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Office three ways: if he dies, if he resigns, or if he is impeached. and then the senate convicts him. you cant have a rogue agent of the fbi or the doj take a president in front of a grand jury. the u.s. constitution and case law forbids it. mueller is out of control. >> let me ask about rosenstein. and the judge today -- this was amazing. didnt he recuse himself? the judge was basically saying hes way conflicted here. he would be the witness. we know he signed on to the unverified, uncorrobora...

Storage locker in the first place. the bottom line is that the judge here in washington, d.c. has taken these filings under advisement and wait for an answer from the court on both of these critical issues in the case, shep? >> shepard: very good. catherine, thanks. >> youre welcome. >> shepard: headline lack of vetting. lets turn to deputy news director for axios. good to see you. >> good to see you. >> shepard: on manafort, the suggestion is did the white house or the future white house even h...

Criminal activity, yes. that privilege doesnt extend to any kind of commission of a crime or covering it up. i have to say that what mueller might be after is more pressure on on manafort. lets not forget that cohen has extensive connections with ukraine and people in these circles is. maybe its not even about the president. we know he wants manaforts information. >> good point. >> there is a calculation being done. muellers purview, thats the beef. what is he allowed to look at. what is he not ...

To prepare because its a very complicated case. and also, hes nearly 70 years old. hes looking at a sentence that could leave him in prison for the rest of his life if he goes to trial. theres a motion pending in front of the judge where the judge is being asked by manaforts lawyers throw the case out because mueller doesnt have the jurisdiction to bring it. muellers brief which just came in yesterday makes a very convincing case that he does have jurisdiction, and i just think the walls are clo...

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...

Sessions-kislyak meeting at the convention may have an incidental contact, you want to nail that down and understand what it wasnt as well as what it was. >> is gates going to be more valuable in helping the special counsel see who the trump team had been in contact with in terms of russia, or is it going to be more value in prosecuting manafort? >> yes. >> both? >> look, i think, obviously, look, i think manafort, they have the goods on manafort. and i think theyre going to -- they probably did...

Third, pillar of the gop establishment and george bush for the one secretary of state literally sent manafort foreign government clients. manaforts firm lobbied to dictators and crooks all over the world the brutal and corrupt ferdinand of the things to the violent jonas of angolas army committed atrocities against children and instructed women into sexual slavery. this is pulmicort leading a courthouse in virginia a couple of weeks ago after his trial date. >> trader. youre selling american to ...

Least drop donald trump fired manafort. the ruling elite in washington in the media and the establishment beers on both sides of the aisle they want to put it all on manafort and that hes a front apple in the barrel but we will not let him get away with that because the truth is there are nearly all. every single one of those big washington firms, the ones that members of congress and administration officials slink off to once theyre out of office. if you are being paid by foreign governments yo...

Who can invented the foreign lobbying it is this man but yes, you know him. for certain he was donald trumps campaign chairman. he only lasted a few months before he was fired when details of his shady past started to overshadow the trump campaign. paul manafort was actively in the 1970s in politics and managed to get close to ronald reagan planting. after the reagan administration took office he set up a lobbying firm to capitalize on his connections. more than lobbying was not the massive indu...

Who can invented the foreign lobbying it is this man but yes, you know him. for certain he was donald trumps campaign chairman. he only lasted a few months before he was fired when details of his shady past started to overshadow the trump campaign. paul manafort was actively in the 1970s in politics and managed to get close to ronald reagan planting. after the reagan administration took office he set up a lobbying firm to capitalize on his connections. more than lobbying was not the massive indu...