president, does robert mueller still have your confidence? mr. president! >> reporter: in a series of tweets over the weekend, the president signaled his strong desire for the russia probe to come to an end, tweeting this morning, a total witch hunt with massive conflicts of interest. so far, three trump campaign associates have pleaded guilty and mueller's team indicted 13 russians for election meddling. a move that prompted the administration to issue sanctions against them just last week. >> i'm just puzzled by why the white house is going so hard at this. other than they're very afraid of what might come out. i don't know how you can have any other conclusion. >> reporter: for the first time, trump attacked mueller by name, asking, why does the mueller team have 13 hardened democrats, some big crooked hillary supporters, and zero republicans? his question was rhetorical as well as incorrect, as mueller himself is a republican. as is deputy attorney general, general rod rosenstein, who oversees the probe. and this tweet on saturday had many questioning i

reporter: why does he not push for the firing of robert mueller? sarah: because we would like to cooperative and we would like for this to wrap up soon. that seems to be the most productive step forward. we would like to see this come to a conclusion. reporter: i want to follow up on the accusations of fraud in the russian election. accusations have been brought up by the u.k. government in statement. they are listing a fundamental lack of freedom. why does the president not believe it is something he should be discussing with the russian leader? say theydidn't it said --scuss it, said it did not come up on today's call. the focus was to talk about areas of shared interest. we know we need to continue a dialogue. it is a port for a lot of the safety and security of people across the globe. we would like to be able to work with them on things like north korea and both countries share an interest on lowering the tension when it comes to an arms race, recogonizing it is not the best thing for either country. we want to be able to have those conversati

mueller. >> why doesn't he push for the firing of robert mueller if he thinks the probe shouldn't have begun in the first place? why doesn't he fire him? >> we would like to be cooperative and we would like this to wrap up soon. we would like to see this document a conclusion. >> democrats aren't buying what the president's surrogates to have say pointing to what the president himself has been saying on twitter. that the probe should never have been started and suggest mueller's investigative steam politically biased. >> i trust the tweets that the president puts out when he's unsupervised. and i think what we have seen over and over again is his intention to obstruct justice. >> and some believe a mueller firing could spell the end of the trump administration. >> if the president fired robert mueller, do you think that would be an meeimpeachable offense? >> probably so. if he did it without cause. i can't think of a more upsetting moment in the rule of law to have an investigator looking at it. to stop it without cause i think would be a constitutional crisis. >> even if donald trump

saying the mueller team has zero republicans. even though robert mueller himself is a republican. now the tweet storm had very rare mention of robert mueller by name has some analysts dedeucing that the president is ready to shut mueller down. at least two republicans in the senate say that would be a disaster. >> as

and yet could you identify the voice of robert mueller? tonight we hear from the man at the center of so much these days, when "the 11th hour" continues. i we worked with pg&eof to save energy because wenie. wanted to help the school. they would put these signs on the door to let the teacher know you didn't cut off the light. the teachers, they would call us the energy patrol. so they would be like, here they come, turn off your lights! those three young ladies were teaching the whole school about energy efficiency. we actually saved $50,000. and that's just one school, two semesters, three girls. together, we're building a better california. >>> normally any time we mention the name robert mueller around here it's a triggering event. it triggers this, a string of video images that you're looking at right now. we air some form of this same thing every night, based only upon our own video loop, you'd be forgiven for thinking that all robert mueller does is wake up in the morning and find a hallway to walk down purposefully and with a seriou

tonight the white house insisting that special counsel robert mueller will not be fired. but once again calling for a swift end to the inquiry. >> we have not been shy about the fact that there is frustration of this process. we would like it to end quickly and soon. >> reporter: trump himself has made no secret of his anger, launching a tweet storm lashing out at mueller's investigation, repeatedly calling it a witch-hunt. and then the president added a new attorney to his legal team. joseph digenova. >> they plotted to frame him. >> was floating a conspiracy theory in the justice department. are you comfortable with the president going after the special counsel in such a direct way? >> well, look, i agree with the president's lawyers that bob mueller should be allowed to finish his job. i think it was an excellent appointment. i think he will lead -- he will go wherever the facts lead him. and he will have great credibility with the american people when he reaches the conclusion of this investigation. >> reporter: now one prominent republican telling hugh hewitt that th

