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Right now are just little bread crumbs compared with the overall picture we will ultimately get one way or the other. i remain quite confident with that. and i still say to all of my fellow commentators and myself dont pronounce judgment onto whether he has a case on collusion or not because we dont have an answer. and i think that is really dangerous and that is something that feeds into trumps narrative, number one. number two, we cant all follow along in realtime. i experienced it by watching...

Trump on collusion from a daily beast writer. what we know for sure is trump remains under investigation, doing things in realtime right in front of us that may count as witness tampering. but in trump world, the land of make believe, all of this is bogus. and unfortunately, too many commentators on the right are playing along and covering for trump. and notice of course, this weekends big tweet, the most shocking tweet of all this weekend the president saying about the filings, that it totally ...

They know what theyre doing. it bleeds into the greater society doesnt it, it bleeds into politics and it bleeds into the media some of thes youre talking about in media on tv and commentators on tv. >> well, identity politics is everywhere. im so sick of hearing so many preface his remarks by saying well, as a white female, or as black female, y, y, z im sorry thats nonsector it is not the case that i can predict your views knowing that youre a white male. i cannot predict your views if you are...

Investigation to have credibility. howie: what do you make of some conservative commentators including here on fox saying while lying to investigators is a process crime, there is no other lying crime. richard: in mike flynns case he has to be held to a higher standard. hes going to be national security advisor to the president of the united states of america which is one of the highest positions in our government. he lied to the fbi and he lied to the vice president. its disheartening to see co...

Protesters on the streets. there is a concern that the protests could turn violent as we saw a week ago, break teprot did cause a lot of damage along the champs-elysees and there is concern that the violence could continue today. and we understand that police officials are out in full force. you see some of them there in this live image, some 8,000 police officials just there in paris alone according to melissa bell. thousands more throughout the country on standby to make sure that these protes...

Believe, correct me if im wrong, that it was meant to influence the election. >> it only has to be disclosed if it was a personal campaign contribution by the president. if it is paid to keep the women silent, this is not a -- because he doesnt want to embarrass his family, that is not a campaign contribution. >> laura: the trump team versus what cohen is trying to say to try to get less jail time. theyre going to say he wants to get less jail time. he has to do something, he has to pasfoist som...

Saying that john kelly wasnt in his office and he almost always is there at this time. at a senior staff meeting has been canceled, so the signs are out there. joining us now, our cnn political commentators. i want to start with you. lets talk about the impact here. if, and i suppose we always have to say if until we see kelly walking out with his bags at the end, whats the impact of no john kelly in this white house? >> you know, i dont know because i think his impact has lessened tremendously ...

I couldnt do it. im not that big a person. i would hope that i would be, i cant fake the funk as they say. >> martha, over at abc, commentators were speculating on the funeral of donald trump while -- that is how bad things have gotten. the decency in this white house, it displays very little of it themselves and covering this white house. for there to like don lemon or his colleague, jim acosta at a press conference parade in the president of the united states. it is hypocritical. >> i certainl...

That become public in a way -- some have argued hes sort of writing the early outline of a report in some of these documents to get them out of the public sphere. >> i think thats one possibility. theres a lot of commentators who think hes sort of speaking through all these charging documents and hes going to reveal and weave together the whole story in plea agreements and things like that. im not 100% convinced of that yet. >> he certainly didnt do that in this. >> i think as prosecutors, theyr...

>> how it plays out. >> although mueller has been putting a lot more detail in charging documents and documents that become public in a way -- some have argued hes sort of writing the early outline of a report in some of these documents to get them out of the public sphere. >> i think thats one possibility. theres a lot of commentators who think hes sort of speaking through all these charging documents and hes going to reveal and weave together the whole story in plea agreements and things like ...