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I think hes just throwing that out there to say im concerned about progression meddling in by the way they want to elect democrats because of a strong record on russia. if you look at the number of sanctions, not the tweeting order with the claims are, you go down the checklist, access to baking for certain individuals and you go to various people sanction, diplomats that have been kicked out, other sanctions i have a secondary effect on russia, the trump administration has actually done a signi...

Any collusion argument, we dont know if at all. back to cohen. so why are trump folk worried that he might flip? >> well, i mean, theyre putting a lot of pressure on him. first of all, look, michael is, to me, a tragic figure. you know, i was attacked by the president. you and maggie haberman on for this interview. i said to her on the record when anybody else complains to me, im a guy who saw donald trump speaking at cpac in 2011, and i just knew this guy can get elected president. there was so...

Hire, but i wasnt there for long. the majority of it, besides me getting reamed out for theatrics earlier in the week, about roger stone and assange, i talked about this. another two, two and a half campaign.had nothing to do with i dont know what theyre looking into. perhaps mueller just sent t t because they found enough on michael that they view there could be a potential case. i dont kn >> but his movement of the matter to the southern district gives him legitimacy because he didnt keep a ca...

Pushed forward. i would love to see it go to the court system. this is a weakness in our political system that we dont know what the president is or is not allowed to to. i dont think the framers of the constitution thought the president could commit a crime whenever he wants to and then pardon himself. if the special counsel really wants to go about this, he will continue the investigation, he will go for more witnesses. he will go for more indictments and try to flip nor witnesses into the sce...

Should stop him, those are questions i cant answer and i just dont know. i think it would be slightly surprising if he did. you know, just because all this legal risk against him. mike: president trump has not been shy about expressing his frustration, even anger with his own attorney general and some folks at the justice department. do you get a sense the president is eager to see what the doj inspector general has to say and whether it embarrasses some folks at doj and the fbi? >> yeah, i do. ...

Questions i cant answer and i just dont know. i think it would be slightly surprising if he did. you know, just because all this legal risk against him. mike: president trump has not been shy about expressing his frustration, even anger with his own attorney general and some folks at the justice department. do you get a sense the president is eager to see what the doj inspector general has to say and whether it embarrasses some folks at doj and the fbi? >> yeah, i do. i think the white house is ...

Being investigated for that. >> thats correct. >> the optics here are obviously pretty terrible. i mean, again, we dont know if michael cohen did anything illegal. >> right. >> certainly we dont know if anything extended anywhere near the president, but on its face, the optics of this and all of these different funds being jumbled into one pot doesnt look good at all. to the point, tara, you did a very good job of laying this out, but its very confusing. there is no idea where this is going. i t...

Manafort. were learning about robert mueller, his boss in this, of course, rod rosenstein, and their role in the case. also what manafort is trying to do in court. lets go over to evan perez for much more on this. just in court. lay it out for us. what are you learning? >> reporter: i think you can call this the witch-hunt hearing. this is presidents name didnt come up in the hearing but very much his argument that this investigation by robert mueller, special counsel, is a witch-hunt. that was ...

The import of this investigation, what we know happens with special counsels, sol, i think what joe is saying, what youre looking at better have been going right to the president. and it looks to me like you guys are a lot more experience than i am on this. i havent practiced law in a long time but it looks like an investigation in search of a crime that they hoped was committed by the president of the united states or the candidate himself. thats why going to vote we started with, they ran out ...

>> no. and it doesnt -- jake, ive watched your news reports, you know its not true. he talked about it a week before and i dont know why he did this. all he had to say was, yeah, we met with the russians. the russians offered us something, and we thought they had something, and that was it. i dont know why he went around trying to hide. >> so this, to me, is like the trial balloon on the collusion argument that the argument so far has been trump didnt know about the trump tower meeting between d...