Investigation would soon be winding down. However, there are signs to the contrary. Axios is reporting that, quote, members of Robert Muellers team are reaching out to former Republican National Committee Staff who were familiar with the digital campaign. The goal is to determine if the joint effort was related to the activities of russian trolls and bots aimed at affecting the american electorate. Ty cobb said all of the interviews with the special team are over. However, former colleague said i would be shocked if he was done with the inner circle. All of these indictments, guilty pleas and interviews could be round one. Joining me is Jonathan Swan with acti axios. Thanks to all of you for joining. Barry, the resident former prosecutor here, let me start with you. You have this report from the Washington Post saying that if
point is that its a question that a lot of people close to the situation are asking themselves is why did mueller allow for this prosecutorial vulnerability . Bec
expansive it is. do you think it could go to trial as early as october? reporter: i think it s extremely unlikely the request is going to be granted. it s one thing for a request like that to be granted at the defendant s insistence, but when you re talking about a group of people going to include a group of people that don t want to go to trial that quickly for significant legal reasons, they need to be able to defend themselves, and they could argue we need time to mount a defense, we shouldn t be tied to just this one guy who wants to go earlier than everyone else. i think it s a pretty, pretty high bar for her to clear to keep them all together. and it s one of the sort of consequences of bringing a case this large. i m sure that, you know, the d.a. and her colleagues foresaw this possibility and sort of prepared a contingency scenario around it. it s not the only adjacent court fight going on right now, and there s going to be more of this as the defendant s lawyers proceed thro
point is that it s a question that a lot of people close to the situation are asking themselves is why did mueller allow for this prosecutorial vulnerability? because that s what it is. he could have charged flynn on any number of things and he chose to make it this one thing lying to the fbi which really does give a very big free kick to the opposition that can say, well, he lied about this, he could lie how can you trust anything he has to say? so it actually is a bit of vulnerability for the prosecution. julia, in terms of the timing here, i think one of the questions this raises is are we looking at just sort of a basic potential legal strategy, a contingency scenario that the trump team is preparing for? or is there a more specific reason why they re now talking about this apparently? has something happened since that plea a few weeks ago in exchange they re thinking about flynn s role in all of this? well, i can t i can t speak to the change in their thinking, but i think