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Like dictatorships in countries unlike the democracy in which we live. >> right. but it is not the first time we have heard president trump sound like a wanna-be dictator. hes done it all the time. the question really is whether this is a serious threat, whether he seriously is thinking about or even jeff sessions would be thinking about some sort of criminal investigation of an op-ed. its ridiculous on its face. whether he wants to attempt this or its just donald trump bluster of the kind that ...

Attention over the last five to six months, i think, would conclude that were not going anywhere until justice is served. and until this president and michael cohen are held accountable for what happened. >> i also want to get your take, michael, on the latest back and forth between rudy giuliani and special counsel mueller on the matter of submitting written questions posed by mueller. what does that suggest to you? >> it suggests to me, that donald trump, despite all of his bluster and big tal...

A run for the president. was it a stunt? >> the amusing thing about that is what cornyn first said, he threatened me with expulsion. he was doing that because last night i broke the senate rules by reading from that e-mail. and then today throughout the entire day, this is not just about one e-mail, ive already released over 20 committee confidential documents in violation of what they say are the senate rules in which cornyn said i should be expelled for. so according to cornyns rules, its a lo...

>> yes, people have suspected that the presidents impulses were smoum being exampled down or attempted to be by the people around him, and yes his bluster did not always match, but the op-ed says theyre working on a separate track from what they say they want to do, so what is happening this morning? >> you can look at it like that, but some people say why not present new information. many of us felt like we knew that. people that work here, that are associates of the trump white house, no one i...

Would break senate rules to kavanaugh and said you were willing to risk expulsion to do that and now the republicans said the documents had been >> the amusing thing about that is what cornyn first said, he threatened me with expulsioexpu. he was doing that because last night i broke the senate rules by reading from that e-mail. and then today throughout the entire day, this is not just about one e-mail, ive already released over 20 committee confidential documents in violation of what they say ...

Fundamentally wrong. what do the republicans want to hide, what dont they want the democrats to see, what dont they want american to see about kavanaugh? >> laura: this is what anderson cooper tonight asked cory booker about this whole thing on spartacus, when the emails were released and cleared earlier in the day. lets watch. >> was that just a stunt? >> the amazing thing about that is, he threatened me first with expulsion. so theres a lot of bluster but i was raised and taught that with unju...

Hide, what dont they want the democrats to see, what dont they want america to see about kavanaugh? >> laura: this is what anderson cooper tonight asked cory booker about this whole thing on spartacus, when the emails were released and cleared earlier in the day. lets watch. >> was that just a stunt? >> i mean, the amusing thing about that is that he threatened me first with expulsion. so theres a lot of bluster but i was raised and taught that with unjust law you have an obligation to stand aga...

Mueller investigation, but the presidents legal team is trying to, by bluster, at least buy some time, hopefully cause mueller to back off. the president uses this is one of his key tools. were see shortly this morning the president taped an interview last night in montana where he says that what the "new york times" did in printing than anonymous op-ed, he said, virtually its treason. an astonishing word for the president of the united states to use against the countrys worlds leading newspaper...

>> when trump sued me for libel for a book i wrote i was at "the new york times." they deposed me for two days. his lawyers took out a list of every trump insider and said have you spoken to them, interviewed them, going through the list. >> he was trying to figure out who -- >> who my anonymous sources were. once i realized they were on a fishing expedition i said i am not going to answer these questions. the lawyers said you are under oath and required to. i said i am still not going to answer...

Violating that, sir. i violate it because i sincerely believe the public deserves to know this nominees record. in this particular case, his record on issues of race and the law. i could not understand -- i violated this rule knowingly -- why these issues should be withheld from the public. i appreciate the comments of my colleagues. this is about the closest i will probably have to an i am sparticus moment. there are serious charges made against me by my colleague from texas. i dont know if the...