and agreed to cooperate with mueller and his investigation. and today's filing, or it will be tonight's filing, when and if it comes, is expected to give us a better idea of the extent to which flynn has cooperated with that russia investigation, specifically what kind of information flynn may have given them. robert mueller has delayed sentencing of michael flynn several times over the past year, again and again and again. and it's led many to wonder if flynn's cooperation was, indeed, ongoing. meanwhile, you'll remember, trump's former lawyer michael cohen has pleaded guilty to crimes in both the southern district of new york's campaign, and the special counsel's russia investigation, just last week. trump's former campaign manager paul manafort, after being convicted of financial crimes in federal court, appears to have basically pretended to cooperate with robert mueller when he was actually relaying information to trump's lawyers, their cooperation agreement blew up and now he will face sentencings on friday with mueller expecting to also

mueller with everything else. he has perhaps been more helpful with mueller, which is why mueller is willing to be more lenient, but he really hasn't given enough or in the opinion of the southern district enough to justify a significant reduction in penalty. and so you see these two branches of the justice department, which are all under the executive branch, taking slightly different positions. that's not bad. that's reassuring. that's saying people are exercising their independent judgment based upon the specific case before them, which is different, and based upon the facts before them, which is different. so that should be reassuring, that all this bullying of the justice department has really amounted to nothing because people are doing their job and proceeding. i think the third point we should have is that it is going to be impossible i think at this point to either withhold a final report if we ever have a final report and/or fire mueller, because what he is doing and what the southern district is doing a

. >> mueller is saying, look, mr. president, you want to play that game of zero prison time, i've got that card too, and i've got it for people telling the truth to federal law enforcement. >> now, it's still unclear what exactly flynn revealed to mueller's team, but it is possible it could involve the president's son-in-law and adviser, jared kushner, since kushner is the one who directed flynn to contact the russians during the transition about a key u.n. security council vote on israeli settlements. that, of course, was when president obama was still in office right before president trump's inauguration. wolf? >> jessica schneider reporting for us. jessica, thank you very, very much. let's bring in our senior justice correspondent, evan perez. evan, the filing yesterday made clear that flynn was a big help to mueller's russia probe, but we didn't learn what exactly flynn gave up. update us. >> well, wolf, one of the things that you can tell from the redactions in this document is the fact that there's ongoing inves

but keep in mind robert mueller has other information here. he has other witnesses who are giving information under sworn testimony. he has other -- at least the possibility of intercepted communications, the possibility of twitter messages, direct messages between roger stone and wikileaks. so the question is what is the evidence, does it make roger stone a liar here on these claims. of course, the big picture question is was there ever communication between stone and trump in advance of those releases. so roger stone is central to the continuing question as to whether there was collusion during the campaign between russia, who stole the e-mails, and wikileaks who then released the e-mails. as mueller is doing his investigation, you have the senate doing its own investigation and that's the root of today's news because the senate demanded from him any records of communication between stone and wikileaks. now stone responding today, saying he's not going to give that testimony. he's not going to give those records. i'm going to quote from his

if i were ranking the mueller situation, versus what she was doing. mueller gets a 98, she gets 2. he hasn't said anything about key players, including roger stone, my son in law, my son. every time he speaks he says knew about russia that maybe the president didn't know about. and the investigation has a long way to go, for example, i'm comparing what other people have said that the president of the united states said himself. if i'm here, i'm saying, she's interesting, mueller's potentially devastating. >> if you're the nra, you have to have questions about whether you were played or whether you were willingly played. whether you were invited to moscow, and how much money you got from the russians. and, you know, they're not commenting, obviously, they haven't commented during this entire story. that's obviously going to be a big part of what's investigated. >> just ahead, the news by robert mueller, spotlights a shadowy russian figure linked to paul manafort and allegedly to russian intelligence. cnn is asking questions about constantine ka lilimnic. hey! yeah!? i switched to ge

