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Ana navarro is here. rob asterino. do you like my new home here? >> fancy new digs. >> lets discuss immigration now. this is central to trumps presidency and now he is trying to sell a plan that not even his -- everyone in his party is buying. so how is this possible? >> well, theres not much of a plan, right? its like a four-page cliff notes or something, missing ginormous -- having great gaps of policy and issues that need to be addressed. i frankly dont get it. i mean, look, there is no doubt...

Wrote nobody coordinated, tacitly or explicitly, with russia. >> and thats obviously an important top-line consideration that mueller reaches here. >> why would it be in this summary? that seems a weird thing to not lead with. >> yeah. and i think that thats part of the question that we all have that were struggling with. im reading everything i can get my hands on, and the problem, much like ari melber said, were seeing a book report. were seeing the cliff notes, rather than seeing muellers act...

Believe that barr distorted the mueller report in his four-page letter today. but i think anyone who has relied on cliff notes in high school tells you there is a big difference between the summary and actual document. so i do think the mueller report needs to come out and the democrats are well-founded in seeking that. when you go to the next layer down, which is the underlying fbi reports and evidence, that may be a bridge too far. im not sure what basis there is. and the farther you go, the m...

Derail these investigations, you can see that this campaign has been going on in secret for quite some time. this is one of the things, of course, mueller is looking at about whether there is actual obstruction of justice. thats what we kind of set out to do with this longpiece. >> we really appreciate you sharing it with us, mark mizzetti, bombshell report. also want to draw attention to your colleagues that did this with you, molly haberman and michael schmidt. drawing my panel back into this....

The ability to do so? >> mr. trump does not have the ability to do so this public dialogue is not useful. however do i think hes competent and should stay? absolutely not. hes a lawyer trying to run the fed off of cliff notes. hes one of my principles of economics students trying to do this with me whispering in his ear. how would you feel about me on the supreme court if i said im going to hire some great lawyers to advise me. really. the thing for powell to do after last week, he really made a...

Pleads and robert mueller indicts 12 intelligence officers and these are just the cliff notes. in all, 100 criminal charges against 32 individuals. dan goldman, i want to start with you. you wrote this piece before the election, talking about the attorney general a moment ago. ill quote from a little of it, trump could still thwart the investigation and avoid significant backlash by stopping just short of firing mueller. instead he could install a new acting attorney general charged with oversee...

Process. we understand for security reasons why there might only be one copy. thats the problem. but again, can people really digest and process this and make their decision by the time they want to kick this into motion this weekend, neil? >> neil: are there cliff notes of it or is it they have the interviews and you read them? it can go into many pages, id assume. >> yeah, theres briefer theres that can ask questions or answer them. senators have to go through this and make their own decision....

One more time. >> the wonderful beauty of uncontrollable male passion. >> of uncontrollable male passion. >> yeah. >> he wrote that. joining us now is washington post reporter author of the article that digs into mark judges background. this is a guy who has spent a good amount of time -- >> again, we have to remember were talking about mark judge, not brett kavanaugh. >> hes a guy who has written a lot about women, and he has expressed what he thinks womens role in society is. whats the cliff n...

Embarrassing wreck of a man." lets bring in our leadoff panel for a tuesday night. ashley parker, pulitzer prize winning reporter for "the washington post." charlie sykes, conservative author and longtime radio host who is contributing editor and podcast host over at the "weekly standard." and frank montoya, who during his time in the bureau played a role in establishing the national cyber investigative joint task force, which gives him a specially germane line into tonights line of question. as...

That scott pruitt got himself into. >> i am trying to any of a single cabinet official that was anything like this investigations. i had a law student mentor put together a memo to outline the violations, and it was 13 pages long. >> these are the cliff notes. let me put up the investigation investigations going on with him. i dont have time to read all of them, but he used first class travel because coach was too dangerous for him. he had 24/7 security detail even though there was no active thr...