mueller, not go directly at robert mueller himself. obviously that changed. what led to it? >> well, they sure had. and a lot of that was to his credit, at least until recently, was ty cobb, reassuring the president saying, i agree with you, this probe is a witch hunt, but it will be over soon. it will be over. we all remember he said by thanksgiving. then by the holidays. then by the first of the year. and then when it wasn't over, the president grew increasingly frustrated, increasingly enraged and you have a legal team that is often at times sort of at war with itself in feuding. and you have a lawyer, the president's personal attorney john dowd, who it was explained to me recently, feeds the president's worst impulses. while you have ty cobb saying don't train your fire on mueller, hold steady, let it g it won't help you, you have john dowd sort of doing exactly what the president did on a different tract this weekend, going out and attacking the investigation, calling for its conclusion and in some ways people told me encouraging

>> this came between discussions of rick yates and robert mueller. this is months before rick gates pleaded guilty to charges in the special counsel's investigation. according to sources who talked to the court writer, mueller told gates that he had plenty of evidence against paul manafort, the former campaign chairman of the trump campaign, as well as gates' former business partner. he said he had plenty of evidence against manafort. what he needed gates' help with was the core mission of the special counsel which is the ties between the trump campaign -- alleged ties between the trump campaign and the russians. what this means is that the special counsel is looking specifically at making the case of russian collusion, that it has not gone away, despite what you hear from president trump and from his allies. >> from republican members of the house intelligence committee. they wrapped up their own investigation. are there any indications of how this is playing out with gates? >> we're beginning to see a little of that. we don't know exactly what rick

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number one, robert mueller has a reason to call him before the grand jury. either there was questions he refused to answer in the interview that mueller wants to compel him to answer or maybe there is evidence he provided in the interview that mueller wants to get into the grand jury to get an indictment. so he has a good reason to call him before the grand jury and he won't let him off the hook because he doesn't want to show up. that is the first reason. there is just no way he'll let that. and the second one is you state -- you can't let every other witness in this investigation or any federal investigation to look at this and say i can thumb my nose at a lawfully issued subpoena and refuse to show up. it is absurd. no prosecutor would let a witness get away with that. >> thumb my nose. thank you for that. john you covered the campaign with me and sam was there early on. he was fired early on. but he goes back in time quite a while with donald trump and he's also somebody who is very close with roger stone. >> he has deep ties to both men. roger stone is

do you think the stage is now set to get rid of robert mueller? >> well, it certainly suggests that this broader effort to undermine the special counsel's investigation may be paving the way to do so. i think it's especially notable because the president and his attorneys have said on repeated occasions they're doing everything they can to cooperate with the special counsel's investigation, but then they make statements like these which suggest anything but. and i also think that it creates a major headache for republicans on capitol hill, who have created their own red line in the sand, which is that firing robert mueller, as lindsey graham put it in january, in the eyes of some republicans. would be the end of trump's presidency. i think it also speaks to the broader politicization of the fbi under trump, where you look at robert mueller, you look at james comey, andrew mccabe and rod rosenstein. these are all lifelong republicans. and yet it's being cast as this deep state conspiracy by trump and his allies to delegitimize the president. i thin

