we don't know what mueller has. clearly, he has at least one cooperating witness in this recent plea. as for the podesta group, they were mentioned obliquely with the second indictment or conviction of george or papadopoulos. there were two groups, especially the podesta groups of seeking to assist in this lobbying ofha manafort.po yes, it is possible, since it's mentioned in those charging documents that tony podesta and the podesta group could get swept within mueller's investigation. whether mueller will go even further into the dossier is a very good question. the charges against manafort really are quite removed from the russian collusion allegation. so going after the dossier allegation would not be any morf afield from that. >> "politico" noting, as we're talking about tony podesta stepping downne from the lobbyi giant he works at amid the mueller probe. we showed this headline to viewers earlier in the show. before we leaveth the definitio you have gone over collusion and conspiracy. can you explain obstruct

mueller, mr. comey, more rosenstein they played on the same league for all these years, now we'll get leaks on general glynn, this i flynn, tha problem. i hope that we can get something done on this because, if you are going to spref investigate, we e investigations in congress. we sho not have someone with at least bare minimum, the appear answer of a conflict. charles: i think that white house agrees with you, and senator corker, maybe graham, again, circling wagons around bob mueller. i find it interesting, smart, well-thinking republicans saying this just common sense, better part of vel o -- vel valor are g this push back. >> you have people who are investigating this and have for year, "wall street journal," they all recognize the same thing we recognize. i have been calling on this for months, that mr. mueller needs to stand down, step aside, if you top proceed -- if you want to provide proceed, maybe anoth, another venue, but, people who never got to the bottom of this hid some from congre

bob mueller. you just said things you believe bad about hillary clinton. what is the conflict -- as you know, you're a lawyer as well. the conflict you're alleging, sir, is that the bad stuff you just said about clinton also relates to a link to bob mueller. and your answer didn't mention mueller. what exactly with facts or evidence, is the mueller link to clinton here? >> mueller in 2009 was part of the multiagency process that should have spoken out against the very bribery, the very extortion, the very kickback that's ultimately led to the uranium one deal. >> so you believe -- you believe the fbi -- >> let me finish. because he was part of that fact pattern, he cannot now go back and investigate something where he may very well be a witness. >> you're stating a belief that the filibuster was involved in this, the fbi was involved. there are nine government agencies involved. the "washington post" has reported, the fbi was not part of the government refuse. let me read to you. nine government a

rosenstein worked for mueller back in 1990 through 1993. comey has worked with mueller. they are part of what i call a corrupt cabal of former prosecutors and now current prosecutors again who are willing to do whatever it takes to achieve whatever they want to achieve. and they define that themselves, not by the facts but by whatever their goal is win at any cost. >> sean: we will give you a get out of jail free card just tell us what we want. that doesn't necessarily mean that's the truth. >> you will tell this, this, or that or you will be indicted. >> sean: you make the connection between rosenstein and comey and mueller and wiseman. this does this feel like bffs. >> they are. >> sean: all of them? >> it's illegal simed cat that's acting under the guise of the law. >> sean: how could this happen in the united states of america, greg? this is not a banana republic here. >> because the department of justice, and particularly the fbi and comey and mueller at the fbi, have turned into this renegade rogue deep stated that operates under their own rules. >> sean: they don'

you need to go after mueller. you either fire mueller -- they are having a debate about defunding mueller. that's fake. it's not a line item. it's not mueller's budget on some piece of paper to cross out. why is bannon advocating things that are not achievable? is he that dense or simply throwing things against the wall? >> probably more of the latter. he's a bomb thrower. something he likes to do. he likes to shake things up and be aggressive. ty cobb is telling the president, this is going to be over soon. he's signalling to white house staff, look, this is -- we saw sarah sanders say this earlier this week. this belief this probe is going to end when all evidence appears to be to the contrary. they are saying cooperate, cooperate, cooperate. and i think we know the president has told people close to him he's growing frustrated with this. this is not his style to -- >> bannon is right because at least to the extent that this investigation poses an extential threat to the trump presidency. >> of course, but they

