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I will probably amount sometime after the first of the year just exactly what im going to do. >> do you think mitt or romney has a political future? >> i sure do. if i didnt run, i would love to see myrna my place. >> we are back with the panel. check out this merry christmas from the salt lake tribune editorial page to senator orrin hatch. "his utter lack of integrity that rises from his unquenchable thirst for power. it would be good for utah if hatch finally caught the great whale of -- white...

Two, if its possible to put something on a piece of paper when you have got donald trump and vladimir putin literally swooning at each other in public appearances. before they had their call yesterday about intel sharing, which is pretty standard with just about everyone in any country were not at war with we share intel with. but two days earlier, vladimir putin praised him for the american economy. he call him to say thanks. what difference does it make whats on a piece of paper if the preside...

A senate chamber where most of his fellow republicans have gone on record publicly saying they dont want to see him there and so the question is, how aggressive does, say, mitch mcconnell become, how aggressive does the senate ethics committee become looking into all of these allegations of sexually -- having sexual -- making sexual advances on underage girls. >> his republican colleagues have also promised to welcome him with an ethics investigation as well. what would it take for doug jones to...

>> i see republicans who are well aware of bob muellers record. sean hannity knows what bob mueller has done for this country. leave his war record aside in vietnam. he protected this country after 9/11. and the hypocrisy of the party who clapped really, really, really loudly when donald trump gave his bat bleep crazy convention speech about law and order attacking the top law enforcement officials in the country is staggering to me. >> a couple points. prosecutors in this country have tremendou...

Street. >> were getting rid of carried interest provisions. >> theyre not. it is a loophole that benefits the wealthy, senator, as you know. two of the wealthiest men in the world, americans, benefitted from steve schwartzman, worth more than $12 billion. henny kravis, both of them donors to crumps inauguration funt. is this cronyism at its best? >> let me make a couple points. number one, i think our bill will simplify the tax code. right now, its 10 million words. you can stand on the thing an...

Well see if there is bleed. this election result would seem to indicate there is bleed. i want to make another couple points. the manchester, new hampshire mayoral race went to a democrat. maine voted to expand medicare with 59% of the vote. those are two har bingeers that would not appear to be good signs for republicans. >> jon: it was one year ago today we voted for -- things -- things have changed a lot in aier since president trump was voted into office. jake sherman. good to have you on. a...

Investigating people in a sense of bringing about a prosecution, thats not our role. we are looking at the whole range of actors in terms of what kind of relationship did they have with the russians, and so we are not excluding anybody from that. we are determined, at least on our side of the aisle we certainly are, to follow the facts where they lead and we hope republicans are as well. mueller has a very different responsibility obviously, and theres a specific connotation to being a suspect i...

Prosecutes sean spicer spent some time at the podium distancing himself from manafort. so to me if its flynn, that hits much closer to home than manafort who goot fired from the campaign and never actually worked in the white house. >> michael, your head is nodding. >> i agree totally with that. flynn would be much who damaging for the white house than manafort. a couple points. first of all, for what its worthy can tell you that attorneys for both manafort and flynn are telling colleagues that ...

But if those things have nothing to do with donald trump, the question to me was how is the white house going to respond. well, thats how i would expect them to respond is to say, well, what the special has uncovered here has nothing to do with my campaign or any russian collusion. obviously were deep into speculation here, but thats the rabbit hole were going down. regarding manafort and flynn, i actually think flynn hits closer to home. hes the one who actually took a job in the white house be...

Inherent right to do that, and well do that. >> were there limitations that night? >> im not aware of that. ive seen speculation. i dont have any evidence of limitations during that particular night but, again, if there were, the investigation certainly tease that out. ive seen open-source reporting to that effect. i dont have any information in the operating chain that there were limitations. when i say limitations, you know, part of the requirement is, obviously, to build and integrate. i dont...