they have to respect what's going on in robert mueller's investigation. of course, they don't want to ruin or, you know, harm the investigation. but there is no -- there's no logical reason why hearings couldn't be held. and under the constitution, that is what impeachment is. it isn't throwing donald trump out of office. it's allowing hearings where the public can start to understand the narrative of what was done, potentially to our election, to elect donald trump and what he did while in office. >> yeah, and as we're going to discuss later in the show, that's the way it worked in the nixon situation. congress was moving at the same speed, basically, as the special prosecutor. mimi, some fascinating elapsed times here in this case. yesterday buzzfeed reports that five hours went by -- five hours of silence from the white house after they disclosed their reporting to the white house, and they're asking for comment from the white house. and the white house does not say a word. donald trump had -- knew what buzzfeed was going to write for five hours. he di

>> absolutely. >> he stressed his 30 year friendship with robert mueller and how he disclosed the close bond to the president. >> bob mueller, how well do you know bob mueller. >> i told him how well i knew bob mueller and the barrs and muellers were good friends and would be good friends when this is over. >> barr committed to releasing what he can of mueller's results. >> when his report comes to you, will you share it as much as possible. >> consistent with regulations and the law, yes. >> barr later clarified, mueller's actual report wouldn't be released. instead, he expects the attorney general would release his own summary, but senator feinstein wants mueller's report. >> will you provide mueller's report to congress, not your rewrite or a summary? >> well, the reges do say that mueller is supposed to do a summary report of his prosecutive and declanation decisions and they will be handled as a confidential document, as are internal documents relating to any federal criminal investigation. i'm not sure. and then the a.g. has some flexibility and discretion in terms of the ag's rep

that would be one way to describe people working on robert mueller's team. two federal law enforcement officials involved in an investigation of this matter. identifying the sources that way might have been part of why the special counsel's office took the rare step of commenting on reporting like this. normally the special counsel's office doesn't say a word about investigative reporting like this. tonight's statement by the special counsel's office might be robert mueller's way of saying those two federal law enforcement officials don't work for me. they're not on my mueller team. the special counsel's statement disputes the, quote, characterization of documents and testimony obtained by this office regarding michael cohen's congressional testimony. end quote. now, that seems to take direct issue with this paragraph of last night's buzzfeed report. "the special counsel's office learned about trump's directive for cohen to lie to congress through interviews with multiple witnesses from the trump organization and internal company e-mails, text messages and a

robert mueller's final report. instead, william barr will write a summary report to congress on the conclusions from robert mueller. join us us now, a former fbi supervisory special agent and jennifer rogers, a former federal prosecutor. laura, i think there are two clear things that emerge from these hearings yesterday. number one, william barr is going to let the mueller investigation continue to its conclusion, he will not fire robert mueller. he does not think it's a witch-hunt, yet, yet, the final r product from the mueller investigation, the american people might not know exactly what it is. listen to how william barr explained why not yesterday. >> well, under the current rules, that report is supposed to be confidential. the attorney general, as i understand the rules, would report to congress about the conclusion of the investigation. and i believe there may be discretion there about what the

what does robert mueller hear? >> i think it sounds like they are trying to minimize this deal, trying to minimize michael cohen's involvement in it. in other words, don't look here, folks, nothing to see her. but in fact it seems that robert mueller is really zeroing in on this transaction. michael cohen had already been convicted of eight felonies related to his work in new york with tax evasion and other things and it was facing plenty of time. he pleaded guilty to lying about the timing of the negotiations in trump tower moscow. that says that it is likely that michael cohen is going to be used to try to prosecute other people about this. i don't know if that's family members or trump himself, but look for this matter to come up again and for other people to be charged with this crime. >> i talked to a source close to rudy giuliani tonight and i said what's going on with him? he's always been scatter shot. but he seems more off than usual. and this source said that being this far inside the trump legal operatio

