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In some instances, congressional committees allowed them to get away with that. it seems that emmet flood is going to be inclined to continue that line and push it where necessary, even risking perhaps litigation and fighting those battles as opposed to trying to resolve them more amicably. >> frank, what do you make of this idea that the presidents lawyers are so exasperated, but the presidents conduct -- its on full display today on his twitter feed -- they believe it was an inside job. to sho...

Will protect him because they like him rolling bag the regulations. the fact pattern for scott pruitt is terrible. >> he is popular among conservatives in policy areas. this is one of those cases where performance matters i think on capitol hill. >> one thing we are not giving enough shade to. if ronny jackson, if this is true or untrue, its not up to hi re the presidents decisions. that has to be kept in focus. what will he do about these things? what is too much for them. >> david gregory, zon...

Assessment of this story, where it stands tonight, and michael cohens general state of jeopardy as of tonight after his first day in court. >> i think mcclatchy is a responsible, hard minded news organization and you saw earlier stone, the reporter who interviewed with rachel, said i think they spent over six months on it and they have at least two sources. i would trust the credibility of mcclatchy over almost anybody who works in the trump organization, given the fact pattern, michael cohen an...

I would trust the credibility of mcclatchy over almost anybody who works in the trump organization, given the fact pattern, michael cohen and trump himself have had years of sort of flagrant lying on this one. but this may come down to who you believe, mcclatchy versus cohen. >> and the hannity show is one of the places that michael cohen flashed around his passport saying ive never been there. talk about the trouble that michael cohen is in now in judge woods courtroom and why whats going on in...

I never retained him in the traditional sense as retaining a lawyer. i never received an invoice from michael. i never paid legal fees to michael. but i have occasionally had brief discussions with him about legal questions about which i wanted his input and perspective. and i assume that those conversations were attorney/client confidential. >> so, joey, what does that mean attorney/client confidential? >> well, lets put it this way. first lets understand there is a public relations imperative ...

And unsophisticated, but deadly as the nice attack, where it guy driving an lorry, what they call it over there and mow down dozens of people. and when will they release more on what they know about the individual. fair to say though that you put this fact pattern, a crowded pedestrian area in the middle of a sunny saturday afternoon, van driven into crowd, multiple va fatalities and then the driver kills himself. that doesnt add up to an accident. >> its true, but governments have national secu...

Of spring. you can imagine the crowds that were there. this van comes plowing into the crowds, as you can take a live look pushing down one of the streets there, and the van comes barrelling in. and then, the driver of the van at some point kills himself, and then police find this suspicious object inside of the van. based on the police response weve seen, based on the fact pattern that weve seen, police do not appear to be treating this as an accident. careful-- everyone jump to conclusion why ...

Make this big, monumental, consequential, you cant miss material facts, and you have to disclose conflicts, apparent conflicts, the appearance, it has to be disclosed otherwise no one who understands legal matters at the very least, many in the public, will not have faith in this investigation. thats how it works in a legal setting. >> laurel, its supposed to be the truth, the whole truth, not part of it, when you go to the court, youve got to give them the whole truth. they did not do that at t...

Through the facts as they u see them about the relationship and the payment that was made. the $130,000 contract, a nondisclosure agreement filed just before the 2016 election within two weeks of that date. so wanting to go through that fact pattern and get president trump on the record. that is is a difficult thing to do. the president has not been talking about it. he is and through his white house spokesman denied that any affair took place and have denied his awareness of this payment made b...

And in addition to that, you have people who came before congress will raise their right-handed light. one of those may have been the fbi director mr. comey. when john ratcliffe asked very specifically when he made the decision about whether or not to prosecute and when that happened, hes give an answer tt is inconsistent with the fact pattern that we now have. i really do believe that the true chairman of bob goodlatte, they should go to mr. mueller and understand who was on his team, why is it...