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im ari melber in for nicolle and ill anchor for the next three hours right now with a lot of news breaking out of new york as the d.a. alvin bragg moves forward with two witnesses who faced this grand jury today, robert costello a legal adviser to that key witness we all know about, michael cohen. hes testified today at the request of trumps legal team. under new york law a person who is expected to be indicted which in this case may or may not be donald trump but in an abundance of fa...

some tries to cast doubt on the the explosive testimony of former white house aide cassidy hutchinson, he tweeted this, i know her, i dont think shes lying. and here is what he said when he announced his resignation. >> two things i think caught me as i was watching yesterday. number one, the president had always in the past had sort of thrown a hyperbolic ideas and say why dont we do x and everybody knew that was a bridge too far. you tell him no, mr. president, that is not how this w...

To ask you, because youre not exactly the worlds biggest liberal progressive hippie. >> no. >> thats not your thing so im curious about what this reveals about the state of gop line conservatism when i dont know about you but in the old days, if you are yourself, donald trump is the person saying he expects indictment, thats not exactly a soros-backed conspiracy theory anymore, trump saying hes going to be indicted. everybody knows about his misdemeanor skirmishes with the law. it seems weird, w...

20 transcripts of witness testimony but no word on which interviews will be provided. federal prosecutors have been trying to access the committee transcripts since april. but lawmakers have until now resisted. and new reporting from the new york times that attorney general merrick garland wants to make sure that trump supporters do not have any basis to claim the investigation into january 6 was driven by animosity toward the former president. people close to garland telling thetimes, he never ...

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I think all american people should be asking that question. >> sandra: the word intent comes up on multiple occasions both with your situation and the hillary clinton email probe. how is that word treated and used differently in both cases do you see? >> while there is no requirement for intent under that statute. simply mishandling classified information, even if its a mistake, if you knew better you are violating that law and hillary clinton knew better. all of her aides knew better. all these...

I think it will be done before the supreme court comes back into session. i do think it can fire up the base and it gives the future. if republicans get the senate i am convinced that trump is going to get at least one if not two more nominations you want to have a few more votes in the senate. i think regardless the republican base is going to get fired up for the midterms in november. >> sandra: you guys are fired up. thank you both for joining us on this lovely hot monday evening in new york ...

Demands answers about what they discussed. >> reporter: the text messages continue to derive the debate about bias in the fbi with the president weighing in. >> no matter how many crimes he committed which were numerous, they wanted her to be innocent, with me, nothing, no collusion, no nothing, they just wanted to take all of us, they wanted to put us in trouble and it is not working too well. >> lawmakers hoping to have stzrok testify responding to department of justice inspector generals repo...

And lindsey graham demanded answers about at the effort was. >> will peter stzrok testify before congress that keeps coming back to stzrok and former fbi lawyer lisa page and the anti-trump text messages they exchanged. >> it is important he appear for an interview and a public hearing after that. we will issue a subpoena for anything necessary to do. >> reporter: bias within the fbi without evidence in the outcome in the email probe. many republicans including donald trump think otherwise. >> n...

Want to get involved in that. certainly they seem like very criminal acts to me. i think the report yesterday more than anything totally exonerates me. there was no collusion. there was no obstruction. howie: joining me to analyze the coverage. mollie hemingway, sara fischer and marie harf, former spokeswoman for the obama administration. howie: that scrum looked like an out of control kindergarten that needed a time out. the press saying the president was wrong when he said he was totally vindi...