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Guy: but the allegation is explosive. its someone in the inner sanctum of trump world for a long time saying one of the major assertions made by the president about that trump tower meetle is false and would be a capital l lie if michael cohen is telling the truth. howie: would it be a lie that would be much more important, you could call it attempted collusion more so than his relationship with the woman? guy: definitely. howie: sara, are we headed for the kind of story the media loves, michael...

His client to the hilt. i dont think rudy believes that the tapes are doctored. i dont think he -- but you can expect him to do the very sort of, you know, upper style rudy, the big character because its newsworthy. it keeps the base of trumps support, you know, gives them a sort of model to go after, a talking point to follow. and so the fact that hes going to play that role and hes going to play it with all this sort of big over the top assertions and stuff, its just important to remember, lik...

Powers to protect americans, but the fbi is abusing its power and deriving people of their civil liberties. carter page was spied on for more than a year by the obama administration based on the assertions in the steele dossier that the fbi never bothered to verify. mark penn was an advisor to bill clinton and joins us tonight. i have been instruct -- shocked by the reaction to this. a naval officer. never charged with anything and spied on for a year. the normal chorus of civil libertarians are...

The fbi is abusing its power and deriving people of their civil liberties. carter page was spied on for more than a year by the obama administration based on the assertions in the steele dossier that the fbi never bothered to verify. mark penn was an advisor to bill clinton and joins us tonight. i have been instruct -- shocked by the reaction to this. a naval officer. never charged with anything and spied on for a year. the normal chorus of civil libertarians are silent. why? >> i find its incre...

Instances of the fbi abusing its power and depriving citizens of their civil liberties. we have an obligation to speak out against that. the most recent case is that of carter page who was labeled a foreign agent and despite on for more than a year by the obama administration based on the assertions in the steele dossier. assertions which the fbi never bothered to verify. what truly make up this? mark penn was an advisor to bill clinton he joins us tonight, thank you for coming o on. ive been st...

Those public assertions thats bad for the president. its also bad for the president politically and potentially legally if he as a candidate for federal office knowingly accepted this offer of help from a foreign government to try to hurt his -- to try to hurt his opponent. so the facts of this look bad for the president. but youre saying logically, it might make sense that the presidents side has actually leaked this specifically so they can do that on their own time for their own purposes and ...

Comes out of it and what steps are going to be taken moving forward, andrea. >> kristen welker, thanks so much. thanks to all of you, michael schmidt, mimi rocah. california congress mman joins . youre a former prosecutor. don junior testified and, strangely, cited attorney/client privilege to shield conversations with his father, a privilege that does not exist. does congress need to hear from him again now if these michael cohen assertions can be backed up? >> well, we certainly do. we ought t...

Had an ax to grind against donald trump? yeah. but how is it emphasized? how is it presented? page 14 you bring up this person who did this thing might have something against candidate number one donald trump and it was christopher steele. >> right. i think that when you are getting information about this, and the same way in a criminal investigation if you are ininvestigating the mob, the kind of people that are going to give you information are probably not boy scouts. they are probably crimin...

Putin/trump summit theyre ready to get to work with the u.s. military on the new plan that was just agreed to by the russian president and the american president on the issue of syria. now, russia, of course, supports the syrian dictator. were supposedly against him. now since the summit, the russian military keeps saying that theres some new agreement about our military and the russian military now being on the same side in syria. and they keep saying theyre eager to get to work with our milita...

Cant even get that right. griff: that says that so our viewers some of them maybe just waking up is suggesting that they verified as accurate and factual the dossier for which we know has so many holes and that is source number one. >> right. what theyre saying is the assertions were making to the court we verify. now, just to explain how this works. lets say forget about fisa and intelligence. lets say its a drug case and i want a warrant because i think theyre selling or making heroin packages...