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as donald trump makes a third bid for the white house and is the the first votes are to be cast in iowa in just under two weeks. trumps lawyers say the 234-year unbroken tradition of not prosecuting the presidents for official acts, despite calls to do so from across the political spectrum, provides powerl evidence. no president prior toth donald trump tried to disrupt the peaceful transfer of power. had his attorneys point to the likelihood of mushrooming prosecutions. and future cycl...

>> we do generally. theres no question that rhetoric matters. rhetoric about a deep state or a system that is stacked against people is take seriously and has consequence etc. we have to be careful about these specific threats to state capitols. we dont know anything yet about who is responsible, what the motivation was, there are a lot of people in the world who for whatever reason are angry at government. so i just think with respect to these state capitols, its early to tell. that said, there...

Lot of flak back-and-forth because republicans didnt want to go along with a bipartisan commission and so forth, but i cant disagree with you on the question of making the committee, but do you think the process of treating the committee as if it is coming from a very dark place? >> they are doing it all the time and whats amazing is mark meadows is one thing, donald trump is one thing, but they are going after hundreds of people for the crime of first amendment protected activities. they are as...

The decision whether to come forward should have been dr. fords and dr. fords alone. i cannot rule out that the person who leaked this information had a partisan agenda. i am certain ranking member fine desi stein and her staff did not leak it. long serving honorable colleagues have of hers questioned her motives. i know since the day my democratic colleagues and i learned of these allegations, we had one consistent request. to allow the fbi to investigate them in a nonpartisan, professional, ev...

Hell deliver up a report to the deputy attorney general that will be released to the congress. and probably be released to the congress. i agree with you this an important evidence to be considered by the country. not just bob mueller. >> well stipulate to that. but if youre asking me about the legal question. as a prosecutor. in other words mueller principally is not a fact gatherer for his health. hes for purposes determining whether or not prosecutions are warranted. we have a number of probl...

>> honor to be with you, wolf. >> all right. so there are a lot of legal questions that are now coming to the floor in this escalading scandal, shall we say. ashl ashleigh banfield is joinig us from new york. >> the united states in new jersey, wolf, through a press spokesperson today said in fact the matter has been referred to them and they will be looking into this. i want to bring along jeffrey toobin and paul callan. its one thing to sit before a committee where mr. wildstein would not actu...