with a big assist from his partners on fox news. >> there's no way the american people can trust robert mueller to investigate anything russian related. >> what really stinks here is mueller, rosenstein, andrew wiesman and james comey appear to have covered it all up, the uranium one deal. >> we have to have mueller fired. >> yes, robert mueller, i hope you're watching. oh robert mueller, are you awake tonight? robert mueller is now investigating anything involved with russia, how is that possible? to be fair and impartial, it's impossible because of his past role in this. he should resign immediately tonight. >> fox news has been relentlessly hiping a claim that hillary clinton sold out our national security by supposedly personally approving a

look, i'm not saying that robert mueller is necessarily moved by those complaints, but i do think that mueller given his history, you know, given the experience that he has is very well aware that you cannot, you know, take this too far along because it does, you know, have an impact on the president of the united states. so it's affecting the way the white house does its business. so i think he knows that there is a finite amount of time he has before he can show his cards and start showing what exactly he's found. >> evan perez, pamela brown reporting our breaking news tonight, a federal grand jury approving the first charges in the investigation led by special counsel robert mueller. they're going to continue on with our panel. so stay with us. i want to bring in now michael isikoff. also cnn national security analyst juliette kiyem. and susan hennessy. laura cotes and scott jennings. juliette, when last i saw you you were saying that there were going to be some breaks in this investigation. you were expecting them soon. you said before thanksgiving. it is. but i think you were thin

i think the chances of the president firing robert mueller are very low right now. he knows the blowback he will get from that. we know as of june the president himself shab involved with the investigation because he fired former fbi director james comey and the blowback from that. he's been calling it a witch hunt, but that's a headline that's plagued him ever since. so for him to then fire special counsel robert mueller would be catastrophic for him. we'd see the blowback from this. to go back to what kevin was saying, we are seeing with these house and senate probes right now that as they're accelerating, we are seeing a few hiccups. in the house probes, we're seeing they haven't found anything yet. we're seeing frustrations from house republicans. in the senate, we're seeing partisan separation. with firing the special counsel, that might be the only part of the investigation where we might get results because the house and senate are having their hiccupping that robert mueller is where the investigation is leading and for the president to then fire him would ha

comey came forward early and terminated the hillary investigation. >> michael, you worked with robert muellerhere was no -- at the end of an investigation, do you expect mueller to make some sort of a presentation publicly? is that what he does? >> so under the regulations, 28 cfr section 600, it defines what the special prosecutor's mandate is, how he reacts with the -- interacts with the justice department and what he does at the end of his inquiry. and he does issue a report to the justice department and i think to congress. i have to look that last part up. and that indicates his findings with respect to matters that are not public indictments. then i think the attorney general, in this case rosenstein, deputy attorney general, has the authority to release that report. so i do think he has a final report obligation under the cfr. >> you know, it's interesting, tray gowdy made the statement this week, and he said i still have faith in robert mueller. other members like trent franks, was saying he ought to resign because of his potential role in covering up this fbi informant who wants to c

robert mueller is an experienced prosecutor. he was a republican for many years, but he is impartial. he is not partisan here. he is focusing on who has collaborated with the russians, and he's going after some democrats who apparently have collaborated with the russians or may have that doesn't involve clinton at all. but this is a matter of serious concern for the united states to have a foreign government, the russians, infiltrating our elections. we just heard this week about new news that the russians were collaborating to some extent with lee harvey oswald back in 1963. we don't have all the documents about that. but russia sticking its nose in our political system and meddling in our politics is a national security threat, and robert mueller is going to get to the bottom of this. and any president, if president trump tries to remove robert mueller, i think he's going to be thrown out of office, president trump, that is. >> all right. well, thank you. and then speaking of president trump, we're just getting some breaking n

won't you agree just how serious robert mueller is taking this investigation? >> i think director mueller, former director mueller is a very serious lawyer. he wouldn't be in this position if he were not. i just say we shouldn't speculate. we don't know what will happen tomorrow and what shoe may drop. let's wait and see what happens. >> in terms of preparation, sir, i'm sure you expect and other republicans will be asked about this tomorrow. what will your reaction be if it is a big fish such as manafort or flynn? >> we don't know the anything other than speculation and i'm just going to react when i see what the indictment, if there is one, occurs. and then i'll have a statement on it. but at this point, i really think it's way too premature to speculate since we have no facts. >> all right. what would happen if the president is not happy with this indictment? if he ends up firing bob muler? that certainly has been bantered about as a possibility, speculation certainly. but if that were to happen, is that grounds for impeachment? >> well, let's cross that brid