bob mueller is someone who sees the world in very black and white terms. >> robert mueller also has a history with fired fbi director james comey. more insight on their history in the second part of gloria's report. truecar is great for finding new cars. you're smart, you already knew that. but it's also great for finding the perfect used car. you'll see what a fair price is and you can connect with a truecar certified dealer. now you're even smarter. this is truecar. ♪ ♪ this holiday season, families near you need your help. visit redcross.org now to donate. . >>> it's no secret that president donald trump is not a fan of special counsel robert mueller, nor is he a fan of former fbi director james comey, although he did fire comey. as gloria borger explains, mueller and comey's relationship goes back years. >> by 2004 mueller was running the fbi when his phone rang. it was james comey, then deputy attorney general. it was the first time mueller and comey would find themselves in a very controversial legal drama. >> i was very upset. i was angry. >> reporter: comey was worried the

robert mueller is a republican. see a type of republican that i was for 30 years until the party was turned over to a bunch of people who want to collaborate with the russians. this is nuts. the president cannot bring in an attorney general who is going to try to control this investigation. we're fine with rod rosenstein supervising and robert mueller continuing his investigation, and the prosecutors need to continue in the southern district of new york and we need to get to the bottom of this. >> richard, good to talk to you as always. thank you for joining us. richard painter is with us tonight. he definitely always has some good views on this thing there seems to be enough evidence right now that not only suggests that the president acted in a way that is contrary to the interests of the country, but that he committed a crime, which gives one the impression that the incoming democratic house majority might be forced to think about impeachment proceedings, but before they really wanted to. to talk more about where

>> mueller is saying it is not over. you know, we were all sort of, oh, they're tying up loose ends, this is over. i think a lot of people were wishfully thinking that, but it is not. mueller is saying these are ongoing investigations, one of them is criminal. so, you know, the day has been spent, part of it, trying to figure out just what -- what investigation he is potential talking about. but we don't -- we don't know, but, again, in lifting the veil just a little bit, he is telling us, sorry, this isn't over, flynn was very valuable to us in assisting us in these criminal investigations. as you folks were pointing out, it is a warning to the people who know what the investigations are, that we know more than you may think we know. >> especially the term, substantial assistance. that is a term of art. >> yeah. >> it speaks for itself to everybody, but it also means he gave them evidence that can be used to prosecute somebody else. >> yeah. >> we don't know who the other persons or one person is, but that is -- that's

robert mueller is not melting down. robert mueller and his team know what a crime looks like when they see it. the president's tweets today and many other of his tweets will be in mueller's final reports on the criminal conduct of the president of the united states. and then they should be incorporated in what should be article i of the articles of impeachment voted on in the house judiciary committee against president trump. and that should happen when the democrats take control of the house of representatives next year. much more is at stake here than just the trump presidency. if the congress allows the president to publicly commit the crime of witness tampering in investigations of the president, then they are allowing every future president to do exactly the same thing. tonight michael is reporting in yahoo news that robert mueller is at the stage of, quote, tying up loose ends. special counsel robert mueller's prosecutors have told defense lawyers in recent weeks that they are tying up loose ends in their investig

he didn't talk about robert mueller. he talked about the senate intelligence and judiciary committees. this is not reality yet, wolf. this is like me in fourth grade on the night before i was going to be bully odd tonight schoolyard saying i'm going to stand up to the bully. my point is when mueller potentially throws some hard-core indictments in front of roger stone, it's not about the senate intelligence or judiciary committees, it's about spending time behind bars. if that ever happens, what is stone going to do? right now, of course, as michael said, he could plead the fifth. he can say i did nothing wrong. he hasn't faced an indictment yet. but he also hasn't faced reality. when that 18-wheeler hits him in the head, i suspect we might get a different answer. >> you know, gloria, stone's rhetoric seems to stand in sharp contrast to the cooperation from other trump associates like michael cohen and michael flynn, for example. do you think that's by design? >> yeah. look, i agree with phil. i think help's asking for s

