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Probes into trump from the beginning which is did people get anything exchanged for money, for favors, for other things they sent into the trump organization, into the trump campaign. >> this inauguration was far more expensive than any inauguration in history. more than obamas in 2009, more than bushs in 2005. i want to hear what bushs committee chair said when he heard how much money trump spent. >> so they had a third of the sta staff and a quarter of the events and they raised, what, at leas...

Course still looming large, steph. >> whats the significant of the subpoena? >> sure, sure. i think it tells us a couple things. the inquiry is in the initial stages. >> anybody who thinks muellers finished this is separate? >> we want to make cheer abolea this. this is led by the southern district of new york. however, muellers name has come up in an investigation tied to this inaugural committee. sam patton, who pled guilty, we found out about this individual the day before the labor day weeke...

Go and what could that have gone to. i think there are some questions not only on money coming in but perhaps money going out. where did it go? how wases it accou it accounted? obviously here we might be in a situation where either theyre going to ask for or maybe they already have received the bank records for this committee. also the involvement of the chairman of this i think raises some interesting questions as well. ive not seen where hes publicly commented on this. >> i dont think he has. ...

Being done with respect to this committee. and so one of the things you look at, as he just said in that sound, was hey, youve got, you know, this was a scaled down inauguration. i remember talking about that leading up to it. you have massive expenditures. what did this all go to? rick gates said at the paul manafort trial that he had some financial improprieties as far as how he accounted for certain things he spent with the inaugural committee. as we know, hes been cooperating and continues t...

Whether they should move forward. we already know an important detail about this investigation from pattons plea in the district of columbia. he acknowledged he arranged for donations from ukrainian and a russian to the inaugural committee knowing that this was illegal. and its very unlikely that he kept that knowledge to himself since he filtered at least one of these transactions through a cypriot bank. there will be somebody on that side who would be aware of the illegality as well. >> a bank...

After a two-week delay because of a government shutdown, the annual speech now just 12 hours away. the theme reportedly choosing greatness. hell be speaking infrastructure, trade and prescription drugs, before diving back into what has become the defining issue of his presidency, the border wall. >> to every republican, if you dont stand behind this president, were not going to stand behind you. this is the defining moment of this presidency. its not just about a wall. >> we begin today with fed...

He would basically stake a flag down and keep giving a speech waiting for everybody to come to him. there was not in his mind, in his makeup, the sort of give-and-take that lbj, fdr, ronald reagan give-and-take. >> definitely not in his personality. you dont see any indication of it. all the people who love him and are closest to him still believe that he had the professor idea. he had all the right ideas but none of the execution and it really wasnt going to be possible after they were talking ...

Captures how democrats feel about donald trump. its not -- it is truly apocalyptic. thats how they feel about it. i think a lot of them emotionally dont feel like they want to show up on the day and actually watch it because it would be too much for them. thats how it feels here. >> i have some dear friends, really dear friends who have -- this has hit them emotionally and very personally. and a couple are i wont say suffering depression but they are -- >> down. >> really down about this, really...

And yet what he said about trump being illegitimate because russia was actually not born out by the facts, objective facts. >> not translated -- >> and what he said about this being the first time hes ever missed an inauguration, because he sees donald trump as illegitimate is not born out by the facts. so donald trump needs to be quiet, but the press needs to do its job and stop asking windy questions. >> erasing the past when they feel like it. >> as ive been saying time and time again, they h...

Behind you and supporters and voters behind you as well, thats a very different proposition from coming in and feeling that support is not there in terms of members of congress around you. i think theres also something about donald trump -- you talked about everyone comes in and wants to do it different, donald trump above everybody else wanted to do it new. he wanted to be a different president. he wants to tweet, be pugili pugilistic. the inauguration, this is a scaled down inauguration, the p...