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Pretty extraordinary since prosecutors are saying that the president committed a crime. >> yeah. i mean, this is not new behavior. this is the same president who said he had the largest crowds ever and this has been a pattern of his. this was a very bad day for the president of the united states. i would argue for the country. we only have one president at a time. what we learned today was that the president was implicated by prosecutors in new york in a crime that he -- and the pieces are start...

Difficult issues for republicans in washington. republicans in the house, any way, just took a terrible drubs where communities like my own where the president is unpopular. in the next two years if this kind of day continues that the president becomes increasingly unpopular everywhere. how do republicans think about that to whatever donald trump says, whether its about climate change or voter fraud or having the biggest inauguration rally, do they continue to back him regardless? this poses hug...

A process crime. it was people who are lying to investigators. thats still a crime. thats still something youre not supposed to do and because everybody connected to this almost everybody has told a series of lies. the mueller investigation and these charges that hes laid out have become one of the only ways for the public spsyche to weed out what is real. >> ive never heard the phrase process crimes until this week. the idea this is lesser crime. you know what a process crime is, its a crime. t...

Whats going on in all of these documents. i do think two things are clear. david axelrod said the president is surrounded by liars and crooks, and it leads a lot of people to conclude, if all the people around him are lying and crooked, there is a good chance he might be, too. the russian effort to bring the trump people, to contact the trump people and turn them into coconspirators. the second is the trump effort to get a tower and all the rest and have these new properties in moscow, and the t...

Background for purposes of being a witness is not that you killed somebody or robbed somebody but you lied. the next trial they will testify at to try to get substantial assistance and credit for themselves and prove this other person is guilty, lots and lots of people who commit violent acts are totally believable. the problem with people, one after the other, this crew are a set of convicted liars and provable lairs is theres a bit of a veneer that donald trump has by surrounding himself with ...

Investigation is about. now mueller has said believes cohen that there were more extensive contacts with russian than had been previously disclosed before. that may not be a crime. >> lets put that on the screen. in and around november 2015, which is earlier than most people realize, cohen received the contact information for and spoke with a russian national who claimed to be a trusted person in the russian federation who could offer the campaign political synergy and synergy on a government le...

Him in many particulars. >> just big picture, why does that matter? >> because it suggests that the department of justice, which is run by the president, now believes institutionally that the president has committed a crime. i cant remember when this has ever happened before. usually when the president is being investigated its been been an outside special counsel, an independent counsel like kenneth starr, like mueller himself. here you have the justice department itself saying that the preside...

Donald trump didnt order the money to be paid. >> what is the crime? campaign violation. >> correct. >> theres a fine for that. >> thats true. its not the worst crime in the federal code. presidents arent supposed to commit any crimes. >> jennifer, what happens? they believe he committed a felony. what happens to the president? >> thats the big question right. in a normal case if he werent the president, he should expect to be indicted. the department of justice has opine you cannot indict a sit...

Cohen. do you believe that is actionable by congress regardless of what the mueller investigation shows? >> its a stunning thing, anderson. here is southern district of new york run by a trump appointee, not mueller, who trump has tried to persuade the american public is conflicted, angry and democratic. all the reality to the contrary. the first district of new york is the first to accuse the president, albeit indrirectly, f a crime. yes, theres now a specific accusation of a specific crime. wh...