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He has a good idea about what mueller and company have about the president, if he can release that as opposed to the government coming down like an anvil all at once, it will be more palatable to the public and less shocking when it comes out. >> martha: there is the effort to lower the expectations, we heard about this, we know about this, its out there in the bloodstream a little bit. >> that means rudy takes the hits in the interim and he is taking them. >> martha: quote from the new yorker, ...

Here in washington. guess what? the next crisis is likely going to be bigger, longer, and im possible to control. the presidents long time lawyer and fixer has agreed to temperature publicly. democrats are going to have to draez kashlly with this one. while he admitted to lying about some matters, were going to talk to a top democrat in just a few minutes to find out the scope, what can they talk to him about and what cant that. but speaking of muellers report, cullins testimony will be a amtize...

Deeper than even we know right now. >> i think part of it is he could entangle his family, the kids. and i think it is that entanglement that hes trying to protect more than anything. >> and the interesting thing about moats. you can always find a way to cross them. >> shutdown versus mueller. the rest of the white house staff, what do they -- theyve always tried to create this space for themselves when it comes to mueller. i think they like the shutdown fight because tarks lous them to avoid th...

Involved in something that he should have known was illegal and did get himself into trouble. what it says, not only about his conduct but about this administration, and why the president has been so intent on heaping praise on him but not on someone else who has so-called flipped, but someone who is cooperating with federal investigators, that being michael cohen. and so the fact that he has cooperated so extensively with the government, i think it was ken delanian who said we still dont know t...

So i think all of this is an indication, joe, that he is in full-blown panic mode. the twitter tsunami indicates he knows something else is coming down the pick. an anvil is about to drop, not a shoe. >> mika, we saw this a few weeks ago before the other shoe dropped in the cohen case, we saw him go on tirades saying mueller or the southern district of new york must be preparing something else. i think here though with every organization hes ever run as the "washington post" said seemingly under...

Corbin. so its not that the parties are divided and thats why were stuck. weve got strategy on the part of both main leaders. and the center party question or the new party question actually doesnt come into this. because the problem is a more fundamental one. and the divisions that zanny has referred to in british society are in part about the -- you refer to as the open/close question, which is sometimes reduced to an immigration question. but i think its more fundamental than that. since the ...

>> michael cohens two campaign finance felonies were directed by a person named as individual one. that person is donald trump that means that donald trump also committed two felonies. >> you have campaign finance and -- we are beginning to see not just a shoe is going to drop its going to be anvil. >> the white house will have little choice where this is going other than to start impeachment proceedings. >> jonathan can never quite push glasses up. brian: claimup.james days in office numbered. ...

Their duty to bring that and let the senate vote as the senate votes. >> i dont see how the house democrats resist it. >> as political matter, its just too tempting and the base wants it. >> the base may punish them if they dont. >> consider jerrold nadler who was on the judiciary committee in 1998 who said, yeah, clinton may have lied under oath and perjured himself but these were lies about covering up sex. those while technically impeachable do not rise to the gravity of the level of impeachm...

This as they threaten on capitol hill, a shutdown for the border wall. here is from new orleans, louisiana, jeff, appreciate you being here on a weekend. start with this, does immigration, even after the midterms, remain a useful anvil for the president and his supporters? >> yes. leland, it is issue number one because it was 2016 election that everyone was talking about building the wall, and the president got elected on that issue. weve been waiting, leland. its been several years and nothing ...

Displaced, but theyre still serving the community. so they have this anvil of worry on their back. like i said, while their own fam wills are suffering and they have been displaced because their own homes have been destroyed, we have counseling that we try to help them get through these things, because its a long-term cumulative trauma. theyre responding to fires when their own lives are at risk. hydrants are going dry. their lives are being jeopardized yet. theyre worried about their loved ones...