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in case i rudely interrupt any of the great minds assembled to talk with us, in a matter of minutes, alvin bragg is expected to address this newly unveiled indictment, indicting donald j. trump. this is thfirst time weve heard from him since trump turned himself in this afternoon. while we wait, a lot is happening at this moment, including developments in the last few minutes we now have our hands on the actual indictment. its a doozy its just been unsealed. people are still going thro...

Hour. Ali velshi is here. That would be wild if there wasnt a mention of emoluments in the konsz constitution. Even without it. If you look at the way business operates, the way we operate, the way politics operates, you protect against seeming like seeming like. For your own pocket. Even if the impression is there you protect against that. This was the danger when people didnt take the emoluments clause seriously when we discussed it. It becomes more and more on normal. We started discussing it...

Let me raise two points. first, as to the commentary by doj, remember part an parcel what mary was just citing, when you decide not to bring a case, you dont talk remember who did talk? james comey. it is prejudicial to defendants and its a good reason for it. let me just say, i wasnt there, nicolle -- >> lets talk about comey, though thats a great parallel. comey would say that he talked about it because there was a national interest. dont you think -- >> he said he was wrong and he dirtied up ...

Dirtying up of a -- >> opposition dirt is a very valuable thing. >> its a very valuable thing and they look at it in a very discreet way. they only look at this one little phone call. this is a whole conspiracy with the upper levels of the government to violate the campaign finance law and abuse power. they dont look at the whole thing. add to that that barr is not really an honest broker. he lied to the american people about the mueller report you take that hes mentioned, we have these two ques...

Of concern, the highest levels of government about this presidents behavior, if you look at the anonymous op-ed that was printed in washington post, i guess its only been 120 days or two weeks ago, feels like a lifetime, theres a top official we dont feel what hes doing is correct and we are trying to tamp down his worst behavior. the fact that its discussed is incredible on one level but at the same time consistent from what we have seen in the administration. eric: as prosecutor, where does th...

That, and clearly at the point that comey would have written something, he knew a lot of information. but whats going on here is dirtying up anyone who is going to go after donald. its a basic strategy hes used for years, dirtying up anyone who is going to go after him. >> so, mieke, if youre the special prosecutor, and lets just look at the -- lets take the senators letter at face value, and lets just assume that theyre right completely. lets assume that james comey did make up his mind before ...

Had completed the study of by the time james comey started forming -- clearly forming his opinion, as i think the senators are right, that he was in the process of forming his opinion. and in forming that opinion, he already had the information of what was actually in the e-mails. >> well, lawrence, as ron pointed out, its not at all unusual to start drafting something when you generally know where the facts are going to go. its like journalism. you prepare a draft of a story. what ultimately ap...