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This guy is someone that is willing to sort of take the heat for the president, and for this president, thats a terrible, terrible idea. we have to remember that he was the head of south command, the southern command of the army, which oversaw guantanamo, and he was in charge with the men in guantanamo were brutalized after a peaceful hunger strike and took no -- had nothing but positive things to say about the horrible way that the men were treated in guantanamo. now hes overseeing one of the l...

Of what they earn. thats not acceptable n. the past we couldnt lower rates on small businesses because you couldnt tell tax code today, cant tell the difference between michael jordan and michael the local plumber. michael the local plumber is paying higher taxes. we propose lower rates for smaller businesses. maria: 35% rate, im going to call myself an llc and maybe i can get the 15 or 20%. >> thats a real concern. we have been working with treasury and tax teams as well. i think we are getting...

Hes popular, hes a tough leader. he wants to work with him. i dont know where the communications director got this thought that the president has given any indication that he wants to make sanctions tougher. so, well see whether he signs the bill. frankly, if he doesnt sign the bill, i think congress will clearly and quickly override his veto. this bill is a result of the congress conviction that the sanctions leveed on the russians and on the iran yans as well as the north koreans are appropria...

Detail how the fbi violated your personal liberties. during the obama years. it starts out. i dont think tv has seen me in glasses before. the fbi violated specific civil liberties. this is where we started together in many ways. >>to thats right. in march, some things were illegal. these documents for the first time show there were instances where the fbi and the nsa sent them across the intelligence community and had to call them back because it was illegal to have those names. theyac searched...

Taking this. he went from no russians to no collusion to now thats politics. and essentially so what. thats why i think it is on congress, especially in the senate if there is an attorney general vacancy to make sure that congress acts as a co-equal branch of government and checks this presidents abuses. >> congressman eric swalwell from house intelligence judiciary committee. thank for joining us. i know its a busy time. well be back. stay with us. heres to the safety first...

We nurse them back to health. we resocialize them. we get them used to being around people. and once their court case is cleared, and we take actual ownership of the animal, we adopt them out to a good home. >> good boy. >> the animals are cared for by inmate workers who have no history of animal abuse. male inmates take care of the horses and other farm animals. >> we get accused of standing around scratching our ass all day here at m.a.s.h. unit. best job on the yard. >> female inmates handle ...

President is afraid of vladimir putin or the information that vladimir putin has. its very obvious that vladimir putin is driving this train and that he is deciding where this is going and its also very obvious the president and his new spokesperson is drinking that cool lakool-aid. its very obvious. >> so robert mueller if the president wanted to dismiss him, could he get away with firing him legally speaking krystal? >> i was thinking a lot about this this morning, i would love to say that rep...

Careening into a constitutional crisis. the senate and the house can both check the abuses of power that were seeing. the senate should not recess or do anything that would allow a recess appointment to take place. they should ensure that whoever would be appointed next, if he does step down, is somebody who is going to allow the russia investigation to proceed unimpeded as weve seen the white house try and obstruct and keep it from moving forward. so we have to now step up as republicans and de...

James comey, which was improper. and so we now cannot trust his word. and so with respect to this report, i will just say as far as anything jeff sessions has said about his contacts with russia, we should be able to corroborate or contradict those statements and review that. but for now, you need your top law enforcement official to be trusted and he simply is not trusted. this is a time for congress to thoughtfully and aggressively put a check on this president. >> so youre saying he should st...

About adoptions, something that president trump referenced as well. the adoptions issue is tied to an act that is a set of sanctions on russian human rights abusers. folks who were involved in murdering a man back in 2009. this is something senators have really championed as part of our long history of standing up to russian abuses of human rights. >> all right. senator, thank you so much for spending time with us. still ahead on "morning joe" -- >> did russia intervene in our election? >> of co...