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Owns of the time. before she was thrust into main justice, she had a reputation as a prosecutor who put away a lot of democrats in georgia. eric holder, loretta lynch, maybe those are slightly more partisan people at the white house. sally yates, that was not her reputation. i think it was very interesting what we show there, the different responses to the collusion question. clapper who was the dni and did not have visibility into the fbi investigation said, he didnt know about collusion. yates...

The fact that the white house is downplaying its own poor vet of michael flynn kicking it back to the obama administration when lets just remind everybody, 2014, president obama fired flynn and flynn then became just a more outspoken critic of the president. thats the only reason why donald trump was tracted to him in the first place was that he was a critic of president obama. >> yeah, well, i think the collusion question is key here. its the key question. but i think trump kind of opened himse...

Intelligence. te us, what is your top question for director comey today? >> to me, what washe extent of russian interference in the election, was there collusion, whatsoever with anyone in the trump campaign and the russians. its important, im talking about the classified information that will be leaked out. this is intrigue of political movement. very, very top secret information leaked out with what comey is doing, who did it and who is behind it. >> reporter: you want an answer to the collusi...

Other seen other people caught in these cross fires. the democrats want to put pressure on wiretapping. the big question is how much will those two issues distract with the underlying reason were having this investigation in the first place, which is the election legitimate. was he elected freely, or was he elected with the help of a foreign power? and, so, wiretapping and leaks could -- not that they are not important issues, but they could distract from that main underlying question. >> you ju...

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About what was going on. we dont know if it went further than that. we -- we knew he was in touch with kilimnik throughout the campaign meeting with kilimnik, talking to him often but we dont know more than that. we dont know how he fits into the larger part of the picture. the most interesting thing about manafort that i come back to is that he was there for the don jr. meeting. he was there at trump tower in june of 2016 when the russians came offering the dirt on hillary clinton. he claimed t...

Ambassador, then coming into the white house. questions about the calls with the ambassador. flynn really understood how the campaign worked, was very close to the president and knows what the president knew about the calls with the ambassador. which is what the fbi picked up on a wiretap. flynn is fired for lying to the vice president about it. theres a lot of things flynn can answer. as we know, flynn has agreed to cooperate. and he is cooperating with muller. paul manafort when told of this p...

Declaration. the fact they will push to end the korean war, along with the u.s. and china at some point during this year. we know that moon jae-in is going to go to pyongyang in the fall as well to meet the north korean leader again. when it came to denuclearization, they fell back on a stock phrase, they agreed to work towards the complete denuclearization of the korean peninsula. we have heard that before. we were hoping for more details. we were hoping to find out what sort of concessions kim...

Muller. >> did the president know about this, michael? >> thats the thing. you know, was dowd acting on his own or not? was dowd out there free-lancing and throwing this out here. was this something that the president told him to do? thats an open question. >> "the new york times" michael schmidt. thank you very much. >> thanks for having me. lets bring in chuck rosenburg, a former u.s. attorney. hes an msnbc contributor. we lucked out by having you with us today. this new reporting, lots of f...

Theres a lot of them, 25% of the 50 or so questions that have to do with whether or not the trump campaign was legally coordinating with russia. what this tells us is that the subject of collusion, despite what you hear from the white house, the fact the president, 15 times a day tweets out that there was no collusion, it tells us robert mueller is not don with the collusion question. one of the questions in particular is one in which the question says, what knowledge did you have of any outreac...