and crucially potential collusion with russian government officials to interfere in the 2016 election. jennifer rogers and renato marriotty are both former u.s. attorneys. we also have robert costa from the west on the phone. bob, are you there? i m here, chris. snifr fill me in on the story you just broke. so carol and i at the washington post just broke a big story we ve been working on for a week which is an update on the mueller investigation. we know based on our reporting that bob mueller has personally informed president trump s attorneys that he remains under investigation, he is not a criminal target at this point. he s the subject of the investigation. and that means he still wants to have an interview with the president. there s negotiations on going whether the president will sit down and he s by no means in the clear but he s not about to get charges either according to mueller. that s according to your sources who have learned about
he is really the only target of that investigation. and even if the special counsel doesn t feel like he has enough evidence yet, it seems to me that s the direction that they re heading into the extent they continue to investigate this. that surprises me a little bit and makes me wonder whether he was more careful about which investigation he was talking about. but you know, i don t know. as you pointed out earlier, they were just talking about an interview at this point. so technically they re answering the question about a subpoena issued. mueller is not going to try to mislead them where he s going here. what s your reaction, renato? i have a slightly different view. a target under the u.s. attorney s manual, the guidelines that federal prosecutors use is somebody who the prosecutor views as what s called a punitive defendant. in other words, someone the prosecutor currently intends to charge, somebody who is a subject is somebody whose conduct is within the investigation. a lo
still yes! xfinity delivers gig speed to more homes than anyone. now you can get it, too. welcome to the party. breaking news tonight in the mueller investigation. the west reporting the special counsel told the president s attorney last month that trump is still under investigation but is not currently a criminal target. this comes as mueller sheds new light on his case against the president s former campaign chairman paul manafort. documents filed late last night revealing that rod rosenstein specifically signed off on two areas of investigation, the payments manafort received for his work in ukraine, already the subject of a 32-count indictment and crucially potential collusion with russian government officials to interfere in the 2016 election. jennifer rogers and renato marriotty are both former u.s. attorneys. we also have robert costa from the west on the phone.
return of the 90s sit-com roseanne . these are the voters who felt they didn t have a voice till donald trump. are they getting everything they bargained for? i ll bring in laura coats, renato marriotty and former usa attorney michael moore. thank you. laura, we ve now learned of the fifth major law firm that refused to represent president trump in the russia investigation. what does that tell you about the case or the client? it tells you that a lot of the reputation of not only donald trump as being a difficult attorney perhaps or one that does not heed the advice of his attorneys combined with the unpredictability of mueller s dragnet is combining to have a lot of different firms in the area in washington, d.c. and other places to say we don t know who the target is. therefore, we may have conflicts and may not want to take on this particular endeavor because it requires us to have our singular focus outside of a more
there you go, america. good evening. and the rest of the world also. we re simulcast. renato, it s considered the honor of a lifetime to represent the president. how do you reconcile trump s claims that many big-time lawyers want to represent him with the reality that none are coming on board. the way i reconcile it is the president of the united states, this particular president doesn t have a very close relationship with the truth. i mean, the fact of the matter is he s getting turned down left and right. that does say something about him. lawyers generally like to represent rich and powerful clients and particularly the president of the united states. this creates a real problem for him. i actually agree with what will everybody has said here. you want to have a lawyer who is going to tell you the tough news. sometimes as a lawyer you actually particularly in a criminal defense side, you have to sometimes bring your client around to things that are difficult truths that they