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We begin with president trumps long time personal lawyer michael cohen. he now says that he will exercise his 5th amendment right in the self-incrimination civil case brought forward by stormy daniels. shes suing cohen for defamation for sug jeszing that she lied about an affair with the president back in 2006 while also saying her nondisclosure agreement is not valid because the president never signed it. in cohens decision to remain silent he cited the ongoing criminal investigation by the fbi...

When you have your staff taking the 5th amendment, taking the 5th so theyre not prosecuted. >> 5th amendment, 5th amendment, 5th amendment. horrible. horrible. her staffers taking the 5th amendment, how about that? five people taking the 5th amendment, like you see on the mob, right? you see the mob takes the 5th. if youre innocent, why are you taking the 5th amendment? >> five people. that was president trump on what it means to plead the 5th. so we can only wonder how he reacted when he firs...

Thats the fear. if youre innocent, dont worry about a singer, but even if you are innocent, you have to worry about a composer somebody who creatively elaborates on the story. molly: phil keating has more, hes on the mar-a-lago estate. >> president trump is on palm beach at his resort, the winter white house. he spent most of the morning on the other side of his town at his trump international golf club before returning home in time to watch the first ladys funeral on live television. at a heari...

Force one and told the american public and the press that if they had any questions about what happened relating to the agreement or the payment, that they could pose those questions to his attorney, michael cohen. he was emphatic and clear about that. we are now one week later. on monday we had a raid of three locations associated with michael cohen. today we find out that it is his intention to plead the 5th amendment against self-incrimination in response to any questions that i may pose to h...

Of additional crime, theyre not going to ignore it. and thats going to be very problematic. when it comes to subpoenas of documents, the reason they are so devastating is that unlike a subpoena for you and i to come testify, we can assert the fifth amend, theres no 5th amendment in documents. they must be turned over. >> richard nixon lost that battle with the special prosecutor when they were investigating him. were going to table this conversation for jolt because we have breaking news out of ...

Capitulated and said were right here. they led on those issues the 13th and 15th amendment, the votings rights act thecism rights act. the fact we feel more comfortable of playing to the base racest instincts says who we are. there are a lot of people that dont want to stand a little taller, there are move of us out there than you think dont want to be there. >> can you stay in the republican party if they keep talking like this? >> i was here before they were. my attitude is you aint going to m...

Under oath? >> guess what the alternative is? the alternative is a protracted legal argument which they will lose with a grand jury subpoena and something donald trump might be the first and only president of the united states who could do is to take the 5th amendment, and that is the equivalent to shooting people on 5th avenue and get away with it. take the 5th amendment by telling people, by inoculating, its a witch hunt. this is what some people think is the whole diminishing of bob mueller, ...

Abigail adams wrote "remember the ladies" but it took until the 20s to get suffrage. it took us centuries from appomattox to the voting rights act and when you look at a timeline and that kind of thing, the civil rights movement, you wonder how could this have been a problem. how could it have taken a censutury to have lived up to t not only the declaration but the explicit language of the 15th amendment which grant announced. how is that? i think this shooting on the issue of guns in america wi...

Justification for his firing -- >> i would direct shift to article 2 of the constitution of the united states and ask him what part of executive authority is difficult for him to grasp. ultimately this is in the purview of the president, right? >> is it the feeling that this memo release is a prelude to some justification for the removal of rosenstein? >> i think rosenstein should be removed if he should be removed. i dont have that information yet. regardless of your partisanship, we need to un...

President who actually is calling around after making racist comments gauging the political fallout and then bragging about making those racist comments? >> yes, we are. seems to me one way to think about this is if youre a president of the united states when it comes to the eternal question of race and justice and equality of opportunity in america theres a spectrum. theres andrew johnson on one side who succeeded lincoln and then decided to return the south, as much as he could, to an antebell...