robert mueller did the right thing and n stepped in. i thinkom the news media needs o take ownership of the mistakes made, particular hee buzzfeed. and those running this need to do their best in the future to confirm stories on their own. i was thinking about three clock this afternoon when nobody else confirmed the story, where are we this. is buzzfeed. i don't know their standards. ien know ben smith. i think he has been a descent reporter most of his career. i don't know the background checks they do on their sources. confirm foright to the record. ben b smith is a joke. anyone who knows ben smith will confirm. that he's a smart person but a dishonest reckless person. anyone knowing him i think will confirm. that this is the same outlet that deviated from the cat slide shows long enough to run the steal dossier. the same news outlets absorbed it was real too. donald trump was paying for hookers to urinate on him. remember this. we have plowed this before. lunatic cat slide show website runs unconfirmed report that is false and cnn p

barr's confirmation, maybe it's barr's strong stance pointing to the 30-year friendship with robert mueller and the russia probe and make as much as he can about mueller's final report public. >> will you commit with providing mr. mueller with the resources, fund and time needed to complete this investigation? >> yes. >> will you commit to assuring that special counsel mueller is not terminated without good cause, consistent with department regulations? >> absolutely. >> will you provide mueller's report to congress, not your rewrite or a summary? >> my objective and goal is to get as much as i can of the information to congress and the public. i don't know what -- at the end of the day what will be releasable. >> barr did say that he won't fire mueller, saying it will take something egregious, since he knows what type of investigator mueller is. in one issue that could rankle democrats, he was asked can a sitting president be indicted? >> for 40 years, it's been the position that you can't indict a sitting president. >> i'm asking you what your view is right now. >> you know, i actually ha

what's amazing is suddenly trump has now taken this position that robert mueller, the robert mueller who has been the king, the marshall of the witch hundred parade suddenly he's an american hero to donald trump. donald trump can't have it both ways though. if robert mueller is leading some crazy witch hunt investigation, ultimately when his findings are that there was collusion, there was obstruction of justice, then is trump then going to say that robert mueller isn't a credible person? that's the danger trump has right now as he tries to dissect the statement out of robert mueller's team. >> he did offer thanks for beak the integrity of the mueller office. that was a first certainly from the president for this person and the special counsel's activities. but look, the special counsel felt so compelled to refute this report. does this in any way confirm past reports because they did not have statements refuting them? >> yes, so the opposite being the situation which is if the robert mueller team hasn't taken the effort to come out every single time to correct or not correct other y

now robert mueller is saying i don't have those text messages, those documents. ain, we have to be careful. we he have to see. we can't overcorrect the story as well. bob mueller's investigation is still ongoing. we will see what he has. >> tucker: i agree. >> let's not say the president is in the clear tonight. let's not impeach him as a whole bunch of people did over the last 24 hours. my final point on this is axios, which is, again, supposed to be a very credible organization. they have a lot of credible people there i was just reading as i was listening to you and dan bongino, they had this all outtake a few hours ago go how what's really, really bad for the president is that donald trump jr. has exposure. when you look at the story, and i'm looking down because i don't even read you the whole quote. the buzzfeed story said that done jr. and ivanka and other family members had exposure. well, if the core part of the story about their being evidence that the president directed michael cohen to lie is bogus, the stuff about don jr. and ivanka must be bogus as w

let's begin with the breaking news and robert mueller's investigation and bring in our senior justice correspondent evan perez and crime and justice reporter shimon prokupecz. why does the white house want to block the mueller report from becoming public? doesn't that make the president appear to be guilty? >> they don't believe it does. it comes down what you said, executive privilege. they believe that the information that the white house shared with the special counsel is protected by the president's constitutional powers, essentially his right to get confidential advice from his advisers. and so when they shared that information with the investigators, they did not give up the right, in essence, to challenge that information from becoming public. so one of the things that we expect to happen when the mueller investigation ends up wrapping up and when he produces a final report, wolf, we expect that one of the big things that's going to happen, it's going to move to a new phase, essentially a new political and legal fight here in washington over what and what portions of the report

