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Son spend over a million dollars on attorneys fees when the special counsel is investigating something that never happened. there was no collusion. there was no conspiracy between the russia and the trump campaign. but there is clear evidence of wrongdoing between hunter biden, the former vice president biden -- >> will the gentleman yield? >> i will not. >> and the ukraine and the corporation burisma. so the idea that there was a smear going on, lets look at the facts. i will yield to my friend...

Ive seen a lots of people talking about all this scouting, she was highly touted. she was. myself, i was one of them. joe biden got in the race relatively late and when he got in the race it looked like he wasnt going to get in. the biggest thing that changed for kamala harris to right now is that joe biden got in the race and took up a big part of what i think would have been the supporters that she would have had in his absence. >> i agree. i agree. i think theres a couple of things at play an...

Presidents as well. no matter what the president says, we see action there on the steps behind you. its not going to be immediate. right? no matter where this goes. >> well, one of the questions we have been trying to get a handle on is how quickly could the white house begin to use these funds? there are funds in the pipeline that are budgeted from fiscal 2017/2018 that could be used for some of the initial steps. but this is a long-term process. and i would expect that just from the plit -- th...

Senate. with republicans, thats likely not the case. >> good point. phil mud, buzzfeed reports they have other witnesses, e-mails, texts, documents that corroborate what michael cohen is saying. in muellers sentencing memo, as far as michael cohen, mueller writes this. cohen provided relevant and useful information concerning his contacts with persons connected to the white house during the 2017/2018 time period. and thenned ed adds, cohen des preparing and circulating his response to the congre...

Quote, concerning certain matters core to its investigation that he obtained by virtue of his regular contact with company executives during the campaign as well as, quote, relevant and useful information concerning his contacts with persons connected to the white house during the 2017/2018 time period. that brings it up to this year. and describe the circumstances of preparing and circulating his response to the congressional inquiries while continuing to accept responsibility for the false sta...

Provided useful information, quote, concerning certain matter s core to its investigation that he obtained by virtue of his regular contact with company executives during the campaign as well as, quote, relevant and useful information concerning his contacts with persons connected to the white house during the 2017/2018 time period. that brings it up to this year. and describe the circumstances of preparing and circulating his response to the congressional inquiries while continuing to accept re...

Communications with people within the trump administration and trying to convey these messages to them. what was it about? that certainly raises a lot of questions. >> now in all of these documents we have multiple times in which cohen describes contacts with administration officials in 2017/2018. the special counsel is saying paul manafort, you lied about your contacts with administration officials. so what this does, despite donald trumps tweet and hes cleared, and of course hes not, but is it...

Continuing to accept responsibility for the false statements contained within it. so that -- there seem to be making clear that cohen didnt just do this unilaterally, lying to congress. he did it in conjunction with others. and also, there are also other clues sprinkled throughout these documents about the president and how it might relate to him talking about how muellers team is interested in the contact cohen had with the white house during the 2017/2018 time period. and so that would suggest...

Cohen described the circumstances of preparing and circulating his response to the congressional inquiries while continuing to set responsibility for those false statements contained. we know the obstruction of justice charge is being pursued and pursued it looks like rather aggressively. and theres a lot more russia contact. >> it also makes that don junior trump tower meeting and statements to create some sort of false narrative there to seem a little small ball because this is actually very s...

Quite frustrate would the situation and now taking extreme measures to try to reassure the american people that there are people within the administration who are trying to counter what donald trump is doing. >> admiral, there have been reports that military leaders have been ignoring some of the presidents more outrageous orders and while i celebrate that in 2017/2018 that we didnt make an effort. civilians controlling the military. what dangerous precedents set here? >> dysfunction ality in a ...