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The campaign trail who are so excited about the future, you have 6 women running for president, i am proud of this moment, so many people across america are showing their bravery of day. they are speaking out, speaking up, fighting back. marching. and that is what inspires me, what allows me to fight harderrer every day, the young families, parents, kids who want a better life, a slight of the american dream. >> we have now base ebbly run out of time, we would like to give you chance for a closi...

Charge of, into the investigators. and i think there are reasons that have been given for trying to figurehe origins of this, looking at the conduct of certain people in the fbi. although that has been looked at for some time now. there are at least three investigations into this. but barr already appears to have a verdict -- >> what did you hear there that was his verdict? >> sometimes people convince themselves theyre doing something for the greater good, and that last part -- thats certainly ...

Mark: lin wood, what is your closing statement to the american people about all this came. >> i like the american people to take a view of this from 30000 feet. this was a simple event involving a 16 -year-old boy. no punches were thrown, no blood was shed, there was an encounter and maybe people around with cameras videoing it and the media got it totally wrong. they converted the truth into falsity. they didnt because the full story advanced their agenda and if the media cant get this type

Mark: lin wood, what is your closing statement to the american people about all this came. >> i like the american people to take a view of this from 30000 feet. this was a simple event involving a 16 -year-old boy. no punches were thrown, no blood was shed, there was an encounter and maybe people around with cameras videoing it and the media got it totally wrong. they converted the truth into falsity. they didnt because the full story advanced their agenda and if the media cant get this type

Case. >> ellie, there was one moment that i dont think has gotten enough attention, and i thought it was very sort of notable and it was in his closing -- in michael cohens closing statement where he said what he fears for the country where he said what he -- why hes motivated to speak out and what he most fears. listen to this. >> yeah. >> given my experience working for mr. trump, i fear that if he loses the election in 2020 that there will never be a peaceful transition of power. >> i conside...

He left early because he was just too distracted to be able to do the work. but we shall see. to close out the block i just want to say one more word about congressman alija coming earlier we played his impassioned, closing statement. in a diof acrimony this man presided over the michael cohen hearing with dignity, human and fairness but also with a zeal for oversight and truth. cummings a goals were as obvious as they were good. to find out whether or not he broke the law and to envelope the pe...

To me before. >> his closing statement he said -- >> a peaceful transition of power. >> and i was thinking, boy, i wonder -- i would like him to elaborate. >> me, too. >> he was suggesting there could be, what, violence or he could resist? >> january 20th, you know -- >> if hes not re-elected. >> well see. boy, that was a very striking comment. >> he used a word earlier in his testimony. he used the word autocrat when he was telling the story about how donald trump really believes he could go ou...

The god they pray to and you dont cuddle up to our adversaries at the expense of our allies. finally, you dont shut down the government before christmas and new years just to simply appease your base. this behavior is churlish. it denigrates office of the president and decently un-american. and its not you. so to those who support the president and his rhetoric as i once did, i pray the country doesnt make the same mistakes i have made or pay they have a price my family and i are paying. i thank...

Chairman cummings said it hopes in order to heal america. i thank you all again, have a good day. >> how involved was donald trump junior. how involved was donald trump junior. >> let me go down to kacie hunt there. that was -- that promoted it as if he would be taking questions and that was an in and out pretty quick im guessing they liked elijah cummings closing statement? >> it seems so. i think you could see michael cohen essentially crying where elijah cummings was talking about his experie...

With -- having compassion for a victim, absolutely nothing wrong with it. >> the trick is, what the closing is about tonight, why i came in, is that the idea of how you handle it now matters everybody bit as much as the way it was handled initially. >> amen. >> there is nothing wrong with empathy. it should be the presumption, that as you say, somebody feels it, lets feel with them. but then the facts should be want guide. and the idea now of, well, the police, theyre really way too interested i...