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Conclusions. thats why the probation department agreed with them. >> were wrapping up the end of the year, coming fast and furious. i assume this is not the last to expect from mueller. >> no, we have the whole jerome corsi issue, roger stone. when you read these filings that came out on friday, there seems to be a lot more going on, a lot more people. they dont mention people by name. this is how you know, if youre in any way mentioned in these court documents whether youre a senior administrat...

>> im not james comeys biggest fan, lets be clear about this. he has hurt a lot of people when he was at the f.b.i. and i dont think he is being that helpful outside. however, remember james comey was f.b.i. director from 2015 forward. he has at least two years worth of inside information on this investigation. the investigation into russian interference and election starting in the spring of 2015 and made public this week in the filing. barack obamas first briefing on it was june of 2015. so tw...

These campaign finance crimes are a little hard to prove and theyre not always prosecuted or pursued, anyway. but the point is if the southern district of new york believes a felony crime was committed in the payment of money to these women and perhaps in catching and killing the story with the "national enquirer," why not talk about donald trump? >> so two possible answers. first, you know, its so hard to tell you how much more difficult it is for prosecutors to compile evidence sufficient to s...

Responsible also means treating this presidents statements in a different way than youd treat the statements even of president nixon. nixon might lie but he would not completely deny. >> what we saw on friday and into the weekend is were in this media environment with people can assembly the news themselves, can experience the news in realtime and that means you can reach your own conclusions about legal filings. its different than in the 90s. >> we all remember watching cnn and reading some of ...

Its going to go, it seems to me, with the president being indicted or at least up to that point, and its going to go to congress taking on a very serious and is very, very appropriate investigation, and you might call it the opening days of an impeachment. were getting to that point now. >> how many of his democratic house colleagues believe that theyre getting to that point? is this a prevalent perspective? >> i think its sort of a process thats unveiling because i think they dont want to make ...

As the fbi director referred to the steele dossier as selacious and unverified and mr. comey says yes i dont know that i was referring to all of it and mr. ratcliffe says but again your characterization of it was that it was unverified even though you had it verified to the court. mr. comey says what i understand by verified is we then tried to replicate the source information so that it becomes fbi investigation and our conclusions rather than a reliable source, thats what i understand it. the ...

And other things it results in observe instruction of justice. and then barack obama did the interview with chris wallace saying let hillary clinton go, she didnt have criminal content. what did you think of that? i didnt see that through the lens of obstruction of justice. did you make a memo about barack obama? did you tell your staff not to be influenced by it? no? >> president trump does something he finds sticky, theres a memo and a federal case. barack obama does something and theres nothi...

Impeachment vote, but the reason he resigned was he was about to be impeached. when you start to see court documents that name an individual one, the president of the united states as someone directing illegal activity, the closest parallel we have is richard nixon. we saw how that played out, but there is a fundamental difference between richard nixon and donald trump. richard nixon served in the military. he had been more clear than donald trump. we dont know where donald trump stands. >> with...

Crimes. thats what this means, and there could be much more because you have a lot of redacted information in both the manafort part of it and some things that are not redacted by being blacked out but are redacted because of being so vague as to what other information cohen has provided to mueller. it also is interesting because there are really three cohens. theres the cohen that the southern district saw. theres the cohen that the special counsel saw. but theres also the cohen that his lawyer...

Theres a loved one, theres a family member or someone that they fear that they want to protect. so, thats the kind of thing, because its in michael cohens best self-interests to be fully cooperative. everything he tells them theyre not going to used against him, theyre going to use in the prosecution of other people. so the conclusions that come to my mind are either someone he wants to protect or theres someone he fears. >> well said. thank you, natasha bertrand, david and ken dilania nnk and b...