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S-m-r-t. >> its the homer simpson of the presidency. >> thats an insult to homer simpson. >> welcome to "morning joe." its monday, january 8th. can you believe it? its a big night for you. >> big night. >> are you going to stay up and watch? >> of course i am. alabama and georgia. right now we have mike barnicle, elise jordan, richard haas, jerry peterson, and robert costa and john meacham. john meacham says hes connecting dots from the between fifth amendment and what really happened in eastern...

The reality is people, like you said, are connecting dots. >> i think that poverty brings on all of these problems. why do you cut our kids down to the bare minimum, you know? we pay our taxes. we do what we have to do. and i feel if we dont push back, we will lose this battle. and thats why i feel this is an absolute class struggle. >> theyre talking for the hood boys. you have art this morning. art, whats that? i was floored. you dont see any of that happening. when they do the school culture,...

Impede in an investigation. >> then my point, jeffrey, is that im trying to highlight, i think, the discretion that robert mueller, if these are the only known facts to him, will ultimately have in determining whether he can assemble an obstruction case. >> obstruction cases are very difficult to assemble, because they turn on this question of what is in the persons mind. there are a lot of dots to connect. you mentioned some of them. did he know that flynn lied to the fbi when he fired comey, w...

>> katy, it tells me the big story were talking about tonight is merging right into the story that has slightly bumped out of the way, the michael wolff book about life inside the trump white house. the consistency there, the dots that connect are this picture of a president who is not even trusted or apparently respected by a great many of his own staff. now, as you know, the white house disputes the contents of the michael wolff book, but there is a consistent theme here, that people around th...

Even the teams inside that white house are afraid to tell the president the truth because theyre afraid of what he might do? >> katy, it tells me the big story were talking about tonight is merging right into the story that has slightly bumped out of the way, the michael wolff book about life inside the trump white house. the consistency there, the dots that connect are this picture of a president who is not even trusted or apparently respected by a great many of his own staff. now, as you know,...

But im not an investigator or a lawyer and i dont know. >> its not easy. i keep saying this. i know it is a bucket of cold water for people who love the political discussion. there was a fundamental question about whether a sitting president can be indicted. you have to feel as a prosecutor you would win the case which is a bar is here. and on television we are playing down here right about the belt line. >> i understand. but to your point about what the public wants, they want some of these dot...

Seeing in the country. they feel whipsawed by this president and looking for an end that doesnt exist. ander they are looking for them to be strategy or larger meeting behind what trump does and waiting for all of us to force him on that, to admit that is deep strategy as opposed to you are looking into a pretty dark void. >> talk about connecting the dots. it is in disputable. >> right. >> the way the white house is functioning is a them cal to its cause. anthony scaramucci acknowledged the fir...

With russian bankers who were representatives of investment funds that are tied to the cr e kremlin. those are dots out there yet to be connected. but if the reporting that ivanka trump has actually been very, very worried about this is accurate, that is a sign of where they feel their vulnerabilities may be. >> yeah. heres another piece from the book. christen, im going to do this for you. this is talking about wolff is writing about the infamous trump tower meeting june of 2016 s writes the pr...

Weve seen an ever growing mosaic of trump associates, there they are, advisers and affiliates who have been drawn into the unfolding congressional and federal russia probes. piece by piece, investigators have been connecting the dots between them and their possible links to russia over the course of the last year. among those with the most clearly defined russian contacts are some of the highest ranking former campaign officials, many of whom currently serve or previously served in the white hou...

Biggest story of 2017 so far, or by far, the investigation into russian meddling, potential collusion, and possible obstruction of justice. weve seen an ever growing mosaic of trump associates, there they are, advisers and affiliates who have been drawn into the unfolding congressional and federal russia probes. piece by piece, investigators have been connecting the dots between them and their possible links to russia over the course of the last year. among those with the most clearly defined ru...