secondhand, third hand. this is why we have hearsay rules in court the further you get from the source the less reliable the information comes. great analysis, as usual. eli honig, thank you so much. tweet me or go to my facebook page. i will read some of my stuff from facebook. does the whole fiasco put pressure on mueller to work quicker? ashton, i don t think he feels any pressure whatsoever to deliver this report before it s time and probably what makes his job that much more difficult is that as he investigates new leads come up to take him in a whole variety of directions he never could have forecast. that s speculation on my part. it makes it harder and harder to wrap it up. i get your point. we all wish we could move on one way or another. go to my website at smerconish.com. answer the question do you believe krob rakes will emerge in the form of e-mails, texts or
information. that i think is a safe read. the other questions i think remain to be seen. you are making reference i think to that mueller sentencing memo and the line in it regarding congressional inquiries you think made this story plausible to many when they read what buzzfeed reported? reporter: yeah, that the corroboration of courts. krob rakes comes in all breeds. there is dead on the you have an e-mail i don t think exists from trump to cohen saying i need you to lie or video. then there is corroboration that gives some of the fountdations of the story. i think mueller s statement was good foundational corroboration for the idea that this was, fact, a larger coordinated effort involving multiple people. does it necessarily follow from that, that donald trump sat down with michael said i need to you lie? not necessarily. it gets you part of the way there. what did you think to the reference of the law enforcement sources?