you touched on this. this may be part of your job in the coming months. how do you cheer up the home team for the mid-term elections in 18? well, the good thing about being in an undisclosed location, they don t often bring me in the room because i m not sure i would get out alive. behind the scenes, more agree with me than not in the professional ranks. i think they ll be trapped into doing, there it is a hard strategy torsion try to change the subject to localize things and to go on the attack against democratic points. some may be of the busy ilg. it is tough. if he keeps making policy moves, not just rhetoric like, this crazy steel tariff, he will split the party and that will only weaken our position which is in peril. and we haven t even talked about robert mueller for four and a half minutes. you re always so good to come
reporter. she is the co-author of our exclusive nbc news report from just last night on robert mueller asking witnesses if trump knew with these hacked democratic e-mails before they were released. also back with us, jeremy bash, former chief of staff at the cia and pentagon. and we welcome back to the program, cynthia alneya, a federal prosecutor and a justice department veteran. welcome to you all. carol, about tonight s story, what is its central impact the your view? well, as you mentioned, this hacking and leaking strategically is the worst part. so this is significant in the sense we knew this was happening. but if mueller decides to move forward with an indictment, to me the key question is whether or not there are any americans that are tied to this. it s one thing for him to indict russians who will probably never be extradited and come over and
some may be of the bernie sanders ilk. but it s tough. it s going to be hard not to be a referendum on the president. if he keeps making policy moves, not just rhetoric like, this crazy steel tariff, he will split the party and that will only weaken our position which is in peril. and we haven t even talked about robert mueller for four and a half entire minutes. mike murphy you re always good about coming on with us. we ll have you back. thank you. coming up, short of the president, he s the man we talk about the most on this broadcast. night in and night out. and yet could you identify the voice of robert mueller? tonight we hear from the man at the center of so much these days, when the 11th hour continues.
about these e-mails in advance. he talked about assange and wikileaks and there s a lot of questions about his knowledge of this. he was still in close contact with the president and there s that. that relationship with trump and the papadopoulos piece. and i think that those pieces to play out are going to be the most significant in terms of of this. i keep picturing the mother of all white boards. in mueller s offices in d.c. and all the tent cals as closely secured as a battle plan in warfare.
this comes just weeks after top u.s. intelligence officials warn senators that moscow would be back to meddle in this year s elections. and it comes only two days after mike rogers revealed president trump hasn t directly told him to combat russian hacking. have you been directed to do so, given the strategic threat that faces the united states and the significant consequences? no. you need direct authority of the press. there are some things i have the authority to do. and we should know, he is expected to be arraigned in federal court. he was arrested gist last week in virginia. pled guilty to charges including money laundering. robert mueller s team said if