we don't know who the people bob mueller is talking to have talked to and what they're telling bob mueller. and one way that bureaucracies and large systems of people begin to collapse is when they can't trust each other. the trump administration already had a very, very serious problem with leaks. it already had a very serious problem with infighting. now what it has is a serious problem with people flipping potentially or at least testifying on the people they've been working with, talking to, or were working with previously. it is very hard to run an effective executive branch under those circumstances. >> barbara mcquade, the message that i got from the special prosecutor yesterday was you don't know what i'm doing, and you don't know what i'm doing next. it seems to me that's exactly the message he wanted to deliver to us. >> yeah, i think that's right. and i think robert mueller has the reputation for being airtight. i know there have been leaks. but i suspect those are coming out of defense camps or maybe congressional committees, and not robert mueller's team. but i think he also s

and a closer look at robert mueller. what you may not know about the man running the investigation that looms over this presidency. "the 11th hour" on a back-to-work monday night begins now. >> good evening once again from our nbc news headquarters here in new york. day 312 of the trump administration and the president back at the white house with a lot to get done before the year ends and for that matter before the end of the week. he hopes to sign a tax bill and avoid a government shutdown, but hanging over all of it is robert mueller's russia investigation and the latest pressure point mueller seems to be trying to exploit. nbc news confirmed over the holiday weekend former national security adviser mike flynn's legal team has cut ties with trumps, widely considered by experts as the first sign that flynn may be cooperating with mueller's prosecutors. now abc does not cite its sources and nbc news has not independent by verified the story. they report this, however, "the lawyer for president donald trump's former nati

here comes mueller indicts these three people. sets trump's teeth on edge that it's coming toward him. this is a tsunami. to use a morell vant description, a hurricane, a stage 4, stage 5 hurricane moving toward him at a slow pace. it's coming toward him. what happens to him is rather than feeling the intolerable weakness or vulnerability he moves into aggressiveness and goes after people, that's what you're seeing now. >> where does that come from, the roy kohn school he was taught from. >> i think he was taught it a long time before roy kohn. his father taught him that from a very early age. strike back and strike back hard. that's what his father did. and for sure, that was roy kohn's style, we're going to see that more and more now as more and more revelaions -- i don't know if there will be indictments, i suspect there. more and more news from mueller there's a level despite his desire not to feel it, trump is very, very, very anxious that mueller's going to get him. i've said before, and i'll say it again, i believe he will.

i'm saying they think bob mueller is doing a good job. >> bob mueller is viewed like a miniversion of courts and people like to think of those, people in those roles as fairly neutral. there's reason to question that with respect to bob mueller. that's been discussed publicly. look, surely van you agree there's a basis to have the discussion. the outcome of the discussion is another matter. but, these are things -- discussion and it isn't very constructive. >> van? >> i'm saying that the idea that the president and his friends are trying to discredit mueller, mueller was praised by everyone, his entire career, and now he's in the tank. that doesn't make sense. here is what i think people should be trying to pay close attention to going forward. yes, you can in that building do a whole bunch of stuff at the same time. when people feel personally they are not safe, personally they may get a knock on the door from the fbi, when they go home and the wife or husband is asking personal questions, it begins to erode the ability to do your job. a tax plan is not the only talk in that building

he does not want mueller to do with him. >> if mueller was looking at your finances and your family's finances unrelated to russia, is that a red line? >> would that be a breach of what his actual charge is? >> i would say yes. i would say yes. >> we don't of course know what trump's actual finances are because he's refused to release his tax returns. we do know that mueller has probably examined those and there are tons of questionable dealings in donald trump's pass. a hotel that appears to be a corrupt operation engineered by oligarched. a stalled 2011 plan to build a trump tower in this city. that several describe -- trump's sale of a florida mansion no one wanted to a russian fertilizer king for a whopping $95 million. mueller's team's reportedly looking into the trump soho condo development as well as the 2013 miss universe pageant that a prominent russian developer paid $20 million. last week we learned that christopher steele, that dossier on trump and russia said investigators need to look at the contracts for the hotel deals and land deals that trump had pursued with russian

but you don't have bob mueller look into that. david: we don't really know whether mueller is look into that or not, do we? >> we don't see the same activity level in terms of court files as we do in bob mueller's pursuit of the trump campaign. bob mueller can't possibly look into that deal because during that time period he was the director of the fbi. he may well be a witness. the last congressional research service on the i hav -- on the s process, why didn't bob mueller do that? hillary clinton was on that panel. at the same time they were taking millions of dollars from russians. at the same time uranium one was making donations to the clinton foundation, bob mueller can't possibly continue against president trump when he's so conflict against the other participant in the 2016 election. david: clearly you are on the case. thank you for being here. appreciate it. be sure to vote in tonight's poll. do you have any confidence democrats will revoke the 25-year free pass they have given bill clinton for sexual misconduct? remember

