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Of trumps finances compared with every other president since general ford because of those missing tax returns. so what this requires is the kind of very careful digging that david fahrenthold and his colleagues did. theyre careful not to draw any hasty conclusions here, but as soon as i saw that quote from eric trump and i went back and looked up the sale of that house, it makes you think, gee, i wonder if mueller is looking at that. we dont yet have any indication of that, but i think the mone...

A change in the law. heres my question. do you expect that robert mueller will reach legal conclusions? >> depends what you mean by legal conclusions. if you mean will the report -- >> obstruction. >> what? obstruction, will the report say -- >> yeah, will he say obstruction? i think hell say i have gathered substantial information and substantial evidence which leads me to suspect that the president may have engaged in obstruction of justice. he wont say the president committed obstruction of j...

Expect that robert mueller will reach legal conclusions? >> well, it depends what you mean by legal conclusions. if you mean, will the report -- >> obstruction. >> will his reports say -- what? >> obstruction -- >> will the reports say -- yeah, will he say obstruction? i think he will say ive gathered substantial information and substantial evidence which leads me to suspect that the president may have engaged in an obstruction of justice. he wont say the president committed obstruction of justi...

Trying to influence or was trying to influence the election with this michael cohen payment. to me, that seemed like a huge leap, bradley. it was a head scratcher for me. i love george but why the heck you sending out that tweet? he doesnt know the background on this. neither do any of us. its still being developed. >> one of the things weve had for the last year is people are letting conclusions outrun the facts on the ground. the statute does say -- the statute basically says a campaign expend...

Trying to influence the election with this michael cohen payment. to me, that seemed like a huge leap, bradley, and it was like a head-scratcher for me. and i love george, i was like, why the heck are you sending out that tweet? he doesnt know the background on this and i dont think any of us do. it still being developed. >> bradley: one of the things we cant for the last year, everyone lets conclusions outrun the facts on the ground. the statute basically says a campaign expenditure, something ...

The white house judiciary committee. let as dress what he said before you. isnt it a constitutional issue that the president has the right to do his job, obstruction of justice, is it obstruction of justice or using the powers of the president as theyve been outlined by our founding fathers? >> it may come to this. but to be honest the malpractice you heard from the senator is to leap to a whole bunch of conclusions that just arent true. first of all, as rudy guiliani said, the president has pro...

Russia needs an enemy. it is us. were going to have to find way to tuk about syria. the russians are on the ground in syria. any collusion of syria will have to have russia involved in it. well have to find way to talk about the situation with north korea saying to the russians if it can reach alaska, it can reach. im all for isolating putinism at this point. at some point you have to find way to continue to deal with the country. >> are you uncomfortable about the way the president attacks the ...

Its a bad deal. we can get a better one maybe. >> i have a feeling she disagrees with you. >> look, i will say this is a complicated situation. thats why youre seeing condoleezza rice and john kerry having two very different opinions on this. ultimately this is a complicated deal that put together the united states and the european and russian and china, which is a difficult coalition to put together. before we jump to conclusions here and try to make a hasty decision, it needs to be well-though...

General michael hayden is back with us, the author of "the assault on intelligence: american national security in an age of lies." and general, you talked about a turning point with the presidents relationship with intel community, one of those turning points. being the meeting at trump tower with the russians. >> let me be a little sympathetic to the president. we always have a speed bump with all presidents. very briefly we got to get into the room. we got to get into his head we go through di...

General for basically doing what he had to do. he was required to do under the rules of the justice department. >> renado i have to ask you, when youre dealing with obstruction, im not an attorney but thats what i hear from the attorneys and legal folks here, you have to establish intent correct? what is the intent? and im wondering if the presidents tweets, what he said is that going to come into play when theyre trying to figure out what his intent was behindfully of these meetings and questio...