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Aggressive after receiving the letter. >> from a legal perspective, glen, what do you think the goal of the trump team was for submitting this? >> alex, i think the main goal is really a public relations blitz. it really is hard to conceive of an argument that if they set up a kiosk at the front door of the white house, had people pay money to be pardoned, that somehow that would not be corrupt, criminal and the president couldnt be held accountable. of course i think we can all agree the presid...

Without the president coming to her aide or giuliani coming to her aid. >> thats everyone who works in this administration. >> and choose to do it on a daily basis. no one is forcing them to do those jobs. were hearing all this from giuliani. he says he couldnt be -- yet nothing from john mcgahn, nothing from emmitt flood, nothing from sekulow. is it that rudys the new face guy and those guys are doing the work? >> i think this was, you know, concocted by the president and rudy giuliani sitting ...

Am, was surely watching. and rupert murdoch watched the creature that he created. the man who never would have squeaked out a win in the electoral college without the full support of fox news, the president who had rupert murdoch at his first state dinner. rupert murdoch was watching that president sink deeper and deeper into a public display of madness and get himself deeper and deeper into legal trouble, which our first guest tonight, michael avenatti, was already analyzing on morning joe on t...

Daniels thats significant and is really put michael cohen in serious peril. >> chuck and i talked last week, there were some theories posited that simple bribery around the recrafting of the republican platform, the change to a more pro-putin plank around i think it was ukraine, could be something -- >> that wouldnt be under mueller? >> it could or couldnt be. but youre talking about crimes that are in the mueller probe, crimes that are outside the mueller probe. there may be new york state inve...

The connections that go to russia and the lobbying efforts they did on behalf of prorussian interest in ukraine. >> we hear about paul manafort a lot and rick begates a lot. were not hearing the big flana. were not hearing about jared kushner or other close advisors along side donald trump. were not hearing about mike flynn any longer. were also not hearing a lot about roger stone. we are hearing about it but not robert mueller interview roger stone. so far he has not been interviewed. why could...

About roger stone. we are hearing about him, but were not hearing about robert mueller interview roger stone. so far he has not been interviewed. why could that be -- could that be bad news for stone? >> it could be and it couldnt be. the thing about this investigation, and thats, you know, frustrating for those of us who cover it and also make it very challenging is we just dont know a lot. there is a school of thought among legal experts that say if someone like roger stone has not yet been in...

Roger stone. we are hearing about him, but were not hearing about robert mueller interview. could that be bad news for stone? >> it could be and it couldnt be. the thing about this investigation thats frustrating for those of us that cover it, and make it challenging, we dont know a lot. theres a school of thought that will say, if someone like roger stone has not yet been interviewed, that could be a sign that theres potentially some trouble there. we know that jared kushner was interviewed ver...

Wolff book and the word treasonous? >> i think it would be malpractice for robert mueller and his team to not want to talk to steve bannon after he said the things that he said in the book. i am of the belief that some of it, maybe most of it, maybe all of it, was steve bannon just giving his analysis and being kind of an arm chair pundit rather than saying that because he actually knows things that lead to him to believe that there was treason, which obviously is a very specific term, which cou...

Foundation, its proponents and directors are out in force today saying all the good it does. the timing couldnt be, well, better because now theres an investigation looking into how much that good has paid off for the clintons after this. the great emperor penguin migration. trekking a hundred miles inland to their breeding grounds. except for these two fellows. this time next year, were gonna be sitting on an egg. i think were getting close! make a u-turn... u-turn? recalculating... man, we are...

Slow. it is so upsetting. apples brand is so key to their success. they have the most successful that theres, the fact that theyve done this is very surprising and they do think there will be a lot of low back. i cant imagine im to give up my iphone though, but i might go take a look. this 24 hour revealed that tim cook, apple ceo got a huge pay raise on top of it all. >> not only did he get a huge payraise but the woman in charge of their stores and online sales got roughly sale. the fact that ...