z because we have here in our hand what is an e-mail from somebody else saying and you bett better let us know what s happening here. this is dealing with russia and trump s income and what did the trump s business organization does in terms on whether or not it operates in that part of the world? jeff, to carl s point of all the documents they have, would the white house be aware of the full scope of the documents mueller already has in possession? absolutely not. one of the cardinal rules of during a white collar investigation is you don t tell one person what you have seen from other people. i mean the white house obvious linos what documents it had produce and certainly the white house witnesses who have gone into the would be prepared and shown those documents. there is nothing wrong with
very close to the president told me that there is a desire to lift the band aid off by some people in the white house who thinks the president would be smart to get it all done with at once and would have told him that. maggie haberman, thank you. joining us now two lawyerla jeff toeobin, how big of a deal is this? this is an irrelevant part. one of the great mysteries of donald trump performance both as a president and a candidate is why he s been so of vladimir putin. why did he change the platform or the republican party to make it sympathetic to him. one hypothesis is he has some sort of business relationship
this investigation as they ought to because they provide a partial road map. jeff, what we don t know is how far back mueller would want document relating to russians, the trump organization. that s true, the scope of this subpoena is very important. in his interview with the new york times, he said that the rered line was any questions or inquiry into his relationships, business relationships except with russia. what s unclear is that whether this subpoena deals with countries other than russia and as you point out the issue of duration is extremely important. you know i did a piece for the new yorkers about trump and russia, trump has been involved with russia and trying to build there since it was the soviet union. he went there in 1987. how far back to go in his relationship with russia is a
name without informing me, someone could do that? well, if there is a logical third party beneficiary here, clearly michael cohen was acting of the best interest of the third party. my tv agent who has an llc. can make a contract with my name on it? this is not a general rule. every set of circumstances is different and in this particular set of circumstances, there was nothing wrong. by the way, the only person that should be complaining about this is dd. if it is unethical, it would be dd under that contract bringing the action. these contracts, non-disclosures let me bring jeff in. i think david is clearly right. there is something illegal that went on here. the question is what did donald