robert mueller s special assistant over at the doj so good to see you. good to see you, brooke. let s play the when, when this happens again? when the mueller report drops, which could be any day now, what specifically will you be looking for? so what we will be looking for, we won t be able to see is because the mueller report is a confidential report to the attorney general so we will not actually get to see the mueller report. what we could get to see is barr s transmission of a summary of that report to congress. so in some sense we re making a lot to do about mueller s report contents, but we may never really see it. what i think we want to see is, is he, in fact, done? has he report to submit? is he telling the attorney general my investigation is over? that s what i m mostly looking to see where are we in the life of the mueller investigation. let s say when it drops, you
familiar with some of these discussions and this person also said, yes, it s starting to look like the president is not going to be implicated in any crimes or so on in this report. a lot of this is a guessing game, a lot of that is reading the tea leaves and this other source that i spoke with, brooke, says there needs to be the caveat that we don t know everything that mueller knows. sure. reporter: and the special counsel has surprised us at times. of course. so as we wait, the white house waits, the public waits, you know, the rest of the world waits for this thing, i want to ask you about this incredibly significant tweet from the president of the united states tweeting this, after 52 years, it is time for the united states to fully recognize israel s sovereignty over the golan heights which is a critical strategic and security importance to the state of israel. i was talking to aaron david miller who knows a heck a lot about this part of the world, he said his head is explo
llc. that was created to funnel the hush money payments to stormy daniels. instead what mueller was examining were another set of examples involving the llc. it s a major threat in the cohen story which remains unresolved to this day as we wait for the final mueller report. after the fbi raid we found out the shell company received millions of dollars with big corporations like at&t a korean defense firm. among those payments were hundreds of thousands from an american investment firm linked to russianall garb. he was stopped on the tarmac after getting off private plane
story which remains unresolved to this day as we wait for the final mueller report. after the fbi raid we found out the shell company received millions of dollars with big corporations like at&t a korean defense firm. among those payments were hundreds of thousands from an american investment firm linked to russianall garb. he was stopped on the tarmac after getting off private plane and questioned by federal agents who seized his electronic devices. we learned he met with cohen at trump tower to discuss u.s./russian relations just days before trump would take the oath of office. and then he and cohen later spent time together at the president s inauguration in washington. and we don t know what that s all about or why the firm
ten years. but information developed through this case and inadvertently released, you know, has raised pretty explosive questions about mr. manafort sharing internal campaign polling data with his contact in the ukraine, who in turn has contacts with russian intelligence. we don t know, obviously, the full dimensions of what the special counsel does know, and unless and until that report is available, we re not really going to have a clear way to resolve the issue of what exactly paul manafort did or did not do during the 2016 campaign. yeah, i m glad you said that. we need to keep reminding our viewers until we see a report, brided provided we see it from the final mueller report. we won t know where this story ends or where this story really has been going for the last two years one way or another. ron brownstein, thank you so much for joining us. thanks for having me. the trump administration has suffered a major blow in a legal battle over migrant families