now having to wait on the sidelines as robert mueller makes his big reveal. over the weekend, of course, the president on twitter choosing not to talk specifically about special counsel. instead, focusing on hillary clinton, among other things with a tweet talking about collusion which doesn't exist. using this terrible and bad for our country witch-hunt for evil politics. but the r's are now fighting back like never before. there's so much guilt. democrats/clinton. do something in caps. all of this russia talk right when the republicans are making a big press for historic tax cuts and reform. is this coincidental? not! and then the follow-up by his lawyer, ty cobb, contrary to what many suggested, it is unrelated to activities of special counsel with whom he continues to cooperate. the only thing on the president's public schedule today points to the bitter timing of this, he has a halloween at the white house event scheduled this evening. chris and alisyn, back to you. >> the web so tangled on the rationale side. we will save it. let's deal first with what'

at this hour speculation is swirling as we await the first indictment in special counsel robert mueller'sbly. announcement could be made today. top republicans are calling into question the whole investigation over alleged leaks by mueller's team. griff jenkins is live for us in d.c. with the very latest. good morning, griff. >> good morning, heather. it's going to be a busy monday if multiple reports are accurate as have you suggested that federal grand jury has approved first charges in mueller's investigation we could see those indictments and possibly individuals taken into custody this morning. now, we don't know who will be charged or what those charges are. they were sealed under federal judge's order as congressman trey gowdy, a former federal prosecutor himself says, is he frustrated by these leaks. >> we don't know who is being charged. we don't know what they are being charged for. the only conversation i have had with robert mueller, it was stressing to him the importance of cutting out the leaks with respect to investigation. make no mistake exposing grand jury material is vi

people are tweeting tonight robert mueller should be fired or step down. >> it will be difficult, i think, for president trump to get to mueller. he would have to, i believe, remove rosenstein and then put in place someone else, and sessions' position in all of this seems murky, what he's actually doing, his involvement, what it actually is. the president doesn't have a straight shot on mueller. so it's more complicated than that, i think. >> let's ask laura. laura, is it more complicated than that? >> it is complicated in the sense of the president of the united states would have to jump through significant hoops to be able to fire robert mueller. that was the premise of having him in the independent position that he is. and who he reports directly to is rod rosenstein. mueller serves essentially at the instruction of rosenstein. it rod rosenstein refused to do so, this sounds a lot like what happened in the nixon area in the watergate scandal, finding somebody who is willing to be the merrymen of the president. the likelihood of it, it may be an aspirational objective of the president o

indicting, their afraid he's going to flee. >> they are trying to encourage cooperation. >>> robert muellerm's m.o. is to keep quiet and keep things under wraps, don't talk to the media. >> they have to do something to show what they are coming up with. >> the mueller office will be up and running well into 2018, if not through the whole year. >>> good morning, thank you for joining us. i'm rene marsh in for christi paul. >> i'm victor blackwell. our top story, the crittal investment in the russia investigation. we are learning that special counsel robert mueller has filed the first charges in the russian meddling in the 2016 election and probable collusion with the trump campaign and the sources telling cnn and say that anyone charged in the investigation could be taken into custody as early as monday. >> it is a landmark moment in the investigation into russian meddling in the 2016 election. sources briefed on the matter say a federal grand jury in washington approved the first charges in the investigation led by special counsel robert mueller. a spokesperson declined to comment. the indi

could he just say, i here by, i as president of the united states hereby relieve robert mueller of duty, and that be effectuated tomorrow? >> well, he could either do that or he could say, i remove the special counsel regulations which are an executive branch creation so they're gone, and now mueller, you don't have any ability to exist any more. so, one way or the other, i wouldn't get hung up with the legal formalities. i think the ultimate question that we were struggling with in the regulations indeed that the republicans have been struggling with even before that, you know, plato, who will guard the guardians or dr. seuss, the bee watchers and how lucky you are. the ultimate question is how do we set up a system to avoid a government cover up. when you have an allegation that now has become more than an allegation, you know, in which people are literally pleading guilty to attempted collusion with russia and the facts of their plea agreements, boy, this is starting to look really mighty serious. >> what would it mean constitutionally for the president to do something like that, to