we find out from the mueller team she's not. then we see manafort and gates representing ukrainian pro-russian presidential candidate. the party is pro russia. they are told to put their money for consulting in a cyprus bank. who uses the cyprus bank to launder money? the russian intelligence service. >> i want to ask you from your perspective, in a little more than ten years manafort, this is from some of the charging documents, has submitted ten united states passport applications on ten different occasions. he currently has three u.s. passports with different numbers. have you heard of anything like that before? >> that's a lot. now, look, there are people who travel incredibly, fill up the passport book, need new passports, but this many is problematic. the guy travels a lot, but there's way too many passports going on here. and again, i think he got a primer on how the russians can influence a campaign when he represented the ukrainian candidate, and he saw what russia could do to manipulate a campaign and he liked it. >> t

>> i don't think he should fire mueller, but he should watch mueller. physical mueller's far afield. we have what we describe as a rogue prosecutor. i'm not saying he is yet, but the idea that we're going to allow this guy to tie up the white house. did the russians influence the election the answer so far is no. and what happened. then let's go forward. i think that's happening, after that, all the rest of this, i don't think there's any reason he couldn't fire comey, i don't think that's a proper area to be digging into either. the president has the right to do that. but we're in a constitutional question, this is a problem. he won the election. he gets to be the president. >> the ken starr statute was allowed to expire. he was constitution ali an independent council. that was passed by the congress, and he was appointed. this is a special council within the justice department. if the president goes too far, then the way it's addressed is through the courts. somebody can say, you went too far, you're breaking the law on this or there's a political sol

michael, you worked with mueller. anybody who's watched a cop show and knows that -- >> they haven't been watching "matlock". >> i think that he thought -- i'm reading into his mind, which i'm not very good at. but i think he thought he could either, one, get away with it, or, two, thought that he was protective of the institution he worked for and may want to work for because it makes no sense objectively, why would you lie when the fbi asks you a question. he had to have some rationale for it. usually i think it's because they think they'll get away with it. >> might be because he thought he was a small fish, you know, in this big pond where there's so many people with much bigger names and much bigger roles that are being taken a look at. one of the interesting aspects about the jared kushner angle is they cannot deny jared kushner. they denied practically everybody else. papadopoulos because his name just rolls off the tongue, oh, no, we don't know who he is. he was a coffee boy. manafort, he had a minor role, he

cooperates with bob mueller? >> wow. well, i will tell you, i don't think i'm going to tell you something you may be surprised about. i don't think there's going to be cooperation. i quoted mr. flynn's son on twitter who was blasting bob mueller making all sorts of unfair attacks, linking him to middle east terrorist groups and things like that. it seems like they are digging in. one thing i wonder about that, legally it makes no sense unless they think they're getting a pardon and you'd have to think, because you're right, that the -- bob mueller is investigating the president for obstruction. that a pardon of michael flynn, the guy who he allegedly told james comey he wanted him to let it go, a pardon would be powerful evidence that bob mueller could use to suggest that donald trump is motivated to protect flynn. so i don't know why they sore sure a pardon is something but otherwise the strategy they're pursuing of attacking bob mueller makes absolutely no sense whatsoever. >> would a promise of a pardon be in and of i

mueller was following the money. that's something president trump made clear he does not want mueller to do. >> the president was looking at your finances unroadway litted to russia. is that a red line? >> would that be a breach of what his -- >> i would say yes. >> we know there are a ton of questionable dealings in donald trump's past. a hotel in azerbaijan that appears to be a corrupt operation engineered by oilgarches. a talled plan to build a trump tower. trump's sale of a florida mansion nobody wanted to a russian fertilizer king for a whopping $95 million. the trump owned 2013 miss universe pageant. just last week, we learned christopher steel, said an investigator needed to look at the contracts for the hotel deals and land deal that is trump pursued with russian nationals. that's just trump himself. ivanka trump and donald trump jr. were almost indicted themselves. still with me, miriam elder. nick actorman, business insider political correspondent josh bertrand. someone who has done after lot of contributin

