Ron Hosko: The ‘Ultimate Goal’ of Mueller Is to ‘Squeeze’ Manafort and Gates to Get to the Truth on Collusion

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HOSKO: "Well, he’s going for, ultimately, the truth, Brian. And I think that we can expect incremental charges against participants that their activities might be tangential to the essential question of Russian collusion and Russian influence. However, he has that as part of his commission, you know. If he finds other crimes, as I understand it, he’s going to be allowed to and expected to charge those other crimes. Here I think in ways, Mr. Manafort and Mr. Gates perhaps made it easy for Mueller and his investigators because of the scope of what they did, the failure to pay, you know, and declare on so many occasions in such a wide scope. But his ultimate goal with Manafort, and perhaps with Mr. Gates, is to squeeze them very tightly to get to the truth about who might have been colluding with Russia, if anyone."