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By michael avenatti about all of this. first, how does this battle go down when all of it can involve the trump organization, the history of the apprentice? before that, i bring in tara dardell, a democratic operative. youve lived many lives. there you are. >> there i am. >> when you look at this and cohens involvement in the trump organization, what do you see as key in this fight. >> whats key for trump is all about the pr, all about the spin, all about the deny, deflect, attack. as far as coh...

Pelosi. they can come over. they can bring whoever they want. but the lawmakers have to sit down, and they have to do something. we were given a lot of bad cards. one of the bad cards, we were given this immigration mess. >> here to talk about what we just heard, robert costa, national political reporter for "the washington post," moderator of washington week on pbs, and jeremy peters, political reporter for "the new york times." gentlemen, welcome to you both. so, jeremy, its kind of pivot, def...

Rulings against the obama administration. they talked about inhumane treatment. i read them. i looked at them. their policies stink. theyre no good. they have no ideas. they have no nothing, the democrats. all they can do is obstruct and stay together and vote against and make it impossible to take care of children and families and to take care of immigration. they have to sit down. ill be certainly -- im willing to do it. ive just told you ill invite senator schumer and nancy pelosi. they can c...

National political reporter for "the washington post," moderator of washington week on pbs, and jeremy peters, political reporter for "the new york times." gentlemen, welcome to you both. so, jeremy, its kind of pivot, deflect, blame, find fault, keep on going. a, tougher to make an argument that the democrats can fix it when thats what you said about the last thing you fixed. and, b, is there an end game here, or is it a game of rolling grievances? >> i think if you look at history, brian, the ...

Was there an attempt to obstruct justice? that is a legitimate area for the president to push back on. >> this is a long list. you have 13 russian nationals charged, three russian entities charged, three trump campaign workers cooperating with the investigation. nina, your rebuttal to the senator? >> now they are underlings. before they were top officials working for the presidents campaign. the fundamental point here is the president, along with all the folks supporting him, are trying to muddy...

And they are throwing it out to the people, reporters to figure out whats next. >> so people like you and your teams can go through it. we appreciate that. joining us now to continue the conversation is the cofounder of the private equity firm elevation partners and the center for humane technology. he is an early and current investor in facebook and early mentor to mark zuckerberg. and a longtime advocate of fixing this problem. roger, anything that came out today that surprised you? >> actuall...

Involved with government so that we can go and make their life in the united states even more chaotic. >> im not sure i understand what hes saying there. what did you hear in that explanation? >> confusion, chaos, but its the old 3d movie we talked about before, distract, deceive, deflect. look, were truly in an orwellian state. it doesnt matter what the president says about this. he has this obsessive need to believe that he is waging a public relations campaign, when in fact what bob mueller i...

And often calls it fake news as we know, but he quoted the "new york times" and left some key things out of his tweet. he said, according to the new york times a russian sold sold phony seek on trump to the u.s. asking price was $10 million brus down to $1 million to be paid over time. i hope people are now seeing and understanding what is going on here. it is all now starting to come out. drain the swamp. he is intentionally trying to paint a different picture here, conspiracy theory here? >> f...

Significant questions about the propriety of this investigation? >> its the president going back to a tried and true tactic when his back is against the law, which is to attack hillary clinton and deflect, deflect, deflect. theres this idea that hes really angry at this investigation with the special counsel but also with this new book coming out and people talking about the fact that he may not be competent to do the job he was elected to do. a lot of things are starting to happen and there are...

Everything they can to try to change the topic and obfuscate, throwing everything they can against the wall and seeing what sticks. meanwhile, as the doj was called on to investigate steele, it was revealed the fbi is once again looking into the clinton foundation, a frequent trump target. "the new york times" points out after the election he, quote, struck a more magnanimous tone and had no interest in pushing for a prosecution. but that has changed, mr. trump has resumed his attack on his favo...