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Minimize your condidnuct or not? >> sarah sanders was asked about this today and she said well leave it up to the court but the activities he wassin ga engaged didnt have anything to do with the president. >> spoke to kislyak during the transition about possibly removing sanctions. this is where you get to have a baghdad bob problem if youre the press secretary because you cant credibly say this has nothing to do with the president. this whole investigation begins with flynn, the president askin...

Allows trump to push on this open door with a lot of his supporters who believe that our institution or law enforcement was compromised was comey, head of the fbi, putting his thumb on the political scale while insisting he was not. he was counting on hillary clinton winning and was trying to shore her up. that was a mistake in his thinking and led to all kinds of bad actions. and i think the president is just trying to explore it. but i think we have to keep our eye on that piece of it. the pre...

Statements, he invites different scrutiny which happens every time he does that, there are new avenues of investigation to pursue, new corroboration that needs to happen. new information has to be uncovered by the investigative team. they are finally recognizing they have shot themselves in the foot for a very lo now begin to as a result. if they were to prolong the inevitable which means he will testify voluntarily or under a subpoena, well, they have some control. not a whole lot of bargaining...

The first place, which you always point out. you picked up how careful giuliani was careful about what would end, the obstruction piece. what matters most to trump would end. >> right. i guess what occurs to me as were talking, theres two circles around trump. the inner circle is the one he created, which is how did he respond to all of this once information became known. and we know what actions we know about, right? we know he fired people like comey. we know all the things he has popped off a...

Our political panel joins me. richard fowler and kevin mccullough from salem media. thank you for talking to us today. richard, are you surprised by comeys caddie comments? >> no, im not surprised by them whatsoever. >> julie: say that five times fast. >> i know. but on top of that, we have a larger problem. democrats and republicans can agree that the intelligence committee has been a wreck. trey gowdy, the chairman of the government oversight said it best. its like an episode of "mean girls." ...

Media, he will not let one thing go. he will get down, my guess if you casualty the press can catch him every day in a situation like that he would tangle and go on about these issues like he did yesterday. the thing about talking about the justice department, thats picking up by an architect made by some folks of accusations of things hes done as president like asking comey in the flynn investigation, as they say as the chief executive as the head of the executive branch, he can do what he want...

Sorry. and the thing thats odd to me is that they have chosen to have a fight with jim comey, a reputational fight. who, ladies and gentlemen of the jury, are you to believe? this witness who has spent his career in government who just testified under oath about all of these things. i think in a very heartfelt way versus the president. i just dont think thats a good place to be legally. >> rebecca, jump on that but also a piece of testimony today, we heard director comey saying with regard to th...

>> stand by, i want to bring? susan hennessey. susan, new york times first reported this. they have a quote from the memo that comey wrote a memo that president asking comey, quote, i hope you can let this go. do you believe that if this is all rak all ra accurate and that it is obstruction of justice and impeachable? >> first there has to be an investigation and the individual needs to know about it. those two features trump clearly knows there is an investigation and clearly it existed. the th...

President trying to deflect an investigation into his campaigns, possible collusion with the russians is just extraordinary. and ive never seen anything like it. the veteran, former congressman john dingle was on twitter last night. he said essentially, and i wish i could quote it directly. but he said donald trumps presidency is beginning the way richard nixons ended. and it would be funny if it werent so frightening. and thats kind of the feeling i have. the only antecedent i can come up is th...