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Dumping documents helpful to donald trump, hurtful to hillary clinton. and then, you know, flash forward after the election. investigation starts. and the family is asked, the president is asked did you have any meetings with any representatives of the russian government? the answer is no, absolutely not. not in a million years. and then donald jr. is asked, well, what about this meeting? and in a pattern we have seen over and over again, when confronted with evidence of particular meetings, the...

Spicer was asked that question and said he could not answer it. >> how would you describe the presidents level of confidence with jeff sessions. >> identify not had a discussion with him. >> last time -- >> im answering the question. die not have that discussion with him. >> confidence in the attorney general? >> i said ive not had a discussion with him on the question. if i havent had a discussion with him about a subject i tend not to speak about it. >> flash forward to later on in the evening...

Year ive ever seen. >> welcome back to "hardball." that was then. comedian al franken on the set of snl while talking about the midterm elections of 1994. flash forward 22 years now, and his new book is al franken, giant of the senate. senator franken writes about president trumps takeover the republican party, and he said it has its root in the fact-free, right wing media bubble and in newt gingrichs pioneering of the politics of destruction back in the 90s. im joined now by democratic senator ...

To fire people. thats what happened. >> is that the key question, susan? flash forward to 1:30 today when sean spicer takes questions from reporters. will the key question be whats up with the 18 days? what happened? >> the specific esti is 18 days, tell us your side of that. we havent heard that. there is a bigger question from yesterdays hearing. which is, just because weve talked about it for a couple of months, lets not forget whats happened here. the top national security adviser to the pre...

Again. they want to move up to it very slowly, carefully and so that everybody is in line together. >> what a difference a week makes. a week ago we were talking about the house freedom caucus by name on twitter and calling out democrats, i wont work for you. flash forward to now and meeting with the house freedom caucus and, matt, the president did an interview with the financial times where he said, quote, if we dont get what we want, well make a deal with the democrats. if that happens, well ...

Hollowing out of the political center and this coincided with the advent of microtargeting in 2004, then advanced by team obama and now, of course, everybody usees it. look, the electorate and politicians alike used to be conditioned to know that the middle mattered. thats why big deals in washington were bipartisan. tax reform in the 80s and welfare reform in the 90s. flash forward to 2010, democrats passed health care without a single republican vote and right now republicans appear poised to ...

Ideological middle ground with voting records somewhere between the most conservative democrat and the most conservative republican. in 2013 that number was down to four. lets go to the senate. in 2002 there were seven members, in 2013, zero. so as you can see in the last 15 years weve seen a complete hollowing out of the political center and this coincided with the advent of microtargeting in 2004, then advanced by team obama and now, of course, everybody usees it. look, the electorate and poli...

Hollowing out of the political center and this coincided with the advent of microtargeting in 2004, then advanced by team obama and now, of course, everybody usees it. look, the electorate and politicians alike used to be conditioned to know that the middle mattered. thats why big deals in washington were bipartisan. tax reform in the 80s and welfare reform in the 90s. flash forward to 2010, democrats passed health care without a single republican vote and right now republicans appear poised to ...

Discussion going on about how much he can say but it seems like that is going to be the big day here. >> pete, flash forward if you can a few hours for us. senator graham has hinted at some big announcement at that hearing thats happening this afterno afternoon. what do you think were going to hear out of what the fbi director has told the senators privately? does it depend on what they get? >> my guess is a somewhat informed guess well not hear a very dramatic announcement from senator graham. ...

Spoke with sergey kislyak last july. it was during these conversations, im told by j.d. gordon, they talked about improving relations between the u.s. and russia. it was dur thag time, erin, that j.d. gordon says he went to the convention, advocating on behalf of the campaign for language in the gop platform that advocated against the arming of the ukrainians in their fights against the prorussian rebels. that is something the trump campaign denied they were doing at the time. it denied it was a...