house press briefing on this big news day as we learned of the grand jury and special counsel robert mueller'sn investigation indicting former trump campaign manager paul manafort and his business associate rick gates. this comes as a mueller faces growing questions over his credibility leaving the probe and potential conflict of interest. lawmakers including new york congressman peter king saying mueller should testify about his role as fbi director during the controversial russia uranium deal under the obama administration. here it is. >> there are issues here which he is going to have to address. it is going to involve an investigation about what the fbi is doing and not giving at a critical time during her relationship with russia when he was head of the fbi. i think that he has to be very, very careful about making sure that the public believes that he has no conflicts and that his integrity is in question. fighting is incumbent upon him holds himself to the highest possible standard so that people in this country can have absolute confidence that whatever conclusions he comes to investig

because people are tweeting tonight that, you know, robert mueller should be fired or stepped down. >well, it will be difficult i think for president trump to get to mueller. he would have to i believe remove rosenstein and put in place something else and sessions' position seems murky, whatever he's doing, his involvement, whatever it actually is. the president doesn't have a straight shot on mueller, so it's more complicated than that i think. >> let's ask laura. laura, is it more complicated from there? >> well, it is complicated in a sense of the president of the united states would have to jump through significant hoops to be able to get to, be able to fire robert mueller. that was the whole premise of having somebody in an independent position like he is. of course, his direct report -- who he reports directly to is rod rosenstein. so donald trump to be able to fire robert mueller who serves essentially at the pleasure of rod rosenstein would have to instruct rod rosenstein to do so, if rod rosenstein declined to do so, he could fire rod rosenstein but have to replace somebody w

robert mueller is obviously operating in a secret way, which he should do. but given the trouble congress investigating committees are having, i think, you know, you should wait and see what mueller comes up with. it's a very complicated story. it is undermining trump's story with the rest of the country. but he is finding ways to try to turn the focus of russia to hillary clinton. it doesn't feel like moving the goal post. it like running around the track over and over and over again. without some exercise, but without a lot of purpose right now. what is troubling a little bit is using russia as almost a football, to use the same analogy in a deeply partisan american political game. we're heading into russo-phobia. we tend to overestimate the skill and tactics of vladimir putin, the stability of his country and, you know, i do worry a little bit that all of this concentration on russia's clear meddling in the election, though no one is convinced it made any difference to the outcome, is putting our relationship with rush yeah rm in a dangerous place when we

their chief white house correspondent peter baker writes, quote, the first charges filed by robert mueller special counsel did not implicate mr. trump but collectively amounted to a political body blow to a president who has spent months insisting that mr. mueller's investigation was nothing more than a witch-hunt. based on a hoax invented by democrats and the news media. that author, peter baker of the new york times, is with us now. peter, to borrow from a bumper sticker phrase, today is the first day of the rest of his presidency. but put a final point on it. how did president trump's life change as of today. >> well, you played the clip earlier much john kelly saying how distracting this is. now we have in fact a possible trial of his former campaign chairman. now that we have the knowledge that witnesses are in fact talking to robert mueller and they're telling him things that we didn't know publicly before. you've already said on your show already tonight george papadopoulos's indictment and guilty plea, you know, came as a shock. a shock to most of washington and certainly the white

if he thinks they are not appropriate he can tell robert mueller he doesn't approve of them. tage, we don't know what interaction there was but we do believe, that given the regulation that governor what mueller is doing he would have to give rod rosenstein notice about this and at least told him what he was preparing to do, and giving rosenstein the chance to say you can't do this if he believed it was not appropriate. >> would that information be given to the white house or given to the attorney general jeff sessions since he'd accused himself? >> no, not under the circumstance. under the circumstances it would be something that rosenstein who is for all intensive purpose the attorney general for this case. he is the one, the ultimate majority to oversee this and it would not under these circumstances be notified to the white house. simply because, anderson this is a case that involves so many people at the white house, of course including the president. >> so, pam how significant -- let's put this in perspective, and again we don't know what the charges or, or who has been

