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Including the russia investigation. but on cohen, there is a lack of clarity about whether in this case, he should also be recused. f or if he is recused, should we even know about it? theres sort of been reporting in both directions. theres been arguments from the justice department that the michael cohen case doesnt fall under sessions recusal from all matters related to the campaign. its also been argued that part of what prosecutors are going after michael cohen for are campaign finance viol...

He is not involved in the michael cohen case. we learned that right after -- we learned recently right after he took over the southern district of new yorks job in january, mr. berman notified justice officials in washington he had a possible appearance of a conflict of interest in the michael cohen case. those officials at d.o.j. in washington reportedly determined that jeff berman shouldnt oversee the cohen investigation even as he took this job in the southern district of new york. now, what ...

The person lindsey graham and chuck grassley today told the justice department to investigate for potentially maybe having possibly committed a crime. they released had this cover letter. but not a classified document. they said it was attached to it. they are apparently alleging that former british intelligence agent christopher stiehl miff mixed up some dates when describing to investigators when exactly he had off the record conversation was reporters about his intelligence reports, the one h...

The public mind that this is something you do, especially, what are we, seven months into a term, that he didnt go through the usual just department process weve learned tonight, this was just something cooked up in the west wing. there are counsel at the just department for pardons. they didnt get a piece of this. >> right. one of the things were learning is, we believe in our constitutional system of government there are checks and balances. but really, it is kind of an honor system when you t...

From what went wrong in our election and what seems to have worked well in the macron campaign is speed. and decisive action. >> russian backed hackers used a email stealing strategy against john podesta who testified for the house russia probe. >> i think the president and the entire administration were dealing with an unprecedented incident of the weaponization of russian cyber activity. >> in a separate development former trump campaign chairman paul manafort retroactively registered as a for...

Pardons himself, hell get impeached. >> is that the case. because so far the most powerful republican lawmakers who have control of the house have been reluctant to push back on presidential power, some like devin nunez have been huge allies on all things russia investigation. >> his r they have been robing to see how far he can push, both against this special counsel investigation and on other norms before other members of congress speak up and so far hes been able to push without much push b...

Proceeded to pardon michael cohen in violation of long-standing policy, and did not consult with the pardon attorney, did not consult with d.o.j., that you would express strong objection to that and would consider resigning if that step were taken. hopefully it will not come to that. >> hopefully it will not come to that. but just as the -- just as in the mueller investigation, the separate and now looming investigation into the presidents attorney michael cohen, has had this big question hang...