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Who can forget donald trumps homeland security secretary in her confirmation hearing lying under oath about norway? >> norway is a predominantly white country, isnt it? >> i actually do not know that, sir, but i imagine that is the case. >> her white immigrant ancestors are from skand knave yeah, and she actually pretended to know nothing, which is a level of incompetence that is hard to believe even from a trump secretary of homeland security. tonight omarosa stands accused of incompetence, not...

Little tolerance here as juries have in courtrooms and jurors get it in courtrooms. >> in a legal proceeding, can you pull out -- i know you can pull out former sworn statements like depositions, sworn statements. but can you pull out a news article and say in here the president said, i never said that? >> well, a public statement outside of a courtroom, it depends. if its of the defendant or the person being charged, then, yes because it wouldnt be hearsay. so, yes, if he made a prior statement...

What exactly did president trump say? >> there was no conversation about michael flynn. >> so youre saying that president trump and james comey never discussed michael flynn? >> that is what he will testify to if hes asked that question. >> joining our discussion now, senior editor for the atlantic and a former federal prosecutor and former assistant u.s. district attorney. lets start first with what rudy giuliani said. there was no discussion of michael flynn. that may be the only workable defe...

Happen in the trump administration. she was by her own account now essentially the token, the black person you had to have in the room to prove he was not a racist. no one cared what she thought about the policies. no one inside the white house did, if she thought anything at all about the policies. thinking up the trump policies and then executing the trump policies fell to other incompetence in the trump white house, steve bannon, steve miller and the incompetent trump cabinet. who can forget ...

President said, i never said that? >> well, a public statement outside of a courtroom, it depends. if its of the defendant or the person being charged, then, yes because it wouldnt be hearsay. so, yes, if he made a prior statement, you know, that was inconsistent with something now, they could say -- in the right context they could use it as an admission, yes. but even more so when people make inconsistent arguments within a courtroom so at a trial and a defense attorney gets up and says, well, ...

And a former federal prosecutor and former assistant u.s. district attorney. lets start first with what rudy giuliani said. there was no discussion of michael flynn. that may be the only workable defense strategy, rather than get into, i didnt say that. just, oh, no, we never discussed it. >> it is probably the best strategy for him, but it is too little too late. even giuliani has gone on tv. trump has acknowledged there was conversations but tried to explain them away. this is what happens wit...

Lot of poor people looking for federal subsidies. you have jeff sessions looking at ending affirmative action, also looking at extending prison terms. so this is an administration, if you look at it, they were say theyre champions of civil rights but people like the naacp say that only in the presidents rhetoric and his policies and who he has chosen not to hire, hes not interested in civil rights. >> michael steel, donald trump saying triumphantly that mark burnett called to say there are no ta...

Surprised us with its strength and ultimately died in the primary season. and george h.w. bush could never quite recover from that to go on to what was expected by most observers to be the re-election of an incumbent president. >> i think it goes to something that david referenced. that is the challenger finding something that is there. pat buchanan, very much like donald trump in his rise within the party found something that was there and he struck that nerve and he used it as a weapon against...

Im hoping the american public doesnt buy it in this courtroom, the public courtroom. >> and david, so the president has gone from defending the meeting at trump tower during the campaign saying it was all about adoptions to now saying, okay, we all know what it was about. but most -- now theyre saying most politicians would have had the meeting. trump used to say every politician would have had a meeting with a foreign power to get dirt on the opponent. and now the president seems to be concerne...

Families back together. >> well, ill say this. i have talked to immigration lawyers who are very worried that the parents deported without their kids may never be able to be reunited with their kids or the united states will drag their feet for years and years, and it might be years of drama for these children. the thing ill say, though, is that the white house has still not put out a list of african-american staffers in the white house. as of right now, it seems there is not one black senior st...