she sent it on to robert mueller.ecial counsel's office so they at least know this was happening. ultimately, what we've seen over the course of today is that reporters have started to dig into surefire intelligence and this guy who supposedly had been hired to look into robert mueller's supposed past. now i mentioned a moment ago that the person hyping that a big scandal was about to break concerning robert mueller is sort of a little known pro-trump twitter personality. he is a guy named jacob wohl. that's who has been saying hey, this lobbyist is about to break this big scandal about robert mueller here. he's hired an intelligence firm, and that intelligence firm has done an investigation and found out this terrible thing about robert mueller. well, when you look into the intelligence firm here, it appears that the managing partner from this intelligence firm is in fact that pro-trump twitter kid who has been saying this big scandal is about to break. the top image that is backlit on the surefire intelligence websi

but he did today to protect robert mueller. esperson peter carr said, when we learned of allegations that women were offered money to make false claims about the special counsel, we immediately referred to matter to the fbi for investigation. according to a report in the "atlantic," a woman named lorraine parsons has been e-mail reporters that she first offered $20,000 by a man claiming to work for a firm called surefire intelligence, which had been hired by a gop activists named jack burkman to make accusations of workplace harassment against robert mueller. jack burkman is a right-wing radio host and conspiracy theorist. horror lain parsons hasn't been willing to speak directly to reporters, but today a second woman also said that she was contacted by this group that calls itself surefire intelligence with an offer to pay her to discuss encounters with robert mueller. at the same time those women were contacted, jack burkman posted a video to facebook where he claimed without evidence at all that robert mueller has a history o

my initial response was i don't know robert mueller, never met him.nitially i thought i should reply that and say have a nice day. as you continued reading the e-mail, it seemed like they were trying to cast a wide net to speak with anyone who may have ever known him, to see if he had done something wrong. and they were just basically digging dirt up on him to try to smear him. so as soon as i kind of got to the end of the e-mail and saw that was the case, i went on the web and found the special counsel's e-mail address and forwarded it on to their office so they could investigate. >> why do you think you were contacted? >> initially i had one idea and recently i've come up with a different one. initially i thought that maybe because i had spoken about mueller, they may have thought i had been a prosecutor and maybe, you know, the end of the e-mail it also had invited me to give them other references and they'd pay me for those. so i thought maybe someone else had gotten this e-mail, taken the bait and just thrown my name out there just to get money,

right internet personal, jacob wall, takes to twitter and says a scandalous story is coming about robert muellerand jack birkman, a republican lobbyist says he's going to hold a press conference and bring forward a woman with a sexual assault allegation against mueller. after this, another woman comes forward, this time a vermont law professor. she says, i also got a weird e-mail from sure fire intelligence. she shares the e-mail with cnn and shows that sure fire intelligence wants to offer her money for anything she knows about the special counsel. now, we know wall is tied to sure fire intelligence because of a lot of internet sleuthing, but perhaps the funniest or more damning detail is when you call the company's number it redirect's to wall's mother's voicemail. there's a link between wall and sure fire intelligence and he admits to "the daily beast" there's a link between sure fire intelligence and jack birkman. this is what is going on behind the scenes. birkman denied he offered to pay women any money. wall says it all sounds like an internet conspiracy and he says he is still going forw

during his confirmation process was asked whether he would recuse himself from anything robert muellerelated because this office had a lot to play in the mueller investigation. he did knowledge he would recuse himself from this case. this is a mueller related subpoena. >> this is why being a court reporter is a very fascinating job. a former federal prosecutor used to work with rudy giuliani years ago. used all that reporting and surmise that the filing could be a subpoena by roberter mueller to the president of the united states and that's why it's gone through the process so quickly and why it's been kept so quiet. one of the president's attorneys responded to that assumption today. he said it's false. there's been no subpoena. it's not a report. this is an analysis by a former prosecutor. gentlemen, thank you so much for walking us through the fascinating stories. >>> going back to politics. the republican party is eating its own right now. in rare move congressman steve stivers rebuked a fellow republican. he called recent actions by steve king of iowa, inappropriate and tweeted we

