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Between the russian government and individuals associated with the campaign of president donald j. trump. those are allegations of collusion. >> right. >> yeah. i think what we are seeing is weve seen a lot of the presidents defenders sort of say the mueller investigation has nothing to do with collusion, it is all of these process crimes at the periphery, people who have nothing to do with the president himself, nothing to do with sort of the collusion issue, aspects. we have seen both in the r...

Are appropriate. so i dont think theres much appetite for increasing that much beyond the billion and a half level. id be surprised if that were the case. and again, the issue isnt border security. the issue is, this wall. and most people think thats just not a good use of money, time, effort or political capital. >> fair enough. before i let you go, house democrats about to get subpoena power, adam schiff over at the intelligence committee. new-found power to look into money laundering, other i...

>> so if russia is using wikileaks as what he calls a nonstate hostile intelligence service, and then wikileaks is making information available to individuals with ties to the trump campaign, is that what theyre looking for now? is that some sort of collusion, you think, that mueller and his team are looking at? >> to the extent assange was acting as a tool of a hostile foreign intelligence agency, he may well have committed crimes. look, the collusion issue is far from resolved. if you look at ...

Specifically with regards to collusion, the collusion issue, and thats what dana says this pertains, to the narrow scope of just addressing that weve heard rudy giuliani and all of his spokespeople come out and focus on the conclusion aspect of this investigation. the president as recently as a few days ago brought this up again unprompted with regards to collusion, so i think jeffrey is right. if the focus is on one issue with the answer submitted as opposed to the president sitting down, remem...

Gingrich because we ran against the extreme partisanship. today, everybody seems extremely partisan. the democrats were cruising in, they now look just as partisan as the republicans. neil: but im looking at it in the presidential context mark and very very closely thats where i think it could give an edge to someone whose far far far left. >> well thats because of the caucuses that really should be eliminated in favor of primaries , that give activists such an edge. i think the democratic prima...

Developments in mr. cohens plea agreement will not preclude him from an appearance before our committee as needed for ongoing investigation. >> john heilemann, not surprisingly, theyd like to hear from him again. >> not surprisingly at all. and look, i mean, theres obviously going to be a lot of focus now, there already has been a lot on michael cohen. i do think its important, were seeing this reporting coming out, maggie haberman, you cited the tweet earlier where she says the white house is n...

Least in one of the earlier snippets i heard mr. cohens lawyer said he would testify without any promise of immunity. i think its most important that he testifies in front of us and its also important that he talks to mr. mueller. clearly thats where most of the final action about the collusion issue will be decided. >> let me ask you about this supreme court question. is this just a convenient talking point for democrats? oh, look, michael cohen. lets -- now lets try this to stop brett kavanaug...

Trying to discredit the deep state, now trying to discredit john brennan. all these people who relate to the thing the president likes to talk-b which is the collusion issue, the russia story. again, we all think thats a legitimate story but theyve spent a lot of political energy on that. what they have not spent political energy on because its really almost impossible for the president to do this, is to try to discredit michael cohen. what are you going to say? these are not -- hes not bogeyman...

Moo mueller and his team face to face? >> i think hes using the media as a focus group. knowing the court of public opinion will ultimately influence the impeachment process, if there is one. i think its in his best interest to speak with his attorneys president, which would not happen if he were subpoenaed. you want that harness and potential muz. around him and a script in front of him to answer questions that would not be allowed to be there if he had a grand jury. its in his interest whether...

To be hard to avoid any kind of question involving the collusion issue when the president is basically saying they knew what they were doing when they went into that trump tower meeting. >> you have focused a lot on the subpoena, specter of a subpoena here, as all of this continues. and youve talked to a number of legal experts, i know, who have weighed in on this, told you with some surprise. its curious to them that robert mueller hasnt pursued a subpoena yet. help me understand their thinking...