have you confirmed this is a mueller isssubpoena? >> no. >> you believe this to be mueller? >> the circumstantial evidence we have, it looks like it. from the evidence we reviewed, there are banks overseas that the trump team has used that we would have liked to have seen. my hope is bob mueller has in his mandate pursued that too. >> i got to give you couple of doors. do you think this is china, russia, saudi arabia, or something else? >> or germany. i think it could be any of those. my gut tells any is banking related. >> i appreciate you clarifying you're not 100% certain but you think it's a bank and it's mueller. appreciate your time. >> thanks. >> i want to bring in dan goldman from the southern district of new york which has been pretty busy. carolyn polocia. christina greer, political science professor. thanks to all of you. let me start with you dan and what we're seeing there. congressman sounds pretty strong. pretty clear he thinks that's another mueller piece of puzzle moving forward. we have the fall out from flynn. at this very moment the news i report about tr

one line here, robert mueller and leaking and lying james comey are best friends, just one of many mueller conflicts of interest. he says, will his conflicts of interests be listed in the top of his republicans-only report. he is clearly going after mueller in a brutal way. >> that's right, wolf. i think as everybody has been observing all day long, and he has been doing this for months now, wolf, he is obviously trying to soften up the perception among his supporters as to what robert mueller's motives are. he's been referring to 12 angry democrats and so on working on the mueller team, making very personal comments about members of robert mueller's team. this is obviously all designed to weigh on the minds of his supporters and to sort of damage and soften up the way that his supporters look at the special counsel, overlooking -- the president has overlooked on numerous occasions robert mueller is a republican and so on. so i think, wolf, this is all part of a public relations strategy that the president has been in the middle of for many, many months now. i do think it is odd to see thi

. >> robert mueller. >> mueller. >> robert s. mueller. >> 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. >> there you have it. robert mueller takes their number one spot. after the break, it's our turn. we're going to go around the table, next. oh milk. am i willing to pay the price for loving you? you'll make my morning, but ruin my day. complicated relationship with milk? pour on the lactaid, 100% real milk, just without that annoying lactose. mmm, that's good. the new sleep number 360 smart bed. it senses your movement and automatically adjusts to keep you both comfortable. and now, the queen sleep number 360 c4 smart bed is only $1299. plus, 24-month financing on all beds. ends new year's day. what do you look for i want free access to research. yep, td ameritrade's got that. free access to every platform. yeah, that too. i don't want any t

are they on edge to try to disrupt mueller? >> we've learned in the past few days that whitaker has not been very involved in the russia matter. and it h stayed underneath rod rosenstein the deputy attorney general. there hasee not real interest by whitaker in getting involved in the muelleinvestigation. he knows that they are closely looking at him whether he does anything towards ts and whether that is part of a continued obstruction. the problem is is that the president put him there because he felt comfortable with him he knew what he had saidbout the russian investigation. he knew that whitaker had been very skept a -- skeptical. and he built a rapport with him. and thers this st of weird dynamic where the president has there is this ongoing investigation. it's still been run by rones stein. robert: why aren't republicans trying to protect mueller with legs >> that legs looked like it died again this week.it more recently died this week. u know, to -- for whateve reason, they don't feel the need to do this. i'm not sure wh

mueller knows? >> it indicates that mueller knows a lot. i mean, if you look at those filings, the ones from yesterday and earlier in this week, there is so much information that is redacted. i think it was something like 65 lines of redacted information that show that mueller -- we know a lot that mueller is looking at now but there's even more that we don't know. the ties with or the contact with russian operatives is a big thing obviously that mueller is looking at and for manafort, it's very troubling because he had entered into this plea deal with mueller. he had said that he was going to be on the team and work with him. mueller is here, saying you lied, you are no longer our team and just referring back to the former prosecutor i was talking to yesterday, it seems kind of he's wiping his hands of mueller and sending a message to perhaps cohen and anybody else who wants to help out with the investigation, work with the prosecution or work with the special counsel, that they need to be truthful or else they could suffer similar penalti

