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Company that went out of business last year after the federal trade commission accused it of scamming customers out of tens of millions of dollars. now world patent marketing is the subject of a criminal investigation by the fbi, which, of course, falls under the authority of the u.s. attorney general. the "journal" cites a victim of the scam who was contacted by the fbi and other people familiar with the matter. elliott is back with me and also joining us is elliott williams and paul butler who...

Robert muellers office, the new york state attorney general office, the new york state tax office, thats is something that trump should be concerned about because of the big story in the the "new york times" that pointed to a lot of sort of questionable at best practices that the trump organization has been involved in. if anyone should have information about anything that trump might have done in his past that is questionable or wrong, that would be michael cohen. at this point in time hes maki...

>> so, ken starr, can a president be indicted and if the answer is yes, why are so many people calling this a question they cant answer? >> well, i think a president can be indicted, but that is not the position of the justice department traditionally going back to the nixon/ford era and continuing through president clintons tenure. and the authoritative within the justice department view as set forth within an office of legal counsel opinion during the clinton administration in the year 2000. s...

I think what democrats are debating right now is what their strategy is going forward. you have people in the party who want to take a really aggressive approach on this question of impeachment and essentially run on that. what you are seeing democratic leaders do is try to thread the needle a little bit, be a little more indirect in talk about trying to tamp down a culture of corruption that trump has fostered in washington, try to make this a question of checks and balances. thats an argument ...

Should select the leaders of our party. republicans are spending tens of millions of dollars against me because theyre afraid of me. now i believe none of us is indispensable but i think im the best person for the job. >> sir, do you think nancy pelosi should be the next leader of the democratic party or speaker of the house? >> i agree with one thing with leader pelosi is that we need to first win. ive been on both sides of this issue. ive been with nancy when i first got to congress and i vote...

View, that argument? >> quite a bit. first of all, its never been clear what they meant. its been a slogan like fake news or drain the swamp by perjury trap. just yesterday giuliani made clear what he meant, including in this interview. he said, look, there are questions like, why did you fire comey? that is not a perjury trap question. thats a straightforward question that we need to know. thats exactly the sort of thing that a prosecutor would be asking. the things hes posing as paradigms are ...

First of all, its never been clear what they meant. its been a slogan like fake news or drain the swamp by perjury trap. just yesterday giuliani made clear what he meant, including in this interview. he said, look, there are questions like, why did you fire comey? that is not a perjury trap question. thats a straightforward question that we need to know. thats exactly the sort of thing that a prosecutor would be asking. the things hes posing as paradigms are exactly the down the middle questions...

Anything, would be some kind of gotcha exercise where the president is caught unawares. you cant be caught unawares by a question of why did you fire comey? and we dont know the answer to that because hes given seven or eight different ones. >> he seemed a little caught unaware when lester holt asked it. >> is that, in fact, the standard of record? he since has backed off from that. the one thing that isnt is a perjury trap. that is a legitimate question for investigation. now hes scared of the ...

Donald trump a question. >> if you would be elected as president what would be your foreign politics especially in relationships with my country and do you want to continue the politics of sanctions that are damaging both economies? >> reporter: the us government allegations are overblown and insists she is not a russian agent and also interesting to note vladimir putin told chris wallace never interfered in the internal affairs in the united states but in 2016, in an email representative of vla...

Lobbying to advanced russian interests. under the direction of the influential russian targeted by u.s. sanctions, butina spent the last three years trying to develop relationships with u.s. politicians in order to establish back channel lines of communication. according to the affidavit, these lines could be used by the russian federation to penetrate u.s. national decision-making apparatus to advance the agenda of the russian federation. butina is a whole funder of the russian gun rights group...