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Come out of the thing we were talking about at the top of the show has been these on the record assertions of trump appointees that, yes, even all the people trump appointed who have looked at this now say did purpose, to heurt hillary clinton, to help donald trump. that now for the first time is fully laid into the record. so to have someone like that at dhs seeming to be ignorant about that or seeming to be playing politics around it or seeming to be more concerned with covering her rear end i...

Of the mueller investigation. >> in the trade, as i understand it, there is a huge gulf of difference between someone who is an informant and someone who is a mole. we have guests standing by to help us flesh that out. how does this appear to differ from this charge were hearing from giuliani, perhaps led or abetted by the president, that this was a spy effort greater in national significance than watergate? >> at this point mayor giuliani and president trump, with their assertions, they are fun...

Information to the federal government. a longtime intelligence source that has now been used as part of the mueller investigation. >> in the trade, as i understand it, there is a huge gulf of difference between someone who is an informant and someone who is a mole. we have guests standing by to help us flesh that out. how does this appear to differ from this charge were hearing from giuliani, perhaps led or abetted by the president, that this was a spy effort greater in national significance tha...

Making assertions like this if by the admission of his own attorney they dont even know if it is fact. >> i dont know whether it is fact. i think we should get to the bottom of it. >> congressman, im asking you, should the president, your party, republican, should he be making assertions like this, not based in knowledge of the fact? >> i dont know what the facts are. and i hope we get to the bottom of it. >> does it concern you that the president is making assertions without knowledge of the fa...

I would also put on the table the fact that he put a path to citizenship on the table for the daca kids farther than any other elected republican has gone. i think if you want to talk about immigration, we can talk about that in the broader sense. this is about ms-13. >> i think that was bad faith. lets put that aside. this was an interesting case. theres the idea about the criminalization. theyre au gang members, gang affiliated. the specific question of the slayer riff was shes frustrated she ...

Theres the idea about the criminalization. theyre au gang members, gang affiliat affiliated. the specific question of the slayer riff was shes frustrated she cannot deem someone ms-13. she says i know quote theyre ms-13. lots of things people know arent true. this is a federal judge, a bush appointee smacking down i.c.e. in court because they tried to deport a daca kid who they said was gang affiliated who was not. despite providing no evidence specific to mr. ramirez to the immigration court in...

Everybody, even my enemies, have said "there is no collusion." >> thats been the line from day one, john meacham. historically, presidents have resisted investigation, whether its nixon, whether its clinton. what is different about the way that this president has dismissed this investigation from the start? >> well, no ones been as relentless i think its safe to say. has made such frequent assertions of his innocent as president trump has. were in a fascinating stress test here. about the rule o...

Confident they will and i pressed him, i fed is this turns out to be false, these assertions, your career is over, youre done, you wont be serving your client well, this will be a catastrophe and he said he understood that which gave me the sense he had access to or had seen something or told something he had a high degree of confidence that it would be verified and that it was quickly by the "new york times" and other news outlets so he has the same questions we all have which is there are two ...

Crisis which impacted russia particularly hard -- he questioned vladimir putins statements and his efforts to make russia the new financial capital of the world, to make the ruble the next world currency. and conversations that he had with the u.s. state department at the time in the baes in russia he really questioned russias leadership, what was going on, where thing were going. we predicted that for some of the economic issues in russia that the oligarchs would get a blame for it. but he real...

These banking details, its very surprising to see them becoming public. these are details that prosecutors would subpoena. i have not seen this sort of information be public domain before. there are a lot of questions in my mind about where does this information come from, is it accurate, what conclusions can we reach? like watergate, this is follow the money. >> on that issue of where this information is coming from, we have seen initially from "the wall street journal" and from some other news...