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Night with plenty more news coming at us. it wasnt enough. while donald trump tries to spin seemingly criminal confession style plans about 2020 and his receipt activity to this foreign campaign dirt, a whole separate wing of the government, the office of special counsel completed its review of kellyanne conways conduct in office and recommended formally that she be terminated for breaking a law that prohibited her from abusing a government position to influence elections. heres what they said a...

Its been quite a week on friday night with plenty more news coming at us. it wasnt enough. while donald trump tries to spin seemingly criminal confession style plans about 2020 and his receipt activity to this foreign campaign dirt, a whole separate wing of the government, the office of special counsel completed its review of kellyanne conways conduct in office and recommended formally that she be terminated for breaking a law that prohibited her from abusing a government position to influence e...

Sort of needs to kick into gear and as democrats get ready to start their campaigns against him, now theres a problem in a specific corner of trumps cabinet that may be bigger than the others in terms of substance and implications for the presidents most important allies on capitol hill, because president trumps transportation secretary elaine chao is married to the republican leader of the senate, mitch mcconnell. theres now a snowballing series of corruption around elaine chao and how shes bee...

Him, now theres a problem in a specific corner of trumps cabinet that may be bigger than the others in terms of substance and implications for the presidents most important allies on capitol hill, because president trumps transportation secretary elaine chao is married to the republican leader of the senate, mitch mcconnell. theres now a snowballing series of corruption allegations around elaine chow and how shes been running the transportation administration under trump. it started when it was ...

Congress that they need to, they shall hand over the presidents tax returns to congressman richie neal. now, whos making the decision on that the irs in terms of how to respond to that legally binding demand? we have been trying for a long time now on this show to find out whether the irs chief counsel who the president personally insisted should be expedited through the senate so he could be installed in that job quickly, we have been trying for weeks now to find out from the irs whether in fac...

Been brought to light. and now democrats are trying going back and go over some of that information and see if they can bring some of that information to the public. and that is an argument that is much more difficult to make to the public. it is looks like top officials were wasting taxpayer dollars, flying on private flights, skirting all the rules that have been put in place by ethics officials and the white house looks like theyre trying to defend those people, that doesnt necessarily work f...

Joyce vance, the fact pattern we have from rudy giuliani is $24,000 was ultimately reimbursed and the checks were written by individual one himself to reimburse him for hush money payments. we also have the southern district of new york sponsoring that information by naming donald trump as individual one. it seems like the smoking gun and the wrinkle here is understanding who told the ethics officials or lawyers filling out those forms to lie on them? >> when you file these forms, you know, you ...

To do with whitakers qualifications which were severely lacking and everything to do with his loyalty to donald trump. and with his public hostility to the mueller investigation. in his combative, often evasive testimony today before the house judiciary committee, his first public appearance in congress, whitaker did little to ease concerns that hes a political hack, installed to run interference for the president. the acting attorney general defended his decision to not recuse himself from over...

Interference for the president. the acing attorney general defended his decision to not recuse himself from oversight of the mueller investigation, despite having been advised to do so by ethics officials. then he denied interfering with the investigation or discussing it with the president but given the opportunity too declare the legitimacy of the special counsels work, whit canker declined to do so. guilty pleas from manafort, flynn, papadopoulos and dozens of indictments including 13 russian...

By they? do you mean the ethics officials? >> im asking you what guidance did they recommend that you recuse yourself? so thats a question to you. did they recommend that you recuse yourself from any involvement in the criminal investigation into the world patent marketing? >> i am recused from the investigation into that cannot. >> what about any matter involving hillary clinton? its been well documented of your public calls for renewed investigations into matters related to mrs. clinton. >> ag...