i know robert mueller has reserved the right to follow up on some of these answers. it's the immediate follow up that i think can provide a window into questions. it seems mueller has a couple of questions. one would be to subpoena the president. that brings with it -- >> why wouldn't he go with that, right? we're this deep in. the president said on fox news yesterday, i'll answer whatever questions you want. the clock is ticking. if you're robert mueller, why not say great, here's a subpoena, let's sit down? >> yes, think many lawyers would. in fact, if i were on his team, i think i might be advocating for that. i think it's a legal battle he's very likely to win. robert mueller is known for someone who doesn't like drama. who might want to take the path of least resistance. no caugdoubt it would result in further delay. it may be he's concluded whatever president trump says, he thinks will be of marginal value but he feels the need to give him the opportunity to tell his side of the the story so this is a compromise way of doing that. it locks president trump into a

president trump blaming former white house counsel don mcgahn for special counsel robert mueller's russianvestigation. sources close to mcgahn say trump brought it up during their last face-to-face meeting in the oval office. trump complaining to mcgahn that mueller was named special counsel on mcgahn's watch and that the investigation remains a cloud over his presidency. mcgahn has long been a target of trump's ire. he refused to fire him last year and unsuccessfully tried to stop attorney general jeff sessions from recusing him from the russia probe. outfront now, john dean and cnn supreme court reporter arian devoge. what is your take on this reporting, this last face-to-face meeting, trump complaining to mcgahn that the special counsel was appointed on his watch? >> look, these two men have been through a lot together, right? it was no secret that mcgahn wanted to leave. we knew that last summer, at one point he was going. out of nowhere at the end of august the president tweeted mcgahn will leave this fall. that took mcgahn by surprise and took other people by surprise. he kept his h

but first we are following development on the robert mueller front. the "washington post" is reporting they are pressing witnesses on roger stone and whether stone had knowledge of the e-mails that were released by wikileaks minutes after the access hollywood report dropped. he appears to be focused on whether wikileaks coordinated with the campaign. they questioned steve bannon about alleged claims stone made privately about wikileaks according to the report investigators have questioned witnesses about october 7, 2016. less than an hour after the post published its story about trump's crude comments during a taping of access hollywood wiki leaks released a trove of e-mails hacked from the account of her campaign chairman john podesta. stone has denied any prior knowledge of the e-mails and denied discussing wikileaks with campaign officials. the post quotes -- looking for evidence of what triggered wikileaks to drop the e-mails after the access hollywood tape broke. it is unclear whether the special prosecutor has evidence connecting stone to wikile

nbc news is reporting tonight about an apparent effort to smear robert mueller. over the last several weeks, reporters say they have been contacted by a woman who said she was offered money to claim she was sexually harassed by mueller. the reporters say they determined the harassment allegation seemed like a hoax. they say it is unclear if the woman had been offered money to make the claim. some journalists told mueller's office about the interactions. in a very rare public statement, a spokesperson for robert mueller wrote today, and we quote, when we learned last week of allegations that women were offered money to make false claims about the special counsel, we immediately referred the matter to the fbi for investigation. on that note, let us bring in our lead-off panel on a tuesday night, ashley parker, pulitzer prize-winning reporter for the "washington post." frank paluzi, fbi investigator, and mimi roka, now a criminal justice fellow at the pace university school of law. welcome to all. frank, you alone here have worked for and with robert mueller. i'd lik

operation that i was investigating, but today he is a major player in what's being investigated by robert mueller. >> he strikes me as -- we've been getting more and more evidence in reporting that mueller is taking a hard look at him. he has subpoenaed people close to him. >> right. >> we're getting all these leaks. he strikes me as the most significant target so far in this entire inquiry. >> he is absolutely the key to the connection between the trump campaign and the russian government. if you look at the indictment that came down naming those 13 russian intelligence operatives. >> who did the hacking. >> who did the hacking into the democratic national committee, that the object of that conspiracy was not just to break in and steal the e-mails and the documents, but it was also to release and stage those documents in order to benefit the trump campaign. so what robert mueller has done is he has set up the canvas of what he is looking at, and he is now looking to put the american side of the equation into that indictment which puts roger stone right in the middle. >> and barbara, we're approa

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for example, the eight dirtiest scandals of robert mueller no one is talking about. reading from the complaint, quote, a member of the conspiracy directed that the article be messaged in the following way. special prosecutor mueller is a puppet of the establishment, lists scandals that took place when mueller headed the fbi. state the following, it is a fact that the special prosecutor who leads the investigation against trump represents the establishment, a politician with proven connections to the u.s. democratic party. never mind that robert mueller is a republican. it goes on to emphasize that the work on this commission is damaging to the country and is aimed to declare impeachment of trump. another article to be shared was one from the daily call were the headline "mccain thinking a wall will stop illegal immigration is crazy." instructions for sharing that article, quote, state that dishonorable scoundrels such as mccain immediately aim to destroy all of the conservative voters' opens as soon as trump tries to fulfill his election promises. or take this infowar

