been hearing that robert mule cere going to wrap up imminently. what loose ends might be left undone if he is, say, feeling pressure to wrap up early or wrap up on a certain time line? what in your mind are things that still need to happen in this investigation for it to be complete? >> the seminole question, the core of this inquiry, was all about collusion with russia, the degree to which russia has a government meddled in our election. we have had two dozens indictments of russians including 12 russian intelligence officers, but still we're missing that link back to the knowledge of the white house, the candidate at the time and direction, encouragement or just not reporting what he knew. that's a huge gap. but then the obstruction gap is there for me as well. whether or not the attempts to obstruct, repeated evidence we have of that, are going to be addressed by mueller or somebody else. i think mueller would want to address that and we're not there yet. >> frank figliuzzi, joyce vance, thank you both as

. >> frank figliuzzi, we had a little fun last night with the pictures proving that robert mueller ownsball cap and a valid driver's license and, in fact, drove a car to work this week. our own julia ainsley walked into a restaurant in washington tonight, sat at the booth that had just been vacated by one robert mueller, a guy who has been a kind of public ghost-like figure with those of us repeating those same pictures of him over and over again. so we know he's going to be available to barr to talk him through the report he authored. is there any other work that they might have to sweep up that, even though the special counsel's work is done, that could still require more hours and work from mueller as he's trying to get a foot out the door? >> yeah, i think there are -- the last couple days he's feeling more relaxed, as you said, with his activity in public. but yes, i think one of those things left to do, brian, is i still adamantly believe that because this started as a counter intelligence investigation, he owes the senate and house intelligence committees a briefing. and i think

robert: oh. he was a washington lobbyist, fixer, a great source for me. i was interviewing him, and he was totally frankut everything. he used to call me "kid." i said to him, "what happened in october 1940?" he said, "money, kid. but you are never going to be able to read about that." and i said, "why?" and he said, "lyndon never put everything in writing." and i said, "that was probably true." because i never put anything in my books that i can't document. but i remembered this advice, to turn every page. and i was looking through every file folder that related to 1940. there were a lot of them. and all of a sudden, the documentation in writing was there. in fact, one of the things that was there was one of the most -- i am interested in showing the sources of political power. there is a document there, it is a typed list, both john connally, one of johnson's aides, and walter jenkins -- i think he typed it. both say they typed it. there were two typed columns. on the left column was the name of the congressman. the second column was how much money he wanted, and what he wanted the money for, for the

frank figliuzzi, thank queue for being here. sorry for making your head explode. >>> after the break, testing the limits. robert stone evidently trying to find out how close he can get to violating his gag order. that's next. ♪ limu emu & doug look limu. a civilian buying a new car. let's go. limu's right. liberty mutual can save you money by customizing your car insurance, so you only pay for what you need. oh... yeah, i've been a customer for years. huh... only pay for what you need. ♪ liberty. liberty. liberty. liberty. ♪ >>> so just imagine staring down a multiyear federal prison sentence and in exchange for a few final weeks of freedom, all you have to do is keep your mouth shut. sounds so easy. but apparently, it's not, if you're roger stone. this afternoon, the judge overseeing his case is ordering him to explain by next week why he believes an updated introduction to his book, now being rereleased, doesn't violate his gag order. stone's lawyers insist the updated text was written before the gag order. and that it, quote, did not occur to them, submitted by the judge, about the publication. this latest d