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Julia ioffe, "the atlantic," it seems there were a lot of attempts at back channels to russia in the time between election day and the inauguration. >> absolutely. and thats not surprising, right? russia had a terrible -- the kremlin had a terrible relationship with the outgoing obama administration. relations were at rock bottom. you have a guy that was elected with your help that you totally did not expect to get elected. hes now elected. after talking about how he wants to respect russia, how...

Holliman, white house staff, we have this conversation, and its the same conversation all the time, what can they do, cant do anything. ive also asked around this table on countless occasions does anyone resign? the answer is always no. do you think these things are cumulative or do you think its like that tv show where everyone has amnesia and they wake up every morning and the offenses are fresh and new they all grow numb to it. >> i wish i could remember who made the point in a cold eyed way ...

The tax policy had a look and said it will add $1 billion or more down the road. is that a loss? is he one of the two? >> i wouldnt be surprised if some of these folks including corker suddenly had amnesia about their deficit hawk past. you have seen it where so many republican members are just saying it doesnt matter anymore. we will see. i think its going to be -- i think it will be hard for republicans to say no to the tax bill at any cost. >> i asked senator corker about this and senator lan...

Different than what he held bill clinton to when he tried to throw bill clinton out of office because of perjury as alleged by house republicans during the preceding impeachment proceeding. >> isnt the standard clear for everybody? if you come before the committee and testify on the hill just like if you were being interviewed by the fbi, the standard is you have to tell the truth and there are penalties. >> absolutely. he should be held accountable and its not within the jurisdiction of the com...

Right? the whole idea of legitimacy. >> oh, yeah and she cant stop talking about the election herself. so if this makes her feel better to go out there and say this is not a legitimate election, i think most democrats want to move on from that although they want to focus on the russia investigation. but to go back to mueller and whats going on there, we saw the fbi subpoenas to officials who were cooperating and that also signifies that they are worried about the selective amnesia that were seei...

Youve got to look at the russians as much as you are looking at the trump people and seeing what kind of puppet strings they were pulling. >> do you want to weigh in? >> yeah, you know one thing that josh was talking about was, you know, for example how unbelievable these i dont recalls are. and i think as a lawyer, you know, if jared kushner for example is charged with something else, if hes done some other crime, you know, all of these i dont recalls, all of these inconsistent statements will ...

An in-depth conversation about anything nefarious or illegal or anything about collusion. but in fact, again, the self-inflicted wounds. he in fact did have a selected amnesia regarding his meetings. only later on did he come back to talk about the fact that he recalled even a suggestion that trump should meet putin when the media reported it. and so its not really time to gloat or try to be dismissive or try to be satirical about the fact that he remains, frankly, a lame duck attorney general b...

Involving wikileaks. you would think that his memory would be jogged. as opposed to having to continue to drip drip. a lot of this is self-inflicted wounds, the idea of only handing over that which is requested by you. this is an operation and a counterintelligence probe that is widening and widening its scope and its scrutiny largely based on the actions of the people that its investigating. because there seems to be this impression that if you drip drip drip and youre not entirely forthcoming,...

These inconsistent statements will be used against him if he takes the witness stand. and thats where, you know, for any of these people who are involved in the trump campaign, thats the real potential downside for them, you know, in this -- with all of these i dont recalls and all of these back and forths. it really can hurt your credibility in front of a jury. a jury is not going to buy anything you have to say as people in the same selective amnesia. the other question, and thats the more tri...

Of defending jared kushner, all of the sudden we start hearing about mike flynn again. and what the lawyers are saying are sort of saying well you have to get to mike flynn. so once again, mike flynn who no one quite knows what hes doing right now, is he talking, is he defending himself? mike flynn becomes yet a character again in this russia investigation. so this story is just another piece of i dont remember, i dont remember talking to the russians and then low and behold, theres lots of russ...