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These issues. richard ben-veniste who worked in the special counsels office back then, and john dean, who was the white house counsel to president nixon. both of them said theres a real concern here that the president is weaponizing the tools of government to undermine the mueller investigation for his own benefit. you know, dean actually said there are echos of watergate here. you know, i think theres a lot of deep, deep concern among institutionalists, and i dont mean this in an establishment ...

Whether the target is james comey, whether its director mueller, the special counsel, the reality is, is this president will burn everything to the ground to protect himself, to protect himself from this investigation moving closer to the oval office. >> joining us now, jeremy peters, political reporter for "the new york times," and jonathan allen, nbc news national political reporter. its a pleasure to have you both. do you agree with that? hes going to burn everything to the ground that threat...

Site and then below that on various themes on hillary clintons corruption, hillary clintons health, hillary clintons lies, hillary clintons this, that and the other thing, what sputnik and russia today which are two russian government propaganda machines basically and the trump campaign and their allies were putting out in terms of content and material echos one another, reflected one another, driving the same messages to the same audiences and whether or not theres coordination in that is one t...

Separate meetings one where all the good stuff is going to be talked about between the members of congress who are trying to get information that they might then share with the white house from a justice department that, you know, is generally left alone by white houses during its investigations, particularly investigations of said white houses. i did a story earlier this week about president trump now launching an investigation of the investigators. i talked to john dean, who was the white hous...

Policies to date. cnns sam kiley is live in abu dhabi. >> reporter: i dont know there is any other way this plan will be interpreted as anything other than regime change. echos of 2002 and 2003 with reference to iraq. this is about iran. secretary pompeo saying he wanted to encourage the minority ethnic groups to rise up against the central government imposing 12 conditions for future talks which would effectively demand an end to irans activities in the region and to the backing of hamas and he...

He barely looked up. he seemed to uncomfortable and sad. they were all sad but he just as a little boy, your heart just broke for him particularly in that moment. >> and i dont know for you, but that moment for me had echos of john john having to salute his fathers casket. so i definitely saw parallels there with the kennedys. >> so for now, if so many americans because we loved as americans we loved diana and so hes dianas boy, her baby boy, so to see him become what we believe diana wanted him...

That echos trump. he has clearly -- they have information beyond what we have seen that the north koreans are actually somewhat more serious about this than perhaps those more skeptical observers will say. we shall see. the test in the few days following the presidents meeting with kim jong-un, the inspectors are allowed in. if that happens, pompeo is on his way to a peace prize podium. >> and hes also, by the way, i have to go but hes more welcoming to journalists than rex tillerson was. he inv...

About the investigation into hillary clintons e-mails but we knew nothing about this other fbi investigation into potential collusion with russia. thats something that james comey and the obama administration officials will have to answer for in history. >> they were sitting there looking at anthony weiners laptop. anyway, thank you, david corn. im being sarcastic because i love to be that. jill wine-banks, thank you. the echos keep coming at us and its not looking too hard to find them. david c...

Before he came to washington and found that many of the pitfalls he has encountered in have echos in the past, namely unchecked spending and ethical lapses. pruitt did in fact meet with a lobbyist whose wife rented him a room on capitol hill for 50 bucks a night. thats cheap here, by the way. over the past few months reporters revealed that pruitt requested $43,000 for a soundproof phone booth. i dont understand, increased his security detail to $3 million a year, regularly flew first class and ...

Novel? >> i think essentially its a love letter to the best of this country disguised as an equal opportunity high offender. >> when you look at a fictional president that in this book tweets that has echos of trump, why take on trump that way? >> well, i think the book is much less reflective of any particular individual than it is a kind of lament about -- you know, a humorous lament about where weve come as a culture at large. the leaders are results of all of that, and its a kind of -- its a...