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Make the case that was a partisan move on obamas part we know now. >> giancarlo and then christiana. >> all these arguments held water if we hadnt unearthed the tape of joe biden. it wasnt theoretical. >> it didnt happen. >> an outrage. >> interesting. >> christiana, christina. >> this republican amnesia, we didnt get to a hearing because republicans wouldnt have a conversation with him. they wouldnt invite merrick garland to theirice to sit down and say, y, how is it going? so we didnt even hav...

Watch how this story unfolds this morning. i think you will be a bit surprised. brian: in what way? >> i think you will be surprised because the first and most important thing is the president wants to be totally transparent with the american people. so when people start asking questions about how the story came about, the first thing you do is pick up the "new york times" and they are talking about wiretapping and then everybody has amnesia all of the sudden these arent stories that we came up ...

>> ive got to use tic-tacs in case i start kissing her. you know, im automatically attracted to beautiful -- i just start kissing them, its like a magnet. you just kiss. and when youre a star they let you do it. you can do anything. >> whatever you want. >> grab them by the [ bleep ]. you can do anything. joining me now, brittany cooper, assistant professor of womens and gender studies author of the forthcoming book "race, women, gender and the making of the black intellectual." so i want to t...

You can do anything. joining me now, brittany cooper, assistant professor of womens and gender studies author of the forthcoming book "race, women, gender and the making of the black intellectual." so i want to talk about that clip. the reason was this. we were debating whether to play it because at one level it feels so gratuitous, theres something uncomfortable about it. >> you think? >> theres a degree to which theres a kind of collective willful amnesia that that happened and that that man...

Two things? one, that nobody pays attention and that, two, the country has a collective case of amnesia. >> the senators pay attention. >> but they dont even know how much this cost. this hasnt even -- >> no. they are trying to pass this without scoring it! >> thats what i mean. >> they want to get this out of the ways and means committee on wednesday and get up it in the senate by easter -- >> listen. and here is, mika, we are asking -- >> the felon. >> we are asking what is the impact of all o...

Justice. anybody that suggests that the attorney general should resign for justice department incapable of handling a full inquiry, were three weeks into his tenure, seems overblown. richard, he maintains he didnt lie to congress. do you think he perjured himself or are democrats overplaying their hands as president said? >> what he said wasnt true. he said he had no contacts with the russians. he didnt qualify it saying no contacts about the campaign. he said he didnt have contacts with the rus...

Communications with the russians. and im unable to comment. >> very well. attorney sessions should resign. >> honest and correct as i understood it at the time. >> cases of amnesia, it appears. >> i would like the judiciary committee to explain this testimony for the record. >> sessions meeting happened in september. it was an active month. >> you should know. >> he has to be brought back to the judiciary committee and provide an explanation. >> people are choosing to play partisan politics. the...

Conduct befitting attorney general of the united states and im very worried about that. >> brian stick with us, do you think because democrats releasing statements, stepping up the microphone, saying that jeff sessions needs to resign, do you think theyre overplaying their hand? >> i think justified in at least suggesting needs to be perjury investigation here. the facts are attorney general jeff sessions raised right hand, swore an oath and made a statement that was demonstrably false as richar...

The ultimate conclusion. were in the initial phase of the investigation, what was the influence of russia, if any, what was the involvement of key campaign staffers and surrogates? when you have people who have a little mischievous and misleading it raises an eyebrow. when you have a question and they have amnesia and they cant recall. and then you say you have an oath, perjury has a consequence. then they have a great memory. that leads to further suspicion. we need to make sure that the invest...

And confront it and confront it with our allies, western democracy is in very, very serious trouble. so weve got to stop bickering about this and stop making republican versus democrat issue and we also have to be truthful and the attorney general, senator sessions answering those questions, when he makes a statement that he did not have contact with the russians, he should know better. that statement was not true and that does not help us combat russian submersion if we cant be truthful with ea...