>> reporter: well, anderson, we've learned that lawyers on both sides, on robert mueller's side as well as lawyers for the president, met just last week in a face-to-face interview. this is the first one they've had in recent weeks after informal discussions about a possible interview. but they met face to face, and i'm told by a source familiar along with my colleague, gloria borger, that during this meeting, robert mueller's team was able to provide more specifics, more granularity on the topics they would like to discuss with the president if an interview happens. that includes anything under the umbrella of the firing of james comey and michael flynn and what the president knew regarding michael flynn's conversations with russian ambassador sergey kislyak this past december. also jeff sessions and his role in the firing of james comey. so these are new details about what robert mueller's team is interested in speaking to the president about, going beyond what we've known previously, and also it signals, anderson, that robert mueller's team is still very much interested in learning w

before we get to him, i want to look at the other thing robert mueller is doing. one month ago when robert mueller and his prosecutors brought a blockbuster indictment against 13 russian nationals and organizations and businesses, i'm not sure the president saw that coming, it was also a landmark moment for us as a country and the story about russia attacking our election, messing with our democracy and ability to choose our leaders. because when robert mueller brought that felony criminal charges against russians that attack into the election process, that was the first time since this president has been in office any action was taken to defend us from what russian did, to punish them at all for the russia attack. the first time our government had done anything to defend us, to try to push back at what russia had done to punish them at all for the attack. almost like if the american government as a whole won't push back for fight against what the russians have been doing, the special counsel's office will do its bit to try and that's an awkward way for a country

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needs to do his job. >> cbs news learned robert robert mueller's team interviewed andrew mccabe about his conversations with the president. >>> and russian president vladimir putin was reelected. this cements his grip till 2024. his opponent was bard from competing. there was a number of reports of voting violations anyway. >>> this evening authorities in texas increased the reward for information that leads to an arrest in a spring of deadly bombings. it is $1,000. it has been more than two weeks since the first explosive package was left outside someone's home and since then there have been two others. two people died. the police chief is asking for everyone's help. >> it is important we get word out, we need your help in solving this case. please, keep the calls coming. we don't want the tips to slow down. >> authorities received 435 leads and interviewed more than 200 people and respond 735 calls of suspicious packages. agents from the fbi, the atf and other agencies are assisting in the investigation. >>> authorities identified the six people killed when a pedestrian bridge felon

>> let's first say that i think he could actually get to the point of having robert mueller fired. now, he wouldn't necessarily do it and the attorney general wouldn't necessarily do it because he's recused himself. the attorney general has recused himself. it would fall to rod rosenstein. let's assume that he wouldn't do it. then falls to rachel brand, she doesn't work there anymore because she decided she couldn't deal with this anymore, and it would just keep sliding down to finally somebody would have to step up. here's the thing. if you ask me this question 30 days ago, i would say i don't think he could get away with it. i think he would get away with it now. >> why? >> it comes down to timing at this point. if he were to do it and he were to grasp on to any little bit, any little bit of misconduct by that office, then i think he could get away with it. if he were to do it just flat out because they were getting close to him, then i don't think he could get away with it. but with this president, he can very much do anything as we know. >> so let me -- we should say for the re

cnn has learned that special counsel robert mueller has subpoenaed the trump organization for business documents as part of its russia investigation. with this look now at the trump family's business empire, has mueller crossed the president's red line? >>> sanctioning russia -- the trump administration announces punishment for moscow's meddling in the 2016 election, singling out more than a dozen russians already indicted by the special counsel robert mueller. why did the administration miss congress deadline by a month and a half? >>> friend or foe -- as president trump moves closer to blaming russia for the poisoning of a former spy, the white house won't say whether the president, vladimir putin, is an ally or the enemy of the united states. why unwilling to call him out? >>> and deadly bridge collapse -- a walkway collapse, crushing cars and trapping the people inside. rescuers are working frantically to reach the victims. what caused the span to come crashing down? >>> we want to welcome our viewers in the united states and around the world. i'm wolf blitzer. you're in "the situa

and in his quest for the truth, robert mueller wants to know what happened. i would think cooperation from paul manafort would have great value to him. >> beyond kushner and manafort, nbc news is reporting mueller is also asking witnesses whether or not the president was aware that the democrats' e-mails had been stolen. where do you think mueller's case is going so far as the president is concerned? >> it seems like he may be working toward an indictment for the hacking of the dnc e-mails, much as we saw this charge a week and a half ago or so about the russians who conspired to defraud the united states by interfering with the elections through the social media campaign. i could envision a very similar indictment going after the hacking component of that, which also is charging the same legal theory, conspiracy to defraud the united states by interfering with the election. then any americans, including president trump and those in his campaign, who either conspired with them or aided and abetted them or as an accessory after the fact by helping distribute t

