Has continued to say they re cooperating with the special counsel. what s changed now is the amount of pushback as the white house, as well as some of the president s allies on capitol hill now trying to discredit special councsel, even though te president saying he s not planning on firing mr. mueller. are you considering firing robert mueller? no, i m not. reporter: president trump denying that the white house is laying the groundwork to fire special counsel mueller. one day after a lawyer for mr. trump s transition team accused mueller s investigators of improperly obtaining thousands of e-mails. not looking good. it s quite sad to see that. my people are very upset about it. i can t imagine there s anything on them, frankly. because as we have said there is no collusion, no collusion whatsoever. reporter: mr. trump s lawyer arguing in a letter to congress that the documents provided to
Determination. doesn t change anything with our investigation. special councsel. i m not going to comment about our work yet. we re not done. seems to have absolutely nothing with his time on the campaign. does that make you confident this is a closed question about collusion. we re continuing our work and i m not privy to what mr. mueller is working on. just from what i read today, didn t seem to have anything to do with his time on the campaign. most republican lawmakers shied away. lindsey graham did speak out when asked about the possibility of the president now firing special counsel mueller. i have zero concerns that mueller is in jeopardy of losing his job. i see no reason for him to be dismissed. the only reason he could do it is for cause. there was effort to do it
Candidates, investigator s past clients and the relationship with comey whose firing. they considered mueller and met with mueller before his appointed special council. in trump s interview on wednesday he said talk about conflicts. mueller wasn t interviewing for this job. there were many other jobs i haven t said, but i will at some point, end quote. he s good at a tease. he is. he s constantly in the deep tease. sometimes he comes through and sometimes he doesn t. as far as robert mueller s investigation, multiple officials familiar with the ongoing probe tell us the special councsel is, quote, finding the strike zone, and continuing to gather documents including financial records and business dealings of those close to the trump campaign. peter baker, you were one of the people in that celebrated justly
Recent data points to an hbcu renaissance in the age of charlottesville, black lives matter, and president trump. but first, new developments in the investigation into russian meddling in the 2016 election. as nbc has confirmed that special councsel robert mueller has issued his first criminal charges in his investigation of collusion between trump s campaign associates and the russian government. but just who has been indicted remains to be seen. with the reported reveal coming some time tomorrow. joining me now is danny cevallos, an msnbc legal analyst, and eugene scott, political reporter for the washington post. danny, what can you tell me?