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Consider to be corrupt officials in ukraine. you have been looking into this. what are you discovering? >> i have been tweeting back and forth with senator menendez on this recently, wolf, and president trump and the white house just tweeted out something on this as well, alleging that democrats had improper contact with ukrainian authorities related to investigations that were going on in ukraine. ler lets be clear, two wrongs dont make a right. even if there was inappropriate contact by democr...

The -- that would be the accurate alkt of what came out, maybe just glibly ob maybe what they really think? what do you say. >> look ken needs to speak for himself on this. im not going to pull him out of a hole. ible that most americans want our immigration system to favor people who are coming here that can benefit our economy, who want to become americans, want to come and work and be part of our american culture. thats what americans want. and i think thats what the trump administration want...

>> yes. i can. >> the news of secretary acosta steplg do stepping down, your reaction? >> im surprised it happened this fast. but, you know, that press conference that he gave the other day didnt do him in good, much help. practically everything that he said at that conference was either inaccurate or twisted in some ways to benefit him, make him look good. in reality, there is nothing here that makes him look good. he dropped the ball on this case. we had been preparing to do a fact-check story...

I think they have to be careful and make the case if they do go into impeachment its justified. >> can i say quickly -- >> briefly. >> that doesnt absolve members of congress from doing their job. that is their job. if the president has broken the law, democrats have to pursue it. when youre worried about those people in those battleground states, thats a scary place for our country to be. your job is to protect democracy not necessarily appeal to a small sliver of the electoral base. >> thats s...

>> kennedy: its one of the things that is so confusing because the president -- and you obviously know him well -- is a very complicated person. he can attract very smart, bright, driven, patriotic people like sean spicer and like jim mattis. en nikki haley. three people who dont work with the president they were. but hes also a magnet for people like paul manafort and michael flynn and michael cohen. there is something about that that is deeply troubling. i think the fact that michael cohen may...

Happen. now hes in a hole. period. now hes in a hole of his own making. hes a great builder. he dug a big hole. now hes in it. >> i believe this is still going to happen. he has to make it happen, by the way. the congress has abdicated its responsibility to secure our american border. however, that doesnt absolve the president of his responsibility. >> youre going to give more money, anna, youre going to give more money for security? >> i think the best way is to trade daca for the wall. >> its ...

Big brand-new wall and mexico was going to pay for it and it was b.s. it was never going to happen. now hes in a hole. period. now hes in a hole of his own making. hes a great builder. he dug a big hole. now hes in it. >> i believe this is still going to happen. he has to make it happen, by the way. the congress has abdicated its responsibility to secure our american border. however, that doesnt absolve the president of his responsibility. >> youre going to give more money, anna, youre going to ...

Wrong doing on our campaign finance system and on down. to make this in simple terms i think about like conversation i would have with my five-year-old son. and literally, the fact that you say youre sorry doesnt absolve you of the fact that you have engaged in wrong doing, that you might have hurt somebody and the southern district of new york memo lays out in extraordinary detail over i think 40 pages all of the ways in which michael cohen engaged in pretty serious wrong doing and merely sayin...

Where she was or anything like that. >> the other legal question, significant one, the one that relates in ways to john edwards which is the campaign finance violations. >> this is how new york magazine described the situation he finds himself in. quote, cohen claims he made the money out of his own pocket, which would make cohen the perpetrator. but avenatti has documents showing that the payments were sent to cohen at his trump tower location and communicated through his official trump organiz...

I saw you reacting with pete was mentioning that they might get criticized for their handsing of the e-mail investigation. >> they wont be criticized for going soft on hillary clinton. you have the trump administration in a situation where theyre complaining about being mistreated or unfairly treated by federal investigators, at the same time that there is at least some potential possibility that the inspector general is going to conclude that the fbi wasnt biased in favor of hillary clinton, bu...