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In ukraine. in one of the filings defending a search warrant executed on his apartment last summer, prosecutors revealed the warrant authorized them to seize communication records, documents and other files involving any of the attendees of the meeting at trump tower as well as ar ras and emin la rove. im joined by david ignatius. whose latest piece is we know an awful lot abomanafort in the russia. joining him. what are you driving about in that piece? >> i wanted to make a couple points. first...

The investigation into potential collusion between the trump campaign and russian interference in the 2016 election. late last night after we got off the air, muellers team entered three new filings in the case against the presidents former campaign chairman paul manafort who is facing two criminal trials related to his prior work in ukraine. in one of the filings defending a search warrant executed on his apartment last summer, prosecutors revealed the warrant authorized them to seize communica...

We dont trust the big government because people have rights. now you have the democrats seeming to give carte blanche to the fisa court and the way it operated with this application for the warrant and so forth. this is legitimate for congress to one of these documents why are they not getting this information in a timely fashion? >> a couple points. i think its right, and brett sort of underscores it. its a perennial debate. it isnt democrat versus republican. it is the hill versus doj. plays o...

Order. to pick up on a couple points, the significance of this cant be overstated including for the presidents agenda. paul ryan obviously not only reluctant house speaker, but a reluctant trump supporter. and think about what happened during health care. there were a number of different tries to get health care passed. the president pointing the finger at paul ryan to some extent. and then fast forward to tax reform. ultimately they did get tax reform passed. and you saw these two leaders reall...

>> what do those people have in common? they dont work for the trump administration anymore, so scott pruitt is hoping not to join that list. >> thanks very much. lets get some perspective from david riff kin. he is a constitutional lawyer formerly worked for the department of justice. he also works with scott pruitt, knows him personally. when you see all these allegations against him, you know him well. david, what do you think? >> let me just make a couple points. for example, the facts are n...

Wasnt allowed to be built, and, look, his tweets were sort of a hodgepodge of facts and fiction about immigration policy, you know, sometimes he talks about mexico having this very, very tough immigration policy, which it actually does. in 2014, they changed the law in mexico because of the crisis on the southern border there, and theyre fairly aggressive about deport i deporting -- something that trump sometimes points out. now hes sort of arguing that theyre letting all these people through. a...

Party and they have kamala harris and a lot of interesting people. thats the point. its not about sexism an antjuan they had their time and it didnt work. >> i agree with the fact that we have to move on from the 2016 election. there are a couple points. one, people actually want to know what happened. they want to know what happened in the election. so in the future democrats cannot perhaps make this trip up on the same thing that prevented them from winning the white house again. people want t...

Learn more about the presidents plans today because he will be holding a white house ceremony. joining me now is louisiana senator, john kennedy. thank you for joining me. its always good to have you on the program. >> thank you, sandra. >> sandra: you took a wait-and-see approach on the tariffs. where do you stand today? >> im still waiting and seeing. a couple points, number one, i dont think any person should be surprised the president -- even before he was president talked about the trade im...

Two specific fbi warnings and a screen shot he wants to be a professional school shooter. >> yes. >> sean: is there anything else we need before we start talking about taking away peoples second amendment rights and if we had security, armed security, retired military police, i would prefer them there if im in a building that has an active shooter. >> yes. a couple points. im in colorado, of course. we have experienced several of these massacres. columbine, the aurora theater. and i have got a h...

All right. so i do not want to cut into the vice presidents time. im going to leave you with a couple points of advice here. always remember, always, and forever especially for you younger awesome activists. politics is down stream from pop culture. its going to happen in culture first before it happens in policy. remember that. a very good friend of mine said that. never, ever, ever compromise your principals ever. it is your job to change hearts and minds, not the government. a free people hav...