mueller, mr. comey, mr. rosenstein were up to this in their eyeballs when it came to the russian investigation. if they were doing their jobs, they should have never allowed that sale of uranium to go to a company that they knew would end up in russian hands. ,o if you look at cheryl mills, these are people that were potential targets. and what director comey do? he makes sure they walk. because if they were fluid like good prosecutors and good investigators like normally do, you start there and you say, you help us with what happened and what you were told by the person above you and we won't prosecute you to the full stnt of the law. and that's how you get it to an confederation. mr. comey and the f.b.i. apparently relied on the fusion g.p.s. investigation knowing where it came from, knowing who paid for it. this is incredible. and if you go back to the " shington -- "washingtonian article of 201, it makes clear that comey and mueller were basically joined at the hip. in fact, the quote says that the stres

>> well, let's talk about what the white house is doing in trying to discredit mueller, going after mueller trying to discredit him. that is an effort to obstruct mueller's investigation. is that obstruction of justice? in my account, yes, it is, if mueller were to somehow be removed from this investigation or the investigation curtailed in any number of ways, cutting back on the money available, limited it in some way, all of those things add up to obstructing an investigation which is an obstruction of justice. >> you think your republican colleagues are looking for the facts right now in all of this or simply trying to protect the president? >> two nights ago i was on the floor of the house and i wanted to talk about the tax bill. preceding me were about eight republicans moving the issue away from the russian investigation and trump over to the russian investigation of hillary clinton. hillary clinton is not the president. trump is. we have to focus on the man in power. and was he kocompromised? what was his involvement in the russian effort to change the course of the american election

mueller is looking at all of this. he's trying to put all -- i'm not saying that this information comes from people in the mueller investigation, but reporters know a good bit at this point from piecing, from various sources together what the broad outlines of what mueller is looking at. and it is all three of these areas, and he's very far along in terms of what we saw this week and yet we only know this much. >> right. and the thing to add to that is don junior gives a speak back in 08 where he is asked about the financing of their properties, and he said essentially we don't get money from u.s. banks. we get them from rich russians. and so they have a financial relationship with the russians that go back a long way, notwithstanding what the president's statements about that are and i think that that also informs mueller's investigation. >> russians too. they're not just people in russia. i think it's important to point that out. >> gloria, do we know how involved jared kushner actually was in the -- >> well, it is a

bob mueller is not the type of person that lets grass grow under his feet. if you look at the way he's moving already, there are people who are surprised how aggressive he is to paul manafort, that fbi agents picked the lock and showed up and they're moving toward indictment. take a look at-- we kind of gets a daily barrage. take a step back and look at the president's son had a meeting with a russian lawyer, the pretext how the russian government wanted to help election. and it was intercepted, the president's national security advisor was overheard on intercepts talking with the russian ambassador. don't know exactly about what, but enough that the department of justice thought it was inappropriate and warned the white house. the president himself in his public statements can best be described as being solicitous of the russian government. so if you ask why is bob mueller moving so quickly, looking at this not like a white collar investigation, but as a criminal enterprise and taking it like the drug trafficking enterprise. this is in some ways the most im

bob mueller resigns. there is at least the prospect of peace in the land but until then we have criminal enterprise in the clinton foundation. and the way in which corruption has just followed the clintons throughout their entire careers and lives. and there is no consequence and at some point this country has to find a way to hold high places elected officials accountable for their transgressions. or give her a clean bill of health. it is in and of itself stinks to high help ann no one can explain to my satisfaction to this point how $143 million was placed in the clinton foundation out of the noble inspiration of the person who wrote the check. >> the clinton foundation is a criminal enterprise. it needs to be investigated and taken apart and audited. it's a money laundering operation in my opinion. given that and the fact that the clintons have leveraged their political offices whether it's the presidency or the secretary of state there is no daylight between them and we know that because we have thank

that will fire mueller. what are your thoughts about that. >> i think it is more than the mueller investigation. there is the possibility of him firing mueller through this new attorney general who might be a lackey and not involved in the crimes being investigated. but i think that you also look beyond that. this is authoritarian undemocratic language and talking about interfering from the executive branch into the process of law enforcement. and i think that while -- i think a lot of civil rights activists and people advocating for equal temperatureatment mig sessions being fired or removed, but there are things to think about. >> and it is a danger to our american democracy and it is like when the nbc times pointed out when the fbi was directed to go after dr. king. what are your thoughts when you look at trump and the way he's behaving. >> and i think robert mueller is taking notes on everything this person is saying. the president is saying that he wants to interfere with investigations, the president i

