indicted but it wouldn t be the president. the bottom line is, when there s a history of crisis management inside of a business like there was in the trump enterprise. there was all sorts of crisis management going on. settlements all the time involving businesses, financial transactions and personal relationships. those predate any campaign. the allegations here are from 2006. the notion that this is somehow related to the campaign requires an unbelievable stretch of prosecutable authority. chris: let s get to the central case which is the special counsel s investigation of donald trump. in terms of collusion, in terms of possible obstruction of justice. this week, a federal judge in alexandria, virginia raised questions about whether the special counsel s case specifically against paul manafort, outside the special counsel s mandate. federal judge - - told
i mean, this is a business where there s a lot of foreign money, particularly at high-end new york real estate and places like miami and other places. there s a lot of very suspect money that is sloshing in and out of those places. that s just your average, off-the-shelf developer. now imagine it s the trump enterprise. right, and we ve talked about this, real estate has been an inherently shady business. what mueller is looking for is whether or not the russians have any leverage over donald trump or whether they managed to cultivate any kind of compromising information on him through money over the course of his decades-long business empire. and that really is why mueller now is doing this. he s not going on some kind of fishing expedition or witch hunt that the white house would have people believe just for the sake of trying to catch trump in some kind of financial crime. he s actually looking for whether or not there was a reason why donald trump was so friendly to the russians
you took a large real estate developer in new york, any one of them, and you handed over the totality of their financial documents to robert mueller, the possibility of some impropriety is not low. i mean, this is a business where there s a lot of foreign money, particularly at high-end new york real estate and places like miami and other places. there s a lot of very suspect money that is sloshing in and out of those places. that s just your average, off-the-shelf developer. now imagine it s the trump enterprise. right, and we ve talked about this, real estate has been an inherently shady business. what mueller is looking for is whether or not the russians have any leverage over donald trump or whether they managed to cultivate any kind of compromising information on him through money over the course of his decades-long business empire. and that really is why mueller now is doing this. he s not going on some kind of fishing expedition or witch hunt that the white house would have pe
general kelly came in and he add conversation with scaramucci and basically scaramucci wasn t a one-man band. and question, i think that trump decided that as long as bob muler is there, biggest story, scaramucci will be forgotten in a week. mueller has proven already like great special prosecutors, and i don t mean this against trump. i think he is smart to be scared. he is not paranoid. they are coming for him. prosecutors have liunlimited scope. from paula jones to what is her name in the white house lewinski. lewinski. this guy could go here from tax returns to the business dealings with russia, possible money-laundering. everything with the trump enterprise. and trump doesn t want a guy doing that. because that guy could be working harder than he is with better people. and he has to stop this thing. this is an existential threat.
obamacare and what comes next. that s wednesday night 9:00 eastern only on cnn. meanwhile, there are questions swirling about the significance of a possible link between a russian bank and the trump organization. the fbi is investigating a computer server connection between the two. they call it, quote, odd. this, as we re also learning that the president s strigs team was aware that former national security adviser michael flynn was working as a foreign agent while advising mr. trump on the campaign trail. fred pleitgen is following the developments. fred, first of all, to the possible computer link, what are you hearing about that this morning? reporter: well, we ve been trying to get in touch with alfa bank which is the bank that apparently made these things called dns lookup, which is them trying to get in touch with a server of the trump enterprise. so far there hasn t been an