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To end? and most importantly, the question is as much about how the president is going to respond as it is how the special counsel is going to continue this. because that is one of the big, big concerns. nobody ever expected the president to fire james comey at the end of january, showing the timeline. of course, that led to special counsel robert muellers appointment and led to where we are today. and although theyre saying at the white house no one is even talking about firing robert mueller, ...

Be in for a real battle, because theyre taking on the presidents son-in-law. in terms of speculation where this is going, on the assumption that jared kushner is the very senior member of the presidential transition team, what is alleged in the statement of facts is simply that there was a direction to contact officials from foreign governments in december of 2016, well into the transition, including russia, to learn where each government stood on, in this example, the resolution and to influenc...

One that traditionally has been brought. thats the first thing. the second thing is making false statements on financial disclosure forms is a bit of a tricky prosecution to bring, because people have innocent reasons as to why they dont capture everything that should be disclosed on a financial disclosure form. this one is different. this one is a false statements charge where the justice department knew exactly what michael flynn had been discussing with kislyak, because the conversations were...

Over and over and over again that nobody in his campaign had anything to do with russia. and we learned today thats simply not true. michael flynn, former national security adviser and a key member of the trump campaign, pleading guilty to lying to the fbi about his conversations with russias then ambassador to the united states. you cant call him peripheral. you cant call him a coffee boy. you cant even say he was only part of the administration for a short time. even though white house lawyer ...

Speculation. but both julia and phil said months ago this is where we would be -- >> theres no question we were going to get here. i think any reasonable observer looking at things back as far as may understood that two people in this investigation had exposure. paul manafort and michael flynn. whether anybody else has exposure, no one has speculated about, and no one really knows. >> stick around, everybody. stay with me. when we come back, i want you to weigh in on the presidents attempts to s...

That. that belies all what weve heard for months and still were hearing today we didnt know. whatever he did, he lied to us. vice president pence said he knew nothing about it. that those stories have all been blown up about what we see in the statement of offense, and thats a real problem going forward. this was a small transition team. the president was a micromanager, involved in many things. does it stand to reason that the president had no knowledge of these conversations? and crucially, no...

Gun in his life. theres all of these things that go along with being a felon. so it is a big deal. any one of us who has, you know, children knows it is a no-brainer in the sense of the trade-off you would make for your children, but i think that the larger policy issues remains, you know, lets not forget what this is all about is the -- is, you know, the continuing conundrum as to why the trump administration was trying to be so nice to russia. so when it happened, what happen, the question is ...

Republicans have changed the language since that time, to try and broaden out that carveout. but the interesting thing is when you only have the bill for two hours before you vote on it, the odds are, youre going to find a lot more of those issues in the days and weeks ahead. still, republicans are on track right now to pass in the u.s. senate a tax overhaul, something that hasnt been done in 31 years. that is a huge step for them. theres no question about it, theyre almost there to a major legi...

The big issue right now, as they move towards the final vote should be around 1:30 or 2:00 a.m. at the current pace. people are finding out whats inside the bill. people are starting to read the bill. democrats are seizing on specific provisions. they talked ant -- about a particular carveout for a particular college. republicans have changed the language since that time, to try and broaden out that carveout. but the interesting thing is when you only have the bill for two hours before you vote ...

So really all together, were talking about up to seven lies that are contained in this one count plea that he made, the guilty plea that he made today. we have his statement that he issued right at the end of the hearing today. ill read part of it, which says, my guilty plea and agreement to cooperate with the special counsels office reflect the decision i made on the best interests of my family and our country and i accept full responsibility for my actions. don, were looking at somebody who se...