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Yet, as this investigation unfolds and the president continues to fight it, its clear to me, we need the aa-- assurance this will be an individual investigation. >> they say paul manafort met with julian assange in the spring that he joined the campaign. so if thats true, what new questions does that race i raise with manafort and julian assange, theyre denying it? >> i can tell you i dont know about the assertions by the "guardian" newspaper concerning these meetings by manafort with julian ass...

How plausible do you think it is the president was kept in the dark on all of this, assuming all these reports are true in. >> look, based on my sort of being a citizen in the country and watching television, reading the news, studying like everyone elses behavior, how involved he wants to get on these things, it seems have been plausible he wasnt involved in a way. in the same way the denials of the payment of stormy daniels at the outset on behalf of donald trump. a lot of those assertions tur...

Bush, amerimark mcken janan and robinson. chief white house correspondent for the "new york times," peter baker. joe and mika have the morning off. robert muellers office is accusing former trump campaign chairman paul manafort of violating the plea deal he agreed to earlier this year. in a joint status report filed last night muellers team writes this. after signing the plea agreement manafort committed federal crimes by lying to the federal bureau of investigation and to the special counsels o...

Crimes he wasnt convicted of and presented guilty plea at that potential trial. manaforts lawyers dispute the special counsels assertions. >> joining us now, tom winter. all right, heres the thing, tom, how would robert mueller know if paul manafort was lying? >> its a really good question. one of the things it well see here, when you say somebody has lied to a federal investigator, you have to prove they willingless lied. you cant ask me, what did you wear? i said i wore a blue suit. but i had ...

Court filing concerning paul manafort. robert muellers office is accusing manafort of violating the plea deal he agreed to earlier this year. in a joint status report, muellers team says, quote, after signing the plea agreement, manafort committed federal crimes by lying to the fbi and the special counsels office on a variety of subject matters, which constitute breaches of the agreement. but manaforts lawyers are disputing those assertions. in that same filing, his legal team writes, manafort h...

Border are the safest cities in the country. >> thats right. >> knthough some cities on the other side of the border are dangerous. donald trump made it a boiling point and allowing it to get to that place. it certainly doesnt have to be that way. historically, its never been that way. >> yeah, i mean, and i want to get into it. we have a hard time covering his immigration rhetoric because it is so detached from the truth that even repeating his assertions feel like participating in his propagan...

The united states senate or the republican members of the house of representatives, where are their voices in terms of speaking out for their independence against this onslaught of ridiculous assertions by the president that the united states army can shoot civilians at the border, that the ninth circuit and michael -- michael is exactly right, he doesnt know the difference between the ninth circuit and a circuit breaker. where are these voices of the republicans? >> i think youre going to start...

The chief justice weighing in and sort of engaging in the twitter battle so to speak. any time someone pushing back with things like truth and accuracy against these ridiculous assertions made by the president in his tweets. a good thing but i think we could have only seen it would inspire more nonsensical tweets. ive appeared before hundreds of judges in local courts, military courts, civilian courts, as well as trial courts. i have to tell you, i dont know any of their politics by virtue of al...

Asserting really aggressive broad constitutional authority, essentially for the executive branch and the president that doesnt make a whole lot of sense in the democratic order and is bemused in a self-serving way, simply to protect this particular president. but this whole notion even of executive privilege, like i can do things that are obstructing justice, but veil them -- >> right. >> -- in an argument i have the executive privilege to make these decisions like fire james comey for whatever ...

Sense in the democratic order and is bemused in a self-serving way, simply to protect this particular president. but this whole notion even of executive privilege, like i can do things that are obstructing justice, but veil them -- >> right. >> -- in an argument i have the executive privilege to make these decisions like fire james comey for whatever reason i so choose. weve even seen actual conservative lawyers making these arguments in the press. and i think its a real problem for our democrac...