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Bending over backwards to avoid fara registering, to avoid seeming like foreign agents, to avoid iming like getting on the right side of the law for work with ukraine. why would they go to incredible extent to do that? thats the part of it that doesnt ring for me. >> part of this in their defense, this is not prosecuted like -- its very rarely prosecutored. its one of these things, well, everybody passes through this red light. youre suddenly going to pull me over for passing through the red lig...

Money that would be illegal because of its origins feels like theyre pushing it there. >> yes, well, they wanted to build an air tight case on this specific ill emt without getting into other subjects. and thats what theyve done. if you look at the voluminous documents and lists of wire transfers that were made, its very, you know, this would be very difficult if the underlying premise -- and theyve got lawyers, you know, like michael dreben backing this up. the underlying premise is this is pro...

Passing a law that is teetering in a lot of states, your indications are that is not going to necessarily fly. republicans are going to get some of the blame, maybe all of it. >> if you go out, maybe all of the members up for reelection in 2018, a lot of republicans i speak to dont believe the democrats will get the blame. donald trump himself, when he was a private citizen in 2012 said that barack obama should stop trying to deflect blame. republicans told the public that a lot of people who vo...

Term. nothing happened unless he said to do t even if don junior shook hands, he came downstairs to renegotiate if his father told him to. donald trump jr. was operating on his own, trump didnt know about it, does that ring true? >> that doesnt ring true at all. the trump children often did as their father told them to do, and anything of substance in the business didnt gel or get signed off on without donald trump seniors approval. >> timothy obrien, thank you. please come back. appreciate you ...

Help the trump team but not an intimate of team trump? >> i cant characterize his relationship, because whey know of it is just from the press. >> sure. >> so i dont know any more than anyone else. it seems to me he was hired, brought in as an expert. someone who may or may not have been involved in the campaign. clearly once it came time to govern, that is his expertise. policy foreign official worked in washington many years in the executive and legislative branch. >> lets go around the table ...

>> lets go around the table and have you respond to two things. this idea mr. billingsley and others in the transition team on the trump side thought maybe michael flynn was just naive about russia. maybe he didnt know who they were and who kislyak was. does that ring true to you? >> no. that doesnt ring true to me at all. in fact, when i read the story, i immediately started filling in a lot of the holes of what we already know based on these behaviors. the behaviors first from the transition t...

You know, talking about himself and talking about his relationship with the press, why that is so prominent at your first solo presidential news conference in the east room behind the podium with that seal, i think it gives us real insight into what consumes his time. >> but hes not wrong. >> for all of this distraction who likes the media and who doesnt like the media. no institution has ever wildly been popular in recent history but he knows he wants to control the narrative. the problem he fe...

Hosting green bay. black monday came early for mike pettine and the 49ers jim tomsula fired. today is nicknamed black monday because it is the day when struggling coaches get the axe. a lot of coaches checking the cell phone hoping it doesnt ring. chip kelly was already let go. that makes three. john berman, i have to know who you want your team to not face in the playoffs? >> i think the steelers are the hottest team in the afc right now. im glad the way it shapes up. patriots may not have to f...

Cheryl? >> so there was tremendous planning that went into that whole thing when christopher dorner felt a grievance with the department. he spent many, many, probably months and years tracking the family members. so to think these people spent an inordinate amount of time preparing somehow means it cant be work related doesnt ring true for me. i think that probably because there was an ongoing situation in the workplace and maybe every time he felt offended he went home and bought another box o...

Carly fiorina affect, see the swing after the debate and come back to normalcy where actually donald trumps leading carson now, and its cruz and rubio. >> makes you wonder though. >> i think the the two stories right now are that number one cruz and rubio, cruz and rubio seem to be establishing themselves as a second tier for this phase of the campaign. >> i dont know if jeb can fix it. >> later were going to be showing our viewers his -- jeb bush talking about his father and his relationship wi...