. >> special counsel robert mueller's investigation in the 2016 election moves forward. he is dealing with this bizarre, new twist of his own. apparent scheme targeting him with false accusations of sexual harass. >> a woman contacted them claiming to have been offers tens of thousands of dollars to make false accusations of sexual misconduct and harass. >> when i got this e-mail monday the 22nd, i thought it was rather sketchy and at first my instinct to e-mail this person back and say i don't know robert mueller. i have never met him but then before i did that it occurred to me that this was a, you know, very creepy kind of set-up and i thought i should alert the special counsel. >> my goodness. there are six, that's it, six more days until america goes to the polls and -- >> and you. >> voting is the only way, it's best way to truly have your voice in our government and if you think your vote doesn't count, you're wrong. just look at hillary clinton's loss in the state of pennsylvania. >> yep. >> by just over 68,000 votes or north dakota, senator heidi heitcamp win le

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mcgahn on his last day in the west wing, blaming him for the appointment of the special counsel, robert muellert to smear mueller with a sexual assault allegation falls apart. were women offered money to make false accusations against the special counsel. >>> hunt for red october. russia, moving aggressively to modernize its submarine fleet and now warning it is going to conduct missile tests near the site of nato military exercises. >>> we want to welcome our viewers in the united states and around the world. i'm wolf blitzer. you're in "the situation room". ♪ >>> this is "cnn breaking news". >>> breaking news tonight, president trump hammering home on immigration, trying to kbrks en up gop enthusiasm less than a week before the midterm election. right now he's on his way to a rally in florida, the first of 11 rallies he will be holding between now and election day, leaving the white house just a little while ago the president denied fearmongering with immigration, but also said he may deploy as many as 15,000 u.s. troops to the southern border, more tro

kind of outrage to his outgoing white house counsel, blaming him in effect for the continuing robert mueller investigation? >> no, i'm not at all surprised. the president seems to be obsessed with the investigation the only reason we have a mueller special prosecutor is the president fired james comb yip. as gloria said, don mcguillon refused her, declined to fire robert mueller at the president's request. i'm not all surprised the president is dunk on don mcgahn, that's probably a part of the reason why he's leaving. >> he is still very, very bitter, the president? >> bitter and apparently obsessed. don mcgahn had nothing to do with the appointment. >> that it was president as doing. >> but he wanted to cooperate with the independent special counsel. >> i know don mcgahn, he is a completely honorable guy. i worked with him 15 years. he's a good lawyer. he will do what's right. he will protect himself and his own reputation. he will not do anything that would endanger himself. i wouldn't either. >> he's a special respected attorney. >> his is more election law when he went into the white hou

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. >> narrator: he named one of the nation's legendary prosecutors-- former fbi director robert mueller-- to be the special counsel. and in mueller, you have the ultimate presence who is discreet, but also experienced, to come in and be that person. >> we begin with breaking ne the white house in crisis. the justice department appointed a special counsel to... w >> this is a g has no problem with holding people accountable, being direct and driven to get the an he's going to do it right, you know, in accordance with the rule of law. that's a that matters. >> if you're in the west wing and bob mueller is on your trail, should you be worried? >> you should be afraid. you should be very afraid. >> the justice departmen tonight naming special counsel to take over the investigation into russia's...si >> mueller's rcollusion probe... >> mueller could expandob the .. >> narrator: at the white house, the president happened to be meeting with attorney generalhe sessionsrosenstein called to announce mueller's apintment. >> president trump doesn't like to get bad news, and this was bad news. it wa