so two things here in this mueller document. first thing is that they say that the information michael cohen has provided has been credible and consistent with other evidence that they have obtained. that is the mueller team in their ongoing investigation. clearly a very important part of this investigation. they have other corroboration outside of what michael cohen has already told them. and the other thing what they say is essentially that they believe the court should give michael cohen consideration because of his efforts and because he basically has helped them with their investigation. and that's essentially how they end their memo regarding michael cohen. so we see a kind of different kind of take. you have the southern district of new york here basically asking for this substantial jail time. and you see the special counsel's office here essentially saying, no, michae cohen tried to do right. he tried to fix things. and therefore, that should be considered in his sentencing. so that is helpful for michael cohen. >> help

mueller is out for blood. mueller picked this team of democratic donors and even clinton's old lawyer at the foundation, andrew weissmann and company, for a reason. he wants to hurt the president as badly as he can and that's why he's offering all these get out of jail free cards. i think we ought to quit talking about the mueller investigation, and they are doing everything they can to destroy the president. in fact to create a nonjustice department, because this is not justice, a nonjustice department coup d'etat in which they undo the votes of the american people and they pile enough junk around that they gradually overwhelm president trump. if you start and look at everything they have been doing, and this was never about russian collusion or finding the truth. this was about a methodical effort to destroy president trump by any means necessary. you look at some of the things they are getting indictments on, somebody goes and lies to the congress, that stupid and they deserve to get indicted. they were lyi

does robert mueller have follow-up questions to president trump's written answers to mueller's written questions. or does robert mueller now want subpoena the president to testify under oath to a grand jury? there could be several other reasons why the special prosecutor's office is in new discussions with the president's lawyers. the atlantic is reporting tonight that the president's lawyers and the white house actually have no organized plan for responding to any report robert mueller might issue on his investigation. in the past donald trump's tv lawyer rudy giuliani has repeatedly said that they are working on a point by point rebuttal of whatever it is robert mueller is going to come up with. giuliani has called what they are working on or supposed to be working on a counter report to the mueller report. but now the atlantic elena plott is reporting according to a half-dozen current and former white house officials, the administration has no plans in place for responding to the special counsel's findings save for expecting a twitter spree. the atlantic report that some in the whit

we'll see what robert mueller decides to do. right now which don't believe he has had contact with roger stone. but, of course, he's had contact with a lot of stone associates and we'll see what the next steps mueller's team takes to go after roger stone, wolf. >> what's intriguing, this decision by roger stone and his attorneys to cite his fifth amendment privilege, not to appear before the committee, not to present documents before the committee follows only by one day what the president of the united states said about roger stone. let me read this tweet to you and to our viewers. i will never testify against trump. this statement was recently made by roger stone, essentially stating that he will not be forced by a rogue and out of control prosecutor to make up lies and stories about president trump. nice to know that some people still have guts. so what are they saying, if anything, on capitol hill? i know that the news just broke that what roger stone is now doing comes the day after the president in a truly extraordinary st

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has to submit his paperwork on the mueller hearing by friday. jackie i want to read this one sentence from the times report about the attempt to broker an assange deal. the episode shows how after trump's election mr. manafort sought to cash in on his brief tenure even as investigators were closing in. what kind of clout or influence would paul manafort have had in 2017? >> well, at that point, you know, paul manafort was still in contact with the trump administration and with the president, this investigation obviously hadn't yet unfolded the way it has, but it is -- you know, it is pretty egregious, and eye popping, i suppose, that manafort was continuing these talks and continuing to attempt to leverage this kind of influence and broker these deals so far into 2017, but again, we will, as you just said, we're going to find out all of the facts and what exactly paul manafort lied about come friday when mueller files this public memo, which i also think is significant in the fact, in the idea that, you know, manafort's lack of cooperation hasn'

mueller with everything else. he has perhaps been more helpful with mueller, which is why mueller is willing to be more lenient, but he really hasn't given enough, or in the opinion of the southern district, enough to justify a significant reduction in penalty. and so, you see these two branches of the justice department, which are all under the executive branch, taking slightly different positions. that's not bad. that's reassuring. that's saying people are exercising their independent judgment based upon the specific case before them, which is different, and based upon the facts before them, which is different. so, that should be reassuring, that all this bullying of the justice department has really amounted to nothing, because people are doing their job and proceeding. i think the third point that we should have is that it is going to be impossible, i think, at this point to either withhold a final report, if we ever have a final report, and/or fire mueller, because what he is doing and what the southern distr