by special prosecutor robert mueller.harges include conspiracy, failing to disclose foreign bank accounts, making false statements, laundering tens of millions of dollars that they earned, you could say, if you think it was earned, while working as unregistered agents of a pro russian political party in ukraine. the indictment says in order to hide ukraine payments from united states authorities manafort and gates laundered the money through scores of united states and foreign corporations, partnerships and bank accounts. manafort laundered more than $18 million he concealed from the united states treasury, the department of justice and others. the indictment says that paul manafort did not report his foreign financial accounts as required by law on his tax returns. right there at the bottom of that form it asks at any time during the year did you have a financial interest in or signature authority over a financial account such as a bank account, securities account or brokerage account located in a foreign country? on pau

because the federal government -- >> it is not just robert mueller who signed this indictment. >> correct this indictment the back page, 31 pages, you have bob mueller signing it, robert mueller, special counsel department of justice. that's the first thing we have seen. this is the first paper we have seen out of this investigation to all of us. and then this true bill blacked out part redacted is the anonymous foreperson of the injury, as pete williams is reporting, this began on friday. and this will remain blacked out. and everything that happens inside the grand jury box will, if this runs right, remain blacked out. because that is redacted and the black box. in this case, literally a black box. we know mueller and everything has to go to the citizens. it says something great about the constitutional system. robert mueller is very powerful. you don't want to be on the wrong side of him. he has to go through these citizens, anonymous citizens, a jury of the peers and a grand jury picked throughout the washington area to vet these charges. >> can you believe how their lives have change

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. >> the plot to stop robert mueller. >> there's no way the american people can trust robert mueller. >> tonight as the mueller investigation closes in, new signs that trump is getting desperate. >>> then -- >> they are trying to take away our history and our heritage. >> shades of charlottesville as the virginia governor's race becomes a referendum on confederate statues. >> i'm for keeping them up. >>> and what to make of the president's opioid announcement. >> if we can teach young people and people generally not to start, it's really, really easy not to take them. >> when "all in" starts now. >>> good evening from new york. i'm joy reid in for chris hayes. tonight amid signs that robert mueller's investigation could be closing in, the white house is scrambling to discredit the messenger with a big assist from his partners on fox news. >> there's no way the american people can trust robert mueller to investigate anything russian related. >> what really stinks here is mueller, rosenstein, andrew wiesman and james comey appear to have covered it all up, the uranium one deal. >> we ha

it was robert mueller do you pay attention to this? >> i think he would have to given the reporting on it and to be transparent and objective he certainly should. it would fit into the purview of the rosenstein order which is very broad. it is the russian probe and anything that is unrivaled or revealed during the investigation so certainly that would be something he could look at. >> david bruno, great to have your legal mind on alt. this morning. thanks, david. >> pleasure. thanks for having me. transfer the tax plan, republicans will reveal details on wednesday. kevin mccarthy telling maria bartiromo to maria bartiromo to plan will help middle-class americans. >> we doubled the standard deduction so if in the couple now that the first $24,000 tax-free. lower the corporate rate and compete around the world. that means $4000 in household income. >> also reassuring americans their 401(k)s are safe after lawmakers continue to discuss the idea sharply reducing the pretax limit on contributions to $2400 from $18,000 as part of that. >> so

cnn a federal grand jury has approved the first charges in this case. >> and special counsel robert muellers leading the investigation. he is focusing on potential collusion between the two trump campaign and russia as well as obstruction of justice, by the president. and cnn has reported that mueller and investigators on capitol hill are scrutinizing trump and his associates financial ties to russia. our justice correspondent pamela brown helped break the story. she has more. >> reporter: it is unclear what the charges are because as i pointed out, the indictment is still under seal and it is not clear whether those under indictment have been notified. a spokesperson for the special counsel office declined to comment for this. but as we've been reporting, mueller was appointed in may to lead this investigation into russian meddling in the 2016 u.s. election, and under the regulations governing special counsel investigations, rod rosin stein would be made aware of any charges before they were taken before the grand jury. on friday we had a producer there who saw a flurry of activity, includ

