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2020 meeting in the Sedition Case against five oath keepers on trial for plotting to block the peaceful transfer of power. This as a sitting republican senator warns Political Violence is escalating. That senator says this. I wouldnt be surprised if a senator or a house member were killed. Up first for us, though, we count the midterm votes five weeks from tonight and there is a Blockbuster Development today in one of the senate races critical, absolutely critical to the Balance Of Power here in...

2020 meeting in the sedition case against five oath keepers on trial for plotting to block the peaceful transfer of power. this as a sitting republican senator warns political violence is escalating. that senator says this. "i wouldnt be surprised if a senator or a house member were killed." up first for us, though, we count the midterm votes five weeks from tonight and there is a blockbuster development today in one of the senate races critical, absolutely critical to the balance of p...

Hallie jackson, thank you. Right now on msnbc, tale of the tapes. Lawmakers from both sides of the aisle call for President Trump to turn over any recordings he may have of his krfrgconversati with ousted fbi director james comey. Plus, recording history. New reports say President Trump has for a long time secretly recorded phone conversations when he was in private business. The reporter who broke the story will tell us what the president s former Associates Say and what it could mean for staff...

Christopher wray and the department of justice. and at the same time, it does not look like what they did at the stone residence in florida is all that different than what has been carried out with lots of other situations with those early morning arrests. hallie? >> kelly odonnell at the white house, thanks. joining me is nbc news reporter ben collins, chuck rosenberg, former u.s. attorney and former chief of staff at the fbi, aisha rasco and shannon pettypiece. chuck, let me start with you. ...

Dont know why were cooperating. he called the investigation the illegitimate child of peter strzok. he had a personal relationship with lisa page. you hear the president often refer to them in an unflattering of the lovers way. this is now giuliani chipping away at even their participation in the most basic bay of providing written answers. so that is taking it to a new level this morning. hallie? >> kelly odonnell at the white house, plenty to share. thanks. ill see you in a little bit. let m...

This category of lawful but awful thats come to define the trump administration. but there are campaign finance connotations to this. if cohen was acting independently, he would have needed to report. if the campaign knew about it, they should have reported it as an uncompensated in kind sort of a service. so whether thats a civil or criminal violation is unclear based on what weve learned this morning. but there could easily be legal consequences. joyce vance, elliott williams, glad to have you...

With something, but theyre definitely shady and definitely certainly within the purview of congress to take a look at. and thats what happens when you get a change in the majority in congress. theyll start investigating the president and his organization. >> aisha? >> you can see a similarity between what giuliani is trying to say about the campaign and what they are saying about michael cohen. its basically this idea that president trump or then candidate trump didnt know what was going on, wha...

Visiting with donald trump. >> so he didnt push a button, he didnt pick up the phone, everything just appeared. >> right. and hes been up front on this through the years. in fact, during the reporting for the book, he told several of my colleagues that he was recording their conversations when they were doing phone interviews with him. >> so aisha, you were talking about the calls now to turn over the tapes, are we looking at a showdown potentially here? >> well, if there are tapes, it seems lik...

Or high profile items or controversial items, well see these time and time again, whether it be health care or the republicans looking into the russian meddling or work in tandem with what is already going on in the senate intelligence committee. incidentally, rod rosenstein was invited by mitch mcconnell to brief all senators in a closed-door session about the progress of the investigation on the fbi side. no date yet set for that. chris? >> mike baquero, thank you for that. lets bring in mark ...