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The preservation of all documents related to russia and to comeys firing. the fbi director unceremonious termination of echos of watergate. >> the president acting on advice from attorney general jeff sessions and deputy attorney general rod rosenstein who cited comeys handling of the hillary clinton e-mail probe not once mentioning russia. trump, on the other hand, clearly had russia on his mind when he penned an abrupt letter to tell comey he was out of a job. comey actually learned of his own...

Gentle way to put this. you and i have some years on us. what is the historic parallel to today slash tonight? is there any? >> well, were all looking at the nixon administration for the parallels because thats how we have to go to find investigations of this level of seriousness about matters that are so crucial to the functioning of the democracy. oddly, we skip over the clinton administration where the last impeachment was because the underlying events were so relatively unserious to the actu...

Did you wish he did it when he took the job in november, officially came on board in january? >> i think you have to give a business person who has never been in politics, never been a general, never been in government, even though you are outstanding businessman, it takes a while to get used to what the presidency -- even if you were a senator going into the presidency, there would be a lot to learn, but there is a lot more to learn for a businessman becoming president president of the united s...

Administration for the parallels. thats where you have to go to find investigation of this level of seriousness about matters that are so crucial to the funks of democracy. oddly, we skip over the clinton administration where the last impeachment was. because the underlying events were so relatively unserious to the actual conduct of this democracy. we go back to things innon era, and we look at -- to the nixon era and we look at how that all happened. a lot of references tonight to the saturday...

Nicole. thats french by the way for deja vu. >> each i know that. >> it really has echos of what we saw in our own election, where russian intelligence officials went into the e-mails of the front-runner, someone who they did not prefer, to try to embarrass that fern and hopefully give a bos to this persons opponent. i do think its important to note a couple of similarities. one is the website where this information was disclosed is e.m. hat leaks. and one of the website used during the leaks in...

>> it really has echos of what we saw in our own election, where russian intelligence officials went into the e-mails of the front-runner, someone who they did not prefer, to try to embarrass that fern and hopefully give a bos to this persons opponent. i do think its important to note a couple of similarities. one is the website where this information was disclosed is e.m. hat leaks. and one of the website used during the leaks in our election were d.c. leaks, like washington or political leaks....

Spoken to, about russian interference and the way they did in the rush than election as well. >> there is a lot of echos to what we saw in the united states. you have allegations made by numerous communities saying that russia is trying to tip the deals in favor of marie le pen. they have been fake news stories. allegations about macrons personal life, and his character. right now he is leading in the polls, but we just spoke to a top official in the pen kamp that thinks they will have a trump l...

House republicans pass this bill tomorrow, that will help the democrats retake the house of representatives and protect this health care. so what can sound like some kind of dirty political calculation about this is really a calculation about how do we protect the affordable care act long-term. >> yeah. there is two schools of thought that ive encountered when i talked to democrats about the politics of this. lets just put it inside the politics. the politics of this. one is there is eerie echoe...

>> yeah. there is two schools of thought that ive encountered when i talked to democrats about the politics of this. lets just put it inside the politics. the politics of this. one is there is eerie echoes of sort of the mentality they had in the 2016 presidential election which please, god, let the republican party nominate donald trump because that would ensure that we will win the campaign. so obviously that turned out in the way that was unpredicted. and not advantageous for democrats. in th...

Ousted ceo roger ailes, who like oreilly, denied the accusations. and more problems emerged for fox starting with a racial discrimination lawsuit filed by 11 current former employees. the suit accuses the network of, quote, abouthornets, intolerable and hostile discrimination. two fox persons vehemently 16ed the allegations. all of this echos that bill oreilly followed his protege jesse waters who departed for vacation after a comment he made on air about ivanka trump who was criticized as being...