robert mueller is a registered republic republican. >> rod rosenstein? >> rod rosenstein is a registered republican or appointed by a republican. chris wrays mueller has to go to get his mandate expanded or e l evaluated. and these nine that are registered as democrats, they're not going to let their party affiliation interfere with their fact-finding mission. so just because you're registered democratic or republican, it goi's going to de your view or elements of the law. it just defies reality. >>> lawmakers want answers now from facebook following allegations linked to the social media juggernaut. they have risen their interviews to 15,000 people. >> the leader of cambridge analytica says he's willing to speak to the special prosecutor and the fbi. the information comes from his own e-mail sent to his fellow colleagues at cambridge university. colin montgomer cogen's company provided all kinds of data. the data gathered through a personality test facebook application that he built. when facebook users took this test, they gave kogen access to all thei

leave robert mueller alone. >> yeah, mr. trump attacked the special counsel and his team in a series of tweets this weekend, the latest calling into question their impartiality. that prompted the white house attorney to assure lawmakers the president is not considering firing mueller. boris sanchez has the details now from washington. >> on sunday we saw president trump make a distinct shift in the way that he's talked about the special counsel, specifically rob mueller and his team, though previously the president had said that the russia investigation was a hoax and a witch-hunt, he never really singled out robert mueller by name for criticism until this weekend. in a tweet sent out sunday morning, the president was arguing that the special investigation was biased because there were no republicans on robert mueller's team. no one really there to defend the president. that of course is inaccurate. robert mueller himself is a republican, one who served under both republican and democratic administrations. further, many of t

special counsel robert mueller has focussed in on rick gates. new details revealed in court filings this week are giving us the first indications of how prosecutors are getting that from gates and using it to tie paul manafort, the former chairman of the president's campaign directly to russian operatives. so to sarah murray with this bit of news. what more can you tell us? >> reporter: we knew rick gates was cooperating with the special counsel and people looked at that as this guy is going to flip on his long-time business partner and try to get him cooperate or help the government build their case against paul manafort. but one of the things they're telling my colleague is when rick gates was working

robert mueller has not found that yet, though. and even republicans on house intel said they didn't find that with people they interviewed, which is not to say there was no collusion, period. he says this is based on a fake dossier. the inquiry began with papadopoulos and his conversation with an australian diplomat. trump says the fire wiretap of carter page was surveillance of his campaign. but it didn't take place until after he left the campaign. and one more that i'll add, president trump tweeted that there were zero republicans on robert mueller's team. robert mueller himself is a lifelong republican appointed by george w. bush. with that, if donald trump can't fire robert mueller, because ultimately that is up to whoever is running the justice department, and right now this investigation is at least run by rod rosenstein. if he can't do that is driss credit him his next best optional? >> absolutely and we've seen that for months now. we've seen a coordinated campaign by the president and his allies, not only to undermine ro

so on the table, the president's claim of witch hunt targeting robert mueller and more. also tonight, the lawmakers who say firing mueller would be dumb politically, suicidal, but doing nothing to stop it. and later a new twist in the stormy daniels saga. we begin with pamela brown at the white house. what have you learned about this meeting? >> reporter: we've learned that lawyers on both sides, on robert mueller's side as well as lawyers for the president met just last week in a face-to-face interview. this is the first one they've had in recent weeks after informal discussions about a possible interview. but they met face to face, and i'm told by a source familiar along with my colleague, gloria borger, that during this meeting, robert mueller's team was able to provide more specifics, more granularity on the topics they would like to discuss with the president if an interview happens. that includes anything under the umbrella of the firing of james comey and michael flynn and what the president knew regarding michael flynn's conversations with russian ambassador serg

