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Axios, jonathan swan is here, and former democratic congresswoman donna edwards, now a contributing columnist for "the washington post" joins us. mike schmidt, lets start with you, i believe you have the fist reporting and some of it may have been cited in this indictment today about communications between roger stone and the campaign. talk about how todays indictment furthers our understanding of what those communications and contacts look like? >> the interesting thing about the indictment is ...

Congressional campaigns, there are layers of staff between what happens on a day-to-day basis and the candidate and the trump campaign was completely the opposite of that. not even just of presidential campaigns. and this is where trump gets into trouble, because theres no way he can continue to distance himself from the decisions that were made with respect to whatever went on with russia. >> its a good point about how the campaign ran. you think about how he micro managed every utterance. if h...

Senior trump officials and maybe the candidate himself. >> one of the weird things that hand to the gop in 2016, there were a lot of weefrd things but one of the weirdest things was to see julian assange booked regularly on fox news. to see people like shawn hannity, who followed pre-trump normal god traditions of being tougher on russia, to see in this indictment today how completely knitted up julian assanges wikileaks was with the gop nominees candidacy was remarkable. is there any one of the...

The incidents, pla the flash po you cited a couple weeks ago, his wikileaks might be viewed with the same skepticism? >> it was the statements on the campaign trail that first caught the fbis attention. the fbi knew russia was trying to meddle in the election. they knew there had been outreach. they were looking at certain members of the campaign. and here you have the president, who was embracing a foreign policy position that was in complete opposite of where his party traditionally stood. and...

As everyone knows, i have a very powerful alternative, but i didnt want to use it at this time. >> the bill to officially reopen the government at least temporarily could hit the presidents desk any time now. we will bring you any updates as soon as we get them. but we start with the big news out of the mueller investigation today. donald trumps longest serving political adviser, roger stone, charged with seven counts, including obstruction of justice, making false statements to congress and the...

Politics an i think break out in january especially if the democrats take a beating." what these documents do is remind us of the media and the government during a time of war. the government wants to play down the negative. governments lie at times of war. they are not truthful. these documents show what flesh on a lot of the things this administration does not want to talk about. we need a full debate and i think these documents give us the entryway into that. >> we need to have john kerry wit...