robert mueller filing the sentencing memo for michael flynn tonight. in that document, mueller says flynn provided firsthand information about interactions between the trump transition team and russian government officials. susan glasser, evan mcmillan both here to discuss. good evening to both of you. good to have you on. susan, i'm going to start with you. evan mcmullin. did i call you mcmillan? let's talk about michael flynn's connection with russia. how deep do they go and how much does he know potentially? i'm thinking back to that, look at this, this is december 2015. this is video. in the photo at an r.t. dinner in moscow. he is seated right next to vladimir putin, susan. >> he was paid for that appearance, as well, which is always something that struck me, don. i'm glad you brought this up because you know, donald trump throughout the 016 campaign when flynn was essentially his main foreign policy adviser throughout the 2016 campaign, donald trump was speaking about russia, suggesting his openness and in fact his desire to change our relationsh

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more developments in the mueller witch hunt. we'll take up developments in the case against the president's former campaign manager. james comey challenging a subpoena to appear before the house. what is he hiding and why does he think he can win in court against the congress of the united states? why would a man who devoted so much of his life to public service suddenly be afraid of our system of government? we take it up after the break. we'll be right back. lou: robert mueller said to be considering new charges against paul manafort. but none of those charges have anything to do with russian collusion. but we are getting used to that. we turn to catherine herridge. catherine: andrew weissmann indicated more criminal charges are under investigation. manafort's lawyers say the special counsel is using pressure tactics. the plea deal broke down because mueller's team wants nor manafort cannot provide you with. a day after the president's personal attorney pled guilty to lying to congress, michael cohen claims he briefed the trum

just breaking, big news out of the mueller witch-hunt. the special counsel just released its report on lieutenant general michael flynn, you know the guy who served his country 33 years, five years in combat? mueller is recommending after all of this time no prison time for general flynn. but the damage has been done. flynn is, quote, a convicted felon, a victimless process crime based on evidence that is suspect. the fbi didn't think he lied. now, you can't get him on an actual crime so the old perjury trap always becomes the fall back in the mueller camp of democratic donors. this is how america is going to treat a military hero? this is a sad and pathetic moment for not only the special counsel but for the country. we'll check in with catherine herridge. she has been reviewing as we have the full report. we will also react to this travesty of justice. also tonight, we continue to monitor the dangerous situation at our southern border. now while the left active solid promoting illegal immigration with promises of open borders, sanctuary

>> let's start with mueller. mueller, he's indicated to the judge that he basically is withdrawing the plea deal. he is not going to recommend minimum or reduced sentencing for mr. manafort based on what he said are lies and potential new crimes committed by mr. manafort. >> julie: michael cohen has pleaded that he does not believe he deserves prison time. he has pleaded guilty. he has admitted to lying on numerous issues. and he believes he has cooperated with the special counsel. it doesn't seem that robert mueller sees it that way. a judge asked that he come up with a recommendation. what do you believe he's going to recommend? >> i think mueller is going to say he didn't cooperate to the extent he should have under the plea deal. mr. manafort was looking at, by my count, about 15 years. he could be looking at a new trial on the ten counts he plead guilty to, potentially new charges based on the claims of new lies. >> julie: wow. so the special counsel's team, explain why it accused paul manafort in imploding

mueller team's donations are too left leaning. it's okay for presidents to request specific investigations. >>> now, barr was there just days ago on the steps of the u.s. capitol alongside some big republican names when the body of president bush, his former boss, arrived to lie in state in the rotunda. barr is a new yorker by birth who worked first for ronald reagan before 41 made him attorney general. with us to talk about all of it, tamara keith, white house correspondent for npr and kathryn lucy, white house reporter for the associated press. >>> all right, tamara, you go first. this is, in your view, the real deal or a lighter than air trial balloon? >> well, one trump insider i talked to today said he wasn't convinced that this is going to stick because president trump likes loyalists. he likes people he knows. and he doesn't know barr. now, who knows, maybe that person was just someone who wanted someone else to be the attorney general. that's kind of the way it works around here. the caveat that comes with all of these tri