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former trump campaign chairman paul manafort has made at least nine trips to the special counsel robert mueller's office in the past month alone, but tomorrow he's due back in a federal court in virginia. could that complicate the cooperate deal that mueller has worked out? evan perez joins us live now and what's expected at this court hearing. >> reporter: this is a hearing before t.s. elliott, the judge who really held the special counsel robert mueller's feet to the fire and real accused him of pursuing an investigation targeting at the president. we expect t.s. elliott, the judge, is going to pressure the special counsel to move towards a sentencing date for paul manafort. after all, he was found guilty back in august in virginia on eight counts, and what the judge is saying is essentially, look, in my court, when you are found guilty, you move to sentencing. the prosecutors in this care, and it typically happens because paul manafort is still cooperating. they would prefer to wait for the end that have cooperation in order to then decide how much of a deal and how much of a break to give pau

and it's also targeting robert mueller. there is part of the instructions that this operation gave to these russian trolls says in part about mueller, special prosecutor mueller is a puppet of the establishment. lists scandals that took place when mueller headed the fbi and summarized with a statement that mueller is very dependent and highly politicized figure. therefore, there will be no honest and open results from this investigation. clearly, trying to stoke some of the suspicions that people already have about robert mueller. and this ongoing investigation that is still yet to wrap-up. >> because the russians -- the trolls were given specific instructions on how to operate how best to target americans, if you read this complaint over here. these were very, very detailed marching orders. >> yes. the complaint is chock-full of so much color and how they wanted to use stereotypes actually to target and exploit the divisions, including this, wolf. if you write posts in a liberal group, you must not use breitbart titles. in

not being brought by robert mueller's team. would be the united states by the trump justice department. what would the interaction be there if the u.s. attorney in the eastern district of virginia wants to bring this case. what would the interaction be like wean that u.s. attorney and the administration? how coordinated with this be? i'm asking what the trump justice department's role would be. >> any time the justice department decides to bring a case, that should be a surprise to the white house. it's not their job to give a heads up to the trump administration because the white house is not supposed to influence what investigations are open and what charges are brought. that's a separate process. there will be other cases in these u.s. attorneys office throughout the country. in the eastern district of virginia, in the southern district of new york that will going to be continuing to do this kind of work. both looking at some of the business activities of people in trump's orbit but also around election interference and the

. >> it's a really curious ham-handed kind of an effort to attack robert mueller. on here is this. even the president at this point has to know it would be politically unpalatable to fire bob mueller with no reason, so whether the president is involved or not, we don't know that. there's no reason to believe he is. but these folks on the far right are coming up with the sort of an allegation that if true would certainly be a reason to remove bob mueller. what this is is a thinly-disguised effort to derail an investigation that's inching ever more close to the oval office and the president. >> and donald trump was asked about that by laura ingraham. here he is talking about his new cozy relationship with rod rosenstein. let's watch. >> why are you and rod rosenstein such good friends now? it seems like everything's been settled. >> look, i do get along, but this should have never -- there should have never been a special counsel, in my opinion. it's an illegal investigation, totally. a lot of people agree with me. a lot of people on your show and on other shows agree

. >>> there is breaking news tonight involving robert mueller. an alleged plot to level accusations of sexual misconduct against him, turned over to federal investigators. were women offered money to make false claims? >>> the deadly helicopter crash. the chopper slamming into a home and erupting into flames. and just as we come on the air tonight, word of another crash. the images coming in now. >>> and america strong tonight. our amy robach, five years after being diagnosed with breast cancer, climbing mt. kilimanjaro. >> how do you feel, amy? >> i'm okay. >> the grueling trip at high altitude and darkness, and her message tonight to all of the women she climbed for. >>go evening. great to have you us here on a tuesday night. and we begin tonight with the somber day in pittsburgh. the deeply painful task of burying their loved ones. late today, the president arrived, and he was greeted by protest protesters. today, the first three victims were laid to rest. two brothers and a doctor who ran back in to help. there were long lines of mourners, in

special counsel robert mueller is scrutinizing whether roger stone shared information believed was from wikileaks with members of trump's presidential campaign. a source familiar with matter tells cnn mueller's team has been providing with recordings of stone claiming he talked to trump regularly in the 2016 campaign. stone claims in separate communications that he should get create for coordinating be the group. the questions about whether stone shared information with trump campaign are a strong indication that mueller is investigating that someone close to trump colluded with the russiansnied sharing. investigators are also examining whether stone's back challenge to wikileaks extended beyond new york horadio show host. he's open about his friendship with assange has denied funneling information back and forth. >> i definitely was not a back channel to julian assange if tlf there was a back channel. >> reporter: stone offers to sign that he was his go between. >> later on you speak and say you had a back channel. >> i described it a as back channel. i think in another interview i may

