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Provisions on the presidential tax, the transparency and accountability act, requiring candidates to disclose their tax returns as a condition of appearing. i will tie this into what you had mentioned in your monologue. that is the issue of the president calling heads of state regarding this ongoing investigation of how the counterintelligence matter -- as james comey shouldve called it based on his previous statements -- how that started. heres what we have. my colleague professor harry hutchis...

Returns as a condition of appearing. on californias presidential primary ballot. i will tie this into what you had mentioned in your monologue. that is the issue of the president calling heads of state regarding this ongoing investigation of how the counterintelligence matter -- as james comey shouldve called it based on his previous statements -- how that started. heres what we have. my colleague, professor harry hutchison, who is a senior policy analyst for the american center for law and just...

Concerned about and something hes been trying to hold back, that hes been trying to keep secret, that hes been trying to keep private. but he is now losing that fight. one of the surprise revelations from the mueller report and from muellers testimony to congress was that mueller and his team didnt do a financial investigation pertaining to the president, his business, his family. although robert mueller repeatedly asserted unequivocally that financial entanglements, particularly secret financia...

Whats not? perhaps thats the best question. >> i guess, bill, the concerns here are it is justice department policy that if you dont charge a person with a crime, you dont go public with the evidence. it is also federal law that if something is classified and counter intelligence investigations are classified. weve been told the mueller probe was a counter intelligence matter. those things are not supposed to become public. and with all due respect to my old friend jim comey, i think he is the w...

Counterintelligence matter as well as a criminal matter, it helps answer the question how they got involved in the first place. in addition, at a different level, i think the answer to your question is we have thought of these as two very straight things, but if youre trying to understand how bob mueller is thinking, if youre trying to understand how the fbi was thinking about it, understanding the narrative theyre telling themselves, they may be much less separate, that it might not be the stor...

Launched as a counterintelligence matter or it can be launched as a criminal matter. but when the bureau shows up, it shows up with all of its authorities, not just the ones associated with the particular type of investigation originally predicated. a lot of big words there. that point, that there has been a separation between the counterintelligence, he says that wall has disappeared or gotten smaller. do you agree with that? >> i think so. after 9/11, the fbi got out of the war on drugs, which...

>> regardless of recommendation, i was going to fire comey. knowing there was no good time to do it. and in fact, when i decided to just do it, i said to myself, i said, you know, this russia thing with trump and russia is a made up story. >> this rusher thing. now "the times" notes special counsel robert mueller took over this inquiry into president trump when he was appointed, just days after the fbi opened it and it is unclear whether mr. muller is still pursuing the counterintelligence matte...

Americans are very much divided on this. eric: do they have anything else that we dont know about yet? that could be a possibility. >> thats the heart of the issue, eric. best question yet. and you can find the answer to that i think in the tenth paragraph of that new york times story. what does it say if you go and scan down to the bottom of the page? it says no evidence has been found that hes been colluding with the russians. eric: let me read that to you. we showed that a second ago. quote i...

The president said this. >> regardless of recommendation, i was going to fire comey. knowing there was no good time to do it. and in fact, when i decided to just do it, i said to myself, i said, you know, this russia thing with trump and russia is a made up story. >> this rusher thing. now "the times" notes special counsel robert mueller took over this inquiry into president trump when he was appointed, just days after the fbi opened it and it is unclear whether mr. muller is still pursuing the ...