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trump campaign, and the russian government. and whether there was any coordination between the campaign and russias efforts. >> it would later be revealed that trump had demanded loyalty from comey, and repeatedly pressed him to end the investigation into trumps first national security adviser, michael flynn. after he refused to do so, trump fired comey in shocking fashion. in a remarkable oval office meeting the following day, the day after he fired him. trump told russian diplomats t...

we have an entirely different show planned for tonight, but the business -- the former fbi director, james comey and his former deputy, andrew mccabe. both of whom president trump saw as enemies. both of them faced rare, supposedly random, but highly intensive irs audits. you may remember back when then fbi director james comey oversaw the early stages of the investigation into ties between the trump campaign and russia. in the summer of 2016. with questions swirling about those ties, ...

Privileged, saw the executive privilege has some gray areas. but at its core is that senior staff should be able to give candidate advice to the president without becoming public. but i think the comments that mr. cipollone may have given to somebody like cassidy haugens are probably not privileged. >> in previous hearings, the committee has cited several instances in which path cipollone allegedly did raise legal concerns over trumps actions before and during january 6th. i guess its going to b...

>> i say the conversation that he had with him is probably not privileged to begin with. i dont think you have to find an exception. to get communications a may have had with the president. so if he said mister president you should not go to the capitol because here the reasons are why would be illegal, i think that would be privileged. but him just saying to another staffer that he says it might violate every law imaginable, i dont think that that itself is privileged, so the executive privileg...

This impeachment inquiry is about to go public through this televised testimony? >> well, lets unpack what shes saying here. we only have these limited exerts so far. we dont have the full back but what does it mean when she says that these senior officials tried to undermine the president. does it mean they did things, contrary to what the president wanted? ignore orders? she doesnt quite say they did that. in fact, what it seems like is there are disagreements that senior officials disagree wd...

Time for my take now. you know what they say, you only get one shot at a first impression. how does that work for candidates who have already given their first impressions and are coming back for another run? much has been written about mistakes hillary clinton should avoid this time around. some suggest getting down into the trenches to really talk to the people and not taking iowa for granted where the last time around she placed third. so one would tinge a tremendous amount of thought went in...

out. my apologies sir. i am usually much better behaved than that. and editor and publisher of "the nation" and the editor of "the change i believe in." steve is back. political writer for "salon.com. our "starting point" this morning is the national polls and the polls show rick santorum is surging. up by double dinlg jimts. sometimes we say surge and its not really a surge but i think this time its fair to say surge. nine months before the election democrats are going on the attack...