words trump campaign and wikileaks all over those two paragraphs right there, the trump campaign robert mueller's team was aware of and directing at a certain level coordination with wikileaks. >> right. and we expect that mueller will establish that these hacks were conducted by the russians. and that wikileaks was passing them off. so they are the link to the trump campaign. if we pull back even farther, we understand something that we've understood for months, which is the trump campaign was open for business for any oppo research, whether it was from the russianors anybody elsrussians else. that's a key piece and that's consistent. there will be a question as to whether or not anyone knew that the russians were responsible for these hacks at this particular time. but this becomes a key point in trying to understand what the link was between the campaign and russian who's were actually involved in trying to interfere with the election. and roger stone is alleged to have been this middleman. somebody who's got the experience in the dark arts of campaigns and dirty tricks and his predictions and

fbi agents involved in the matter from the district of new york, from that area, instead of robert mueller's team. so, mueller could be saying, well, it's not coming from us. we are not doing leaks. you have to look further and the fbi agents have all the evidence they have seized over the last year or two. >> to your point, when cohen testifies, it is important to point out there will be restrictions on what he is able to talk about. at the same time, it is interesting what he had to say. harry, this question to you touching on what daniel pointed out here. it is incredibly rare to hear mueller's team respond. they weighed in that the president directly told michael cohen to lie. why did they feel the need to speak out? >> you are right, it is incredibly rare. they have been the most tight lipped operation of their sort in history. that's why i think there's more here than simply trying to say they were the source. buzzfeed suggests they are not anywhere, not the exclusive ones and people are sort of pointing toward fbi, fdny, people on the case before mueller came. i think, again, that the

we know what robert mueller does with people who lie.ger stone, we know ultimately he's going to want to save his own skin, so he may try to cooperate, but i don't know if he has anything that he has to offer of value. >> appears there's a pattern of lying when it comes to many people around this president you have michael flynn, guilty of lying, george pap dop lis, guilty of lying, paul manafort, guilty of lying, michael cohen, guilty of -- and it just goes on and on and on. and roger stone is right now charged with lying >> well, roger stone is the ultimate dirty trickster he calls himself a dirty trickster. this is a man who made a consul tansy along with paul manafort as the lobbyists for dictators, murders and thieves. he's always wanted to play the edge he's always wanted to be out there where other people wouldn't represent you he would represent you and he would do the most outlandish things to gain media attention and to get the target -- to get the dot off the target, so to speak. with regards to donald trump, he's doing the sa

. >> robert s. muellerswann. robert swann mueller iii. >> and he still holds all the cards. and he still for a lot of americans represents all the hope that we'll get the truth about how our election shook out, who chose this president, if there was any influence from another foreign power. robert mueller this year in contrast to last year has been maligned by the commander in chief on a near daily basis from his twitter feed and by his surrogates. >> "there was no collusion," capital c. "it was a hoax," capital h. "and there is no obstruction of justice," couple of more capitals there. "that is a setup and trap witch hunt." >> all we hear about is this phony russia witch hunt. that's all we hear about. >> in some ways he's a more remarkable figure in that he's still silent, in that he's still letting the legal machinations, the legal developments speak for what he has uncovered. and in that we still have no idea how the mueller investigation ends. >> i would defend our choice and further say that he may be

we learned overnight the robert mueller team wants to ask questions has been rebuffed. >> that has been an issue outstanding. it's unclear to me whether mueller will have to go to his supervisors in the justice department, now, rod rosenstein, soon to be bar, to ask permission for a subpoena. day-to-day he doesn't have to but for this he might have to. the subpoena for mueller, he knows there will be a court fight, the president's lawyers will move to quash it and months of litigation probably going all the way to the supreme court. does mueller want to put his investigation on hold while that fight plays out or wrap up his investigation without the subpoena? i think that's the question mueller is asking. i don't know the answer, i think that's the question. >> it's interesting they even went back to the trump team and said we want to talk to the president in person, knowing all of that. thank you for being with us. >>> what do we need to learn about attorney general nominee, bill barr? one of the senators asking him questions today joins us next. >> in just a couple of hours, president

