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Re-election last year. yesterday it seemed to highlight a deepening divide between the establishment republican party so who or what exactly is the republican party of 2017? for more, im joined by matt sclapp who had dinner with president trump on monday night and david cornyn for mother jones and a political analyst. >>. >> i couldnt make it. >> i would have liked to have seen that. >> you can arrange it with your inside. because he put his name on the ballot for strange. by the way, theres an ...

Breaking the rules and disrupting the system when he was the head of intelligence operations for general stanley mcchrystal in afghanistan. he-- while he was in government, he was known as a rogue operator. here we have his work -- his very first presidential campaign, and if this report is proven to be true, it does seem like he would be fairly implicated. >> yeah. and david, i just want to say, sometimes the most credible information we get is from anonymous sources because they cant talk, and...

>> joining me now is david cornyn and elise jordan. david, theres so much here, but just at that ending point. the reference to establishing a company to avoid campaign reporting is a reference to evading federal election law, which could be a federal felony, even without any more collusion. >> yes. weve seen this over the last few years, a number of groups that used to be pacs, political action committees, form as corporations or form as charities to avoid this. and its become very complicated....

That tate is a british citizen and pointing out to peter smith that hey, maybe this is illegal. and it kind of was the attitude of a campaign moment where people are so into their calls and so invested in winning, that theyre willing to disregard everything with their eye on the prize. and peter smith sounds like everyone was very divested. so it was a struggle for him, and he was proud of his contribution to the effort and went out of his way to talk to shane harris and establish his role in th...

Operation, right? i watched campaigns for years, and there always are these things that happen all the time. but what it says to me is that we in the public and we who have been reporting on this have no idea all the various things that robert mooueller might be investigating. there could be so much stuff going on that we dont know. so anyone say things no evidence of collusion, theres nothing wrong, theres no crime, they dont know what theyre talking about, because there could be plenty of thes...

So it is very confusing to what theyre doing. but it appears just looking like theyre going to do something, saying theyre going to do something, whether they will do it or not, keeps them in the game, buys time off the clock for their base. thats the only sense i can make out of it. >> david? >> the thing is with donald trump as others noted, he doesnt care about the bill. comparing this to barack obama. barack obama sat down with the republicans of congress and talked with 45 minutes, which he...

It must be false, lets go to katy tur. a source close to bannon says things are bad to him at the white house and allies are telling him to lay low and wait out the storm. you cannot wait out the storm if the storm is the presidents son-in-law. >> he will join us along with david cornyn, next. so i went onto ancestry, soon learned that one of our ancestors we thought was italian was eastern european. this is my ancestor who i didnt know about. he looks a little bit like me, yes. ancestry has man...

>> i have recused myself in the matters that deal with the trump campaign. >> retired u.s. army, three-star general, an intelligence specialist had resigned as national security adviser. >> breaking news, a short time ago, a federal appeals court here in california ruled against the government, refusing to reinstate president trumps ban against travelers from seven predominantly muslim countries. >> joined by washington columnist for "the boston globe" and david cornyn from mother jones and msnb...

>> i never said, i guess im here what, 64 days? i never said repeal and replace obamacare. you have heard my speeches. i never said repeal it and replace it within 64 days. i have a long time. >> david cornyn, he did say he would get it done the first day and other time frames. i dont think he specifically said 64 days, he might be right about that. >> he didnt say 64 days, he said immediately, he was the only guy to do it. we had a video where he said it would be easy, easy, easy. so, he clearl...

I would say that what weve been very successful at is we have people that continue to come forward to provide us information. and we want that to continue. >> were back with our panel. david, nunes admits theres politics on both sides of it. his side got out of control this week. >> i expect him to say, who knew that intelligence oversight could be so complicated. everybody on the committee that ive spoken to, the democrats, all think that the hearing was canceled because trump just took a thump...