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People that are working for him -- >> i have a funny feeling youre act to drop a bomb. >> shepard: much of the attack on mueller was compiled by christopher steele that the administration has asserted what began the russian investigation. it was not. the russia investigation began after the former trump policy adviser, george papadopoulos told an australian diplomat that the russians had dirt on his then political opponent, hillary clinton. that information was passed on to intelligence official...

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American citizens, we do not stand by those assertions that the russian government makes. >> and now that former u.s. ambassador to russia michael mcfaul is tweeting even during the stall lynn era, the soviet government never had the and yous today it i to try to arrest u.s. government officials. think about that. joining me now, susan glasser. you have been working around the clock. thank you for being with me this morning. >> thanks for having me. >> how stunning is it that the white house is ...

Good evening, im chuck taught here in washington. welcome to "mtp daily." if its thursday, the president is making assertions that to some come across as conspiratorial and at times a bit orwellian. were learning that some of the most important people whose jobs are to act as a guardrail against the presidents behavior or instincts are leaving, giving up, rationalizing it or being ousted. that is a recipe for bad things getting worse. the president today all but said reject the evidence of your ...

Finally to the presidents critics, the jailing of his former campaign manager paul manafort was more evidence of the conspiracy and collusion with russia and to president trump it was a tough sentence. what about comey and crooked hillary? very unfair, he tweets. well, some of the presidents assertions this week are debatable, others are flatout false. first of all the ig report did not exonerate it. the focus was on the hillary clinton e-mail investigation and not the mueller probe and though d...

Paul ryan today did say he didnt think it was the houses job to be part of this inquiry. but mark meadows, a longtime trump ally, said, yes, it should be. there has not been a sea change yet. certainly my a.p. colleague in montana tonight spoke to a few people in the crowd there at the trump rally. no one there seemed to care about this op-ed. that wasnt what was on their mind. obviously these are trump supporters, but if they viewed it at all, the suggestion was it was just another effort to tr...

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Leveled sanctions on the russian president and his allies for human rights abuses including the death of investment fund c, o bill browders young lawyer in a moscow prison. in mondays news conference, putin accused browder of funneling stolen money to hillary clintons campaign, an allegation that browder denies and which state department spokesman heather nowart flatly rejected. >> i cant answer on behalf of the white house with regard to that, but i can tell you the overall assertions coming ou...

Conclusion that a lot of things he said yesterday about not being involved in our elections, hes a liar. >> feels like the dam is breaking. i was real glad to see people on both sides of the aisle condemning what happened strongly. >> i remain astonished that the president would choose to believe the assertions of president putin over the anonymous conclusions of his own u.s. intelligence and the bipartisan conclusions of the intelligence committee. >> despite the tough talk, theres been no plan...

Mueller has and because of that, we dont know when he would deploy it necessarily what youre talking about is absolutely true. if this was sitting someplace for a while, what does he have and when will he use it? >> lisa: we dont know when its going to be up to the judge if the assertions that mueller is making if they are indeed true or not. i think its important t point out that still has nothing to do with russian collusion for the campaign and it has more to do seemingly about mueller trying...