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Progress until everybody has that to give their grandchild. Ill see you back here next sunday. Now to my colleague. Wise, wonderful words. My biggest take away youre going to go from being rev al to papa al. 9 00 a. M. Here in the east and 6 00 a. M. Out west, and heres whats happening. Now President Trumps lawyer says you cant believe what youre hearing on that Michael Cohen recording about paying a former playboy model. I think they put it out because they wanted a doctored version to obscure ...

Profit or gain received as a result of ones employment or ones holding of office. today nbc news is reporting that the house judiciary committee plans to hold public hearings on president trumps, quote, alleged role in hush money payments to two women during the 2016 election. a committee aide familiar with the matter told nbc news. a committee aide said that the committee wants to, quote, highlight a case in which they believe prosecutors would have enough evidence to charge trump with a crime ...

Result of ones employment or ones holding of office. today nbc news is reporting that the house judiciary committee plans to hold public hearings on president trumps, quote, alleged role in hush money payments to two women during the 2016 election. a committee aide familiar with the matter told nbc news. a committee aide said that the committee wants to, quote, highlight a case in which they believe prosecutors would have enough evidence to charge trump with a crime if not for the justice depart...

Campaign finance violation. so if you -- if these payments were made to protect donald trumps chances to win the election, he could be making payments outside the normal campaign system and getting into legal trouble for doing so because thats supposed to be public. the public has a right to see that. the russia investigation also plays into those campaign finance violations. if the campaign sat assistance from a foreign government, thats a whole another illegal violation. and as, you know, we k...

Congressman elijah cummings, the top democrat on the house oversight and government reform committee. congressman cummings, thank you very much for being with us on short notice tonight. appreciate you joining us. >> glad to be with you, rachel. >> let me get your reaction to this news that the white house has fired the fbi director tonight on the recommendation of attorney general jeff sessions. >> rachel, i was shocked. but not really surprised. after hearing sally yates yesterday and, by the ...

The former director of national intelligence when he was in a position to know because he was director of national intelligence then through 2016. he confirmed yesterday that multiple european allies passed information to the u.s. last year about contacts between the trump campaign and russians. confirmed. gulp. james clapper also had this to say when he was asked about the presidents business interests in russia. >> general cpper, during your investigation of all things russia, did you ever fin...

Bipartisan request. and id ask chairman chaffetz about now subpoenaing those records, and he has basically said he would not do that. and that leads me to another point, rachel. president trump, there is absolutely no accountability with regard to this president. he basically seems to be able to do whatever he wants. and our republican friends are aiding and abetting that situation. we look at the emoluments situation. family members making all kinds of money off the presidency and i could go on...

Number of mistakes, right up to the last 24 hours or so before we got to this place. the one thing i learned during watergate, everybody take a deep breath. lets deal with the facts as we know them and go from day-to-day to day and see how they stack up. the thing i thought was most interesting in the presidents letter to comey today was this line. while i greatly appreciate you informing me on three separate occasions that i am not under investigation, and then nonetheless, i would like to get ...

Him -- first of all, rachel, we have still not gotten one single syllable from the white house. thats very unusual. particularly when you have a bipartisan request. and id ask chairman chaffetz about now suddening those records and he has basically said hed not do that. and that leads me to another point, rachel. president trump, there is absolutely no accountability with regard to this president. he basically seems to be able to do whatever he wants. and our republican friends are aiding and ab...

It seems as soon as there is a situation where there is some negative evidence coming forward with regard to the president, suddenly there is what i call a hocus-pocus move. we then move to another subject. and this one is, without a doubt, not only explosive, but i think it also goes to the heart of our democracy. >> congressman cummings, you have been very outspoken about the fact that the white house refused to hand over any documents, even a single page of documentation related to mike flynn...