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Especially the young women who put their faith in me. nothing has made me prouder than to be your champion. >> martha: hillary clinton long presented her as a champion and defender of women building two presidential campaigns around that premise. a bombshell report from the "new york times" details an incident in which clinton refuseed to fire a senior advisor despite of learning of disturbing cam paints of sexual harassment. in womens a top advisor to mrs. clinton is here on why clinton hasnt a...

>> bill: more coming up on that clearly. >> sandra: all right. as we await a decision on that surveillance memo a speedy exit for the f.b.i.s second in command. what was behind his sudden departure? >> bill: also this ambitious idea to -- you wont believe who is teaming up to try to make a better plan on healthcare. >> sandra: a bombshell report hillary clinton helped protect a senior advisor accused of sexually harassing a female subordinate. >> will we hear from this young woman? >> we were in...

Constituency on the republican party. they are in lock-step with president trump on this issue. we know for sure it has been quite controversial and others disagree with that. at tend of the day, all the intensity surrounding this, everybodys point would suggest we are nearing the completion of this investigation. and as a result of that, youre seeing republicans and democrats start to amplify their rhetoric around it in the name of transparency, but at the end of the day, its all about finally ...

Over the late summer, early fall when there was speculation that the president could be thinking about firing the special counsel. but it died down because not only the president, but his aides, his lawyers insisted he was not considering firing robert mueller. it wasnt even on the table. and we now know with this bombshell "new york times" report that the president not only made the decision to fire robert mueller but order the white house counsel to do so and only backtracked because the couns...

Going as far to say it wasnt on the table. we know this bombshell report confirmed by cnn that is not the case and the president actually considering firing mueller and thats why the talks are starting back up on capitol hill. the leading democrat on the senate intelligence committee which is conducting its own investigation into this russia probe and he had to say this about making sure that bob mueller cannot be fired by the president. >> if the president had gone through with this or tries to...

Preparing for his first state of the union address but will he be over-shadowed by the steve win scandal, his possible upcoming interview with robert mueller and a fight over daca. this will be obviously a key speech for the president, but there are many ways it could be derailed, right? >> certainly. this is his first formal state of the union address here on tuesday night. in that speech, we expect the president to not only tout the successes of his first year in office, but also to go over wh...

New fallout today from the bombshell report that president trump tried to fire robert mueller last june. but backed down after his legal counsel threatened to quit if he went through with it joining me now, msnbc analyst katie thane. this news of the president trying to fire spoecial counsel robert mueller. is it hard evidence of obstruction of justice? >> muellers investigation and its focus has always been whether there was collusion with russia and whether there has been obstruction of justic...

The fact that he was concerned about the mueller probe means hes probably consuming a lot of media. hes following the story and of course, is suggestible. that said, one thing that i noticed from reporting out my story yesterday about how tom tillis, a powerful senate republican has taken a step back from trying to shield mueller from president trump, is that even despite the fact that this report came out, many republicans on capitol hill still dont think its likely or even particularly possibl...

Indicates that what he was really trying to do was get at the investigation, and it wasnt for all these other pretextual reasons. >> what was not in the published pre text of why he fired comey was on camera and in an interview with lester holt is where he said it. >> it does not immunize you for prosecution for that charge. if you endeavor to do that, that can carry as much weight as the overall accomplishment like he did with comey if it turns out that was for obstruction. everybody stand by...

Sides. and ultimately, you talk common ground. what was your takeaway from the conversation? >> you know, both of those people were born in charlottesville. we think about these cities, theyre a sound bite, oh, the president handled this badly, lets move on. people are born there, they live there, they die there. these conflicts have generational roots and we got to that. and at the end, believe it or not, even though they didnt change their position, there was not just some tears, there was som...