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Around a long time and stuck around through transition to get a window into a lot of the questions theyre asking about broader collusion stuff. it bears on both questions. >> if rick gates has more dirt on collusion than on manafort, then the president is in deep trouble. >> philip bump, good to have you. ben wittes, thank you as always. coming up, when growing up seems to be part of the problem. unbelievable. its next. ♪ whether its a big thing, small thing, or something unexpected, pnc wil...

Or together its not a great combination as you just witnessed. that was a warning label ainsy: we will talk about sam nunberg coming up later in the show. steve: try to put it in perspective. meantime talk about this, 45 blasts 44. the 45th president of the united states blasting the 44th president. donald trump said this is bigger than watergate. why did the obama administration, he tweeted start an investigation into the trump campaign with zero proof of wrongdoing long before the election in ...

Clearance but i would be willing to bet its because of jared kushners other career in real estate and other things that have made him entangled with other countries that hes maybe having to deal with. that is something i think he is going to really be probably more damaging to this white house, the issue of separating the private business from the collusion stuff. we will see what comes of it. >> bret: we should point out its possible this clearance does come through, whether it takes a week or ...

To continue to define himself before other people define him. he can spend his time defining those other people in the ways he does. >> jesse: greg, you are happy he made the announcement because you wanted fresh news. >> greg: the flag it to my main point, why he did this. the name brad parscale is an anagram for red cabals rap. hes definitely a russian spy. >> kimberly: got to the bottom of that. >> greg: he is thinking beyond the sale. people are thinking about collusion stuff. he is saying n...

About this president. we tend to overlook the ordinary unusual stuff but i can remember when something like that all by itself would have been headlines. >> bret: tom friedman, "whatever trump is hiding is hurting all of us." saying that the biggest threat is the integrity of our democracy. saying basically what russia did, even if you take out the collusion stuff, it shouldve been been a red flare to any administration. >> i think that is true to a certain extent. if you think about the capacit...

Congress, people around him have given us the cig that that whsi sits down with mueller hell tell them everybody he knows. >> collusion, and obstruction. the collusion stuff, bannon is mostly conjecturing. werent around for a lot of the key events. not central. the obstruction case in terms of what happened with comey and the crafting of that letter from air force one about the june meet g meeting, retrospectively, on the obstruction case, i think bannon has a lot of stuff to say. >> he was cert...

Examples where the president is giving mueller a window into his intentions as he did when we learned that he had ordered mcgahn to order rosenstein to fire mueller and that when he drafted the misleading memorandum on air force one. so we get a picture of what this president is thinking with respect to the investigation. with respect to the collusion stuff -- >> so -- >> give me one second. if you dont mind, jim. on the collusion stuff, what we dont know is whether this fisa warrant was targete...

Because he thinks it will damage the mueller investigation. so thats almost an admission of intent to interfere with or obstruct an investigation. so i think mueller can take note of that. its another one of these examples where the president is giving mueller a window into his intentions as he did when we learned that he had ordered mcgahn to order rosenstein to fire mueller and that when he drafted the misleading memorandum on air force 1. so we get a picture of what this president is thinking...

Got to be a quid pro quo. absent that, all this collusion stuff is a hobby horse for politics, frankly. >> what he did there was, a line was drawn saying, im only saying no collusion to the stuff that i know about, i did myself. and anything else that happened, hey, you know, hands off. >> thats a separate issue for the country about whether or not the russians are trying to influence the election. the only thing he can speak to really in terms of the mueller investigation is what it is either h...

And they will be at some point when all of this is wrapped up, there will be a time to talk and for public accountability. but i think, fred, its important in terms of the president and this idea hes not under investigation, there are two things that mueller is looking at that we know of for a fact based on the questions that muellers team has posed to reince priebus and sean spicer and to others who have appeared before him and that has to do with the firing of the former fbi director, the big ...