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Book "rethinking u.s. election law." katie, the presidents lawyer, rudy giuliani, is also making these assertions about the texts here so when it comes to the basis, what evidence are they basing their claims on? >> rudy giuliani is probably the most consistently inconsistent person you can have as a trump surrogate. because at this time, hes now saying, look, these text messages, does donald trump really know, do they have value, i mean, if donald trump is now the threshold determination of whe...

Not expect the judge and you get understandably upset. this was his chance, if he wanted to change his plea, to do it. he did it and he was not making the assertions in good faith. the judge then accepting the guilty plea and saying you sold out your country and this is a very serious crime. i think beyond michael flynn should worry everything else in the cross hairs of this investigation. >> i wonder, michael zeldin, we heard shimon reporting that this is a judge who has a dim view of misconduc...

President. now the white house is in democratic hands and in addition to the 17 investigations that you showed, there are going to be subpoenas starting to land. there are going to be witnesses starting to be interviewed. these dubious assertions of privilege are going to be explored, and i think exploded. and a whole new amount of public information is going to come pouring out through the legislative branch. >> there is a story today about nancy pelosi successfully reining her caucus in, persu...

>> i think what you want to do in these circumstances is proceed firmly, but cautiously enough that youre not out way with your mouth ahead of the evidence because you dont want to be caught with your mouth way out ahead of your evidence. you want to take your time. you want to be patient and smart and thorough about building your case. and you probably want to hold a few things back if you possibly can so that when you deliver them, they really come as punches and not just a lot of speculation....

These bogus assertions of executive privilege, good luck defending that. >> all right. senator sheldon whitehouse, thanks for taking time tonight. >> good to be with you. >> coming up, what we learned from newly released senate reports about russian efforts to suppress african-american vote turnout. and how the russian strategy lined up uncannily well with the trump strategy, in two minutes. so this christmas, take care of the hands that take care of you. thats me in back in 1987,

Looking into this in any kind of sincere way. they were just blocking for the president. now the white house is in democratic hands and in addition to the 17 investigations that you showed, there are going to be subpoenas starting to land. there are going to be witnesses starting to be interviewed. these dubious assertions of privilege are going to be explored, and i think exploded. and a whole new amount of public information is going to come pouring out through the legislative branch. >> there...

Kremlin. guiliani seeming to say the answer was given in response to muellers written questions, making the comments in an interview with abc news. but guiliani also seemed to assert that nothing matters. claiming that none of these issues are crimes. not the hush money payments to alleged romantic partners. not any potential heads up from wikileaks about hillary clinton e-mails they were about to reveal. not any questions of conspiracy between the trump team and the russian government. all of i...

And now i want to talk a little bit about all of the fast-moving developments from special counsel robert mueller. we have seen 12 days of shocking revelations just since thanksgiving. the very latest, an unusual rupture emerging now between mueller and his star witness, michael flynn. the presidents first national security adviser, who lied about discussing sanctions with a high profile russian ambassador close to putin of the special counsels office ripping a suggestion that flynn lied to the ...

Conditioning funds and putting mandates into appropriations bills, yes. >> i want to ask you about some of the things that have happened within the past week. its been almost every day theres been an almost unimaginable new reveal in terms of the scandals that are attending this president and the legal trouble that he and his administration and maybe even some of his business associates may be in. today maria butina pled guilty to being -- to conspiracy to act as an agent of the russian governme...

Assertions in her case is about the nra. there have been questions raise ed ed as to whether or not the nra illegally cooperated in spendin theres a question whether they might have been used as a funnel for foreign money into the campaign in 2016. butina also describes a meeting she brought florida officials to moskow, had them meet with russian officials and after their visit butina sent russian government officials in russian translated to saying we should let them express their gratitude now...