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Government misdeeds and corruption. i find it really interesting that he has directed that the prosecutors start to make things public. i will tell you as much as i embrace that, judges dont have discovery rights and its unusual for a judge to say, you know, i know you have presented certain information to me in furtherance of what you think is an appropriate sentence for mike flynn, but i want you to start making things public. thats really unusual. again, i applaud it. i think everybody is sic...

The political log jam? >> he deeply believes in us and recognizes if we cannot bridge the divides in our country, were not going to get anything accomplished in this century. joe nerss as someone who has served the public across several administrations but most importantly vice president that if congress cannot work together, we cannot fight the things that need to be resolved, reducing prescription drug prices, rebuilding our character e. strengthening the world stage. he believes it is possibl...

Justice and that congress cannot investigate him effectively places the president above the law. quote, that claim, like your demand that the committee discontinue its inquiry, is inconsistent with the most basic principles underlying our constitutional system of government. chairman nadler is invoking the idea of a constitutional crisis. is he right? joining me now is michael beschloss, nbc news presidential historian. michael, it is great to have you with us tonight at this important moment in...

Summed up why the behavior of re the trump white house is so dangerous.it >> the white house is making the outragious claim that a president cannot be held accountable in any way through the american people. a the justice department cant hold him accountable since a me sitting president cannot be indicted and now theyre saying congress cannot hold a presidens accountable. this would make the president above the law.th we of course totally reject it. >> a member of two committees trying to conduc...

Guests. michael eric dys dyson, ying mo. do you believe the white house should be complying with what the oversight committee is asking for? >> the white house has every right to negotiate how it wishes to cooperate with the committee. as the white house counsel said in his letter, congress cannot simply demand anything and everything. there has to be some sort of relationship to how the information it seeks is going to actually help its legislative task. and according to the white house, congre...

We may see him sit in prison for a few years but eventually, well see the president pardon him. >> and the fbi says that releasing any information that is related to comey, the comey memos which this is coming from a new court filing, cnn is trying to get those released. the fbi says thats going to compromise the mueller investigation. is there credence in that? >> could be. we dont know what is in the memos. we dont know where mueller is in the investigation. weve heard reports theyre about to ...

With kim jong un. i think the american people would go nuts plus that is exactly contrary to the narrative that president trump has with his base that he is bringing our troops home. >> so part of the problem is that folks are watching about what is going on in venezuela, but if we get to the point that kroops are considered, there wi -- troops are considered there has to be a hardier conversation. >> congress cannot hide here, this is our own hemisphere and it could lead to major loss of life a...

View here is that, you know, these are criticisms that have dogged this administration well back to the campaign as well as during his first years in office. obviously the administration as pushed back on that. >> kristen, i want to turn now to congress. we have a big week ahead had. the house vote for resolution that aims to block president trumps national emergency declarati declaration. "the new york times" has the look at the upcoming decision. critical principles are at stake. the congresss...

Cocktail party, im not sure people know either number. but i know there are millions of people out there in america who arent attending kick pacocktai parties, but are living paycheck to paycheck. how much they get totally impacts their lives. >> the government -- a lot of those people lost money because they were government workers. the government could shutdown again in four days if congress cannot agree again on border security. so president trump is heading to el paso, texas to push for his ...

Tomorrow trying to keep the focus on his border wall just days before the government is set to partially shut down again over wall funding. on capitol hill, lawmakers are trying to seem hopeful they can come up with a deal the president will agree to. the latest negotiations center around about $2 billion for border barriers. that is short of the $5.7 billion president trump said he wanted. joining me to discuss this and much more, the third ranking republican in the house, conference chair liz ...