cnn is learning the team detained and questions ted malloch. they asked him about roger stone and about julian assuage and wikileaks and they subpoenaed him to appear before mueller's grand jury in april. what does this tell us about where mueller's probe is headed? we will talk about that. plus, president trump increasingly isolated inside his own white house, moving trusted aide scavino into the small office near the president's desk. it was occupied by hope hicks. moscow flexing its muscle for the u.s. and the world to see. russia's defense minister releasing video of a test launch of its new intercontinental ballistic missile. a lot of ground to cover tonight. i want to bring in david axle r axlerod. david, good to have you on. good evening. robert mueller's investigation is moving ahead. we are learning a new name, ted malloch, detained by the fbi at logan airport as he returned from london. he says investigators asked him about trump confidant roger stone and julian assuage. where is this investigation going? do you know? >> you know, wha

it's also an interesting indication, if he gave ted malloch a document to search his phone that would have to be a search warrant. if it's a search warrant he must have probable cause to believe a crime was committed using that phone. some evidence of wrong doing that implicates this individual. george nader, he did the same thing. it's a very thorough and, i think yodit is right, grifs tactic that he's using. that's just the way that he has been doing this entire investigation from the start. >> i'm curious, though, daniel. the possibility of a pardon for manafort and flynn, if the president believes there's no collusion, no crime, why talk pardons at all? >> it could be a pardon in the sense of trying to save his relatives, other campaign officials and may not necessarily be directly related to his own involvement. he has attacked mueller and on the other hand says he wants to be cooperative and meet with him. those are conflicting approaches and we're wondering now after he has fired or after his personal attorney has left, and he's not left with an experience attorney how things w

i present it out ted malloch, a professor, an informal adviser to the trump campaign, big booster. today he told nbc news he was detained by the fbi at boston's logan airport on wednesday after a flight back from london that he was served a subpoena from the special counsel's office. also, questioned on the spot in the airport. malloch said agents asked him about roger stone and whether he ever visited the ecuadorian embassy in london where julian assange lived since 2012. he says agents searched his cell phone and he plans to appear for further questioning april 13th. for more on another new character, here's harry lipman, department of justice lawyer. first of all, how common is it to do this move where you grab the person as soon as they land at the airport? >> yeah, and you have an order already to capture his cell phone. they had totally done their homework. they said they knew he was a big fan of the philadelphia eagles. and then they begin to hit him with all these questions. it's not uncommon. you want to initially question somebody when they are off balance. but it's going

cnn is learning the team detained and questions ted malloch.y asked him about roger stone and about julian assuage and wikileaks and they subpoenaed him to appear before mueller's grand jury in april. what does this tell us about where

i present it out ted malloch, a professor, an informal adviser to the trump campaign, big booster. today he told nbc news he was detained by the fbi at boston's logan airport on wednesday after a flight back from london that he was served a subpoena from the special counsel's office. also, questioned on the spot in the airport. malloch said agents asked him about roger stone and whether he ever visited the ecuadorian embassy in london where julian assange lived since 2012. he says agents searched his cell phone and he plans to appear for further questioning april 13th. for more on another new character, here's harry lipman, former federal prosecutor and department of justice lawyer. first of all, how common is it to do this move where you grab the person as soon as they land at the airport? >> yeah, and you have an order already to capture his cell phone. they had totally done their homework. they said they knew he was a big fan of the philadelphia eagles. and then they begin to hit him with all these questions. it's not uncommon. you want to initially question somebody when they a

campaign coming into the radar, under the radar of robert mueller just on wednesday, a guy named ted malloch, kind of a conspiracy theorist was stopped at logan airport, served a subpoena and released. he said he was asked about roger stone and wikileaks. malloch is british and a friend of the brexit guy, he has a book coming out in may "the plot to destroy trump." the forward was written by roger stone. it's blurbed by alex jones. we do seem to be circling a wider and wider and sometimes shallower path of people, but they all have these connections back to putin. >> that's right. that book, it sounds like it's a retort to malcolm's book, the plot to hack america. >> it is. >> sounds like it. >> as we get down to this, just to take one step back to what sarah said, it's so important. now that we are hearing a specific russian intelligence agency's name, the gru, russian military intelligence, it's understand to what russian military intelligence motivation might have been in this effort. they're clearly interested in ukraine. when you see a platform change under president trump that softens