well, so is bob mueller peddling fake news? >> i have a feeling bob mueller would say, absolutely not. betsy, this comes after another foreign policy adviser, george papadopoulos pleaded guilty to lying to the fbi about his contacts with russia. who should the white house be more concerned about, carter paige, or papadopoulos? >> that's a good question. i think both of them potentially have information that could be of great interest to mueller's team. what we do know for sure is that papadopoulos likely provides a much bigger source of stress for the white house, because he's been working with mueller. he's been cooperating. and it's likely that he gave the white house a significant -- or mueller, a significant amount of information that could make folks in the white house look pretty terrible. an important piece of con taxten all this, particularly given the media interviews that carter paige is doing. one of the biggest and most immediate legal risks for people in the white house isn't just potential allegations of collusion

because that was the day bob mueller decided it would break. >> robert mueller got a guilty and that happened weeks ago. we learned about it today. on the same day that he indicted paf paul manafort. bad news, he will be forced with withdraw. now that nominee has been reported to be cooperating with the special prosecutors' investigation of donald trump. utter chaos inside the trump white house. jared kushner is now donald trump's biggest problem in the white house if jeff sessions was not telling the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth when he testified about the trump campaign's contacts with russians. >> quite a week. what did we learn? >> you're kidding me. that was a week? oh, well. i think the most important word of the week is the word we began with, that is guilty. the very, very first case that rob mueller brings is already a guilty. and it has been a guilty for weeks by the time he reveals it. i really have never seen a prosecution handled like that before. and of course, he did that because there are so many moving parts of this prosecution. so many suspects b

mueller now in the 6th month of his investigation. so now so-called ledged collusion has been investigated by the special counsel and the fbi for three months short of two years. 21 months, not a single piece of evidence found. what about the congressional investigations? at least five congressional committees are now investigating russian collusion with the trump campaign. they found nothing. and the senate intelligence and house intelligence committees appear to be extraordinarily disinterested in what russia may have actually done. what have they actually done? it appears they compromised the nsa and led the establishment republicans and democrats on an almost two-year wild goose chase making them the laughingstocks of the world's spies and intelligence. a word that hardly seems right when used to describe our agencies and our congress. all of that leaving many unanswered questions which i'll tell you about coming up here. stay with us. there is a lot more straight ahead. a growing number of republicans want to fire special counsel

do you trust bob mueller? >> i would trust the process to play out the way it's meant to be played out. >> why can't you say you trust a former fbi director who worked for democrats and republicans who kept this country safe -- >> you can't say you trust bob mueller? >> you can't say that? i hope they're paying you a lot of money. what is sustainable that a trump surrogate can't say they trust bob mueller. >> i think one of the -- >> this isn't the white house's current position. sarah huckabee sanders took to the podium yesterday and said -- >> there are other folks putting bugs in the president's ear. if this goes forward it goes forward in a way the president doesn't like, he already is upset with sessions, upset reportedly with jared kushner for the way this has progressed and the fact it has progress at all. we know that from our reporting. if this goes further, you know, it's possible that he will regret that terminating mueller. there are people that he's listening to who enable those impulses from the

take a look at bob mueller's standpoint. we kind of get a daily barrage of this afternoon that happened. take a step back and look at the president's son had a meeting the a russian lawyer, pretext of which was to receive information about how the russian government wanted to help elect the government -- present. they were overheard on intercept either talking with russian intelligence officials or intermediaries. the president's national security adviser was overheard on intercept talking with the russian ambassador. we don't know exactly about what justicegh department of that it was inappropriate and warned the white house. the president himself in a public storm statement can be best described as being extremely solicitous of the russian government. so if you ask, why is bob mueller moving so quickly and this is not like a white color investigation but as a criminal enterprise and taking it like a drug trafficking enterprise, this is in some ways the most important investigation the department of justice has ever conduct

