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Pardons. maya i want you to way in on the same questions as john. >> we are getting a strong, very public signal that there is corroborating evidence. thats the way i read it. we dont have to just rely on michael cohen. he walked in there, the mistake he made which is not one that a very, very accomplished lawyer would make, by the way. he walked in assuming he knew what the prosecutors knew and thats the thing you never want to do. he walked in and he was surprised. he wasnt expecting to be ask...

Formed a conclusion about evidence. obviously, my original opinion of cohen was correct. he cannot be trusted except when he is confronted with corroborating evidence. so thats the other thing we learned, that mueller must have significant corroborating evidence in order to have believed him now and to have put forward this evidence that links him to the president in a conspiratorial way. >> barbara mcquade as a former federal prosecutor, when you look at these two different filings today about ...

We wont lit get that, but people may read it and decide about the validity of his feelings. but how is it that you say this guy cohen is a garbage human being, but by the way implicates the president and then youve got this leak. cohen is an admitted liar and congenital liar, but yet, somehow because he said it it must be true that the president did this? >> i think theres a distinction to be made, the southern district dialed in on cohen, muellers team was softer on cohen with his cooperation. ...

Obviously, my original opinion of cohen was correct. he cannot be trusted except when he is confronted with corroborating evidence. so thats the other thing we learned, that mueller must have significant corroborating evidence in order to have believed him now and to have put forward this evidence that links him to the president in a conspiratorial way. >> barbara mcquade as a former federal prosecutor, when you look at these two different filings today about michael cohen and you see these two ...

Said you directed criminal activity. number one -- you find two overlapping themes, the first is russia, and the second is obstruction. we find that cohen was sharing information with mueller, largely corroborating, likely corroborating information mueller already had about contacts between the campaign and russia as far back as twi20. we saw mueller use language like cohen shared information that went to the core of our inquiry. the core of the inquiry is russian collusion. as to obstruction, w...

And i have to say i fell for that. i felt sympathy for cohen as portrayed in his lawyers document. and its a good thing you always wait until you hear the full evidence before you jump to conclusions, a lesson that i hope whitaker is paying attention to since he already formed a conclusion about evidence. obviously, my original opinion of cohen was correct. he cannot be trusted except when he is confronted with corroborating evidence. so thats the other thing we learned, that mueller must have s...

Administration. were going to get to that later in the show. but maya i want you to weigh in on the same question as john, why are we learning about the way cohen was brought in to the special counsel probe tonight in your view? >> were getting a strong, public signal that there is corroborating evidence. thats the way i read it. i read, we dont have to just rely on michael cohen. he walked in there, the mistake he made, which is not one that a very, very accomplished lawyer would make, by the w...

One, pages 10-12, 17-34, then the gang of eight information, the four buckets. what john is saying here -- >> thats correct. remember, sean, the first three, the president has actually called to have declassified. speed when hes holding it back, he recently said. what i want to ask is, if they knew, and if the intelligence committeew knew that they were questionable, the whole dossier was questionable, it was the bulk of the prize applications, and they used it anyway, we know that they omitted ...

Attorney, william barr, who served as attorney general in a republican administration and is widely respected, maya, considered a mainstream conservative legal voice. you might say matt whitaker is about as low a bar as you can get when it comes to credentials so im not interested in leaning into that comparison but hes no matt whitaker although as john mentions, its possible that what interested donald trump most is the fact that he went along with a group of political pardons, clearly self-int...

I dont think that will be a surprise. >> they will really are playing three-dimensional chess here, right? josh, we learned that flynn provided "documents and communications." to the special counsel. are we will essentially being told he provided corroborating evidence? >> so we dont get no because again, this is so opaque. you look at the redactions and all the things that mueller is doing we dont know. i will tell new order for the government to actually agree to plea dealing or let someone co...