to medieval times. with the mote and the gate lowering. a guy with a torch. but now it s 2019. after 675 days, 2,800 subpoenas issued, 34 people and three companies indicted, former special counsel robert mueller has returned to the private sector after concluding his investigation of the president back in march. mueller rejoined wilmer hail, a law firm known for recruiting former high level government officials. he has worked for the firm since 2014 before taking on the special counsel s role in 2017. mueller will most likely resume his work conducting internal investigations for large corporations. he intends to hold public speaking events and teach. mueller released a press release to mark the start of his return saying quote it was an honor to serve as special counsel. now i look forward to resuming my private practice alongside the talented lawyers at the firm. with that let s switch gears bring in nbc meteorologist bill
outlining the investigation s scope signed by then deputy attorney general rod rosenstein. it is dated several months after the special counsel s appointment and as of now its contents are secret raising big questions on why it was necessary in the first place. byron york is the chief political correspondent for the washington examiner . good morning. you are always so good at laying this out for us, what we need to know. what does this tell us? it s a little mysterious. go back to may 17th, 2017. mueller was appointed and rod rosenstein who was the deputy attorney general writes a memo to mueller. you re assigned to investigate three things. you are supposed to investigate links and coordination between the trump campaign and russia. anything else that might arise directly out of that and then you can investigate obstruction of justice. so we all thought that s what the investigation is about and
new york. day 789 of the trump administration and against all we don t know about the mueller investigation and a subsequent mueller report, just today some newly released documents are revealing details about the earliest stages of the investigation into this man, former trump lawyer michael cohen. hundreds of pages of court documents concerning cohen were unsealed today. it s a lot. it shows mueller s team start requesting search warrants just two months after robert mueller was appointed to the job in may 2017. prosecutors and the fbi received permission to execute search warrants for cohen s two g-mail accounts and stored data in his icloud account. that was july, august, and november of 2017. mueller was seeking evidence of cohen s involvement in a number of potential crimes including acting as an unregistered foreign agent and violate
i think we might rerack that because this is pretty important. do we have the ending of that? this was august 2017. mueller was in office for a few months and we reported there was a state looking at this way of charging that would go around donald trump as a person who controls federal pardons. let s take a look. tonight for first time we can report new finds from an msnbc legal investigation into the other way this russia probe could continue even after pardons. through prosecution for state crimes. a source with knowledge of one state attorney general s reparatire preparation taells me office is looking at its jurisdiction for russia related crimes. that s what we knew in 2017.
rallying cry. fake news and the russian witch hunt. since may of 2017. mueller has been investigating possible conspiracy between russia and the trump presidential campaign. no collusion. to say it one time again and i saw it all the time. there was no collusion. i didn t know the president. there was nobody to collude with. president trump supporters in congress voiced impatience. whatever you got. finish it the hell up. voters spoke loudly in a 2018 midterm. sweeping democrats into office. through it all, one man remained characteristically silent. robert mueller. the former head of the fbi. a platoon leader in vietnam. he s a rarity in washington. and independent mind respected on both sides of the aisle.