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Create a motive for them to cooperate with russia in the election? i dont know that theyll find anything there in that stream, but you have to look into it. and to the question of the tax returns, the tax returns may well be relevant to obstruction of justice as was said, but i think its more relevant to this money laundering matter which is one has to ask the question why is donald trump and his ecosystem, flynn, manafort, junior, kushner, why are they behaving this way with respect to russia? ...

This white house? no, thats not the case. anthony scaramucci is the communications director. he is not the press secretary. yes, we might see him at this podium. and he likes tv, theres no doubt about that. we probably will see him do interviews. but sarah huckabee sanders is generally the one who is going to be taking questions. and is it going to be on camera? that is still unclear. and the questions, just because theres a new communications staff are not going to get suddenly a lot easier. th...

Go. >> what made you change your mind? >> part of it is this three -- you know, not being honest about disclosure forms, the fact theyre not embroiled in the don jr. e-mail. i mean, again, if these were normal staffers you could dispatch them. they may not make these mistakes because they would probably be -- if you were at that level of a white house, you would have the experience presumably, the wisdom to not make some of these mistakes. >> also with jared kushner, theres so many blurry lines ...

>> by the way, her daughter has a ph.d on foreign relations. >> i used to think that this -- i used to think they were a good influence on him, and we can go back and pull tape from six months ago or so. >> a lot of people said that, that they were a moderate influence. >> look, theyre more liberal than i care for and they dont have any experience, but theyre sane. and compared to some of the trump whisperers, theyre going to keep him in line. ive actually changed my mind about that. i actually ...

Anyone i know and talked to who serves in government and deals with sensitive issues. its astonishing that jared kushner still has his security clearances when he has disclosed that contrary to initial disclosure forms, he had meetings like this. the president has the authority to decide who gets these clearances and who doesnt, but joe, im struck as i watch this unfold its a little bit like an army retreating. theres a strong position thats set, and then its overrun, and then you retreat to ano...

At their word. thats why were going to try to nail down the truth. >> have you seen any evidence that any crime was committed? >> im not going to get into any evidence weve seen. there seems to be a convenient pattern where all the senior officials of the trump campaign forget about meetings with russians and dont put it on their forms until information comes out and then they have to amend. mr. kushner we not have one, or two, but three examples where he has had to go back and amend his disclos...

Russian governments effort to discredit clinton and help trump. im not sure why we take anybody in this senior level of the trump administration at their word. thats why its so important we get a chance to question these individuals and try to nail down the truth. >> senator, have you seen any evidence that any crime was committed? >> im not going to get into what evidence we have seen. we do know there seems to be a convenient pattern where all the senior officials of the trump campaign forget ...

Disclosure forms. hes fixing those. i think its way too early to assign any criminality here. what we can just say is that the -- that donald trump jr.s full disclosure has been less than full and he keeps coming out and it creates a coverup without there ever having been a crime proven. meeting with a russian lawyer connected to the government is not a crime. you know, even if he thought it was a government lawyer its not necessarily a crime. its just the fact that he cant seem to keep his stor...

Ago. kasie, let me go to you. this seems to be a problem with kushner, remembering three meetings he forgot to put on his disclosure forms. theres something about russia here. >> i think, look, every time something like this happens the stakes get higher for jared kushner as these investigations over at the capitol keep proceeding. and of course as bob mueller continues his probe here. they still havent -- you know, theres been a lot of back and forth over wh jared kushners going to come up and ...

Security clearance after misrepresenting on their disclosure forms, theres just an arrogance, a disregard for what is ethical. >> however, not all democrats are willing to go as far as hillary clintons running mate, tim kaine, who is calling donald jr.s actions treasonist. >> what i would suggest so, theres a meeting between an american and an official of a presidential campaign and a foreign adversary or agents or spy of the russian government constitute a treasonous act. thats law. >> and nanc...