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Very close with bribery and differently extortion. we never address the emoluments question, we dont know what is going on with russia, helsinki, there is a lot here and democrats can continue to push forward before turning this over to the senate and theres a lot more room for the democrats. shannon: weve been told theres an urgency to getting this done because the president is potentially going to interfere in 2020 and got to make it. >> if they thought they had these cases they should have tr...

With extortion, so we could have gone there, never address the emoluments question, domestic and foreign, dont know whats going on with russia in all of these cases, remember helsinki, so there is a lot here, and the democrats, by the way, can continue to push forward with additional hearings before turning this over to the senate. this is not done, and theres a lot more room for the democrats to work with here. >> shannon: but mollie, we have been told there is an urgency to getting this done b...

Trust. this president hasnt done that. there are foreign governments that think they can curry favor, the whole emoluments question, with him if they stay at his hotels or do things. there is so much conflict of interest and potential conflict of interest. and here it is with ukraine as well. and, remember, he withheld some aid to ukraine that the congress voted for. so its just one thing after another after another. >> hell say, but we eventually gave them the aid, and they did have problems ab...

The way he behaved. then going for a secelebratory dinner at the trump hotel which an emoluments question. the hotel even existed. >> the connection between the -- i want to make a link, please. >> please do. its very important. put your five minutes are up -- i mean, what was this? >> rude, inappropriate, and demonstrating why you need a confirmation hearing from someone whos going to be an acting attorney general. you should not never able to behave like that in a group that -- >> we did have ...

Why senator mccaskill? >> a really good question and also an unanswered question. there is the coincidental times of trump going to missouri, vote her out. within a month this happens. she was highly critical of russia, also of wikileaks. those are circumstantial. what struck me about this was just how unsophisticated the whole thing is. really. they set up a fake page. tell you your e-mail password expired and ask you to log in and change it. thats it. anybody can be duped by that. >> the verif...

This. >> actugiuliani has made a poin michael cohen is a known liar compared to my client donald trump who is credible. it makes no sense. that being said -- >> you just won. can you rest your case. >> the question -- i talked to a lot of people about this who made the point and i would like to take this to joyce, that if news of this trump tower meeting came out now as opposed to a year ago or whenever it came out that we would be like in a crisis. this is insane. this is crazy. this is collusi...

Investigate and try to find. it is without question natural evidence on its face, if it was supported would be an impeachable offense. that would be an article of impeachment no question about it. whether it gets over the line in a courtroom, is another matter and its always been another matter. people have to separate channels in their head as opposed to impeachable which is very different. this is going to come down to the other people in the room, we dont yet know who those people are. but we...

Robert mueller asks you this question if he does. your answer can be, did you hear donald trump say that and donald trump jr. say that to donald trump your answer is yes, no or i dont recall. so one reason on the giuliani side of this case why you might want this out there is it is now extremely difficult for the trump-giuliani side of the case to communicate directly to all the other witnesses who could have been in that room. so getting this out there is saying to them, you have to make a deci...

Also -- >> the trump organization cfo, yes. >> that, and ive said it from the beginning. this is going to come back to 15, 20, 30 years of slimy, dishonest, underhanded business dealings. dhaect wi connect that with russia and other things we havent even talked about. >> john? >> this isnt the first time weve heard assertion from michael cohen. steve bannon acknowledged -- he wasnt in the trump campaign at the time, but formed speculation and retroactive informed speculation, another person supe...

Its tragic. >> can i put a fine point on what you said. michael cohen told you some time ago that donald trump knew about the june 2016 meeting before it happened? >> yes. >> lets just say as we mentioned in the last hour we had a previous account, which is steve bannons account where steve bannon said effectively of course donald trump knew about this meeting, of course the russians were marched up to donald trumps office by donald trump jr. we know steve bannon was not present. steve bannon kn...