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Werent in the executive branch, you cant claim executive privilege. and remember, sessions would signal, im going to say it in case the president would like to, almost leaving little bread crumbs on the trail for hansel and gretel to say, we would lake to exert this later on. it belongs to the president of the united states. and of course, you want the president of the united states, don, to be able to confide in his or her advisers and say, i need to have a free and open discussion. but you can...

Nepotism. >> i think this is a hoax, a witch hunt and you will never find out anyway. the last part is a key component. if we dont find this out, we may never know. that is an important consideration. in terms of whats happening with trump, he never opened the books on his businesses, never turned over his taxes. did that contribute to these special questions into special counsel looking at his financial dealings even before the campaign? >> i have a hard time to believe that robert mueller is o...

Claim executive privilege, it usually applied to someone in the executive. so pre-dating the election, they werent in the executive branch, you cant claim executive privilege. and remember, sessions would signal, im going to say it in case the president would like to, almost leaving little bread crumbs on the trail for hansel and gretel to say, we would lake to exert this later on. it belongs to the president of the united states. and of course, you want the president of the united states, don, ...

Department is just now in the final stages of concluding their probe of the clinton email probe and thats expected sometime this spring. it sounds like one of the next big things the i.g. will look into is the potential of mishandling or fisa abuses and carter page. i think its appropriate to look at. we talked a week or two ago on this program about some of the revelations not just in the house intelligence memo but from some senators that suggest that the way that that fisa warrant was obtaine...

>> crashing this plane. >> vladimir putin is not like the dark night rises villain bane. for one reason putins words are way easier to understand than bane. but the question does raise a question both for the interference and for the russian probe. did putin want to be caught? the first man in charge of this whole hunt, before mueller, the man who literally lost his job for following the leads, former fbi director comey, told congress the russian operation was deliberately loud. >> they were unu...

In touch with the white house. as we listen to the president say he supports strengthened background checks. how serious do you think this effort is? is there going to be some type of movement when it comes to background checks do you think? >> i certainly hope so. there are several bills pending in congress related to the background check system. its hard to tell based on statements made by the president what kind of approach he wants to take. i know for us within the gun violence prevention mo...

And it seems that alexander van der zwaan lied about that communication with rick gates. whats interesting here if were reading between the lines, how do they know he lied, what testimony is conflicting? it seems from reporting it could be that rib gates is now telling the truth and this man, alexander van der zwaan, what his testimony is is now sign as false. >> wow. joyce, i didnt even mention that it appears this young man, our dutch lawyer, speaks russian and recorded some of his phone calls...

And it seems that alexander van der zwaan lied about that communication with rick gates. whats interesting here if were reading between the lines, how do they know he lied, what testimony is conflicting? it seems from reporting it could be that rib gates is now telling the truth and this man, alexander van der zwaan, what his testimony is is now sign as false. >> wow. joyce, i didnt even mention that it appears this young man, our dutch lawyer, speaks russian and recorded some of his phone calls...

Whitewashed an incident in which the president of ukraine paul manaforts client jailed one. who was involved in the preparation of the report pled guilty in washington d.c. as the latest court proceedings of the special counsels investigation. joining us is ken vogel who has been on this story from the beginning. mr. vogel, thank you for being here. >> thank you, rachel. >> the through line for me for understanding relationship between this young man charged today and the special counsels invest...

Been on this story from the beginning. mr. vogel, thank you for being here. >> thank you, rachel. >> the through line for me for understanding and the special counsels investigation is that paul manafort was representing the ukrainian president who did the bad thing which was the subject of this report through this law firm. its a sort of winding road you have to follow in order to see how this connects to the initial charge of muellers special counsel investigation. >> yeah. that is the most di...