speculation. i can speculate as well as anybody else but we have found a collision between the trump campaign and the russians. reporter: the terms of the deal could require his corporation in the mueller probe and essentially a government witness. now the million dollar question washington is will he share new information with robert mueller? or just share information that he believes he already had? meanwhile, special investigators for former president bill clinton is weighing-in. he believes the plea deal is a seminole event in the russia probe. i think that the trump white house and lawyers are taking a page from the clinton playbook. attack the prosecutor. this is more delicate because now you have someone very close to the president. at least for a while. the campaign manager. you have to be careful. reporter: is has all the plea deal is a good thing for the
the reality is i think only he can tell us. reporter: republicans are toeing the line. all of this is speculation. i can speculate as well as anybody else. but not on this, chris. we found no evidence of collusion between the trump campaign and the russians on the judiciary committee. reporter: the million dollar question here in washington is will manafort share new information with mueller or just share information he believes mueller already has. eric: what lessons can we learn from past special counsel investigations. the guy who investigated former president clinton thinks so. i think the trump white house and the lawyers are taking a page from the clinton playbook. attack the prosecutor. now you have someone close to the president at least for a while, the campaign manager.
for you, it sounds like, in reading this. there are so many parallels. you felt besieged while you were the prosecutor by president clinton s surrogates. you were under attack by them. so what do you think of the president and his surrogates now going after robert mueller? well, alisyn, as i recount in the book, what we now see is, president trump and the team, and he s got very able lawyers, have taken a page from the clinton playbook. it was a constant assault, as you say, and it does, in fact, erode confidence in the in the administration of justice, if the prosecutor s totally under attack all the time, it s not good. but president clinton did not call it a witch hunt. he may not have used those words, but i tell you, he unleashed very powerful hurricane-like forces. i mean, it really was unrelenting, and it was also very personal. the clinton white house, and i talk about this, went out after
is he your criminal attorney, one, or supposed to play impeachment politics, too? because the president when he is bastardizing mueller, talking about democrats going down this list of things, he s playing the game the right way. goes back to the clinton playbook. the problem is when rudy giuliani is your criminal attorney and sucks at it. he s not doing his client service by bringing up what ifs. we saw the list of 50 questions going to be asked by mueller. the question we all believe, i think we all think the answer to is yes, after watching rudy giuliani, does mueller have more questions? yes. of course he does. rudy giuliani is not the criminal attorney. i mean, we know that. the criminal attorney are the raskins. emmet flood. emmet flood. he s playing criminal attorney on tv. he is playing one on tv. that s the problem. and the danger in doing that, whether you re a criminal
because the president when he is bastardizing mueller, talking about democrats going down this list of things, he s playing the game the right way. goads back goes back to the clinton playbook. the problem is when rvj udy giuliani is your criminal attorney and sucks at it. he s not doing his client service by bringing up what ifs. we saw the list of 50 questions going to be asked by mueller. the question we all believe, i think we all think the answer to is yes, after watching rudy giuliani, does mueller have more questions? yes. of course he does. rudy giuliani is not the criminal attorney. i miean, we know that. the criminal attorney are the raskins. emmiet flood. emmet flood. he s playing criminal attorney on tv. he is playing one on tv. that s the problem. and the danger in doing that, whether you re a criminal attorney or you re a pr person, is you need to know the answer to the questions before you go out. i think bakari hit the nail