. ♪ ♪ >> fox news alert, special counsel robert mueller reportedly following the -- filing the firstrges in the investigation into possible collusion between the trump campaign and russia. welcome to a new hour inside america's news headquarters, i'm molly line. rick: and i'm rick leventhal. no word on who could be indicted or what the charges might be, but "the wall street journal" reporting that authorities could arrest at least one person as early as monday. garrett tenney has this story from washington. >> reporter: well, rick and molly, there's all sorts of speculation going on about who the target of this indictment is and what charges they're facing. at this point, what we know is on friday prosecutors on mueller's team presented evidence to a grand jury here in washington, and according to "the wall street journal," that evidence was enough to convince them to approve the first charges in the special counsel's investigation. that indictment was sealed by a federal judge which is why we don't know a lot of the details still. the special counsel's office isn't commenting on thi

and then as you know, robert mueller took over in may.ooking at possible collusion, looking at paul manafort, the former campaign chairman, flynn, michael flynn, the former national security adviser and also looking at obstruction of justice with the president's firing of james comey and the circumstances surrounding that. and so this is certainly a big significant step and an acceleration, an indication that the investigation has accelerated to a point where they believe they have the case, its probable cause. you have to show probable cause when you go before a grand jury. so they believe they have enough to at least show probable cause for at least one person who has been under investigation in this probe. and we should also mention that it will be interesting to see what the charges are because if they have nothing to do with the campaign or russia, you can expect mueller to draw a lot of heat especially from the white house. you heard the president say that this is a waste of taxpayer dollars and if this has nothing to do with that t

former trump campaign officials, including the chairman, paul manafort, tonight special counsel robert mueller is moving into the next phase of his investigation into possible collusion between the trump team and russia. the most significant development, george papadopoulos has pleaded guilty to lying to the fbi about his russia contacts including a, quote, discussion of dirt relating to hillary clinton's e-mails. details in court documents detail the clearest connection yet between russia trying to interfere with the 2016 election. he's working with the fbi and may be providing information about other trump campaign insiders. >>> paul manafort under arrest after an arrangement on his 12-count indictment. he's accused of conspiracy against the united states, conspiracy to launder money and other charges separate from his work for the trump campaign. his former deputy, rick gates also charged in the indictment. both men pleaded not guilty just a little while ago. the trump administration is trying to downplay all of this with the president insisting there's no evidence of collusion. his tweet w

if you confirm that, but he is suggesting that the president himself is being investigated by robert mueller acknowledged something that has been a parent for a while. he is within the scope of bob mueller's investigation. the president was keen to get jim comey to state he was not under investigation. the fact that his chief of staff s said this. it's something of a shame for the president to hear. the point that he makes that i hope he wraps this up because it's distracting to the president. i think that's an important point. he is about to embark on a 12-day-trip to asia. lots of stops talking to north korea and the relationship with china. this is not something that is helpful to the president and it's distracting to him and under cuts his leadership on tax reform that he would rather talk about. >> it's among the most sensitive things they could be doing. investigating the president of the united states. >> although the focus for the president wanting to be assures he was not the subject of an investigation. the charge he was given from the general to conduct this investigation is focus

effort to do it without a good reason would be holy hell to pay. >> not firing robert mueller but word that steve bannon is trying to encourage the president to defund mueller's investigation. to knee cap his investigation. >> i just don't think this is at all in the realm of possibility. congress would have to pass a bill in certain language to defund it and get the president to sign it. it's not going to happen. it won't be defunded whether he fires him or not is not something i can predict. there are many, many lawmakers here on capitol hill who are much more willing to protect mueller than to fire him. i think that is very clear from the people i talked to up here. i wouldn't be surprised to see that happen if there is any clue or hint that mueller is in danger. you have seen that in the senate which is usually the hard chamber to get things through. you have seen a perfect willingness from people like graham. if he is in danger we will do something about it. bannon can do whatever he would like. >> not willing to step into that particular. thank you very much. guys, good to see yo

so this is certainly a big moment in this investigation that began more than a year ago and robert muellerk over in may and now we're seeing the first charges. >> all right. and mueller's team is examining foreign lobbying conducted by former trump campaign manager paul manafort over the course of the investigation. mueller has issued subpoenas for documents and testimony for people close to.manafort. >> analyst michael zelden says mule ser most likely honing in on manafort's financial dealings with foreign governments and we spokes to our anderson keeper. here is part of that conversation. >> if it was andrew w with eissman who was at the courthouse, he has been on the manafort case and it might be logical to conclude that it is manafort. manafort has been under scrutiny for both collusion and his real estate dealings and tax and money laundering investigations. so you could have an investigation of manafort separate from the collusion, but which implicates his dealings with the monies that he earned in ukraine and elsewhere overseas. >> well, mueller's probe is just actually one piece of