you don't even have a legal pad and paper clip and a pen. >> narrator: what robert mueller did have was a lifetime of preparation for this moment. >> he volunteered to serve invi nam as a united states marine, highly decorated,in wounded action. >> narrator: in the '90s, mueller had tried his hand in the private sector at a prestigious law firm. he hated it. >> $400,000 a year, he felt like whe wasn't doing the lordk, he quit. >> narrator: he took a substantial pay cut to become ao line prose he worked homicide in washington, dc. >> his great joy was putting away bad guys and answering his phone, "mueller, homicide." >> bob mueller cares about one thing, and onehing only: indicting bad guysnd putting them in prison. >> narrator: a republican, he'd run the fbi for both george w. bush and barack obama. pulled out of private practice,s robert muellerack at the center of the action. >> ...quietly gatheredam a f more than three dozen attorneys, investigators... >> narrator: from the secure location, he bui a formidable team. >> i believe his term was "ninja assassins"... >> thiis like this m

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. >> and that seems to be an important focus of robert mueller's investigation.dent trump dictate this misleading statement delivered on his son's behalf about this meeting that trump says he knew nothing about at the time? >> what did the president know about the meeting and when did he know it? that's a question the special counsel's team surely wants to answer. >>> coming up. >> i told myself that if bob mueller appeared, i would literally just throw my hands forward and say, just arrest me. ♪ when heartburn hits... fight back fast with tums smoothies. it starts dissolving the instant it touches your tongue... and neutralizes stomach acid at the source. ♪ tum tum tum tum... smoothies... only from tums not long ago, ronda started here. and then, more jobs began to appear. these techs in a lab. this builder in a hardhat... ...the welders and electricians who do all of that. the diner staffed up 'cause they all needed lunch. teachers... doctors... jobs grew a bunch. what started with one job spread all around. because each job in energy creates many more in this

you have to assume that's precisely what robert mueller is doing. >> the takeaway from me from the chargesounced today. you go back and look at the indictments bob mueller announced months ago. this one specifically would relate to the social media activity. that's provided a foundation for other offices inside the justice department. the eastern district of virginia. >> is he telling us i've got other offices that can do this work? it doesn't matter if i'm here or not. >> that can do this work and also that there will be ongoing investigations into russian interference. he's laid the foundation here. he's shown the justice department how to bring these cases. what the elements of this conspiracy are. and now other offices inside the justice department and other offices inside the fbi can continue that work related to trump or not related to trump after he's gone. >> and to echo matt's point, he transferred those cases after he indicted them to the national security division and said keep go chasing these russians and that's what they did by bringing this case. >> robert mueller is one of

but robert mueller is also a part of this, right? >> yes. as a matter of fact, he's mentioned specifically. there was an article that kind of highlighted controversial topics about robert mueller. according to this complaint, it specifically states how this article should be messaged, basically the talking points that should be put out on social media. specifically they said that you should focus on scandals that occurred while robert mueller was fbi director, that he's part of the establishment, emphasized that this whole robert mueller special counsel investigation is an effort to tear the country apart, that it must be stopped at all causes and that he's sort of a member of the democratic machine in the united states, that he's essentially, you know, the swamp, according to messaging putting out. he's specifically referenced, so they're trying to amplify some of the talking points we've seen about robert mueller in a way to mischaracterize him, in an effort to kind of delegitimize his efforts. >> obviously it's in russia's self-interest t

let's start with this bizarre, apparent plot to smear robert mueller that is coming into light.hat do you make of that? >> if it's true, it's how terrified they are. >> more terrified about what the special counsel may have found. it's a very underhanded effort to besmirch his efforts. they're going to extreme lengths to essentially pay women to make false claims about him. >> i wonder if you think the president's attacks on robert mueller specifically encourage private citizens to sort of take matters into their own hands in ways that we have seen obviously last week with one of the president's most ardent supporters and the pipe bombs. you know, sadly, i think that no one sets the tone as much as the president of the united states and normally that is not a problem but with this president it's very much a problem. he has a no holds barred attitude of dividing the country, of egging on his supporters, of encouraging by praising violence against journalists, all of this hyping of the caravan, this group of people who are fleeing violence 1,000 miles away from us. hyping that thr

