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with the, with the latest on the Mueller investigation.

So it now appears that Robert Mueller, the special investigator into Trump-Russia collusion,

he has obtained tens of thousands of Trump transition emails.

Now you may ask, what exactly do the Trump transition emails have to do with collusion

during the election cycle?

The answer, of course, is nothing. But this is sort of the problem for the Mueller investigation,

which seems to be falling apart pretty quickly. All of the crimes they are now investigating have

to do with secondary crimes, lying to the FBI, maybe transition stuff, but nothing to do with

that central contention, right, that Trump and the Russians work together to rig the 2016 elections against Hillary Clinton. This was the entire motivating factor behind the

investigations in 2016. It's been the entire reason Democrats have been so animated about it now.

So special counsel Mueller has obtained many tens of thousands of Trump transition emails,

including emails with Jared Kushner, transition team

sources told Axios. Trump officials discovered Mueller had the emails when his prosecutors

use them as the basis for questions to witnesses, the sources said. The emails included 12 accounts,

one of which contained about 7,000 emails. The accounts include the team's political leadership

and foreign policy team according to the sources.

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