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Way through the legal system. i think the next hearing is scheduled for january 3rd, its a three panel judge hearing about relative to this day. bagel can i just say come at the kennedy and davids point, if you listen to nancy pelosi today she says this is been going on two and half years and when you poll people they say way, is this about the ukraine phone call or is does this go back to the election? does this go back to mueller and the russian collusion question mike democrats have to be ver...

That mueller didnt establish a concrete case for the conspiracy question, the collusion question, but what mueller said quite clearly in his last public comments is that russia interfered with the election and hacked into email servers, attack one candidate in favor of donald trump and that the country needed to be prepared for the next time. clearly this white house is not prepared for the next time. and its no wonder that jared kushner couldnt get a security clearance without the help of his f...

Members of the trump team. tell us the importance. >> this is on page 10, volume 1, right at the beginning, on the collusion section. he said we have tried to paint as clear of a pick schr of what happens as we can, but there were many obstacles in our way. among those people claiming the fifth amendment, privilege issues and in many instances, people gave false testimony or deleted communications or were talking on encrypted communications we couldnt recover. and if we had all of that, it might...

Determination as to whether or not the president committed a crime. >> the other thing about him speaking was that it felt like a total rebuttal. >> the barr comment reminds me of the collusion question. paul manafort was sharing polling data with a known russian agent about the strategy to win democratic voters in the midwest including bernie sanders supporters which we know was very successful. that may not reach the bar for criminal conspiracy, it sounds like collusion. >> bob mueller said yo...

Is asked and answered in robert muellers perspective, but do you think the collusion question is still an open political and geopolitical foreign policy question? >> i think it is because, look, people have a right to evaluate all of these contacts and all of these decisions. it couldnt be a criminal conspiracy perhaps. >> right. >> but it is still very strange and hinky and people are right to inspect the contacts and decision points and working together with the russians on different issues to...

President obama was still in office, and it was a call -- not really extraordinary in too many regards. theres often context, some questions i guess about whether or not it violated the logan act, but it was something that flynn lied about. so do you think we will learn why he lied? >> i hope so. i mean i think it goes back to this issue of, you know, if collusion is a dead letter from a criminal conspiracy perspective, it is not from a political perspective or impeachment perspective. the more ...

Playbook. if they can get away with it, theyre going to try. >> i guess here is my larger point. is it clear theyve gotten away with it? to the next point, they may have escaped the narrow criminal conspiracy question robert mueller was asking but it is not clear they escaped impeachment. >> thats true. >> the justice department had an expectation there was a plausible scenario where impeachment would commence and they would have to turn over underlying evidence and bring witnesses. >> thats a g...

It was a call, not really extraordinary in too many regards. theres often contacts, questions about whether it violated the logan act, i guess. but it was something that flynn lied about. do you think well learn why he lied? >> i hope so. it goes back to this issue of if collusion is a dead letter from a criminal conspiracy perspective, its not from a perspective or impeachment perspective. the more we understand, the more questions there are. why so many contacts with russians and why the drive...

Playbook. if they can get away with it, why not try. >> they may have escaped the narrow criminal conspiracy question robert mueller was asking, but its not clear theyve escaped impeachment and the justice department had an expectation that there was a plausible scenario where impeachment proceedings would commence and that would be the scenario theyd have to turnover underlying evidence and make witnesses available. >> the fixation has been on the obstruction part of it, obviously the phone cal...

Robert mueller throughout this entire process really heed to the guidelines if there was any other criminal activity it went to other districts. michael cohen pleaded in a case that was not involving his office and that was the campaign finance reform but we learned when the search warrants became publicly docketed two weeks ago, in fact, that investigation did start with muellers office. so the system there worked. and robert mueller followed the guidelines. so for the president if theres anyth...