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Criticism if democrats dont feel they can scrutinize barr before hes confirmed to be the top law enforcement officer in the united states. >> really quickly while i have you here, i want to ask you about this new washington post reporting that the white house is apparently lawyering up in a big way. 17 lawyers reportedly hired. this is according to washington post. the report goes on to say that the newly arrived white house counsel is the one doing the hiring. we know the president was having t...

Donald trumps isolationist vision. >> ian, while you also cite that letter says it shows an essential lack of respect by mattis for the president, you dont see this as a larger crisis on par with say bannons departure. explain that. >>le wit well a couple points. the most important relationship the u.s. has with china, mattis has been a big player in that regard. its been driven by secretary of state pompeo, much more effective than rexrillerson was. something worth reminding people. >> eennia, ...

Tower deal, we see this kind of alignment between trumps financial interests. he wants his big building in moscow with his name on it and collusion because the questions were motive and method. so the motive would be now the russians have dirt on him because they know hes lying about his dealings. the method would be they are reaching out to him. they are trying to set up meetings with vladimir putin. so all these connections between trump world and moscow, even before the campaign gets going. >...

Be tested in any court room. if they were tested fdny would be hammered like a nail, they couldnt charge a sitting president but they convict the president in the press. >> a couple points. point number one on podesta, it is a valid point but we havent seen the full extent of the mueller investigation. they are looking into podesta and his organization and immediately after manafort was arrested they shut down because of that and that is a fact, the second thing, we heard the video recording of ...

What do you need immunity for? >> a couple points. mr. stone is in the news for invoking the fifth. but as senator klobuchar pointed out tonight on "hardball," this was an old request and not a subpoena from one committee in the senate. its been theorized that maybe this made for a better message than actual legal statement of fact. and by the way, documents cant take the fifth. he has said no documents, no testimony. what do you make of that? >> you see right now the senate intelligence committ...

If youre not guilty of a crime, what do you need immunity for? >> a couple points. mr. stone is in the news for revoking the fifth, but as senator klobuchar pointed out tonight on "hardball," this was a request, not a subpoena, from one committee member in the senate. its been theorized that maybe this will be more entertaining. no documents, no testimony. what do you make of that? >> you can see the committee is moving forward. on the principles side, if youre roger stone, if youre jerome corsi...

Dialogue but this is president trump concerning revoking your fifth amendment rights. >> the people who destroyed the e-mails are all pleading the fifth amendment in front of congress today. if youre innocent, why are you taking in the fifth appearedment? zs s >> she took the fifth amendment, and her moderators received immunity. if youre not guilty of a crime, what do you need immunity for? >> a couple points. mr. stone is in the news for revoking the fifth, but as senator klobuchar pointed out...

Contributed to the probe, which takes us back to the beginning of the russia connection. >> i do wonder, then, when it takes us back to the beginning, are we nearing the end? what do you make of the timing of kind of what the special counsel will be laying out? it was delayed four times. this now comes pretty shortly after the president has submitted his written answers, sworn answers. do you read into it? >> i think there are a couple points. the first point, which i think is worth saying, is c...

What does that say about florida that the state is pretty much split right down the middle 50/50 or the state is bad at counting? >> no, look. its always been a come at thcompetitive state. thats the nature of the beach. donald trump won florida by a couple points. barack obama in 2012 i think it was a half a percent. thats just how florida elections are the democrats turned out way more voters than they did in 2014. i think what we did on the republican side is made sure we turned out our voter...

Lady be weighing in on a national security adviser even if she is a paper pusher? >> a couple points. one on jens point about definition. because melania trump is more reserved than many of her predecessors, everything she does in the public has more weight in defining whatever you may view as her, you know, brand, you if you will. here, i suspect that the public aspect of this was partly, i dont want to say to compensate, but because this was borne out of problems at a staff level, three differ...