meeting that happened in june of 2016 between the trump campaign and the russians. we only know so much about it. we only know the emails we had about it and the differing explanations we got from some of the folks there. you know if we were to learn what other folks in the meeting, the russians had to say about that or what you know direction they got, or or anything like that that expands our understanding of things. we look for things that spa expand and can provide larger context to the facts. that s what we are searching for. jill back we we first learned of the meeting you said while we only find out what other people leak or what people publicly put out as donald trump jr. did with the emails robert mueller has more power to get more information than what we are learning today about things found on paul manafort s phone indicate that he is using some of that power. absolutely. and i want to point out in terms of the timing that we were appointed in may for the watergate case
business associates, his family, there is some sense that the the investigation is leaning on him heavily. and there are others who think that the pardoning of former sheriff joe arpaio might have been a sending a message to paul manaforts or michael flynns saying hold tight i ll pardon you if it goes wrong. what do you make of the fact that possibly robert mueller is working with new york attorney general eric schneiderman. i think it is a message. i was appalled by the pardon in and of itself. you are forgiving a contempt of court which cannot enforce judicial proceedings if it can t hold a witness in contempt or a defendant in contempt. and it was for violating civil rights. it s bad in and of itself. but i heard it definitely as a message, hang tight, don t worry. you may lose the fifth amendment privilege because i ll pardon your original crime. but i ll also pardon you if you
reported that mueller s team is interested in talking to senior trump administration officials. we have seen reporting that mueller is working with the irs. we learned last night that he is working possibly with new york attorney general eric snyderman to have state charges brought that can t be pardoned by the president. in your opinion what thread of the investigation are they pulling the hardest on? i think what we are seeing is a very aggressive prosecutor, especially on the manafort front. we saw him last month execute a search warrant to go into manafort s house. that is a very that s a big move for a prosecutor to take, especially at a time when manafort said or was trying to say publicly that he was cooperating. so i think what we are seeing a a lot of a lot of things here. we ll see a lot more of this in the weeks and months to come. the president is going to have a lot of stories come out about subpoenas, about interviews, about people going before the grand jury, and t
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indictment. and also, i want to point out he has the power to give a report to the congress which request be as we did, a road map to impeachment. it was decided by our special prosecutor at the time that we should not diet, that impeachment was the correct procedure for the sitting president. since then can be ken starr to a took years and went from a real estate deal to a blue dress, so showing how broad the investigation can be, he has ha memo that says it would be perfectly proper to diet a sitting president. so mr. mueller might be able to do that. but he also has the option of rurpg a report to the congress to show how the case could be built for impeachment. jeremy last word to you, what are you looking for next? well when michael cohen the trump organization main lawyer and the one who was the architect to of the deal to billed the trump tower testifies