what does that say to you about the direction of the mueller investigation? >> i think the clearest thing it says to me that's reasonable and listening is that bob muler is doing his job. and it's telling you one of the things that he thinks is part of his job is to figure whether or not the firing of jim comey provides a predicate for a obstruction of referral to the house of representatives and charged independently. and it would only make sense that bob mueller and team would be asking everyone in the orbit of donald trump who might have had a role in the decision to fire james comey to talk to them, ask for documents, e-mails, i would expect that's not only happening with respect to jared kushner. i think it's happening with respect to steve bannon and others. and we know there was some dispute according to steve bannon at least about whether or not jim comey should be fired. >> he said it was the biggest mistake in modern history. a president has the right to fire an fbi director, it's part of his executive privilege. for lack of a better term, why would

is mueller doing a good job? on those metrics, there's, according to the abc poll that came out a couple days ago, there's actually a little bit more partisan agreement in some of those other questions. then the other thing i would just note is this current day, we have republicans and we have trump voters. so among republicans overall, there are quite a few republicans, about a third of republicans feel that mueller is doing a good job. there are republicans that feel the investigation should continue. there are quite a few republicans who feel that it's quite likely that paul manafort and george papadopoulos did something wrong. and that's among republicans. now, hard core trump voters may feel a little differently, and it depends on what kind of question you're asking. >> the polling would seem to indicate that more americans think the president committed a crime than approve of the job he's doing in office, which is a remarkable place to find ourselves in. >> a not insignificant percentage think he should be

in the probe of special counsel robert mueller. also tonight, president trump always first to give himself an a plus on his handling of the nation's business, but what grade do americans give him one year after his stunning upset victory in the election? we have the results on of cnn's eye opening poll on how americans feel about the state of the economy. the president's honestty, if he be zevlgs re-election and if they're proud he's president. i want to begin with breaking news on the russia investigation and cnn's chief national security correspondent. jim, what are you learning? >> don, i'm told by multiple sources familiar with the matter that flynn has expressed concern about the potential legal egs poeb of his son who like his father is currently under scrutiny by special counsel robert mueller. flynn's concern could be a factor in decisions about how to respond to mueller's ongoing investigation into russian meddling in the 2016 campaign as well as the business dealings of key trump campaign advisers. i'm told as well, don,

i would go back to joyce's point about mueller sending this message. he is sending this message before his folks have met with jared kushner, with hope hicks, with the real inner circle. >> the message is if you're lying, possibly about anything, i'll come after you. >> he is basically saying i know, so you can tell me the truth and we can work together or you can be obstructionists and, you know, look what manafort is facing. i don't know if that's exactly what the message is, but it -- clearly he's playing "hardball" with paul manafort and he's sent that message before -- they've talked to reince priebus, a few other folks, but they have not gotten to the inner circle. this whole thing, this is still very much in the early stages. >> thanks to all thee of you. still tonight, the approximated and the republicans have a tax plan but can they pass it. and up next, the white house staying on offense saying the indictments of robert mueller by trump ace campaign staff have nothing to do with the trump white house. >>> welcome back to the 11th hour. with m

and if robert mueller is on to that with regard to flynn, if robert mueller is vinvestigatin that, that he tried to take official acts to benefit a foreign government in exchange for money, if that's what he's after mike flynn for, if that's what he nails mike flynn for, then anybody who tried to obstruct or slow down or divert or pressure the fbi investigation into that matter, they'd be on the hook, not just for some technical process violation but for a disastrous national security compromise. if that's what mueller is going after flynn for, that's a very serious deal and anybody who tried to stop that flynn investigation, anybody at all, would be on the hook in a very serious way. as i said, a lot is going on right now but there's a lot going on right now that's really important. no time to tune out. stay with us. t accident i got in with the pole, and i had to make a claim and all that? is that whole thing still dragging on? no, i took some pics with the app and... filed a claim, but... you know how they send you money to cover repairs and... they took forever to pay you, right? no

it's under scrutiny by team mueller. tonight's other report comes from "vanity fair" writer howard blum, and it's about the controversial oval office meeting back in may between donald trump, russia's foreign minister sergey lavrov and then ambassador to the u.s., sergey kislyak. a day after it took place james comey was fired, a day which american media journalists were barred and russian press journalists were allowed in. in a report, blum writes about a covert israeli mission to stop an isis bomb plot described to him by israeli intelligence sources. that mission was then disclosed to the russians by president trump. blum also writes in the article, quote, there are some petulant voices in official washington who insists that the president's treachery was deliberate, part of his long time collaboration with the russians. it is a true believer orthodoxy, one that predicts the meeting will be damnening in an indictment that robert mueller, the special counsel, will ultimately nail to the white house door. with that let'