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Russian oligarchs and other foreigners come to the united states. they have investments here. they own property here. they have a variety of interests here. and when theyre here in the united states, they may be contacted by our law enforcement authorities, and they may be approached for the purposes of our law enforcement agencies gathering information about crimes happening in the united states. its the most normal thing in the world. what the central intelligence agency does is collect intell...

Wont show us his tax returns and wont get rid of his personal business interests. >> so big picture for us, michael. is this her way of saying shes the best anti-dote to trum whap she d -- trump what she did over the weekend? >> she is winking and nodding, giving signs shes going to run in 2020. i think shes running on a good message. people want to hold trump accountable. >> what is that message? >> accountability. republican are not going to hold the president accountable so she will. i think ...

He didnt think there was at least something substantial to say on the subject. and so i think, you know, director panetta may very well turn out to be correct. but it is not wholly clear to me what the contours of such an obstruction case would look like at this point. >> all right. very valid point. evan, really quickly, lets turn this fascinating report from the "new york times," suggesting that bruce orr, department of justice official, who specialized on russian organized crime, had meetings...

>> which? >> which is for the president of the united states and the chairman of the house intelligence committee to be persecuting a career justice department official for such perfectly routine and laudable law enforcement activity. thats unusual. >> and that is a very valid point. go ahead. >> i just have to say, ben is so right. you have to ask yourself, why is it that the president has such an issue with our law enforcement authorities going after organized crime? where does that intersect ...

That there might be pardons in the offing. michael cohen is telling friends at least that he believe thats is not going to get one of those given the fact that the president has now essentially labeled him a rat. >> he certainly did. evan, thank you very much. coming up, there is breaking news after cooperating extensively with robert mueller, mcgadon mcgahn will soon leave post. what could that mean for the russia probe. and high school tas the death t nearly 3,000, president trump insists his ...

That. he has said, actually, that he doesnt know of any instances that the president has lied. hes also the way that said theres no way for you to rape your spouse when there were these questions that ivana trump raised about an incident involving her husband when they were married. so, michael cohen is not a credible person. and republicans will do everything they can to remind people of that to discredit him and his allegations. and thats what youre hearing right now. not just from republican ...

So the question is how does this relate to the campaign? i think everybody is waiting to see the final language that michael cohen pleads guilty to. the other question is what type of agreement does this involve? this morning we were hearing that there was some discussion of how much cooperation he would offer. obviously we know that michael cohen is not exactly the worlds greatest witness anymore after what weve seen in the last few weeks. im not even sure that prosecutors would want him to coo...

Minutes, the nudge wijudge will back the jury and we will see what next steps he will provide to the jury. >> we will be waiting for that. we are continuing to talk more of this. as we look at this, if its just this one count as we heard from evan and the judge is saying, if you cant -- im sending you back in, if you cant come to a consensus on that, im going to accept what you found, on the other 17 counts, i mean, how quickly do we think we could learn what that decision is? >> we can learn pr...

Fallout, the implications, potential cooperation here. weve got evan perez, our senior justice correspondent, over at the paul manafort trial. i want to talk about michael cohen. my goodness. what a difference a couple months make. your reaction, evan? >> reporter: absolutely. its a huge difference. i can tell you that one of the things in making phone calls on this story and reporting in the last 24 hours, we were trying to figure out how toreportsomeof this. we were checking in with the presi...

Crime as defined by our statutes. going forward as somebody who can observe collusion to some degree, weve said this many, many times. we can focus on the word "collusion" all we like. the fact that it doesnt have a real significant meaning in the criminal code doesnt mean anything because it might be conspiracy. it might be accomplice liability. it might be attempt liability. there are any number of things that that kind of behavior can translate to in -- >> you did merriam-webster and oxford w...