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Several memos, arthel. arthel: garrett, in terms of the substance of the memos, lawmakers seem to be divided about that, right? >> yeah, depending on which party they consumer they are reaching very different conclusions. republicans argue the memos prove that president trump did not try to interfere in the bureaus russia investigation and in fact, supported it. as comey wrote in a memo after meeting with the president, quote, he said that if there was some satellite, i took this to mean some as...

Manafort has resisted all to turn himself, so far no indication that those two prime actors in this drama have, in fact, flipped as you put it. look, theres a clear investigation going on of the president, it was authorized by the -- by the assistant attorney general after the firing of jim comey, it has to run its course and what i would say to my friend janine, lets let it finish and see where it ends up and draw conclusions we want about the process or the left or the media. >> we have a new ...

Conclusions about this being the first signs of a gigantic political conspiracy that would take down the sitting president, richard nixon. which it did. its interesting. somewhat lost to history. the democratic party actually did kind of go right there right away when the watergate burglary happened. the press didnt see it that way. the dnc, the democratic party, they went right to the end game immediately. watergate break-in was june 17th. on june 20th, a couple days later, the dnc filed a civi...

There is no explanation as to why the five suspects would want to bug the offices or whether or not they were working for any individuals or organizations. there was news coverage of that particul burglary. it was of interests of this burglary but it was mild interests. nobody in the press was immediately jumping into conclusions of being the first sign of a gigantic political conspiracy that would take down the sitting president richard dixon. it is interesting some what lost to history. the de...

Savannah guthrie interviewed james comey this week on the "today" show, and she asked him are we at collusion and obstruction of justice? he even pointed were still not able -- >> we dont know what mueller has found. >> we cant articulate the intent. >> what do you think hes investigating then? >> investigating, yes, hes investigating it. but if james comey isnt at obstruction, how can we be? >> its not part of the investigation. >> first of all, james comey set up the facts. he hasnt come to co...

If it was right and if it was wrong, their own loyalty perhaps to trump and their own sense of how this whole situation should be handled, i think will determine how they conclude about his -- what conclusions they make about his behavior. >> and if i could just add, when i is a that tweet, i nougt he was just saying how james comey, rod rosenstein -- robert mueller and rod rosen steen has jobs and everyone said im going to fire them. but youre now laying out the rationale for why you could be f...

That burglary. quote, there was no immediate explanation as to why the five suspects would want to bug the democratic national committee offices or whether or not they were working for any other individuals or organizations. there was news coverage of that. it was of interest that there had been this burglary. it was kind of mild interest. certainly, nobody in the press was immediately jumping to conclusions about this being the first signs of a gigantic political conspiracy that would take down...

Robert mueller might challenge that if there is reason to but more likely he will accept it and pass any conclusions to congress and so again as on all matters, it seems to come back in their lap, how will they interpret the behavior that we now have new evidence again that occurred. >> there is a lot of unanswered questions and hopefully well get more answers. more breaking news. president trump conflicting claims about talking to vladimir putin. what the comey memos reveal. . lease the 2018 es...

And james comey writes in the memo the president said the hookers thing is nonsense, but that putin had told him, quote, we have some of the most beautiful hookers in the world. you know, is this just, again, sensational or does this get to an important mind set of the president of the united states? >> well, i think the latter. if you look at indicators, whenever you have a conversation with someone, and shawn knows this from the department of justice, i know this from being the fbi agent, you ...

Whats the fallout of this in your estimation? >> i think theres a big fallout. right? president trump has been tweeting how comey leaked classified information. theres a big campaign underway to undermine comey. theres a giant feud between the president and comey, the former fbi director. any impact, this can land on comey. these two men are going at each other. you know, whoever is on president trumps side, this is significant for undermining comeys credibility. >> you know, its interesting to ...