he talked about his long relationship and friendship with robert mueller and how much he respects roberteller. and i thought that that was really good to hear because if you were just catering to a constituency of one, the president, you wouldn't say how long you've been friends with robert mueller and in what high regard you hold him. >> i noticed that too. he went ow his way especially with some of the democratic senators who said you've criticized mueller. he said i haven't criticized mueller. i raised two issues. he mentioned the issue of sort of more balance on the team because he thought he said to the "washington post" previously that he had noted that mueller's team had a number of democrats and he wished to see more balance. but he was very careful to say i respect bob mueller. this man say marine, i've known him for years. i mean, frankly bob mueller has been to his daughters weddings. these two know each other very, very well. the president likes to talk a lot of times about james comey being bob mueller's best friend. we know that's not true. his real friend appears to be bob

they don't control robert mueller. nobody controls robert mueller. eller can send armed men to your home to roust you from bed at gunpoint because he feels like it and there's nothing you or anyone else can do about it. mueller has an unlimited budget and no timetable. he doesn't have to answer questions. he can do whatever he wants whenever he wants to whomever he wants. he cannot be fired. mueller is the single most powerful person in america and yet nobody voted for him. he is a living rebuke to the principles of our democratic system. at the same time, our leaders tell us we need robert mueller, all-powerful unelected prosecutor accountable to no one to protect us from threats to you, yourself, here democracy. nobody in washington catches the irony of this. mueller himself is a threat to our democracy, the most powerful man elected by nobody. our media don't ask questions about any of this or even acknowledge that it is a question. they have chosen sides. here's roger stone from our show on friday night. >> it's disconcerting that cnn was aware th

he has no intention of cooperating with robert mueller.s not exactly a vow to never cooperate with robert mueller. tonight, carson adam schiff, chair of the house intelligence committee confirmed that former trump personal lawyer michael cohen will testify before his committee in a closed door hearing on february 8th. and joining us now is john brennan, former director of the cia, he's a senior national security intelligence analyst for msnbc and nbc news. i want to get first of all your reaction since you in the cia have dealt with analyzing human responses to things, sometimes through surveillance, sometimes through direct interrogation, what is your reaction to seeing roger stone up there today when he's asked about will you cooperate with robert mueller and he first of all, says he's not going to answer the question, then he kind of does and says i have no intention of doing it. >> well, i think like many in the trump orbit, he tends to talk in order to distract and continues to deny, deny, deny, and clearly he's trying to conceal the

days, that means the earliest possible date at which these witness transcripts can be sent to robert mueller, just in case he wants to use them to bring more criminal charges, the earliest date mueller can get those official transcripts is next tuesday. february 5th. more than a full month after this congress was sworn in and supposedly starting its work. the delay from the republicans at least bought them another month. so we've been covering that like logistical detail in the handover of the new congress. we've been covering that pretty intensively for the last week or so. it looks like that issue is finally going to be resolved. that timeline you might imagine, has been causing some agita among witnesses there are specific witnesses who have been accused by members of congress of having lied in their closed door testimony to the intelligence committee. once mueller started charging people for lying to congress, you can imagine that those witnesses, the ones who know they lied, they've been a little nervous as to whether mueller might act on their testimony as well. well, we will know in f

he can do more damage in the open forum in congress. >> what does it say that robert mueller and his 't objected to cohen testifying before congress in public? does that subject his investigation, the mueller investigation is wrapping up? >> i have been loath to say the mueller investigation is wrapping up for a long time now. largely have been proven right because it keeps going. i think for the first time, i think there are a couple of indications maybe that is true with respect to some part of the investigation. the fact that they don't seem to be worried about cohen speaking while they are investigating things that may relate to cohen and he is cooperating combined with the reporting that rod rosenstein, who has every reason to be interested in the continued activity and conduct and closure of the mueller investigation, that he is considering stepping down in the near future, those two things in combination with each other suggest to me that we may be actually at the point that people have been speculating about for many months. >> rod rosenstein, the deputy attorney general. >>>

