element of that here, that he wants to put rosenstein on notice, he wants to in some way put mueller on notice that you re here now, but you might not be here tomorrow. this was playing out in court today. it s a status update which happens at every trial. in the manafort case it tells you we ll have it through the summer. but it gets to the core. manafort is in there saying bob mueller can t do this. the counsel s response is the memo from rod rosenstein, the president s deputy attorney general, directs him to investigate allegations, paul manafort committed crime or crimes with respect to the russia s efforts to interfere with the 2016 election. he was specifically told by the deputy attorney general to look into this. that is mueller s defense in court. that collusion word gets under the president s skin. we heard it again yesterday. that there was no collusion,
illusion, delusion, yes. i just thought we d have some fun with words. sesame s grover word of the day perhaps, sean. let s get the bottom line, shall we? cnn political analyst david druker, conjunction junction, what s your function? you stole my joke. i don t know if you ve been colluding with somebody and sneaking into my head, that s what i ve been thinking of for the last couple of hours. what was she doing? because that predictably, extremely predictably, is all over social media right now with people putting all different kinds of things on pieces of paper there trying to make light of these questions. well, look, she was having a little fun. i don t think we should beat her up for that. i do think it was interesting that she did violate one rule which is never restate the air when you re trying to make a correction. so she threw the collusion word out there, she said not yet, which i m sure a lot of people are saying, you re right, not yet, but we re getting there. so,