congress has abdicated to robert mueller let's let mueller resolve all of this, and we'll wait indefinitely. but as i pointed out before, when you real closely these mueller filings, it's not clear we're going to get answers to a lot of the questions being posed here, but congress can. they can call michael cohen to testify. they can call manafort to testify. they can call flynn to testify. there's nothing to stop them at this point. mueller might object and they could say sorry, we have an obligation to the american people to air awful facts here and, um, it's time that they should do so. >> last question to abigail. do you have any sense that the incoming congress has an appetite to do exactly what michael is calling for? >> absolutely. in the house the democrats will have the majority and i've spoken to several on the hill who say they do sbenl to overturn some of these rocks. some of those includes issuing subpoenas to individuals, but also releasing transcripts of testimonies to roberts mueller, which could lead to potential other questions of perjury, but there definitely is an appeti

mueller is just following the book. we don't really know, and there's obviously a number of speculations as to what it could be, but we don't know. >> one of the big headlines from it was that robert mueller is requesting no prisontimefor michael flynn. that came as a surprise to many people. here's a little portion of that -- of the document in which he explains because of the early cooperation. his early cooperation, meaning flynn's, was particularly value because he was one of the first people with long-term and firsthand insight regarding what was under investigation, and his decision to plead guilty likely influenced others to cooperate. what did you see in the no prison time request? >> i think two things i see. number one, the charge that flynn is pleading to only carried zero to six months in prison, so there's not that surprising that there's a slow recommendation, and it's because mueller allowed flynn to plead guilty to only one charge last year. there was a charge bargain that was struck then, because it wa

there's a third filing, another from mueller on paul manafort. prosecutors say he told multiple lies. they say he lied about meetings with with a russian ukrainian national who u.s. intel had ties to russian intelligence during the election. what did he lie about? well don't know really know because that entire section is redacted. prosecutors say manafort lied about contacts with the trump administration. why did he do that? our big question today on all of these filings, is what does it ne mean for the president of the united states? joining me washington post white house bureau chief phil rutger, john that lamierre. former u.s. attorney in michigan, barbara mcquaid and former u.s. assistant attorney and former white water associate independent counsel kim waley. we have two legal minds and two white house minds. i want to start with the legal aspect of this. barba barbara, when you take all of these filings together, you get hints at donald trump as individual one. you get hints of the cohen filing talk about campaign finance. hinting talking

false testimony he says mueller is demanding. he also alleges federal authorities unconstitutionally searched his phone and other records. >>> the new york times reports that jared kushner offered crown prince mohammed bin salman advice on how to quote weather the storm after the murder of jamal khashoggi. white house requires that national security council staff be on phone calls with out foreign leaders. there are reports that kushner and mohammed bin salman continued to speak. jared has followed protocols and guidelines with mbs and all of the foreign officials with whom he interacts. >>> i can't breathe. those are the final words of jamal khashoggi. the audio recording of the death seen by a scecnn source also includes the dismembered body. we have nick r robertson with m. nic, these details get more disturbi disturbing. >> reporter: he talk into the consulate and istanbul and recognizes somebody and asked what they are doing there. the officials have called him a close aide to crown prince mohammed bin salman. he replies to

bar would be robert mueller's boss. he's gone on record expressing confidence in the special counsel who worked under him during bar's earlier stint as ag. barr said mueller's investigation would not deinvolve into a witch-hunt, though he has expressed disappointment at the news some of mueller's teammate s donated to democrat candidates. >>> the dow closed the day down just 79 points after a 785-point plunge. the nasdaq at the end of the day up rebounding from a fall of 2.4%. the s&p 500 bounced back and ended the day down slightly. the decline came despite statements from beijing indicating that president see jing pixi plans to move ahead with the trade talks as planned. the general reported fed officials are determining whether to have a wait and see approach. president trump has repeatedly criticized the fed for raising rates this year. >>> overnight, two former major league baseball players died in a car accident. luis valbuena and jose castillo were involved in the accident. >>> news from hollywood, kevin hart is

