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Gets back to the whole collusion issue. the argument has been raised that when donald junior met with a lawyer who was connected to the kremlin, that it was simply oppo research, any kpaent would have taken this meeting if that operative or any foreign national is being paid or using money to influence the u.s. election, if a u.s. national meets with that individual in the course of events, its collusion and a criminal act, not merely research. >> it would get complicated legally. youre right. t...

Really go in there and press putin on this. hes an adversary. hes not our ally. his behavior during the election was abominable. our own spnlg agencies have come to the conclusion he meddled for donald trump. president trump doesnt want to press too hard on that because he was the sole benefactor of the meddling. hes been reluctant to trust his own intelligence community. apart from russias interference in the election, meddling in democracy, theres the collusion issue, the mike flynn issue, t...

He struggled with sort of an inability to do more because he didnt want to be seen as political. what do you make of this presidents reluctance to even say the words "russia meddled in our election and im going to make sure it never happens again"? >> well, nicolle, i think the president is awol on this issue. and its shocking in a number of respects. one of them is there are two aspects to this investigation. one is the whole collusion issue. we dont really know what happened there. well find o...

About russian interference. weve got jeff sessions who said he was never briefed about russia hacking. way now have everything that his predecessor struggled with, an inability to do more because he didnt want to be seen as political. what do you make of this presidents reluctance to even say the words "russia meddled in our election and im going to make sure it never happens again"? >> nicolle, i think the president is awol on this issue. its shocking in a number of respects. one of them is, th...

Political. what do you make of this presidents reluctance to even say the words "russia meddled in our election and im going to make sure it never happens again"? >> nicolle, i think the president is awol on this issue. its shocking in a number of respects. one of them is, there are two aspects to this investigation. one is the whole collusion issue. we dont really know what happened there. well find out as a result of these investigations. the other is the issue of russia actually having interf...

Seems to be contradicting the president? >> it is very significant for two simple reasons. the first is does richard burr want to use a lot of his time, probably a majority of his time right now to be looking into a republican president to see if hes done any wrongdoing. he doesnt necessarily want to do it. but obviously he feels compelled he has to do it because that is his job. secondly, it is up to a member of his own party. can you imagine if he was able to uncover collusion on behalf ofasso...

Nut job and that he got rid of him because of the these are not the actions of an individual that is cooperating with our investigation. were going to do this and take as much time as it takes to find the truth. >> so just to be clear, when it comes to the collusion issue specifically, senator, in your view, this is still very much an open area of investigation? >> this is, in a sense, the heart of the investigation. the first part of the investigation was validating the fact that the russians i...

>> meghan: saying everything that loretta lynch does get infected, do you think that it is possible that the democrats are finally turning on her? >> trish: realizing that they cannot continue the narrative. they have been working on it for a year, before president trump was elected, they were talking about the collusion issue, russia, whether there were ties. none has panned out. but what has serviced is that loretta lynch, completely justified way back when when she was having the meeting with...

Mueller, has his number. donald trump created the situation hes in now because even if there could be no evidence found of collusion with russia, firing jim comey cooked -- baked this in. this is going to be donald trumps reality for the foreseeable future. robert mueller is a formidable opponent, but so is jim comey. firing him was a huge mistake, and hes going to have to live with it. >> tim, will he live with it? will he not fire -- try to fire the special prosecutor? will he live with what h...

Donald trump created the situation hes in now because even if there could be no evidence found of collusion with russia, firing jim comey cooked -- baked this in. this is going to be donald trumps reality for the foreseeable future. robert mueller is a formidable opponent, but so is jim comey. firing him was a huge mistake, and hes going to have to live with it. >> tim, will he live with it? will he not fire -- try to fire the special prosecutor? will he live with what he now has? >> weve been d...