and yet here, robert mueller comes in as f.b.i. director and he is putting in place a policy that is getting rid of the best of the best that we have in the federal bureau of investigation. and some say, well, you may not realize that he was a bush appointee. i know he was. and he took office as director of the f.b.i. shortly before 9/11. to blame robert mueller for failing to see what was coming on 9/11, because he had just simply not been in office that long. but director mueller implemented this policy and as i struggle, why would he do this? he is running thousands of years of experience. mean just in that three life 4s and 140 supervisory agents hat mueller ran off, not for unethical conduct, and not for inefficiency, no. n he ran them off because they perhaps had too much experience and anybody that has concern self-image and perhaps -- i was wrestling, why would someone run off thousands of experience within the f.b.i. d what i kept coming bang to perhaps there is some kind of insecurity that would cause a director to be con

mueller, if donald trump tries to start a chain reaction, robert mueller will get fired or have his hands tied by a new attorney general, do you have any indication, jake, that the gop will push back at that point? >> i might catch flack for this, but i do think they would. and you have to also keep in mind that democrats are going to try to make this election about the chaos of washington and the chaos of the trump administration. and if republicans feel like their electoral prospects, as dim as they've become in the house of representatives, are at risk, then they might take action to prevent donald trump from further plummeting them into a bad political position, as you noted -- as sarah huckabee sanders spoke about, 38 republicans are leaving congress. this is what could be an historic election for democrats. so i think republicans would take action to insulate themselves from something that many of them say, publicly and privately, is improper and not right, but will not do so before they believe it's a real threat. >> it all comes down to electoral politics. what does it mean

robert mueller's happy to look at any of this. this is not, let's be clear, this is not normal behavior for real estate. for anyone out there who says this is how business gets it done, it's not. >> it had to do with money laundering. his assistant, rick -- trying to remember his last name. >> gates. >> gates, he's now on the prosecution side. they'll definitely go after this. i think jared will ultimately, i've said this over and over again, he's a huge liability to the president. he's clearly used his position in a senior advisory role for the government to benefit his business personally. now, they say they separated out those things. but he shouldn't be in these businesses at all. >> okay, shouldn't be in meetings with foreign ministers? because "the washington post" is reporting jared's father charlie met with qatar's finance minister three months after trump's inauguration. charlie kushner says he turned down money for his financially strapped real estate project. i'm guessing that had to be 666 fifth avenue. how does that s

he's challenging robert mueller to arrest him. he's going to be my guest onset in just a moment to talk about this. we have the subpoena that

robert mueller is here to stay. it appears jeff sessions is here to stay too even though the president now seems toe desperately want him to quit, sessions says he's not going anywhere for now. neither is robert mueller as he inches closer to president trump. >> what the hell is going on with hope hicks? they put out a lot of slop today. i shouldn't knock any reporter. they're the best in the business. especially maggie. to put out, she was always planning to leave . no news here. yes, it's news. our network tonight said a shocker. >> she was up at the house intelligence yesterday admitting she told white lies for her boss. they've renders her basically ineffective. >> why did she say that? kennedy said he has a cold and has to go back to the white house. he didn't have a cold. >> she was saying when he's in the office i'll say he's not in the office or he can see a visitor when he probably could, he doesn't want to. sorry, when the word is out of your mouth, white lies you're no longer effective. i know she's a ver

and yet could you identify the voice of robert mueller? tonight we hear from the man at the center of. so these days. >>> normally any time we mention the name robert mueller around here it's a triggering event. it triggers this, a string of video images that you're looking at right now. we air some form of this same thing every night, based only upon our own video loop, you'd be forgiven for thinking that all robert mueller does is wake up in the morning and find a hallway to walk down purposefully and with a serious looking massive briefcase before turning in for the night. we know he's so much more than that. he played three sports in prep school, soccer, lacrosse and hockey and was captain of all three teams. he's a decorated, wounded marine corps veteran who left with a bronze star and purple heart, when to princeton, only j. edgar hoover -- we mention his name multiple times every night on this broadcast and yet would you know his voice if you've ever heard it? you have ever heard him speak? so we looked through his public remarks an

