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His base. >> maybe its a good strategy on his part. before we continue, i want to pay a part of his interview. this is on fox business. he was asked about russian meddling in 2016. watch this. >> do you think in some ways vladimir putin is kind of getting what he wanted? it almost didnt matter to the russians who won. but it certainly mattered in that they wanted to create this division. its harder -- >> the answer is yes because our justice department and fbi played right into the hands with a ...

Pin if they technically violate a law. they want to prove they did it purposefully and knowingly. if donald trump could stop tweeting, stop writing letters on air force one and stop attacking mueller, he would be in a much better position to say, hey, i wasnt involved in collusion. if he believes this investigation is wrong because he wasnt involved in collusion, his actions could be deemed appropriate. i my omarosa damaged him politically, but helped him legally. >> can you explain that? im hav...

Pardon, but paul manafort who was just convicted on 8 charges yesterday around the same time cohen was pleading guilty, his situation could be a different story. trump tweeting about manafort this morning, praising him for not breaking. if trump pardons manafort, b ambassador eisen, is that obstruction of justice? >> here at brookings, we published the second edition of obstruction of justice report. we explain in there as we go through the incredible amount of substantial evidence of obstructio...

President of collusion, obstruction of justice and even treason. >> at some point democrats have to pick a story and stick to it. >> some critics have to get their narrative right. either donald trump is obstructing justice or he isnt. the narrative is donald trump obstructed justice, refusing to meet with special counsel and attacking mueller, obstruction of the investigation and found out the president about his white house counsel to spend 30 hours with mueller. he waved executive privilege a...

Does have some stuff stashed away for a rainy day and to keep the drum beat going and to keep book sales up and to keep torturing the president, who she says, whether she believes it or not, i dont know, she says treated her unkindly. and $180,000 for a campaign operative would be a lot of money. it would not be unheard of based on my experience. so its not a massive sum of money. i mean, i think some of the senior trump people make a lot more than that. so it doesnt sound like its outlandish an...

I think he just chokes a lot. [laughter] oh, my god! ed: someone who always brings it, no matter what, is mike huckabee, former governor of arkansas. you never choke under pressure, governor. >> boy, i hope i dont today. pete, im so disappointed in you. this is not like you, pete, you can do better. pete: i know, i know. ed: we wanted to talk about the news, and weve got some tweets from the president where this weekend with as you can tell hes still frustrated with the mueller investigation, an...

Introduced a resolution of impeachment against rod rosenstein. that failed. they were doing that to take the pressure to not be criticizing bob mueller directly to try to discredit the special council investigation. that effort failed, and now we see the president going directly after the special council. >> i think that is important, there are two audiences. his biggest supporters that will make it a bullet point for a sean hannity monologue about why you cant trust mueller and rosenstein, but ...

To that. mueller, because he cant respond, thats why you see the numbers go down. the president is ratcheting it up, going from a witch hunt to a bob mueller-rigged witch hunt. he is being more direct in his attacks. >> you couldnt see my friend john, but when he said, a bob mueller-rigged witch hunt, went like this. it was a few months ago the president started naming bob mueller and now directly attacking mueller and doing it more and more. >> the president focuses on branding and creating ear...

His whole presidency, whether its in terms of policy or politics has been about mobilizing and satisfying his base and thats what -- and thats what hes done with regard to mueller and attacking mueller publicly and attacking the fbi are means to that end. >> in this case, i dont see him satisfying his base as much as leading his base to a helpful conclusion. you can limit the political fallout from what a negative finding from mueller would mean in political terms and potentially if mueller does...

Back to what joe is saying, the inappropriateness of the vice president saying its time to tend investigation. if you were vice president of the united states and the justice department is investigating someone or a set of people and some people have been indicted or pled guilty you say "im not commenting on an ongoing investigation." period. thats what you say. its utterly inappropriate for pence to say this and its part of a strategy to be -- to keep building the pressure and legitimizing the ...