laid mueller. manafort -- played mueller. manafort looks like it went along to basically switched sides begin in the middle of this investigation. consider this, this is sort of the wonderful way, sort of side quarterbacking. mueller got this plea right after manafort was handed his head in virginia. he was not only convicted of multiple accounts come he came within one vote of basically being swept, the table being sucked up all counts, that he would've been convicted and everything picky was headed to d.c. where it was a far worse trial waiting for him when he was looking really horrific allegations, all of which seem quite supported by the prosecution. he then flips with mueller, avoid to those convictions, pleads to ten counts and then sits there with mueller for months, right? when the critical moment comes he basically bolts. i know many people believe that trump is dangling out a pardon for them. so in the end manafort may have played mueller. we don't know. but what mueller is going to do i

we will see whether mueller tells this story. i think this is going to be a very, very consequential week for the russian investigation. >> is this the best and brightest, right? >> the best and brightest. >> yeah, i totally agree. >> it's wild. like this is what we're talking about. we just talked about paul manafort, who by the way worked for donald trump for free, right? for free. and look where we are now. and with this roger stone story, it's not surprising p roger stone said himself he's going to be indicted. robert mueller spent so much time interviewing everybody around him trying to get to him, and he has been probably the most exposed person out of all of this, but now with the pleading the fifth, he does feel emboldened because donald trump has been -- >> tampering. the message was received. >> right. and so donald trump has put that signal out and he's been doing it for a long time. let's not forget who the first person he gave a pardon to, joe arpaio. he sent that message from august of 2017. >> it's all happening in

mueller looks, he finds potential crimes. and so that is, how does mueller cut the threads on the investigation and bring it to a close is a big question. we may be far from the end. >> you're saying that if the information would just stay static, the end might be closer, but the crimes keep tumbling out and adding to what he's looking at. max bergmann, thank you very much for joining us tonight. really appreciate it. >> thank you. >>> tonight's "last word" is next. (burke) parking splat. and we covered it. talk to farmers. we know a thing or two because we've seen a thing or two. ♪ we are farmers. bum-pa-dum, bum-bum-bum-bum ♪ i am all about living joyfully. the united explorer card hooks me up. getting more for getting away. traveling lighter. getting settled. rewarded. learn more at the explorer card dot com. i'm ray and i quit smoking with chantix. smoking. it dictates your day. i didn't like something having control over me. i wanted to stop. the thing is i didn't know how. chantix, along with support, helps you quit

i do want to say in mueller's defense there is a mention of the logan act here but mueller does not say in any way that flynn violated it. >> laura: throwing that in there! but the other thing to keep in mind. >> laura: come on! is that mueller does say, he doesn't say what it is, but mueller does say that flynn provided important information about connections between the trump campaign and the russian government or attempts to make connections. all i'm saying is you're right he doesn't say that flynn did that but he does say that flynn provided information. again if there's nothing there, that may be one reason mueller is not talking about it. or it may be that mueller is a professional and it's not appropriate to release that information. >> laura: there's a lot of redactions here. the left is going crazy, donnie jr., it's speculation, over drive the tonight on the other network. >> laura: the conclusions all in the redactions. >> no, let's declaration. >> laura: delusion collusion all in the redactions. jason we go to what victor davis hanson said. we have proven instances of blatant

mueller said that's not true. they say manafort told a person to talk to a trump administration official as recently as this past may and he had contact with administration officials including a senior administration official through february of this year. so this new and damaging information for the white house comes at a time, anderson, when ever move by mueller appears to bring his investigation deeper into the white house and deeper into trump's inner circle. it shows how it expanded yell beyond what may or may not have happened in the 2016 campaign. >> did prosecutors say what evidence they had to back up the allegation that manafort was lying? >> in the documents they cite electronic documents as well as text messages as the evidence to back this up. in a description they say they have from another manafort colleague. they say all of this evidence provided the corroboration that manafort had been talking to administration officials. the white house has come out afterth after this and said this has nothing to

