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Were on the air. id like you to drill down. weve come on the air before, and i think of days like the raid on michael cohens offices, like flynn flipping. there have been other points where we thought, this is it. but it does seem like the walls are closing in is the wrong image, but the bricks are sort of breaking the roof, you know, buckle. and you spoke to the collusion question. but there also was a bizarre dissembling going on, on the question of the campaign finance violations which are so...

Threshold is just so high for a lot of these things that they are basically redefining the legal arguments and letting people decide what they want to believe is true. >> and this harry litman is so stunning. theyve done this around obstruction of justice over the summer. they said first, he didnt obstruct justice. then he cant obstruct justice. and then they said he cant be indicted while being president for obstructing justice. thats moved to the heart of the mueller probe, the collusion quest...

Trump. he was never fiercely loyal to donald trump. >> what does it look like? is it certain it might be answers? >> it is not certain. thats what they are talking about now. that was the result of months of negotiation about how he would answer questions, what questions he might answer. that list on the dealt with the collusion question, not the obstruction investigation. he has also said he is not inclined to have trump sit down face to face. it still leaves a question of will there be follow-...

Of business, but it seems like if the mueller probe and based on the interest in corsi and the ongoing interest in stone and the fact there are rumblings out there about jared and junior, that hes focused on witnesses that can speak to the collusion case. is manafort still useful on the collusion question? >> manafort could be very useful. hes sort of like forrest gump. he pops up in a lot of different times and places. pops up in ukraine. pops up with different people that are interesting to mu...

Would say extremely embarrassing. when the president of the united states asks you to serve, you almost always serve. this is a huge mhonor. i think its a sign of just how unpopular trumps white house is, and how extraordinary it is. hes not a normal president. >> im wondering who the interim chief of staff is going to be. it might be the president himself. >> why bother, right? why bolt tother to fill the pos if youre not going to listen. coming up, the collusion question. and a new guilty pl...

Really digest the transcript continue reading through it. >> he also professed not to know much about michael steele and the dossier that he produced during the course of campaign that was -- of the campaign. that was so anti-trump, even though this guy was an fbi source the director of the fbi seem to know almost nothing about him. >> right which is really interesting. and something else he said was that, you know, it wasnt the funding and he didnt -- he said funding behind dossier wasnt import...

That. pete: corey, you mentioned 2020. according to the media we may not even get there. heres the couple of headlines based on the mueller probe that caught our eye. new york magazine said, "trump 2020 shaping up to be a campaign to stay out of prison." and usa today "mueller is close to answering russia collusion question that could end trumps presidency." are you concerned that what bob mueller is mulling will lead to something before 2020? >> look. the president has no exposure here. im very...

Really digest the transcript continue reading through it. >> he also professed not to know much about michael steele and the dossier that he produced during the course of campaign that was -- of the campaign. that was so anti-trump, even though this guy was an fbi source the director of the fbi seem to know almost nothing about him. >> right which is really interesting. and something else he said was that, you know, it wasnt the funding and he didnt -- he said funding behind dossier wasnt import...

Collusion so what we are going to see now is a great pivotal way from trump russia collusion toward things like obstruction of justice or campaign-finance violations because this has all been from day one an effort to impeach the president and doesnt require trump russia collusion. just requires something there. shannon: we have many questions on the collusion question, they do talk about the fact that individual one who we believe to be the president, they say he was directing cohen with respec...

This election interference? so i think what we are really seeing here is the collusion question is becoming more and more central. were also hearing a story. you know, usually whenever we see these kind of scandals emerging from the white house theres an effort to distance from the principle. you know, yes, somebody did something bad but the president had no idea about this. we saw this in the h.w. bush white house, iran-contra and all kinds of other examples. here we are seeing a narrative by w...