trying to figure out what william barr would do with robert mueller's report. >> you said that the muellerort is confidential so i'm trying to get what you're going to be chance pararetransparent >> the rules i think say the independent, the personal counsel will prepare a summery repo report on any declination decisions and should be treated as any other trksdeclination wi the department. the attorney general is responsible for notifying and reporting certain information upon the conclusion of the the investigation. how these will fit together and what can be gotten out there, i have to wait -- i would have to wait. i'd want to talk to rod rosenstein and say what he has discussed with mueller. >> so as of the completion of william bar's testimony today, we're not really sure what will happen with whatever report or reports robert mueller hands over to the justice department if william barr is confirmed as attorney general and it would seem ethically routine for an attorney general nominee as a president under criminal investigation by the justice department to promise to recrew himself fr

we don't know whether robert mueller's investigation is about to wrap up. what we do know is that the defense for a company that has been indicted by mueller is cooperating with russian disinformation efforts, and that should be alarming to all of us. >> significant point. special counsel is now fighting the company's efforts to get more sensitive documents. did mueller make a mistake in his handling of the case potentially putting those documents at risk of falling into the hands of the russian trolls? >> my sense from reporting, wolf, is that the documents that were shared with the defense were not highly classified. the sorts of documents that would threaten american national security. but they are sensitive. it's a demonstration that defense counsel here can't be trusted to not share those important documents, those sensitive documents with russian disinformation efforts. i expect that robert mueller and folks on his team will use this most recent incident as they try to constrain the access to documents by the defense team in this case. >> this comes as

and i do think, just as we need to let robert mueller stay in his lane, that, you know, mueller should, to the extent possible, let the media stay in their lane. because their best practices in the media, too, and that's not a request for a correction. if you've got that from someone, a hotelier, who said, well, you know, michael cohen said he stayed in this hotel, there are inaccuracies, there's no response to that. you don't owe that person any response. unless they say, this specific thing is wrong. >> the media is such an enemy of trump, and the enemy of the american people, that it wants to correct the record, and get the facts right. and robert mueller is such a deep state operative against it, that he actually came out and yesterday, people said optically it at least helped them. so maybe now robert mueller will be a magna hero. >> thanks for joining us. as virginia was highlighting, important news, sources telling ken delaney of the substance of the buzzfeed news story may in fact be wrong. >>> up next, a closer look at the announcement, and what it could be this afternoon from

democrats are worried that william barr will limit robert mueller's russian probe.e feinstein says she is very concerned about a memo that william barr sent the justice department last year, criticizing the investigation. the british by mr. theresa may is still trying to break the brexit deadlock. she is asking the european union to change its divorce a deal by offering an irish border guarantee that is opposed by many british lawmakers. eu leaders have ruled out any renegotiation on the brexit deal, but the prime ministers urged parliament to give her a mandate. >> we need to deliver on the result of the referendum. and i would also say to him, that when people talk about delaying article 50, that does not resolve the issue about what deal we should have in leaving. what we can do is send a message to brussels about what it is this house wants to see changing in the withdrawal agreement, in order to be but to support it. mark: the house of commons is voting today on competing brexit proposals that have been submitted by both pro brexit and pro-eu legislators since

and in that memo that really concern me in terms of his view of the ongoing investigation by robert mueller critical for me to hear whether bill barr next week in his confirmation hearings for attorney general will make a commitment that he'll protect the independence of the mueller investigation and would refuse to fire him or would resign if ordered to fire him without good cause. >> if he doesn't make that kind of commitment under oath in the hearing, would that change your vote? >> it would be very difficult to support an attorney general who wouldn't make a strong and clear commitment to the independence of the mueller investigation. >> and briefly, in a sentence or two, when will the government reopen? >> we have no idea. that's really up to president trump at this point. as you know, near the end of last year, every senator, republican and democrat, unanimously voted for a package that would have kept the government open. it was president trump who said he'd be proud on shut it. just today there was another attempt at negotiation at the white house where he apparently stormed out. so