and what mueller is getting at. the fact this was in both filings suggest there probably is something still there involving these contacs with some of the targets of the mueller probe. >> all right, daniel, jeremy, thanks. i'm going to leave there for now. we've got this breaking news. particularly t lly tumultuous tr this white house. dealing with not just the sentencing documents but now this information into us that president trump says chief of staff john kelly will leave at the end of the year. cnn's boris sanchez is at the white house for us. these comments coming before the president is to board air force one there. >> that's right, on his way to andrews, headed to philadelphia to the army/navy game. the president began his comments talking about heading to that game. he's going to flip the coin there. he also talked about his new pick to lead the joint chiefs of staff which he announced this morning on twitter. then he answered some questions from the press about the russia investigation. was asked if he dir

it highlights mueller's role. mueller was in charge of the fbi and there's a certain element of the special counsel probably tends to implicate the fbi or trump $ is conflicted and this is a reminder that if mueller doesn't find problems with the trump campaign, it is an acknowledgment when they were wiretapping carter page for doing what he did with hillary clinton investigation, making that go away, one or the other has problems so mueller, part of the fbi crew. a lot of people don't want to find that. heather: what if the mueller investigation is finding problems with the clinton campaign such that mueller can't cover it up at this point? you send the fbi agents back out to this whistleblower house and maybe the information that will come forward is information that should have come forward years ago? >> absolutely. republicans on capitol hill have these documents so this is even though it is already a fascinating story of this is the first part, we don't know how documents show, what exactly the clinton founda

mueller iii, special counsel. and several of the other documents that have been submitted over the past year or so, other attorneys, other members of the special counsel and unit, they have signed these kinds of documents. how important is it that mueller signed this one himself? >> i guess it's significant. i don't see that i have the electronic signature. when i was u.s. attorney, and it looks like that's the case with robert kuzami as acting u.s. attorney, my name was in the significant block of every document filed in court, every subpoena, every grand jury document. very rarely did i personally sign, usually the lead lawyer under the signature line signs it. so if it's true that bob mueller has signed it and hasn't signed others, i guess that signifies his -- you know, desire to have the world understand -- >> well, let me read to you what it says. it says, respectfully submitted, robert s. mueller iii, special counsel. and then you see the initial -- i guess an initial -- geniery, u.s. department of justice,

. >> he enlisted bob mueller because he knew that bob mueller had this incredible nonpartisan reputation in washington. >> reporter: that was then. now trump compares mueller to joe mccarthy, and a trump ally warns there's trouble ahead. >> i think the report is going to be devastating to the president. >> reporter: after months of haggling, team trump has provided written answers to questions on collusion and is convinced trump's problems will be more political than legal. >> eventually the decision here is going to be impeach, not impeach. members of congress, democrat and republican, are going to be informed a lot by their constituents. so our jury is the american people. >> reporter: now that jury awaits mueller, who is already letting his work speaks for itself as his office wrote to the court recently, senior government leaders should be held to the highest standards. >> bob mueller believes in american institutions. so i think he wants to set the institutions up to make the best decisions that they can. >> stay with cnn for all the latest developments in the mueller investigation.

this is also from the mueller documents that you have leaked. your e-mail, you're telling stone, you've got a friend in the embassy planning these two more document dumps. >> that's assange. >> impact plan to be very damaging, time to let more than the clinton campaign chair to be exposed as in bed with the enemy if they're not ready to drop hrc. is that a reference to john podesta? >> yes. and this was the main point of contention with the special counsel. i maintain that i figured that out. now, special counsel couldn't believe that. they said dr. corsi, we have e-mails you knew it was podesta, you knew how he was going to drop him in october. i said yes, that's true. how did you know? i figured it out. >> so you tell roger stone about podesta. he goes on to predict it and tweet about it. this is roger stone saying he had an intermediary. >> i have not met with mr. assange and never said i had. i said we communicated through somebody who is a mutual friend. >> the main thing that links roger to assange with private intelligence with things tha