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Him. Again, i am not going to get into the back and forth details. As the president estatesed on numerous occasions, he did nothing wrong. The president did nothing wrong. And there are no charges against him. He did nothing wrong. There are no charges against him. The president has done nothing wrong. No charges against him. There is no collusion. Well, Rudy Giuliani told robert costa of Washington Post that he had spoken to the president about yesterdays events. This is rudy talk. Hard to beli...

Post he has not ruled out a pardon for paul manafort, quote, it was never discussed but i wouldnt take it off the table. why would i take it off the table? the president says. he also alleged manafort was political advisor roger stone, and his associate jerome corsi were pressured to lie, quote, you flip and you lie and the prosecutors will tell you 99% of the time they can get people to flip. it is rare that they cant. on the senate floor bill to protect robert muellers investigation was blocke...

Lets talk about this break the glass plan that democrats have if robert mueller is fired or if rod rosenstein is fired. nbc news says that senate minority leader chuck schumer would consult with mitch mcconnell and democrats would want a vote on a floor bill. rank and file democrats would contact a list of sympathetic republicans who have signalled privately they would be willing to act should trump pull the trigger. in cities across the country rallies would be scheduled for 5:00 p.m. thats if ...

How we knew about it ahead of time and the president knew about it ahead of time which sounds like collusion. >> i totally agree with you. and that is why i think having an affair with two women and paying them off maybe not out of your pocket right away but reimbursing your lawyer after he did it, that is one issue. im not sure that republicans read that evidence and say we should impeach the president over that. frankly, im not sure democrats want to do that either. if they do, it is a double ...

All right. welcome back to "hardball" as we mentioned, we are a few days away of the floor bill. mitch mcconnell can only lose two people and five republicans have come out against it at least tentatively. lets turn to our "hardball" roundtable. ben white, chief correspondent with politico. national politics for "news week." let me start with you, im curious the dynamics in the senate. have you four conservatives led by rand paul. a lot of people are saying rand paul cannot be won over. if thats...

Prodress for the american people. >> reporter: still the senate is making progress on the floor bill. is so far some democrats seem to be going with delay tactics. >> we have a court out there that still hasnt decided on the rite of the route of the pipeline, so why with repushing this automatic deeming approval of these things with all these concerns out there? i really think it makes no sense. >> the president has failed his first big test when it comes to working with the congress. >> some ke...

Congress and their employees, the gold plated plan we found out about yesterday. but what were going to do is solve problems. the democrats identified a problem at the nih. cancer trials for children arent enrolling patients. well, we passed the bill to solve that. >> what appropriations bills were sent before october 1st. >> my gosh, we sent the defense, the military -- we sent homeland security, we sent four different appropriations bills over to the senate. the senate took action on none of t...

>> so you believe the president is a u.s. citizen? >> you know, i dont know. ive never seen him produce documents that would say one way or the other. >> do you have any doubts congressman about the authentic native birth in this country of our president? do you have any doubts? >> chris, my -- it doesnt matter -- >> do you have doubts? >> -- if i have doubts or not. >> you wont answer a simple question. see, that feeds this -- no, you are feeding the wacko wing of your party. do you believe tha...