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What were learning about the country, there are so many checks and balances inside the system that when you do a system check, you get an inspector general involved, it looks like the system is by and large working the way someone like fiona hill would work inside the system. >> the inspector generals report due out on monday believed to say that the start of the russia investigation was legally sound. anthony, multiple government officials testified there is no evidence that ukraine tried to me...

That i backed this traitor who disavowed the american constitution, i just dont want to be known for that. i think her game theory of what is about to happen is going to eventually unfold, he will leave office. he will either resign from office or say hes not running for reelection. the mayor, im good friends with him, i wish the mayor well, they can do that, they can do the what-about-ism, which the soviet union did for many years trying to keep the soviet union together. but its coming down. y...

Minute, i dont want to be known forever in my familys legacy, that i backed this traitor who disavowed the american constitution, i just dont want to be known for that. i think her game theory of what is about to happen is going to eventually unfold, he will leave office. he will either resign from office or say hes not running for reelection. the mayor, im good friends with him, i wish the mayor well, they can do that, they can do the what-about-ism, which the soviet union did for many years tr...

Country, that theres so many checks and balances inside the system that when you do a system check and you get an inspector general involved, it looks like the system is working the way someone like fiona hill would work inside the system. >> the inspector generals report due out on monday believed to say that the start of the russia investigation was legally sound. anthony, multiple government officials testified there is no evidence that ukraine tried to meddle in the 2016 election, no evidenc...

But that becomes news because republicans dont speak the truth any more about what happened in 2016. why? >> its shocking to me. i know -- thats somebody just repeats the basic facts about national security, that becomes news, is a shocking moment in the year 2019. you know, i think its why its to distract, its called what about-ism, a clatic putin tactic. you know we have the facts here, so lets talk about something else. but its deeply disturbing to me, nicole. because we can debate national s...

Aboutism and the false equivalency isnt going to work. were not going to let him do it. what we saw, for example, over the weekend. we saw a headline pop that when rudy giuliani was in ukraine trying to fabricate, create this dirt on joe biden, he was also almost simultaneously trying to make a buck off ukranian gas contracts. who was surprised by that? i know were shocked to learn there is gambling going to in this establishment. so look, we are not going to let them turn the conversation away ...

What about-ism, to not answer the question but to point to something else, from the cold war, the russians would say, but you lynched black people, when we say you dont have freedom in your country. so part of the reason there are no guardrails is donald trump himself is the disinformationist in chief. the promulgator of false narratives like no one else. what that does is give s permission to people to do that. once upon a time, the presidents words were golden, and basically now its open seaso...

That doesnt seem to cause anyone to take any pause, to say, maybe we shouldnt be doing all of this or maybe we ought to -- >> no, charlie, it seems to -- >> this is all incredibly tribal. >> not only that, it seems to -- look, ive noticed in the conversation i had with a few republican, you know, they said, whoa, whoa, whoa, im not here to defend rudy giuliani. then they go on and theyre not defending the presidents behavior. they said, well, what about adam schiff, what about the democrats -- t...

Where you have these conspiracy theories that, at one time, were in the corner of the fever swamp. i mean, might have been on some websites, but i think most -- even most talk show hosts probably would have dealt with them with a lot of caution. but now you have the president, who is feeding directly and he puts that into the bloodstream and once he says something, then you have the obligation of the rest of the conservative media to say, well, maybe theres something to it or go back to the what...

Weve been long-time friends. as a lawyer, forget your political views, do you see a potential crime there? >> i think if were going to investigate president trump over evidence that it looks increasingly flimsy to me, the only fair thing we can do in our society is look at the facts of the biden case. i think a fair-minded person would reach that conclusion and thats how i see it. >> sean: emily, youre a lawyer. >> to add two other things to the analysis, to tell you the circumstances and also t...