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Taxes. the idea of -- embezzlement is the most simple crime, as i think richard painter mentioned, and wire fraud. if youre sending invoices out claiming something costs $100, the cup of tea, when its really $5, thats wire fraud. theres a host of statutes. as eli said and many different people have said, were talking about a scheme here. its easy to look at each of these in isolation. when you put them together, it seems like a giant fraud scheme. >> yeah. >> and the trump organization seems to ...

>> one take away is it did not run like a swiss watch. jay, one of the headlines were looking at today thats from cnbc, john kelly questioned by the mueller team. one advantage is you are getting out what happened before. were moving onto a different phase and given that as eli and jeff has been saying this current white house was not necessarily running super efficiently. >> i think they have all resigned themselves to kind of just winging it. that seems to be the presidents plan as rex tillers...

President an at the cabinet level who are ready to do that. >> eli, if it goes this way, the signaling is moving away from commanding control, moving away from operational, moving towards election and one has to ask is this the right strength, the right muscle set based on some of the challenges in front of this administration right now. russia, investigation going on there. china, we have seen the markets get hit last week. who knows what will happen in the coming days. congressional oversight ...

Was believed to have been under the aides command and they murdered khashoggi. u.s.-led coalition has confirmed the killing of an ois leader tied to an american killing. the hard-hit city of paradise and surrounding districts resumed classes today. historic wildfires destroyed most of the buildings in paradise. classes for the rest of the year are being held in other schools and buildings. the deadliest wildfire in california history has killed 88 people. its about time that those kids are a...

Senate intelligence committee. mark warner tweening this would be a blatant and unacceptable abuse of power after the president lashed out at the special counsel over its tactics and targets. during an oval office interview, president trump told "the new york post" he has not ruled out a pardon for paul manafort. "it was never discussed but i wouldnt take it off the table. why would i take it off the table? also alleged that roger stone and his associate were pressure to live. "this stuff is ter...

Her job as a home care worker in paradise because theres nobody to care for in paradise anymore. i met a grandmother staying with her 9-year-old grandson staying in a tent. i asked both of them if they had any interests in going back to paradise ever. listen. >> last years fires, it circled around paradise and now it started in paradise. i just kind of feel like its a target. for fire. >> so many of the people that loved paradise want to rebuild paradise. it will never be the same. we lost somet...

For others they just dont want to go there. jennifer fitzgerald and her 7-year-old daughter lost their home in the fire. jennifers job doing home care has gone, too. the pair spent the night sleeping inside of a friends car inside of a walmart parking lot. shes not the only one suddenly calling this refugee camp home. >> it could be worse. i could be sleeping out here where its way freezing with nothing like a lot of people have been. >> reporter: thats exactly what laura whitaker is doing, slee...

Firings, jeff sessions, comey comes to mind, its not something he actually did personally. >> reporter: no, theres no indication that he walked into her office today where she was working today and said, youre fired. that did not happen. we do believe it was by staff. the white house chief of staff or someone in his office. it was made clear that he is not going to serve at the white house, but she is going to still stay somewhere in the administration, but and anderson, again, why this all beca...

Usually loses. and unfortunately, this president and this first lady werent able to, it doesnt appear, come to an agreement over dinner and are doing this kind of fight in public. >> but why would they? eli, take me inside the white house. when ali velshi and i get into arguments, we dont then wait until were on live tv and tell the world. why would she do this? first lady melania trump could just turn to her husband and say, lets get that lady out. >> well, theres a good chance shes made those ...

Indictments. that that kind of quiet period around the election is now over. you saw that right away when he fired his attorney general, trying to put in an appointee that is going to be much more, probably in line with his thinking and kind of do his political bidding for him. and so, yeah, i mean, i think this is really -- youre totally right, wherever there is something that the president doesnt want to focus on, theres usually a trial balloon or some other kind of drama that comes out of thi...