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Individual who is may be implicated in the overall robert mueller russia investigation. roger stern, longtime confidant, adviser to the president, could be a witness, he told "the washington post" this -- it has to be a signal to mike flynn and paul manafort, even robert s. mueller iii, indeet people for crimes that dont pertain to russian collusion and this is what could happen. the special counsel has awesome powers as you know, but the president has even more awesome powers. that from roger s...

Would rectify it, sort of clear the slate. and he said he wanted me to be out there to be a bigger voice than ever defending the things i believe in. >> he wants him out there spreading these conspiracy theories. the birtherism. he wants this voice out there to continue to whip up this contempt for law enforcement for mueller. and, you know, in a sense its working. because i think the base is happy. they think trump is doing a great job. >> yeah. i mean, but i guess. it is beyond the base in ter...

You know the thought process behind pardons. so here are the pardons thus far. joe arpaio, controversial arizona sheriff. he was convicted of contempt of course. sau saucier, mishandling classified information. scooter libby, jack johnson. >> im not sure about jack johnson, but the rest of them there is a theme. presidents do controversial pardons toward the end of their term. saw that with chelsea manning. trump is using it differently. he understands in order to survive the special counsel pro...

Even jack johnson, the one guy who probably deserved the pardon was convicted of violating a sex trafficking law. there are three levels on which they are sending scary signals. one, as your earlier people on the show indicated, they are sending signals to potential witnesses. they are part of an obstruction of justice cover up. two, they are sending signals against squall justice under law. basic norms of equality. he is pardoning the rich, the famous. and, three, probably the most serious prob...

To squash this subpoena. who would hold the president in contempt? its procedural discussion. the bottom line is, if he was subpoenaed, he would appeal to the u.s. supreme court. it would take a significant amount of time, probably months to even get a resolution of that. we are talking about the president and why, why would the president relinquish his constitutional power and his authority to control the people that are subpoenaing him? we have a lot of procedural back and forth. very expensiv...

Know what? im glad marco rubio lost, im glad hes sitting there in the senate learning how to be a senator, learning how washington works and guess what? one day i may support marco rubio but this idea, doris, that somehow politics is just a game you can play by getting into washington and the next day planning your presidential run has grew up around politics. he didnt immerse himself in it. barack obama got into washington, immediately thought of running. and donald trump, contempt for politici...

Forms of xenophobia and racism. and what we dont want to do is fetishize magical moments and make it center stage. we need to decenter it and keep the focus. people who are fighting, people who are trying to come to terms with what it means to overcome contempt and hatred and that is more important. trump is going to be trump, he is gangster, he appeals to the base. that is not new in america, he is americas cherry pie. so is martin luther king jr. he is cherry pie now. which part is going to tr...

Rapists and as president both in public and behind closed doors hes expressed his bigotry and contempt at every turn. from his reaction to a racist valley in charlottesville to his repeated insistence that mexico and muslim countries are the root of our problems. its not just the rhetoric, its the policy that flows from it when youre president of the united states. the 125 writer of the atlantic just filed this piece on the stephen miller. linda chavez, a former u.s. director of civil rights in ...

Hes expressed his bigotry and contempt at every turn. from his reaction to a racist valley in charlottesville to his repeated insistence that mexico and muslim countries are the root of our problems. its not just the rhetoric, its the policy that flows from it when youre president of the united states. the 125 writer of the atlantic just filed this piece on the stephen miller. linda chavez, a former u.s. director of civil rights in the reagan administration and chair of the national commission o...

Trump campaign. michael cavuto said he was approached by a suspicious individual during the election. laura spoke with both paige and cavuto on monday about those experiences and here is a look back. >> lets start with you. you had a lot of contact with this informant. okay, whatever we want to call him. informant, spy, mole. i want to read one of the emails that he sent to you. i believe it was released by daily caller. dear carter, i find as the summer is on to ask how you are and what your pl...