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i have two points concerning robert mueller. something all the media shies away from, and don't cut me off. don't cut me off. let me make my two points if you are a neutrophil. directoreller was fbi during 9/11. democrats,olled republicans, and independents, hardly anybody believes the official story of 9/11. host: i am going to cut you off as we have focused on this in the past. it is muller. we're going to move on. we're going to ned in alabama. caller: good morning to you. happens to the emails.ivanka' t trump's she used a private enough server. nothing came out of it. host: is that part of this investigation? guest: that is not part of the mueller investigation. host: what happens next when the report is issued? guest: the special counsel regulations require robert mueller, the vision of this investigation -- at the conclusion of this investigation, to draw up a comprehensive report explaining his decisions to bring charges and declining to bring charges. that report will be forwarded to the attorney general, and it will be

i don't think -- >> i don't think robert mueller's thinking about that. >> not to make robert mueller his super hero, but the indictment was ready. you know, it's not election day or some other major event that would make you want to pause before taking a major action. they went forward with it. i think the same thing will happen if an action's taken against corsi. when they're ready, that's when they'll move forward. >> i don't know if we have capitol hill reporters ready to go but we're hearing from house speaker nancy pelosi moments ago on the arrest of roger stone. this is literally happening the last couple seconds. we're working to turn the tape around. she says it is very interesting to see the kinds of people that the president of the united states has surrounded himself with. speaker pelosi saying the integrity of our elections is obviously something we have to get to the truth about. the president's suggestions we should question whether we should be in nato which is a dream come true for vladimir putin as we look again at the number of people linked to the trump orbit. some

you're looking at robert mueller. that was six years ago when he was director at the fbi at a commencement for william and mary university. he was right then, and we are living the proof of that right now. thank you for watching. "cnn tonight with don lemon" starts right now. i was told about his address today on the radio. >> mm-hmm. >> and i looked it up, and i was not just impressed by the message. it's a good solid message, but the context and the contrast to who and what he's dealing with right now. and it is the root of the president's problem. he can't be believed on the topic, don. so every question becomes reasonable. >> that's my question to you. so if every time you speak with me and you ask me something, and i give you a different answer for the same thing, how do you feel about what comes out of my mouth? >> well, often when you make these suppositions, it's hard for me to answer on television because it does mimic our personal relationship. so, you know, it's weird. trump, you, it's kind of the same thin

indictment, remember, this is not pelosi herself will have control over. >> that will be how robert mueller chooses to go about things. again, we will find out more likely than ever what mueller comes up with, because the democratic house is protecting him. waiting in the wings is a democratic intel committee led by adam schiff. a lot of questions never were answered when republicans were in charge who will ultimately get free reign to explore those questions a bit more full somely. house democrats want to be careful to not overreach on the early days of those questions. >> thank you, sir. appreciate it. kristen welker my white house colleague is over there on the north lawn. kristen, president trump is waking up today to a different washington than just 24 hours ago. what's the sense behind the scenes in the west wing? >> reporter: you are right. this is a new reality and era for washington and for president trump. it's clear that officials here on defense, kellyanne conway, just having entered a gavel, a back and forth with reporters a short time ago, in which she was asked about the diff

the charges filed by robert mueller mulgz mueller he's team they show stone was communicating with a senior campaign official about efforts to leak e-mails. stone defended himself saying this is part of the larger attempt to target the president. >> i did forget that i had text messages from an old cell phone that were entirely exculpatory. >> did you talk to the president? >> i have not. he said roger stone and i never discussed this and we never did. i think we know the game wear stone down financially. make sure he is broke to plead guilty to the charges although he did not commit them then try to flip me against the president. >> let's turn to pete williams now who has more on the charges. >> reporter: frances, the charges do not accuse stone or anybody else of colluding with the russians to influence the election they bring the special counsel robert mueller investigation one step closer to the trump campaign involving a friend of trump's for more than 30 years roger stone was defiant after a brief federal court appearance in florida where fbi agents arrested him and searched hi

