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Nbc justice and analyst matt miller and associated press reporter tom lubianco, author and msnbc contributor charlie sykes is with us. john, let me begin with you if i may. i want to start with the issue of the dossier. it was obviously revealed this week a conservative website, the washington free beacon was actually the first group to hire fusion gps do to do opposition research on then candidate donald trump. they claimed they actually stopped paying before the former british intelligence off...

You were talking about but retroactively tried to register which is legal. nonetheless, i think its caught the attention of bob mueller. what was going on there would seem to be that the u.s. lobbyists were not only making a ton of money. i mean, this was big money. you had six people feeding at the trough. this is another example of how russia gets involved in american government. >> dana: "the hill" newspaper said the russians were trying to find a way to mess with hillary clinton all the way ...

Obstruction of justice case that we have been talking about so much about what robert muellers team is looking into in addition to the collusion stuff. so looking into the firing of jim comey, looking into anything sean spicer knows about the meeting the day after with the russians in the oval office, foreign minister lavrov and ambassador ciskislyak, and when president trump called comey a nut job and said it relieved great pressure. this is the time that sean spicer had deep knowledge about th...

In four decades. >> about the only thing we have been able to do is get some appointments through. and even then its slower than ever before. >> now president trumps allies are pointing out that nobody in d.c. has been very helpful implementing his agenda. not even the g.o.p. >> he has a false hoax story. this whole russia collusion stuff he is fighting. democrats obstructionists and republicans candidly werent ready for the president to take over on day one. >> a top house republican pointed ou...

In four decades. >> about the only thing we have been able to do is get some appointments through. and even then its slower than ever before. >> now president trumps allies are pointing out that nobody in d.c. has been very helpful implementing his agenda. not even the g.o.p. >> he has a false hoax story. this whole russia collusion stuff he is fighting. democrats obstructionists and republicans candidly werent ready for the president to take over on day one. >> a top house republican pointed ou...

To put it mildly. federal investigators exploring where they have trumps colluding. and seized on it as a fertile avenue to move it forward. the web of financial ties could offer a concrete path for prosecution in the campaign. >> they are saying, well not get him on the collusion stuff and so we will look at his finances and associates in russia. can you do that? >> you can. the special counsel was given a broad man date from rosen stein and it was very, very general. and like the epa would do,...

Counsels office. put it mildly. exploring whether donald trumps campaign russian spies have seized on trumps and his financial ties to russia as one of the most fertile avenues for moving their probe forward according to people with the investigation. the web of financial ties could offer a more concrete path toward potential prosecution than the broader and murkier questions of collusion in the campaign. so basically they are just saying were not going to get him on the collusion stuff so were ...

Look, steve, the reality is this president has been under estimated for a very long time the media got it wrong when he jumped into this race. the media is still getting it wrong. he has been one step ahead of the media at all turengts. thats what really frustrates them. steve: you are right with them getting it wrong. at the get-go putin and trump are allies and this is all going to be very chummy. and then we heard about the collusion stuff. and then we heard the president say i cant imagine r...

As well. so hes correct that if theres going to be progress in this area it probably would be in the area of claim of abuse of power. >> this was supposed to look at the possible collusion. is it muellers face to widen the cope of this and look for obstruction of justice or other high crimes? >> well, its part of his mandate. the rosenstein mandate said look at the counterintelligence, look at the collusion stuff, look at whether or not theres been any efforts to obstruct justice. its right in t...

>> elvira: "washington post" article very interesting. at the bottom of the article it says that michael rogers, nsa director, said president trump allegedly told him that if theres no evidence, if there is no evidence. in than what the headline is saying is that trump said to rogers, say there is no evidence. thats a small word but its very big in context. we have to understand that apparently the president said to rogers, if there is no investigation, go out publicly and say it. thats not corr...