tonight on the air with our colleague ari melber. >> it was not ever formal written but we've acted that way and we represented such to the special counsel. my attorneys and the president's attorneys are communicating. in other words, we'll tell the president what we're doing. so he's informed. again, i support the president. i want him to be able to survive the mueller investigation. i want him to run for re-election and be re-elected. that's all my political preferences. so i said let's let the president know what's going on. >> mueller is believed to be looking at whether corsi and roger stone had advance knowledge of the wikileaks stolen e-mail release in the fall of 2016. both men have said they did not. and corsi says he's already rejected a possible plea deal with mueller's team. there's also this new development tonight. some of the details of what president trump told special counsel mueller in those written