but you can t look at it without asking these questions about exactly what putin has up his sleeve to publicly announce with great detail exactly what the cia gave him. in addition, i spoke with malcolm nance, our msnbc terrorism analyst last hour, and he said it is most unusual to have the president of the united states call the president of russia or vice versa. in this kind of a regard, and to make a tip-off. this would be done through typical channels, you know, cia, fbi. they have very fast ways to get this information, so the fact that the president may have tipped him off, it just didn t make a lot of sense to him. that s just another thing that a cynic would say. what s that about? i do want to get back to the russia investigation. a couple new points to talk about today. the presidential transition lawyer firing off a letter to congress, not to the mueller team itself, accusing mueller of illegally obtaining tens of thousands of transition e-mails from a government server. s
future. it s kind of a tempest in a teapot, should they ve done it? maybe not. is it illegal? bob mueller will not do something illegal. the united pan am 103 together and he was a good lawyer. i question whether or not we should be looking at the things he s looking not, but there s no illegality here. eric: you know him personally. tell us a bit about 10 because he has come under attack. he has. for a lot of reasons that are really not of his making. a lot of that is spillover from things that the fbi. al mohler is a brilliant man. he s dedicated, former marine, very patriotic. he s very, very intense and very good at what he does. i enjoy working with him. he s not a whole lot of fun. he so intense. but he s good at what he does and i think he ll do a good job
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line. one thing i want to say on his tweet about highwow this was al yes ago, if you read the indictment yesterday, the special counsel is accusing mueller and gates in engaging in what? in a seek money-making scheme to influence american politics on behalf of a foreign power that seems pretty relevant if you re investigating a secret scheme all you have to do is look at the date 2017 s as far as i kno manafort was working for the campaign in 2016. don there s one other point important on that. the diametindictment is clear i identifying whose behalf they were working wasa cove itch uk crane who the indictment identifies as pro-russia because
parole board said even a single violation of his probation, like drinking to excess, would land him back in prison for another five years. david? matt, thank you. there are new images of deadly violence in the middle east. over one of the holy land s most contested sites. three palestinians killed in clashes in jerusalem, and three israelis killed in the west bank. the tensions triggered by metal detectors israel installed after a deadly attack by a gunman. tonight, palestinian president abbas has frozen all ties with israel. from london, we ve reported on the american doctor who made the trip to examine baby charlie. we ve now learned of an emotional hearing with the parents. after that genetic disease left charlie on life support. they re suing the hospital for permission to have him undergo an experimental treatment. here s james longman. reporter: it s the news baby