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Alright who wants to go again? i do! i do! i have a really good feeling about this. we have breaking news. moments ago the state department released nearly 100 pages of records in response to american oversights lawsuit seeking a range of documents related to the trump administrations dealings with ukraine. you might have heard rachel talking about this on her show. those documents have just been released, and joining us now by phone is austin evers, the executive director of watchdog group am...

Its not the mueller team. i just want to make sure were very clear about that. the agency looking at whether whitaker may have violated rules on federal employees by accepting political contributions to his own senatorial campaign while he was serving in the justice department. so hes serving in the justice department and accepting money, political contributions. laura jarrett is outfront. >> acting attorney general matt whitaker facing new questions tonight about a mysterious trail of campaign ...

Mysterious trail of campaign contributions as cnn has now learned that an independent federal agency is looking into whether he may have violated federal law by accepting campaign money while working at the justice department. at the crux of the issue, $8,800 in donations made to his failed 2014 bid for a u.s. senate seat in iowa. especially since the donations were only made earlier this year, just months after he became chief of staff to then attorney general jeff sessions. thats a problem, sa...

"lock her up" chant, but why she should be any different, why we should not lock her up, ivanka trump. >> i want you both to stay with me. im going to bring in austin evers. director of the watchdog group american oversight. he filed this freedom of information act request that got some of the e-mails and texts out that regarded ivanka and political appointees. what did you think youve achieved thus far with this? how did you think to look for it? we spoke briefly by phone when the news broke la...

>> look at what shes done with e-mails. >> did you ever see a mess like this? >> what are the chances were going to hear that kind of rhetoric today? >> i would say not particularly high. just putting on my prognosticator hat. one thing about this story that is interesting is that it shows the extent to which progress of and liberal outside groups are catching up with the conservative movement, when it comes to broadband a this morning in the side of administrations. unending headaches, austin e...

The account was never transferred or housed at the trump organization. no e-mails were ever deleted, and the e-mails have been retained in the official account in conformity with records preservations laws and rules. clearly they both used a personal e-mail account for a tile. clearly they retained private attorneys to figure out which e-mails should be retained, and both pleaded ignorance about the rules surrounding e-mail use. the watch dog group that helped bring this to light, he is now call...

What happened with ivanka trumps e-mail. and i dont think well see any senate republicans calling about it, but guess what? house democrats have something else now to add to their list of 120 investigations that they wanted to do the past two years that the republicans said no to. >> certainly. david and carol, stay with me on this breaking story. carol, in your piece you quote that there is a watch dog group called american oversight that was part of the effort that even got these e-mails expos...

Your response to the ivanka trump defense that she just didnt know better about any of this? >> i just dont think that holds any water. the idea that you didnt know better given the campaign wed all just come through doesnt pass the smell test. and as of right now, what we know from carols reporting is that the white house hasnt seen all these e-mails because she kept control over them. she allowed her lawyers to review them. im not sure we have the facts right now to conclude that all of the mi...

Scheme to defraud and taking money, though its hard to show that the companies were in any way defrauded if they decided to just throw money at this guy because he said i know trump. the connections to the administration and the public officials are very important. >> no obvious federal law if the companies just wanted to make it rain and throw a lot of money out the window and waste their money. i wonder whether theres a fiduciary duty there. its friday night. im going to keep us moving. you br...

Now, there are also -- statutes for mail and wire fraud which involve a scheme to defraud and take money although its hard to show that the companies were in any way defrauded because they decided to throw money at this guy because he said hey i know trump. the connections to the administration and to the public officials are very important. >> no obviously federal law if the companies wanted to make it rain and throw money out the window and waste their money. i wonder if there is a fiduciary d...