. >>> roger stone won't rule out cooperating with robert mueller. what is the next domino to fall in the russia probe. >>> and the interim president in venezuela in talks to oust nicolas maduro who is blaming the u.s. for the upheaval. ♪ >>> and why the highly anticipated live tv production of rent was mostly on tape, hence the trending hashtag at 4:01 a.m. eastern time rent not live. good morning and welcome to "early start." >> it was never going to be live for me because i'd be asleep. i'm christine romans. it is monday, january 28. let's start with the shutdown. 800,000 federal workers back on the job today, but even with a deal to end the record length 35 day shutdown, huge issues remain. lengthy backlogs, looming deadlines and a gigantic bureaucratic reboot. the u.s. economy recovering from an estimated $6 billion hit, slightly more than the amount the president wanted to build that wall. and the clock ticking down toward a new deadline, now just 18 days away. >> even the president himself less than optimistic, telling the "wall street journal

will have more on the breaking news. >>> roger stone has been indicted by the special counsel, robert muellere is charged with witness tampering, obstruction and making false statements. brian todd has a closer look now at the man who may be at the center of mueller's russia probe. tell us more. >> reporter: there's so much of roger stone's history that you couldn't make up in a hollywood script. it's his connections with donald trump and richard nixon which tonight seem to define stone's reputation as a dirty trickster. look familiar? it's meant to. roger stone is so proud of his association with richard nixon, he has an image of nixon tattooed on his back. stone was still a teenager when he worked with nixon's 1972 re-election campaign and started to hone his skills in what stone himself once called the black arts. otherwise known as dirty tricks in american politics. >> in some way, roger stone is the dna that connects the dirty tricks of richard nixon to what are alleged to be the dirty tricks of the trump campaign. >> what makes -- >> reporter: they say it was stone who first put the ide

there are signs that robert mueller may have another indictment up his sleeve. on, it's interesting because cnn is getting new information tonight that more mueller indictments could be coming. what do you know? >> yeah, this has to do with a former aide to roger stone. andrew miller is his name. he's been fighting a subpoena from the mueller team, from the special counsel's team. he and his lawyers have been litigating this. they do not want to testify, they do not want him testifying before the grand jury. and the mueller team says we still want you despite what we may have heard today. despite the fact that roger stone was indicted on friday, they still want him to appear before the grand jury which means there could be additional charges against roger stone at some point. it would seem the reason they're interested in andrew miller is because of roger stone. he worked for him. they've had questions for him about roger stone. we could be seeing additional charges against roger stone. >> let's get to the acting a.g., matthew whitaker, saying mueller is close to

we learn more about how washington is trying to use robert mueller to discredit robert mueller. we're talking to somebody who has advised the president on the investigation. and that's not all chris christie is revealing about his time in donald trump's inner circle. he's here live on set to talk about all of it as the president throws some possible shade his way. plus, democrats dealing with the guy they can't shake. howard schultz keeping up his cross-country blitz. the promise he's making about his candidacy should he run. our team is set up and ready to go. we start with president trump, roger stone and robert mueller. the trio making headlines in a new shift down interview where the president reiterates he could have ended the mueller investigation very easily if he wanted to. and interestingly, he suggests he may order a review of the fbi's tactics when they arrested stone saying, quote, roger is not a person they would have to worry about from that standpoint, and i thought it was sad to see. very sad. my colleague kelly o'donnell is at the white house. a lot to unpack fr

