the party doesn t want to step in front of the president on this one. there are other potential text moves. planning to subpoena former fbi director james comey. in connection with the clinton enail. in fact, comey has responed via tweet. saying this, house republicans can ask me anything but i want the person people to watch. let me know when it s convenient. what do you make of this? very clever move open mueller s part. he basically puts the gop on notice there that you re not going to be able to spin. if it s behind closed doors, they can characterize it. if it s out in front, than
street journal. nbc news now reporting for the first time this moment, paul manafort s former son-in-law being who also was in business with him has flipped and cut a secret plea deal with federal investigators. a matter of major significance to the open mueller case against paul manafort. panel stays with me, but first i m joined by phone, by nbc investigative journalist, andrew blank stee blanksteen. what can you tell us? we know from law enforcement sources that paul manafort s former son-in-law has reached a plea deal to plead guilty in connection with a real estate fraud case that s ongoing in los angeles. what we don t know is whether it involved local prosecutors in the central district of california, or it involves people on bob mueller s team. we also don t know the specific details or when a potential plea would be entered and when that
growing with john dowd and donald trump. john dowd wanted trump to be more passive in his response to the mueller probe. whereas folks like steve bannon, who are surrounding trump before wanted him to play hardball. we saw recently how trump has entered himself into this, calling mueller out by name in his tweets for the first time that shows the trump strategy, being aggressive and john dowd, saying be more passive. don t attack the special counsel publicly. but john dowd went rogue over the weekend and called open mueller to end his problem. maybe in retrospect maybe he was trying to keep his job. trace: and he get more aggressive in the waning days. joe digenova is going to make this more aggressive. the big problem here, the president s opinion that he is