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Oversight responsibilities over the previous 44 presidents, that would be viewed as impeachable, per se. just that fact pattern right now. but now you have the president, of course, debating whether he held up arm sales over it. said he didnt, but then of course he went on to say, i could have. >> yeah. >> i could have held it up for that if i wanted to. so here you have once again the bank robber admitting that he did exactly what the world now knows he did. >> and, again. >> against the law. >...

This whole narrative here, the president is essentially copping to it and saying hes justified. we dont know yet whether we connected the delayed military assistance to ukraine, which we should note was delayed around the time of these discussions here. we dont know if he made that connection here, but independent of that, a sitting president pressuring, asking eight times according to "the wall street journal" a foreign government to investigate his political opponent, from a legal perspective ...

Leader to do something that would be out of bounds normally, i think thats a huge problem. and i think theyre going to have to answer for that. but heres my biggest problem. it gets very hard to discern what is the truth. what is going on? and ill give you a great example. a counter example. what if the fbi has a corruption investigation on whatever this might be and the president was saying you guys need to cooperate in that investigation? thats a different conversation. my point is we just don...

We really appreciate it. joining us now, cnn senior political commentator david axelrod and cnn national security commentator mike rogers. you heard matthew lay it out there. the basic question this morning is this -- did the president pressure a foreign leader? did the president hold money over a foreign government for the purposes of political gain? for going after a domestic political opponent? mike rogers, youve been in this business a long time. what concerns does that raise? >> well, a b...

Trump signed into law, that wouldve prevented a number of the murders from having firearms in the first place, senator coons, and republican, they have light and try, if you even try to get a firearm and you should not be in your rte analyst -- >> i want to look americas other mother in the states andnd ttell them, we need to look at the fact pattern that happen in place like parkland, florida and dayton, ohio and all scratch or heads and say how can this happen. we have to look at what has happ...

Game, and its unfortunate, and i think it should concern americans of any political stripe because what hes trying to corrupt here is his data and facts. the national weather service came out in order to keep the residents of alabama calm in the interest of public safety to say, no, theres a storm not coming here. trump said there was. this absurd sharpie-gate debate ensued. were in the ninth day of it at this point. and trump pushed it so far to get the head of noaa to come out on his behalf an...

And he is now bringing other people along with him into this game and its unfortunate and i think it should concern americans of any political stripe because what hes trying to corrupt here is his data and facts. the national weather service came out in order to keep the residents of alabama calm in the interest of public safety to say, no, theres a storm not coming here. trump said there was. this absurd sharpiegate debate ens ensued. were in the ninth day of it at this point. and trump pushed ...

Mike pence staying at doonbeg, the air force staying at turnberry, bill barr deciding to have his christmas party at the trump white house. all of these various institutional players are essentially kowtowing to the president either by not observing the fact pattern or paying him this sort of patronage in order to please him and thats not the way good government is meant to run. and to me, thats not even a partisan or ideological issue. we should run a government by the facts. you have a preside...

Do. i was thinking this was a spy novel, this goes like, he says warren buffett is his omaha a rabbi, right? and maria butina is this russian spy. he is helping the fbi investigate hillary clinton. so how does this strike you? is he telling the truth? or is it a desperate brand? >> jesse: big if true. i have been eating my deep stat. and this is it for me. you have comey, you have strzok, this will take me past labor day. so im happy. lets just say that there is no way to prove what he said at t...

Do. i was thinking this was a spy novel, this goes like, he says warren buffett is his omaha a rabbi, right? and maria butina is this russian spy. he is helping the fbi investigate hillary clinton. so how does this strike you? is he telling the truth? or is it a desperate brand? >> jesse: big if true. i have been eating my deep stat. and this is it for me. you have comey, you have strzok, this will take me past labor day. so im happy. lets just say that there is no way to prove what he said at t...