mueller, that he believes that robert mueller should be able to do his job. when asked, however, by cnn's ashley kilough if the speaker was expecting legislation to install safe guards so mueller could be fired, the senator refused to respond to that question. >> boris sanchez, thank you so much. let's discuss that and that newest development from the representative for the house speaker, paul ryan. cnn's political analyst margaret telev and julian zeletzer with us. margaret, would paul ryan come out by way of boris' reporting there saying he stands behind rob mueller's investigation, that he clearly shouldn't be intimidated is the message. >> this is an important marker for the house speaker to lay down for republicans in leadership to lay down. president trump turns to twitter to vent his frustrations for a number of reasons and sometimes it seems to be just to let off steam and he feels better and kind of goes back to a reset but sometimes it is to test or to float an idea, and i think for a lot of the republicans who are concerned about this, they see thi

>> adrienne: in terms of robert mueller's job? >> harris: for people on the hill to look to pass must-pass legislation with the spending bill? >> adrienne: well, look. i will say this. i think we all want to get this ominous bill through. i think we're tired of these short term spending solutions. we have to have a real budget in place. if this is holding up ultimately the bill, i think that's a problem. i understand some, i think chris coons means well here. he wants to do what he can to protect the special council robert mueller from being fired and what he's doing is trying to get republicans on board on his bill so we can show this is not a part of an issue there's democrats and republicans coming together to protect robert mueller. >> harris: how frauth is this? the 2.7 percent increase in military pay. do you really tie robert mueller to the spending bill? >> lawrence: >> lisa: if you're president trump. you're frustrating. you're frustrated because you're told three separate times that you're not under investigation and all

another republican senator, lindsay graham, said, the only reason robert mueller should be dismissed is for calls, if you try to do that, that would be the beginning and end of his presidency, because we are a rule of law nation. there is a building dissonances between the republican party and their president. a man has been arrested on suspicion of attempted murder after at least 13 people were injured when a car was driven into a busy nightclub in gravesend. it's thought the car drove into a covered smoking area at bla ke's nightclub. our correspondent simon jones at the scene sent us this update. well, the police remain at the scene, they were initially called here just before midnight, that was after clubbers heard a big bang, able trying to enjoy their night out, suddenly, a 4 x 4, ploughed into a tented area at the end of the alleyway behind me, there was panic, people screaming, one of the people inside the club said that she sent a text to her family to say she loved them because she did not know what was going to happen. security staff quickly took charge of the situation an

last year he called it a red line if robert mueller investigates his finances. he didn't tell the "new york times" with what he would do if robert mueller crossed that red line, but knowing donald trump as we do, the very first thing we would expect donald trump to do is scream witch hunt on twitter. and some day we'll know the date that robert mueller subpoenaed the trump organization will be become a publically known historical fact some day. and so we will know if donald trump's february 27th primal scream of witch hunt was the day that he got a call from new york, from the trump organization, telling him that donald trump's business just received its first subpoena from robert mueller. we now know that in response to that subpoena the trump organization will be handling over to the special prosecutor any and all documents, e-mails, texts and any other material they have concerning donald trump's attempt to close a deal on a building project in moscow that would give him something he has dreamed about for decades, a trump tower in moscow. and no one knows mor

>> president trump attacks robert mueller. >> are you done with robert mueller, mr. president? >> tonight donald trump formally joins the plot to stop the mueller investigation as he also hires a new attorney. and as republican lead sayers mostly silent. >> if you van innocent client, mr. dowd, act like it. >>> plus -- >> to your knowledge, did the trump campaign in 2016 use that improperly accessed data? >> bombshell new reporting on the trump campaign's data analytics operation. >> this is a company that really took fake news to the next level. >> explosive new details about the kind of operation cambridge analytica was handling. and why facebook's handling of a massive data intrusion. >> i understand that facebook was how donald trump was going to win. >> when "all in" starts right now. good evening from new york. i'm chris hayes. new reporting tonight that president trump's lawyers are now turning documents over to special counsel robert mueller in hopes of limiting the scope of mueller's interview with the president. that news comes in the wake of the president unleashing

