this bigger picture. it s a big deal. we already know for sure that the russian state hacked into hillary clinton and the dnc e-mails. we know those were put out into the public by wikileaks and the inten was to help the trump 2016 campaign. was there coordination between wikileaks and the 2016 campaign. and as you see mueller circling stone, they re going to be the fulcrum that connects wikileaks to the campaign. which is huge. in the legal world you use the word proffer. let me ask it this way. if he is in plea negotiation, does it mean he s giving up the goods or is willing to give up the goods if he gets a good deal. mueller wouldn t sign him up as a cooperator unless he knows what the guy has. you sit down with the guy, you
an open session. if you take that away from him, he might have to answer questions that he doesn t want to do. dana: listen to what the incoming judiciary committee chairman on the house side said. he said it is unfortunate that the out going majority is resorting to these tactic. months ago director comey and lynch indicated their willingness to answer the questions. my understanding is the republicans have had no contact with director or attorney general since. lot of it feels like political posturing. we had the mueller investigation on going. we just reported jerome corsey, roger stone s associate, saying he s in a plea negotiation. that s what s being reported. this might all be taken over by events. maybe. and it s very possible the republicans will see how things turned out in the house to decide maybe when this could happen, when they could do an investigation or when they could
russians and ukranians. the evidence that s going to come out here will be ugly and it s going to point badly at the president and who he surrounds himself with. i think manafort gave a shot to not let this trial happen. i think mueller heard what he had to say and he said, it s not good enough. we re having a trial. what do you think of that, cynthia? that s possible. another possibility is they piddled around and danced around to have some plea negotiation to try to give trump a sense of urgency that he needed to get the pardon done quickly. that s also possible. it s also possible, pre-negotiations happen all the time up to trial and it could be just that. we won t know right away. thank you, all. next big primary night before the midterms. steve kornacki is at the big board with the latest numbers, and later the president steps on
defense team and what they re up to, the conversations they had with the mueller team. we heard this today from former fbi counterintelligence official. let s listen to this. i ve got a theory on this manafort attempt at a plea-deal, which is he doesn t want this stuff to come out at the next trial. this is about being an agent of the federal government. this is about, as joyce said, russians and ukranians. the evidence that s going to come out here will be ugly and it s going to point badly at the president and who he surrounds himself with. i think manafort gave a shot to not let this trial happen. i think mueller heard what he had to say and he said, it s not good enough. we re having a trial. what do you think of that, cynthia? that s possible. another possibility is they piddled around and danced around to have some plea negotiation to try to give trump a sense of urgency that he needed to get the pardon done quickly. that s also possible.
the judge in washington, d.c. than they did down in alexandria just a week or two ago. cynthia, there are a lot of theories about the manafort defense team and what they re up to, the conversations they had with the mueller team. we heard this today from former fbi counterintelligence official. let s listen to this. i ve got a theory on this manafort attempt at a pre-deal, which is he doesn t want this stuff to come out at the next trial. this is about being an agent of the federal government. this is about, as joyce said, russians and ukranians. the evidence that s going to come out here will be ugly and it s going to point badly at the president and who he surrounds himself with. i think manafort gave a shot to not let this trial happen. i think mueller heard what he had to say and he said, it s not good enough. we re having a trial. what do you think of that, cynthia? that s possible. another possibility is they piddled around and danced around to have some plea negotiation