robert mueller's russia investigation, and when it might actually conclude. our political correspondent sara murray is joining us right now. i take it we're getting new information from a key source? >> that's right. our colleague laura jarrett spoke to a source familiar with the investigation in the justice department who says that rod rosenstein has not set any kind of specific date for special counsel robert mueller to wrap up his investigation, but it is expected to wind down by the end of the year. now, that does not mean that this is suddenly going to wrap up as soon as the midterms are over there will be more investigation that continues after that. and this source wanted to make clear that rosenstein is not placing any pressure on mueller to speed things up, to wrap things up, for instance, the day after the midterms. >> mueller's questioning of former trump campaign chairman paul manafort, sarah, is still ongoing. manafort is due back in a federal courtroom tomorrow. so what's expected, first of all, at this court proceeding? >> manafort was convicte

robert mueller knows everything. he is ahead of all of us.ng is from the president's side. >> the first line of the book, he talks about leaving science, if you get the politics wrong, nothing matters. look at russia. seems to me that's the russia question, that's why we follow it, even though it isn't a midterm message on the ground. if you don't understand russia's role in the election, nothing else matters. >> i think that's exactly right. the issue at stake here is you have a major candidate for an office of presidency, now the president, who was at best indifferent to the foreign meddling by an american adversary into a sacred american tradition, and that's the heart of the russia story. >> that's just what we know. my thanks to you. that does it. "mtp daily." sorry i'm late. hey. >> that's okay. thank you very much. >>> if it is monday, dems fighting words. good evening, i am katy tur in

talk to your doctor about chantix. >>> special counsel robert mueller is dealing with a bizarre incident his own. an apparent scam trying to discredit him before his office produces more indictments before the campaign season breaks. and mueller's office says that they have asked the fbi to investigate where women were offered cash to smear him with false claims of sexual harassment. joining us is tim delaney, and also, a presidentials historian looking at the the broader campaign issues this week. first, ken, to you sh, this stre case. you have a vermont law professor telling nbc news that she was offered payment if she would talk about sexual harassment to wob mueller, and she reported it for the mueller office, because she had never mett him. >> this is a bizarre story, and campaign ongoing to discredit robert mueller and is it a campaign to generate news coverage or real campaign to get women to accuse mueller of sexual misconduct, but as you said, this law professor jennifer taub says she are received an e-mail from sure-fire intelligence to offer her money about encounters with rob

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i don't think robert mueller is going after roger stone just for that reason. but if roger stone decides to cooperate because he sees that evidence of him having committed a crime is very strong, i have little doubt that like michael cohen, like manafort, he will. and with stone, you know, what's going to be key here is electronic evidence. i mean, witnesses, he could put witnesses in the grand jury, and they have and they will and they will assess their credibility and try to figure out who's telling the truth but it sounds like there's quite an electronic paper trail -- not paper trail, but trail. and that is going to be key because he can't wiggle out of that, stone. and so that is really powerful evidence when prosecutors have an electronic trail to show a subject or defendant or someone who is charged or about to be charged because they know they can't get out of it. >> and congressman, quickly before break, i want to get your reaction to john bolton telling the russians today your attack on our election had no effect. >> well, we don't know that because w

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that is still something that robert mueller wants to talk to the president about face to face and itsomething that the trump legal team has been resistant on and frankly feels that they have more of a -- more legal ground to stand on because they can claim executive privilege because he will have been already in the white house. >> the president said publically many times he would be willing to sit down face to face with robert mueller. he has been holding this out there for some time. realistically, is that going to happen? >> it is hard to imagine that happening. the reason, and you know this, part of the reason why this negotiation has taken this long is because it's a delicate dance with robert mueller for the president's legal team but also one with their client because he has said this publically and privately, i got nothing to hide and they want to protect him from himself. >> he has said if you are not willing to sit down with others it is a sign of guilt. >> exactly. he is going to say what he's going to say and people around him are less confident in those abilities because

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. >> but it's not just goldstone's words that have the attention of special counsel robert mueller.t's the response from the president's son. >> donald trump junior said if it's what you say, i love it. >> his reaction to that is not to say, is this all right? should i call the fbi? >> it's potentially criminal. it's embarrassing, it's a scandal. >> this meeting in some ways goes to sort of the heart of what robert mueller has been looking at. he was appointed to look at any connections that existed between the trump campaign and russia. >> there wasn't anybody higher. in the trump campaign except donald trump himself at this meeting. >> so how did a celebrity publicist wind up as a central player in that trump tower conference room? and later, as a witness in mueller's grand jury room? his background is far removed from politics. >> he was at one point in time a reporter. he got his first job for his local newspaper at the age of 16. he then became a radio reporter focusing on the entertainment industry. at some point he railsed that he kind of had a knack for promotion. >> rob gol