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Really interesting in here, the ukraine conspiracy theories the president has been putting out there, we heard them somewhere before. john avalon has been through the document that has a reality check. >> thats right. look, journalism is in part the art of holding power to account. thats what we saw this weekend with lease of this massive cache of documents from the mueller investigation which cnn and buzzfeed obtained through foias. team trump might defy subpoenas like its no big deal but could...

Media coverage. he often says almost every day, were getting f ing killed, so for a guy who really values his perception in the media, he is pretty negative and down trodden when he watches television and reads the papers, and he is probably still reading "the new york times" and "washington post," even though they made a big huff and puff about canceling subscriptions. >> daniel in dc, thank you, we will talk to you in a little bit. and a big shot out to our buddy danny cevallos here. >> glad t...

Investigations of several prominent figures of the probe. according to the summary of one of the interview, et deputy campaign chairman rick gates told investigators manafort quote speculated about ukraines responsibility as they sought to gain access to stolen democratic emails that wikileaks had in 2016. the unsupported theory, well, it was advanced by president trump even after he took office and served as a catalyst for the ongoing impeachment inquiry consuming the white house. according to ...

And democrats are saying well were going to release it so you can see it for yourselves. when they start moving to public phase of the impeachment inquiry, theyre going to be very careful who who they select, what questions they ask. its going to be a lot of sort of staged planning to make sure they are able to pull some of the most damaging information about the president. >> were going to talk to you again in just a little bit. and hundreds of pages of documents from robert muellers special co...

Assange told mr. stone that within a couple of days there would be a massive dump of e-mails that would damage hillary clintons campaign. >> this week were going to get into those conflicting stories. prosecutors do have to prove way more than just that stone was deceitful along the line. they have to prove he knowingly deceived congress or knowingly tampered with witnesses. the whole obstruction case grew out of the mueller probe. tonight, many are still trying to make sense of these brand new ...

From clearing russia from meddling in the 2016 election. some mueller explored at length. these documents which we have because of a freedom of information lawsuit filed i think by buzz feed are amazing. and the fact that they connect back to the ukraine obsession and i remember theres some reporting from four or five weeks back that they found donald trumps mind to have been poisoned about ukraine. well, it was poisoned by hisddn agencies agreed happened on ukraine. its crazy. if you really eng...

Strategies, to try to unmask or reveal the identity of the whistle-blower. democrats say thats an extremely dangerous path, they fear for the whistle-blowers safety. republicans feel there was some political motivation behind the whistle-blower bringing this complaint to the public and triggering really what has been this massive impeachment process. so i think were going to hear more in the days and weeks ahead about the whistle-blower from republicans and from the president himself. turning ...

Inquiry. and it is all thanks to some newly released documents from robert muellers investigation. the documents were released by the justice department. they give a revealing look into trumps 2016 campaign and his former campaign manager paul manafort. here with me now to break it all down is "new york times" justice department reporter, and what do these documents tell us about the history between president trump and ukraine? >> i think that one of the most striking things to come out of this ...

Election, whether he was going to bring his office to bear on the 2020 election. thats what democrats will focus on. has he used executive power, has he used his office to pressure a foreign power with foreign aid to help him by rooting out scandals on a political rival. >> jason leopold of buzzfeed did this. you have 500 plus pages of documents. perhaps there are more to come. what do you take away from them as you skim through them? you look at paul manafort with rega regard to erik prince, qk...

Ukraine to cooperate, that is something president trump talked about just last night. >> i would love to have him come to the white house if he would like to come. and i think he would like to come. i think he would be here rather quickly. >> what we have read from buzzfeed and the "washington post" as well, what you have reported on capitol hill over the last few weeks. talk a bit about this. the formative nature of president trumps attitude toward ukraine, what we have learned here the last 24...