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He understands what he has to do to get out in front of this. on the other hand, everything that hes acting like somebody who is clearly guilty and cornered and understands even if nobody else will say it that the legitimacy of his presidency is very much in question. >> that last part, just to underline that, the president launching into jeff sessions berating him and saying you should unrecuse so you can control this inquiry is another data point of a person acting like theyre guilty. i dont k...

Well look at a lot of traditional metrics that are pointing in one direction. that are pointing towards what history suggests what is going to happen this year. and if that doesnt happen, i think one of the questions that was posed by 2016 is, are the rules of politics permanently altered, or was 2016 sort of an aberration? and that story will become clear as time passes, but this is a key data point, i think this year, what happens in this midterm. >> theres a lot more to say on this subject an...

Lot of traditional metrics that are pointing in one direction. that are pointing towards what history suggests what is going to happen this year. and if that doesnt happen, i think one of the questions that was posed by 2016, is are the rules of politics permanently altered, or was 2016 sort of an aberration. and that story will become clear as time passes, but this is a key data point, i think this year, what happens in this midterm. >> theres a lot more to say on this subject and the other var...

Against carter page, which somehow was turned into spying on the campaign, or it is this confidential informant that the fbi used which is again -- by trump turned into spying and these are normal fbi tools that administration or the president has turned into conspiracy theories about an overly broad and overly aggressive investigation. >> and joey jackson, you are our legal analyst, give us legal perspective. how do you see this unfolding because there are enormous legal ramifications. >> of co...

The totality of events that led to this. what are you hearing from your sources? >> if we go back and we look at some of the clues that have been bread crumbs in international diplomacy we saw that the vice president was taking some very strong positions publically. that followed with a statement from the north korean government kweging the tone of the vice president and that was a bridge too far according to sources that in the environment we have seen over weeks, one of the things that has bee...

Would like to ask you about this new revelation about the payment to stormy daniels. why does this matter? >> it matters, first of all, because the president has a legal obligation under the ethics laws to report those kinds of debts. his failure to do so could be criminal. its been referred to the deputy attorney general rod rosenstein by that ethics chief of the government for possible investigation and even prosecution so its one more data point in an investigation that is ongoing and it adds...

Fight. its just the tone of the fight. >> and the white house has leveraged his positions recently. his support for mike pompeo was a key data point when the white house was trying to get moderate democrats who like john mccain to support the secretary of state. >> and his opposition to gina haspel has not changed the fact shell probably be confirmed, too. the president is in the room with reporters now with auto executives. he has just defended the service of his environmental protection agen...

Showed that they facilitated transit for the 9/11 hijackers. osama bin ladens own son lived in iran for time being. documents that were captured when his home was raided in pakistan that the obama administration refused to at release because it would paint a very dark picture of iran and harm the possibility of getting the deal. the trump administration finally released and it shows osama bin laden on the record saying to his followers youve got to work with the iranians.ow they hate the america...

Embassies in kenya. we note, the 9/11 commission showed that they facilitated transit for the 9/11 hijackers. osama bin ladens own son lived in a run for time being. documents that were captured when his home was raided in pakistan that the obama administration refused to at release because it would paint a very dark picture of iran and harm the possibility of getting the deal. the trump administration finally released and it shows osama bin laden on the record saying to his followers youve got ...

Country wasnt working for me, so youre damn right i voted for donald trump, and theres more work to be done and were going to break some furniture on the way, what do you say to him and what do you say to the second person who comes up and sincerely looks in your eye and says, im worried about our country. >> what you say is that there is room in the american soul for us to disagree about the means to solve problem, but our best moments, the moments we look back on, the moments we want to emulat...