welcome to politicking on larry king on wednesday special counsel robert mueller filed new criminal charges against paul not afford the former manager of donald trump's twenty sixteen campaign but mr muller placed the charges under seal obscuring the nature and import of them leaving many to wonder what this development means we'll start there with richard. clarke university of minnesota he was the chief white house ethics lawyer during the administration of george w. bush and he's currently vice chair for citizens for responsibility and ethics in washington he joins us from minneapolis ok richard what do you make of this and why do you think it's sealed. well the number is a prosecutor would want a sale and indictment portions of an indictment and usually other reason is to not disclose to other potential subjects of the investigation of the information that the prosecutor know. and he is continuing to investigate a number of different things not just the money laundering with respect to the mastermind of fort mr gates but also the russian ferrous and the election whether they had anything

muller's team that was looking into suppose the pollution between trump and the problem prior to that the clinton e-mail investigation which went nowhere and then there's lisa page a lawyer for the department of justice who also worked for robert muller the couple came into prominence back in december when their private text conversations were released to congress girls hillary should win. i know. and maybe your man just the way you are because your man to protect the country from that manifest . thanks it's absolutely true that we're very very fortunate and of course i'll try and approach it that way these text messages proved that both struck and page were biased in favor of hillary and the messages even hint at some nefarious political activity so when they wanted to dig deeper it turned out the rest of their conversation had disappeared the f.b.i. ascribed the dates lost to misconfiguration issues related to rollouts provisioning and so for upgrades the conflicts with the f.b.i.'s collection capabilities but let's look at the time frame of these text messages december fourteenth t

muller on the eve of the summit of twelve russians alleged for election interference and dismissed the judgments of some current and former intelligence officials on the investigation while the two presidents seem determined to create a display of cordial and correct the paul nitze it's not clear where any good will the two leaders might develop could lead russia in the u.s. are backing different sides of the war in syria and russia still support the nuclear agreement with iran from which the u.s. has withdrawn from around the media we go to our she's on your part phil who joins us from helsinki on your thank you so much mr trump upset the europeans and the nato at the nato meeting and he upset the u.k. prime minister theresa may on friday ahead of the meeting with president putin mr trump set a pretty low bar what took place at the meeting and had to go over that bar. it seems to have gone at least better than those two previous meetings you just described president trump described or said his meeting in his lunch with president putin went very well and that it was quote deeply produc

muller if you're innocent act innocent and right now he's looking like you know i want this over because he's got something to hide and that's a mistake we spoke to news commentator juno louden she believes that the mother issue is being driven by mainstream media because they believe it could lead to impeachment. the topic of moeller is one of the votes perfect examples of where trump tweets something the media goes into apoplexy over it gets themselves all in a tailspin about it when in fact there's nothing going on there and there's nothing that's going to come of it and the media feeds right into this the media with love to believe that the president would fire moeller and that this would somehow lead to the president's impeachment because that's exactly what the left wants they are constantly desperately clawing and scraping for some way to get this president out in the media perceives everything that the president does as strictly a prediction of his next policy move they're making a gross error that they've been making for going on a couple years now and that's why it's not servin