sources telling cnn the action is likely to happen in the next day or two, raising the question whether putin will retaliate. cnn learned exclusively that several russian oligarchs have been stopped and questioned by mueller s team in a twist that sounds like it comes out of a spy thriller at least one had his electronic devices searched whether his private jet landed in new york. apparently an effort to ensure he couldn t wipe his phone before investigators got to look at it. sources are telling cnn that mueller wants to find out whether those russians illegally funneled cash into donald trump s campaign. that is more evidence that they re digging deep in the potential flow of russia into the 2016 election. you know what they say, follow the money. we re learning for tonight about president trump s suddenly announced plan to send national guard troops to the border.
investigation wants to be very thorough and this is complicated. there is a lot of issues surrounding the campaign itself initially and especially counsel is given a pretty long leash to investigate all those kind of questions that might come out of russian meddling. i don t think it s surprising that they assemblinged a team trying to be as thorough as possible, trying to track down the leads they can and make sure that there aren t any significant lingering questions once the investigation is all done. all right. jim, thank you. we re going to let jim go and keep juliet, jack and keith. when we come back, what did roger stone know and whether did he know it? what the shadowy trump campaign adviser said about wikileaks and predicted would be devastating disclosures about the clinton foundation.
if he read bolton s comments and things he wrote, it wouldn t be appear he d be in favor of a withdraw. he talked before about how iran needs to be con fronted in syria and that our military presence is important for the fight against isis. so on the face of it, i would say it s doubtful that bolton had much of an impact here. i want to bring you in. julia said this. she tweeted this. during the campaign, people kept asking, why does putin favor trump? today he met with a foreign minister of turkey and iran to discuss the future of syria just as trump announced a pullout. that s why. what is your reaction, matthew? zblp i think she s got a point there. you know, you don t president trump doesn t have to be in russia s pocket or some kind of russian stooge. but this is a guy who is not going to really do much in the
middle east. he says he wants to go home and doesn t want to have troops. there he doesn t want to lead f you re putin and trying to reassert russia s role in the middle east and american pullout is a great thing for you. it opens the door and paves the way for you to walk in there and restore a dominant role in the middle east had a that hasn t existed since the soviet union existed. i think this is another case we re seeing where the president tweets out what he is feeling at the moment. and then officials have to scramble to make a policy out of it. or says it or says it to the podium and then the folks behind the scene are scrambling to make policy around what he is saying, matthew. yeah. it s one thing when you do it on a domestic policy issue. your allies control both houses of congress. you can work with them behind the scenes. you do it internationally, you have allies who you re not consulting with who are not going to go along with what you want and rivals which are say
it s fake news. a fake investigation. and his base will believe him. i got look, in the essence of time here, i have to ask you, keith, why do you think that impeachment is his biggest threat? i think the odds of mueller thinking he ought to try to indict the president are very low. the department of justice own opinion suggests the sitting president can t be indicted. it will be legally aggressive to indict the president. i think he ll be reluctant to do that which suggests that ultimately what trump has to worry about personally is the possibility of impeachment and the facts that get revealed by the investigation be and does it feed into general concern that maybe this is worth impeachment hearings. thank you all. when we come back, more on our top story tonight. robert mueller s investigators oligarchs snagged just as private jets touched down to question them. that as the trump administration is expected to sanction several wealthy russian officials the interference. i ll