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Border that america has. so its really a manufactured crisis. the president did, of course, back off calling this a national emergency wisely. but the fact that the government, its made it actually ironically even harder to come one a resolution to shut, to reopen the government. so just tremendously disturbing way to start the new year, for the president to begin his third year in office. >> right. and he hasnt showed very much empathy for the federal workers, who are hurting right now. i want ...

Just with dreamers but illegal aliens undocumented immigrants, however, you want to call them that is now a potential voting constituency for them in the future. and the democrats used to say for example we want to pass the citizenship, i think they have abandoned that. theyre just people to come many, and theyre not particularly upset it be. lets change topics for just a moment and talk about this explosive report that buzz feed news put out on thursday. saying that president trump had told mic...

People. let them get paid. let them go back to work. dont hold them hostage as he admitted on vipe. he said its my shutdown. the >> lets go to this buzz feed article. its pretty explosive here. what do you make of the article and the mueller team taking this extraordinary step to refute what was said in the article? >> you know, my faith and confidence is in mueller. hes a professional prosecutor. i was a prosecutor at one point. i believe that one of the things that could be taking place, hes c...

Hes got to dot every "i" and cross every "t." >> wrrd to the talk of impeachment several democrats saw the buzz feed article, warmed up immediately to justification for beginning those discussions if not ongoing discussions towards impeachment. but if this buzz feed article is proven to be false, where does that put the discussion? >> well, i think that in every statement that i heard, the democrats have said "if the buzz feed story is true." so we got to find out that if it is true. if it is tr...

Presidents culpability here in what would be a crime. in his interview with chris cuomo and his subsequent tweets on the subject he said theres no involvement with collusion on russians in the e-mail hack. the only possible crime, so within the last 48 hours you have two things happening. the only possible crime is if basically president trump personally hacked the dnc e-mails, and you have buzz feed saying the president committed a crime by suborning perjury. >> yeah. and you see rudy really ma...

This story says unconfirmed by cnn that bob mueller has multiple witnesses on this and the white house going to an old favorite of zeroing in on cohen. >> you hit the nail on the head. his is one of the situations where the president has tweeted this morning the press office has weighed in and so far the responses have been around the edges of the story and not a denial of the core allegations in the buzz feed article. the president tweeted this morning going after his old lawyer michael cohen. ...

Word. we are learning from this buzzfeed article that robert mueller has other witnesses and documents and texts and emails to reportedly back this up that the president directed cohen to lie. brooke? >> he has the receipts as folks have been saying. thank you so much. lets analyze all of it. paul callahan is with us, mj lee is here. david gergen, former presidential adviser to fnixon, ford. if true how damning is this? >> if true and thats still a big if, no other news organization other than b...

There are a number of federal statutes that may apply if its established that donald trump directed michael cohen to lie to congress. we already know that lie to congress by michael cohen was the crime of false statements. thats what he pleaded guilty to. >> we talked about this before, danny, this isnt just michael cohen saying it. according to this buzzfeed article they have corroborating evidence. the special counsels office wouldnt just take michael cohens word for them? >> never. michael co...

>> bill: moments ago here is kevin spacey arriving in the island of nantucket. he is charged with an allegation that goes back about three years about groping a minor on the island of nantucket. he has just arrived a moment ago to return and face the judge. well watch this. jackie heinrich and others are bringing us the latest whats happening there. >> sandra: a lot of cameras and media on the island to get a glimpse of him. he stayed out of the public high since 2017. there was a buzz feed arti...

The russian deal, the president -- he misled the american people -- >> but he wasnt under oath. >> doesnt matter. the article one was not about nixon being under oath. article one was about nixon misleading the country. what is the right thing for our country in terms of impeachment? the other is criminal. he was misleading the country, number one. number two, if its true about the buzz feed article, that they offered a $50 million bribe to putin, hello, foreign corrupt practices act. it can be ...