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Of whether russia has some type of leverage over trump. can they come to him and say, look, you know, we have this thing. we would like you to do "x" unless, whatever. essentially its a blackmail issue. >> but he wasnt running for president in 2013. >> correct, but he was president in january of 2017. >> yeah. >> to michaels point, when you see in these memos how this bothered him and to the point you were making earlier. so if this is something that really bothered him that he wanted cleared up...

So all of it rings with such clarity and such truth and the minute detail is rather remarkable. whats also interesting is trump didnt deny it today. he came up with this cock and bull story it exonerated him. if he was lying comey, he would have denied. apparently hes conceding what he wrote down is true. >> michael, tell me if you had to explain to an editor why this matters. why does the two women sex workers and what allegedly happened in the room with him which is obviously a focus of people...

In a president down the road. >> why did they think ralph nor northam was successful, they were two prosecutors, that goes to -- its not stormy daniels, but its the morass of trump. >> the fact that its not that big of a story is in fact evidence of how low the expectations are for donald trump. imagine it was barack obama. the bar is so low. on the one hand you say its so easy for him to get over the bar because the bar is so low. but over time, it makes people say, he isnt fit. if he cant even...

Spousal abuse. that is an enormous for obvious reasons red flag during a background check. today as you heard raj shah, he he repeatedly laid off responsibility for this in effect on the security clearance process. in fact, we went through the transcript and we counted 25 times that he said or referenced the security clearance process here. the way the process works, though, in fact, is while the fbi does therecommendation. applies that information to the white house and its up to tt white house...

Is the blackmail issue. and its maybe easier to understand in a different context. just imagine if the head of the fbi, for instance, had had an affair, was trying to keep it out of the public eye, was subject to blackmail, we would all think that thats a problem. its the same problem when youve got either a presidential candidate or the president of the united states. and then the risk that this is not the only incident that hes blackmailable on. theres more, really has to call into question th...

Say, by the way, if the russians try to contact you, record the conversations and well make sure that the russians pay a price for that. but there was no way that flynn was ever subject to blackmail as long as the united states government and sally flynn herself knew that this information was a lie. you just tell them that and the blackmail is over. >> i dont think you can discount, alan, the fact he was interviewed by the fbi. i dont know what he said by the fbi. by that time he had been interv...

Benghazi. petraeus was set to testify. needless to say now he is not. top director acting head of the cia. many are saying he still has to testify here, including ambassador bolted ton through the our network said this is -- there is no way around it that he has to testify. >> you would think he would. >> if they ask him to, even though he is an ordinary citizen now, he would still be required to. >> goes back to that thing about, you just cant have affairs. you know because of the blackmail iss...

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