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Political commentators mary catherine hamm and alice stewart, nice to have you all here. mark preston, this is not just our reporting. this is "the new york times" this is multiple outlets, the president asked about it this morning in davos. he doesnt say no, i never did this, he just again brushes it off as fake news, which we can attribute it to just news he doesnt like. >> if i try to put this in perspective for everybody out there, couple of things that are important. one, four sources told ...

Hillary clintons 2008 presidential campaign raising eyebrows. clinton decided not fire a senior adviser who had been accused of sexual harassment. female campaign staffer accused his then faith adviser, berne strider, of inappropriate touching and sending her inappropriate e-mails. strider was sent to counseling while this younger accuser was reassigned. cnn obtained the statement from clintons 08 campaign. when matters arose, they were reviewed in accordance with policies and appropriate action...

In the midst of tonights breaking news on the russia trump investigation that president trump wanted to fire robert mueller back in june, we also have had some breaking news on the potential deal for dreamers, one that comes at a high cost. the white house calling for a path to citizenship for dreamers and other undocumented immigrants in exchange for $25 billion for a border wall and other strict immigration reforms. i want to bring in robert reich, a former labor secretary, and cnn political c...

Apprehensive. >> part of it -- we were talking about this before, we sort of look these athletes every four years when they come into the olympics sh the young growing girls and they have a small window of experience because they do live in this bubble at that level of potentially being an olympian or being on a college gymnastics team. where do we need to start even to chaenk this systemically. >> exactly. so there is two things. the first is just on a fan level, having commentators who actuall...

>> over a period -- over a period of 10 to 12 years. somebody does a great job, theyve worked hard, it gives incentive to do a great job, but theyve worked hard. theyve done terrifically, whether they have a little company or whether they work or -- whatever theyre doing, if they do a great job, i think its a nice thing to have the incentive of after a period of years being able to become a citizen. >> so the president going on to say he might be willing to extend the daca deadline if there was ...

Does it tell you? where is it leading. >> it is leading to this top of the pyramid. >> there you see it. mike pompeo, paul manafort, don mcgahn. >> and i think commentators have made the quote, you wait to close to the end until you go to the top of the pyramid maybe it is an investigation -- that one piece of the investigation is wrapping up. that might be an obstruction of justice since there are three pieces, that plus collision and the question of money laundering. maybe that piece of the in...

The breaking news, cnn has confirmed that the attorney general jeff sessions was interviewed by special counsel robert muellers team one week ago. he is the most senior official to be interviewed yet in this investigation. back with us now, political commentators errol lewis, also alice stewart and joining us brian fallon as well. want to go to you first, brian. among your many other jobs, you once worked in the justice department. and before we were talking to shimon prokupecz, the oddity of th...

Has now reached new levels of contempt for institutions of government like the fbi. and that has bothered more than one united states senator. so on the whole, i think its a positive what happened over the weekend. >> mike saw a lot of commentators during the government shutdown. taking a predictively cynical tiresome view, whats, what are these people doing, you know, theyre such fools, theyre such clowns. no, you actually had democrats standing up, for what they believed in. and i remember we ...

Why secretary of defense mattis said a shutdown would have a terrible impact on the united states military and the department of defense, but u.s. troops around the world would continue performing their jobs. >> thanks so much. joining us from los angeles, cnn political commentators, democrat strategist dave jacobson, and republican consultant john thomas. thanks to both of you for joining us. now on sunday, we all watched republicans and democrats pointing the finger of blame at each other for ...

Going to ill serve him. >> we just heard from the president on twitter, his last tweet before the latest one he put out was 13 hours ago. and what hes tweeting about right now, what hes seeing on fox news, theyre giving him on a for the first year of his presidency. hes saying thank you to specific commentators. what do you think of that? >> he cant even seem to get much mileage on getting the government reopened. the reality is as david was saying, president obama made very clear several years ...