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Pressuring in a phone call the ukrainian leader to investigate bidens son. Biden and trump going after each other on twitter in whats becoming both adopting a similar attack style, highly edited videos of news footage to undermine each other. Heres some of that. Thats a conflict of interest. Things joe biden has to answer for. The president of the United States using his power to go to a Foreign Government to get no reason to paiy hunter biden a claim that has been debunked. You can tell hes rea...

It or not, for holding one of the toughest seats in a swing district along the border between texas and mexico. He is one of six republican incumbents to retire in the last two weeks. And the third House Republican from texas not to seek reelection. Hurds departure leaves his district the largest in texas and a majority hispanic one as well vulnerable to democrats looking to make headway in the lonestar state. Joining me now is the dc bureau chief for the Texas Tribune abby livingston. I know yo...

Decisions about the process. Go ahead and release the ed and he the opportunity to rise above the politics of it, and i think he failed in that, and i was disappointed by his gratuitous statements against the media, by the gratuitous statements by how this affect him what, laura calls the oprah moment, and so i think its a mixed assessment of the attorney general today. I mean, he repeated no collusion. I mean, he parroted the president s words repeatedly as he has done before. And it doesnt tak...

Anyway, its very fun. Now its time for the last word with lawrence oodonnell. What is your characters name . Vesper fairchild. Im using that from now. On thats my favorite name ever to appear in fiction. It is a classic comic book character. What are you doing tonight . I am not that busy. Do you want to come over . Because ive got some pages marked here. Im still on crutches so it will take me a minute. Ill be there as soon as i can crutch over. If you can get here by the time we finish one of ...

We will see what senator tom cotton thinks about that. Chicago police releasing hours of video related to the departments investigation into empire after Jussie Smolletts hate crime. The police say it is a hoax. He is innocent. We are going through the footage right now. A live report is coming up. Plus, did someone on the inside leave the up ice rates to stop them from happening . And is there a chance that republicans get something done on capitol hill while the president hits the pause button...

Himself to intimidate a witness who has a legal obligation to be here today. This committee will hear mr. Mcgahns testimony even if we have to go to court to secure it. We will not allow the president to prevent the American People from hearing from this witness. Well not allow the president to block congressional issue pea n subpoenas putting himself and his allies above the law. Kelly, where are we at now . Reporter one of the important things we have to be looking for is changes in the force ...

Mueller report did not exonerate him of obstruction of justice. Going onto say if his team had confidence the president clearly did not commit obstruction, they would say so. Mueller goes onto say its really up to congress to investigate President Trump for possible obstruction, writing weve included that congress has the authority to prohibit our president s corrupt use of his authority in order to protect the integrity of the administration of justice. Congressman Gerald Nadler saying congress...

Trumps financial statements. The president seems to be hiding something. Its sunday, may 26, and on his trip to japan, the president is making an impression. A guy talking like and then theres a very different sound, theres a guy like that. Then so we go for weird. Up with me this morning, a white collar criminal defense attorney and a former chair of the Bar Association pac. Lj williams is a political strategist and host of sunday sis civics on sirius xm, and also a columnist for the national t...

Nia . Welcome to inside politics. Im niamalika henderson. Were in chicago where there has been another turning point in the Jussie Smollett case. All charges against him have now been dropped. The state Attorneys Office in cook county released a statement saying, quote, after reviewing all the facts and circumstances of the case, including smolletts volunteer service in the community and an agreement forfeit his bond to the city of chicago, we believe this outcome is a justice position and an ap...

Good evening once again rather from our nbc news headquarters here in new york. Day 851 of this trump administration. A couple of big stories have dropped just in these past few hours. Tonight we learned don mcgahn as we said who is the former white House Counsel, one of the leading voices in the Mueller Report and now a private citizen will ignore a subpoena to testify tomorrow morning before the house Judiciary Committee. The white house apparently told him not to show. Tonight the democrats a...