robert mueller isn't thinking about tax reform. >> of course not. and the implication that he is is an effort to try to obstruct what mueller is doing. to try to taint the process. to try to tell the american people that mueller is acting in a political way. he is not. he's been -- he's put blinders on. he's been methodically moving forward. these indictments today, only the beginning. >> ari, we've gone through a lot of things here. there are a lot of things on your mind. i know you've been pointing out all morning about the legal side of things. give me your take on it. >> the headlines here are you have two medium to senior trump adviser or aides indicted for an ongoing scheme that allegedly went up through 2017 of money laundering and failing to legally acknowledge what they're required to, that they were lobbying on behalf of a foreign official. in this case, ukrainian leader tied to vladimir putin. it all looks like money problems. lying about the money, the lobbying and the taxes. the separate indictment we're getting in here, of individual pe

and i want to ask you about robert mueller's strategy. there's been so much talk about this, if he would go for the little fish first and try to get them for flip or if he goes for big names first. >> it's clear he's going for the little fish first. papadopoulos, very small fish, but someone with potentially relevant information. the question's going to be, do you also view manafort and gates that way? are they trying to put pressure on them to turn in an effort to get information on higher and others in the campaign? >> all right, dan abrams, every step of the way with us, thank you. >>> and there was more fallout tonight from the special council investigation. powerful democrat iic lobbyist tony podesta stepping down from his own lobbying group. robert mueller investigating if he cooperated. he said he's cooperating with the team. his brother, john podesta, served as hillary clinton's campaign manager. >>> also breaking tonight, major storm damage across the northeast. millions reaming from heavy rains and hurricane-strength winds. floo

this letter here, appointing robert mueller as special counsel. tx mueller is given power to investigate any links and/or coordination between russian government and those associated with the campaign of president donald trump and also investigate any matters that rose or may arise directly from that investigation. a lot of leeway in here and then this -- any other matters within the scope of 28 cfr 600.4. what is that? that governs the department of justice. this, 28cfr, 600.4, broad powers to investigate. destruction of evidence, witness intimidations into the list of imcrews the special counsel will actually prosecute. simply put, if you lie to cover up a past crime, you can now get charged with that as well. the indictment is a first step in a long legal battle that mueller is waging with this trump russia probe, but does the president have the constitutional authority to pardon his former campaign aides charged? the president tweeted in july, while all agree the u.s. president has the complete power to pardon, why think of that when only crim

wrap up the russia investigation have reportedly got their eye on robert mueller's budget. according to politico, haum lawmakers haven't yet seen the russia investigator's first spending report and must go through a justice department review before being made public. but they're already setting up for a fight how much it's costing taxpayers in the fact there a es no end in sight. joining us is mika oyang, former staff member and vice president for the national security program at third way. ron klain, david corn and malcolm nance is back. it's an obvious of what appeared to be tactics we should say to try to divert the investigation away from looking donald trump and looking at other things or exonerate him. do you expect that that body or others on the house republican side or senate republican side might try to go after robert mueller's funding even now with this new news? >> david nunez is trying to distract people. it's important to remember that the house intelligence committee's running two separate examinations. he was supposed to recuse himself and leave it to con w

dramatic developments are unfolding in the investigation led by the special counsel, robert mueller. people with high level roles in the trump campaign have become the first two to face multiple criminal changes steming for mueller's probe into russia's election meddling in

robert mueller is leading the investigation. >> extent of the charges is not known. mueller was appointed in may 2 hours the the investigation into a legend russian interference in the presidential election. the president through a series of tweets sunday called the a witch hunts there is so much guilt by democrats, clinton.>> last week, they paid for the end information in a dally -- dossier against the presidential election team. >> i would like to know who paid for it earlier but nonetheless, that is one factor to be can uttered. it does not answer the ultimate western, how much of the work is accurate and how much is true expect the special counsel is investigating financial dealings of trump associates. manor board denied wrongdoing.>> i have not yet seen any definitive evidence of collusion. i have seen lots of evidence that the russians were very active in trying to influence the election. >> republicans like chris christie are questioning how the indictment would leak. >> there are walls against any of this leaking of grand jury activity. >> christie maintain

