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Indepth interviews with leading newsmakers, plus discussions with Americas preeminent political minds. Indepth interviews with leading newsmakers, plus discussions with Americas preeminent political minds. Indepth interviews with leading newsmakers, plus discussions with Americas preeminent political minds. Havent read the Washington Post story, part of that is that donald trump has become enamored of the new Talking Point from his tv lawyer Rudy Giuliani that collusion is not a crime so they ha...

Paul, there is an open affinity to russia acceptable in the republican party. >> the only thing i can think of is they are building a stupidity defense. this is the fifth explanation for this meeting now by my count. >> right. >> and from the very beginning they said -- a lot of them say privately, we were too inept to collude. >> right. >> that is the one thing that possibly rings true when you see stupid at this. >> im going to ask elie? >> no, ignorance of the law is no defense. no defense! t...

A fact that may fall apart because weve seen michael cohen telling reporters that in fact the president did know about it. >> if he didnt know about it, that says hes shoving don jr. out in front of him saying, well, he knew about it. >> that would be the case. i think if you were making a conventional legal argument, but it really feels at this point that weve moved beyond any sort of a legal argument and we are sort of preparing and inokay cue lating for whats coming next. he said, okay, i sho...

Gets information from his real lawyers, freaks them out -- >> you think hes hearing hes in trouble? >> oh, yeah. yeah. this amplifies what matthew miller tweeted out. he must know that dorn jr. is i trouble. >> right. >> he lashes out. he says, i didnt know. which to your point, of course he knew. to elies point earlier which i want to amplify. in josh greenes book, "devils bargain" early in the book he makes the point that donald trump learned early on that he could say and do the most outrageo...

To elies point, to jennifers points, to all of our points, if were expecting the republican party, for speaker ryan or mitch mcconnell to hold president trump accountable for this tweet, any tweets to come, for any reports coming from robert mueller, you have another thing coming. nothing is going to happen. >> it seems to be working. muellers credibility is being chipped away, chipped away repeatedly a among the trump base. it is having that effect. this was a week where paul manafort started h...