does he still want to do an interview with robert mueller? >> look, we've been fully transparent throughout this process. we've been fully cooperative. we're going to continue to be cooperative with the office of special counsel. beyond that, i can't go any further. >> can you provide more clarity on the president's tweets towards robert mueller over the weekend, calling him out by name? what was behind that? >> like i just said, clearly we have not been shy about the fact that there's frustration of this process. we would like it to end quickly and soon. the president has contended since day one and will continue to do so that there was absolutely no collusion between his campaign and any outside force or country. so i don't understand why it's hard for anyone to process. if you had been attacked mercifully and continuously day in, day out, every second while you're trying to work hard to do good things for this country and literally every day you wake up to an onslaught of people saying you're there because of reasons that are completely fa

robert mueller was the u.s. attorney in charge while these men were rotting in prison while certain agents in the fbi under mueller covered up the truth. let's see. andrew wiseman was ex-scorated by two judges. when did robert mueller know about this? these are questions and issues i'm sure you've not heard from your friends in the liberal media. some people in congress are praising mueller, the pillar of virtue. they have never investigated him. they're lying. it's their talking point. all the information we're telling you about is right there, right in front of the liberal mainstream media in their faces. they purposely ignore it because they're destroy trump agenda goes above all else. the reason why is because they want mueller to carry out this witch hunt even though there's no evidence of collusion. even though we know about robert mueller and his past, his current moves make a lot of sense. mueller didn't point appoint? a merry band of huge democratic donors. appointing andrew wiseman to be his put bull,

president by robert mueller. john dowd was very much in opposition to that idea. didn't see a real reason for it. particularly with the tense upon tens of thousands of pages of documents, e-mails, other materials that he and ty cobb had been producing to the mueller investigation. whereas people like toy cobb and sekulow were along the lines the president should be sitting down with the special counsel as long as there are narrow parameters of what the special council can ask about, to bring this investigation to a quick close. dowd had been putting together a legal argument that would sort of put mueller in a little bit of a box in terms of what he could ask. the argument that dowd was making was saying that you can only interview the president if you can prove that he has information that you can't get elsewhere. and we have produced so many documents, the white house in the transition to the mueller investigation, that would narrow the parameters of what you can ask the president. john dowd, people who don't k

robert mueller was the u.s. attorney in charge while these men were rotting in prison, while certain agents in the fbi under a mueller covered up the truth. oh, let's see. andrew weissmann was excoriated by two judges for withholding exculpatory evidence. so what did robert mueller know about all this? when did he know about all of us? these are questions and issues i'm sure you have not heard from your friends in the liberal media. toro some members of congress, e media, they are praising mueller. the pillar of honesty, the pillar of virtue. they've never investigated him. they are actually just flying. it is their talking points. all the information we are telling you about is right there, right in front of the liberal mainstream media, and their faces, but they purposely ignore it because they the desr trump agenda goes above all else. they want muller to carry out the witch hunt, even if there is no evidence of collusion. now that we know more about robert mueller and his past, his current moves not make a l

i think in a lot of ways will he no intention of ever speaking to robert mueller. i mean he saw -- he has a long history in new york city, in litigation where he believes that you can stonewall, you can play things out for as long as you go and ultimately he believes he can win on his own terms. >> let me ask you, did he see it as a witch hunt or is that how he wants to? >> i think the framing -- i think he sees it as that, certainly. he sees it as this. but it is also his frame. think about his taxes, don. he spent so long sort of saying, you know, i'm going to release my taxes. once the irs audit, he believes in the strategy of stringing things out for as long as possible and you can believe that he sees himself and has for decades as someone who is not going to sit down, you know, under oath and have to answer questions that he doesn't believe he should have to. and that is -- goes to his mindset. >> and he believes he's above the law then if he thinks he doesn't have to answer. >> he believes that he has -- for decades has seen himself as someone who has been u