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knowing how robert mueller works, what are his next steps? you view these three in terms of what it means for what happens after? >> this is an impressive strategy by bob mueller. we're all focused on manafort and gates, here comes this cooperator who's secretly plead guilty three weeks ago, i can't emphasize enough how important papadopoulos is to this. he holds the keys to cooperation here. manafort and gates have to realize that the jig is up, right? papadopoulos is talking about russians, money, influence, meetings, you know, in april, he told the campaign manager for trump, that they want to meet with us, they have dirt on hillary. in june, we see a meeting occur in trump tower with trump's older son and campaign advisers. it's all going to be now about cooperation, and there's nothing like facing 20 or more years in prison to cause someone to think about cooperating. manafort's not a young plan. he's looking at the potential of really spending his remaining active years in federal prison, not a good proposition. >> when you look at the t

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what robert mueller is doing is a criminal investigation.we are doing is an oversight investigation. all of these things are not going to overlap. i think what we learned from the revelations from mr. papadopoulos was that the bureau is doing their job and the special investigator is pursuing every lead. was news tot this many folks is an indication that mueller and his team are being serious and thoughtful about this investigation. david: it was news to you as well? >> it was. i have heard the name before. something that figured prominently in any of the parts of the investigation i have been involved in. thank you, representative will hurd of texas. coming up, milan could be running into trouble with the law. the drugmakers president is byng targeted in a probe dozens of states over price collusion in generic drug pricing. our stock of the our next. this is bloomberg. by ♪ozens of states david: welcome back to bloomberg markets. i'm david gura. shery: i'm shery ahn. the shares of our stock of the hour falling the most in 18 months. mylan t

we know robert mueller seems to be making his way down the line. reince priebus last week, sean spicer this week. you know, geoff sessions could be coming. the fact that he hasn't yet met with robert mueller doesn't mean he's not going to. >> stephanie, i think you hit the nail on the head. i think that's what happened. if i were advising the attorney general and i knew this hearing was coming up and i had a request to be interviewed, i would put that off until after thwasn't forced to answer questions about it. you could tell senator sessions wasn't quite -- i think he came in ready to answer the question have you been interviewed by special counsel. he was ready to say no. >> yeah. he loves that answer. >> yeah. but you could tell when leahy asked it the way he did, not only have you interviewed but has there been a request. he never did fully answer that question. i suspect the request is on the table. we know the special counsel has interviewed rod rosenstein. they both had that conversation with the president the day before comey was fired. it

so that's who robert mueller is. and a lot of people feel that tonight has a moment about it, that this, we're witnessing a change. >> nobody is better suited to investigate this very serious matter, this national security, this criminal matter than bob mueller. as you noted, he served at the fbi for more than a decade. he led that organization. he has been involved in every major national security investigation dating back to 9/11. he's nonpartisan. he's got respect from both sides of the aisle. the entirety of the law enforcement and intelligence communities. when he stepped forward in front of a grand jury, in front of a judge, in front of an article iii court and said crimes have been committed, you can take that to the bank. i would not, i would not want to be a defendant in robert mueller's courtroom. >> that gets our attention. matthew, i want to ask you about what we're witnessing tonight. before i do, let's remember what president trump said this week. >> the whole russian thing is what it's turned out to be

charges have been filed in a special counsel organization being led by the form he fbi director robert mueller. as you know, that mueller-led investigation started six months ago. the overall fbi investigation reportedly started a year ago. mueller is looking at the election and whether anyone in the trump campaign was in cahoots. we don't know what the charges. are it is being described as sealed charges, which we might find out about on monday. unconfirmed reports in terms of nbc news. this is cnn's reporting right now. stay with us. whuuuuuat?rtgage offer from the bank today. you never just get one offer. go to lendingtree.com and shop multiple loan offers for free! free? yeah. could save thousands. you should probably buy me dinner. no. go to lendingtree.com for a new home loan or refinance. receive up to five free offers and choose the loan that's right for you. our average customer could lower their monthly bills by over three hundred dollars. go to lendingtree.com right now. >>> the investigation being led by robert mueller has issued its first criminal charges. these charges are report