rosenstein is telling people that he wants to stay in his job at deputy attorney general until robert muellers his investigative report, but will donald trump allow rosenstein to stay? will donald trump fire rod rosenstein before mueller finishes his investigation? >>> in an exclusive report tonight, nbc news pete williams is reporting that deputy attorney general rod rosenstein will resign and leave the justice department after the special prosecutor who he appointed, robert mueller, has finished his investigative and prosecutorial work. nbc news report says, "a source close to rosenstein said he intends to stay on until mueller's investigative and prosecutorial work is done. the source said that would mean rosenstein would remain until early march. several legal sources have said they expect the mueller team to conclude its work by mid to late february, although they said that timeline could change based on unforeseen investigative developments. the source said once mueller's work is done, the special counsel's report to the justice department would follow a few weeks later, and rosenstein

will robert mueller essentially way in argument? bring in our panel to break it down a "new york times" justice department reporter, and bloomberg news chief washington correspondent here in new york and msnbc legal analyst and former federal prosecutor and a representative of media matters. thank you for joining us cynthia, you heard in the soundbite we played in the interview with roger stone he essentially opened the door to cooperating, although seems to be cooperation on his own terms trying to stick by his own story saying he knew of nothing wrong, but if he did he would talk to robert mueller would robert mueller be even interested in that type of cooperation? >> robert mueller is interested in cooperation, but i didn't get the sense after watching that several times and watching the complete clip that he's really made a big change in his position perhaps he's listened to his lawyers and framed it differently, but essentially, he's saying, i never did -- i never colluded with the russian what's so ever and never dealing with

and as you can see, robert mueller found zero evidence of criminal campaign collusion. ill, wanted to turn the screws anyway. you know, so maybe he will talk or maybe he will compose or sing. sound familiar? why? because mueller wants to take down a duly elected president of the united states. he has only democrats, donors on his team. maybe they want revenge for the 2016 election. and they appear to stop at nothing to get it. but i have a news flash for team mueller. there was no collusion. your investigation is baseless, always has been, and you will never subvert the will of the american people. we have a lot to get to. joining us now, author of "the deep state," fox news jason chaffetz. the author of "the russian hoax," fox news legal analyst gregg jarrett. author of "the case against the democratic house impeaching trump," harvard law professor alan dershowitz. congressman chaffetz, i will begin with you. if this is the case all of these other people that we know lied to congress and in the case of hillary, they were subpoenaed. she did the delete them. she did acid

a high pro file arrest in the robert mueller russia investigation. list of charges. pete williams has been reading this indictment, good morning to you. >> reporter: roger stone is now in a federal courtroom in florida. prosecutors say stone lied to congress to find out about damaging e-mails hacked by the russians about hillary clinton and the company and encouraged a friend to lie to congress about contacts too about contacts with wikileaks. they do not say that stone was in contact with wikileaks or russians who hacked into the documents. they say he was contacted by a senior official in the campaign who asked him about future releases by wikileaks of the hacked e-mails. the documents say stone through his friend tried to prod wikileaks to release more material. when his friend was called to testify to congress, stone urged him to plead the fifth. >> pete williams in our washington news room thank you. >>> there was joyful news in a north carolina community fearing the worst. a 3-year-old boy lost three days ago was found alive. gabe gutierrez has

that's what this is really about. >> would stone's testimony even hold any value for robert mueller? >> so i mean, if you're asking would mueller want him as a cooperator, i can't speak for rorb robert mueller. i can say as a prosecutor who over the course of 16 years had cooperaters who had checkered pasts to say the least. they lived lives of crime and i found ways to collaborate them. i believed in their testimony and trusted them. i would find it hard to sign up someone like roger stone. he's in a whole different category when it comes to the ability to tell the truth. i think he's a pathological liar and i don't know if he's capable of it. he's showing that since he's been charged. he's not yet taking this as seriously as he really needs to. now can that change? do people change? do they see the light when they're facing real jail time and they're in the formality and the power of the court and the judicial system? yes. and it also could be that robert mueller has such strong evidence, you know, hard evidence that he just needs roger stone to walk him through it. i'm not going to