>> president trump attacks robert mueller. >> are you done with robert mueller, mr. president? >> tonight, donald trump formally joins the plot to stop the mueller investigation as he also hires a new attorney. and as republican lead sayers mostly silent. >> if you van innocent client, mr. dowd, act like it. >>> plus -- >> to your knowledge, did the trump campaign in 2016 use that improperly accessed data? >> bombshell new reporting on the trump campaign's data analytics operation. >> this is a company that really took fake news to the next level.

to be when democrats are concerned that the president may try to fire robert mueller. listen to senator ed markey. it's because there's going to be a bipartisan firestorm which is going to erupt if robert muelles fired by president trump. whether we have legislation that's put in place before the president in fact does something like this or not, it won't make any difference. there was going to be a constitutional crisis in our country that could very well lead to the end of the trump presidency. >> sandra: trumps legal teams as the president isn't going to fire robert mueller and legal scholar is backing that up. >> if the democrats and the people on the other side who are fueling the speculation. i can't see any conceivable reason why the president would even consider firing mueller. that would create a real problem on the republican side of the aisle as well as obviously on the democratic side of the aisle. i don't think he's going to fire him. i don't think he should fire hi him. >> sandra: "the new york times" is reporting mueller has provided trumps lawyers with

cnn learned how special counsel robert mueller's team zeroed in on former trump campaign deputy, making it clear to him that they wanted his help to get at their central mission, investigating potential collusion between the trump campaign and russians. new details revealed to cnn and in court filings this week are gichg us the first indications of how prosecutors are getting that help from gates. pan use going to tie paul manafort, the former chairman of the president's campaign directly to russian operate he was. straight to sahr are murray with this bit of news. sarah, soechg happening what more can you tell us. >> don, we knew rick gates was cooperating with the special counsel. a lot of people looked at this as a fwie flipping on paul manafort, the chairman of the trump campaign and try to get him to cooperate or help the government build their case against manafort. but one of the things that our sources are telling my colleague katlyn pollens is when rick gates was meeting with prosecutors working for robert mueller they said we don't need you to help build this case against paul

we learn more about what robert mueller is focusing on. sources telling cnn that the special counsel wants to question president trump about four main topics so far. the president's role in krafting a misleading statement about

let him talk to robert mueller. why not, david? >> he should be able to talk to robert mueller. he has always contended he did nothing wrong. but let's keep in mind here and isaac brought up comey and mccabe. even they don't agree on the facts of what has happened. and how this came about and whether comey's investigation was ever done fairly. there is plenty of evidence that the justice department was used as a political weapon and again, the new f.b.i. director is trying to clear it out. and after eight years of having an obama administration that used the government as a political weapon, it is refreshing to see folks getting in and trying to actually have the government focused on the task that's assigned to do. >> julie: all right, david and isaac. >> one thick we can agree on, trump should answer questions under oath. >> julie: if he wants to talk to the special counsel, that says a lot. he won't be going in there and lying. you have to give him that. appreciate it. thank you very much. >> rick: what does this resignation of john dowd, the president's lead outside counsel

we're learning more on what robert mueller's team is focusing on. the special council wants to question president trump about four main topics so far. the president's legal team is creating a list of dozens of questions mueller could last. with trump all upset about the investigation. he was fuming last night when news leaked that national security advisers warned him not to congratulate vladimir putin. he quizzed his allies and outside advisers asking them to tell him who they thought was the leak er the latest leak contributes to an atmosphere of parano paranoia. he doesn't hesitate to throw his own people under the bus. ask rex tillerson, not to mention james comey, michael flynn and a host of other people. what's behind these leaks? >> this is from the former director of the cia telling msnbc he thinks president trump is afraid of vladimir putin going on to say, the russians could have something on him personally, that they could always roll out and make his life more difficult. there's no public evidence of that, but it's a pretty stunging stat