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Information. the other three it would have been whited out. so we knew they were trying to stop the investigation by corrupt means. but the idea that mr. trump doing this to favor his own prospects in the election is anything other than totally corrupt is ludicrous. its the definition of corruption. >> what influence do you have on this? does this work for you? are you able to go out there? do more republicans say to you maybe not out loud but maybe they whisper in your ear that this is getting ...

About washington being run by a bunch of people who -- >> of course. >> -- did not believe in congresss authority. to go -- to suggest that you lie to congress, hell lie to congress members to do someones bidding because donald trump your boss is somehow very, very concerned with corruption in the developing or world, or in ukraine, that ones interesting to me. >> no, the transformation of mick mulvaney is one of the people that is the most marked in this entire process. he was a guy who went fr...

Had just one -- it was just confirmed that he was the new president and i think you will do an excellent job. that biggest part was corrupti corruption. hes looking for the same thing as i am. i hope you get to see it and i hope you get to see it soon. >> shepard: the president is current there. a couple reasons to not do it. and thats the slippery slope part of it.

Stay tuned for that. >> rick: new developments in the showdown over president trumps taxes. suing the state of california after he signed a bill requiring presidential candidates to release five years of tax returns to secure a spot on the states primary ballot. william la jeunesse is live with more on this. william. >> the constitution requires only three things. be 35 years old or older, born in the u.s., live here for the last 14 years. california is now adding one more requirement. "unless p...

>> its not a great metaphor, i think youre exactly right. accountability is not partisan payback. its the constitutional responsibility and it is in fact what the public expects. corrupti corruption, the democrats need to do this in a way that ties it to government policies that people dont like and that ties it to repudiation of a government ought to be about and were seeing something interesting this week. the very first bill, hr 1 that the house democrats put forward is an array of ethics, ca...

Constantly the refrains of drain the swamp, the washington cartel, lobbyists have too much control. and donald trump also just talking, railing against corporate interests. you look at this is probably the worst case example weve ever had of a cabinet being so overly influenced by just blatant corrupti corruption. >> okay, i want to share cnns piece because they say during pruitts general bids, there is, quote, dozens of entries on pruitts 2010 and 14 campaign finance filings. they show payments...

Mueller. the washington post has a story about this where they said devin nunes crafted a report of corruption and he began threatening contempt l information for wray and deputy attorney rosenstein. what do you make of this idea of there is investigation to find corruption? >> my history working with the fbi, i dealt with facts and evidence. i see this is straight out politics. you have one individual and from what i read, it is not like he had the rank to file of whats behind him in the commit...

As we mentioned earlier, the iranian government climbing down on social media and internet throughout the country. >> matt bradley in london, thank you very much. joining us now is kareem. thank you very much for being here. the protest that matt were saying theyre economic anxiety. >> is that the case, how religious and how conservative the regime is? the trigger is certainly economic. it is highly unpolitical. think about how angry people become in america and their priest accused of corruptio...

Corrupti corruption. people who are not only accusing of profound corruption. there is also profound social and political repression as well. it is all of the above and it is just been this outburst of frustration. >> is this going to go anywhere? those protests were really large and the government cracking down and talking to people who live there. if change was not going to come in 2009, if theyre not going to have another revolution then the feeling was hope was lost for taking down those cur...

I think thats what bob mueller is on the track of. >> you look at this as a part of. >> he is shaking down, look what the bill did. the bill, there were 14 republican senators who voted for a bill that made them between $1 million and $35 million. a clause put in by orrin hatch who himself benefited from the bill. thats crookedness. thats crookedness. that cant be legal. in the senate and vermont, youre supposed to excuse yourself from voting on bills like that. this system broken. the republica...