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Fbi director and chase away the vice president. when he went to lavrov and kisly kislyak, he said i want to drop the whole russian thing. not just the flynn case. so you said he is doing it to himself. if he keeps behaving like, there he will do it to himself. >> chris, you will appreciate. this i have a producer named john in my ear saying i have to go to break. i think you know that feel well. >> i know him well. >> up ahead, the legal questions that were raised today including by the presiden...

Perhaps burned a source by sharing intel with the russians, m.r. mcmaster, the national security adviser, went out and said, no, he didnt. how do you know he didnt? because we didnt tell him. he didnt have the information. >> to a brief point, chris hayes said nobody would make that case. i would request leave to amend that statement and say almost nobody, because the new statement from donald trumps lawyer, mr. kasowitz, says mr. comey leaked to friends purported memos, which is opening the arg...

True about something, that would have kind of a weight to it. when the president says, no, thats not true, there is no e presumptive weight. its been entirely given away. so in a he said-she said against his word, its almost impossible to blend the authoritative credence to the record that you would normally give out of charitable reading. >> i think its because hes running out of people who will lie for him. >> thats right. >> and thats why the memos matter. i mean, the connective tissue betwee...

An excerpt of which he had his friend, a columbia university professor, read to the "new york times" and that came four days after the tweet about the tapes. >> michael ikoff, thank you fothat. ari melber, this is what can happen when you contract out legal services in this case, and what i mean is, today we are hearing from the presidents privately hired legal counsel from new york. we are not hearing from white house counsel. we were not allowed to see the white house briefing on camera. this ...

Been a lot of speculation that this rollout of many metals about his conversations with trump have been leaked to the public and this was the opening act of comeys revenge. as noted, the decision for this to become a public testimony clearly suggests james comey really does want to set the record straight or grind and ask in front of television cameras as he goes after the president of the united states. i am not sure that he will be able to contractually make that case. look at this memo that w...

At this point still a newspaper report that the president asked comey to drop the flynn case. thats very serious business. if it was done with the intent of impeding or obstructing that investigation, then its a real problem and, of course, one of the things you look for is what was the presidents intent? was this part of a pattern of interference? why if this story is correct did he ask other people, for example, to leave the room before he had this conversation? is that a consciousness of guil...

Back to justice ruth bader ginsbergs confirmation hearing. mike emanuel joins me live from outside the gorsuch hearing room on capitol hill. mike, any references so far to that ginsberg rule? >> dana, as a matter of fact, yes. texas senator john cordin said it would be wrong to have judge gorsuch weigh in on potential cases and potentially prejudge those cases. he made reference to justice ginsberg by name. >> were not here to ask you, even though some might, how you will vote in specific cases....

Discussed in beijing. >> you said in the case of the presidents tweets that this on going investigation, more things will come out when theyve made that. the collusion charges. all the people in the investigation there. why in one case is that sufficient to say there is no collusion now, versus the others need more information coming out? >> because, again, i think theres a difference. im not ruling anything out. im merely explaining that every person, republican, democrat, obama, the obama admi...

York times" as well as "the washington post." i have to say in the context of this hearing, which is now well past its fourth hour, the testimony of the fbi director undercutting president trumps tweets about wiretapping. also confirmation of a counter intelligence investigation. i cant emphasize enough how unusual it is for this to happen. really seems to be the dominant headline, as opposed to the leaking of what was highly classified information in the flynn case. >> dana: all right. thank yo...

You got to be upset. look very concerned so that in the end, when gorsuch becomes the next justice of the supreme court, which he is quite likely to be so that you can say, we fought the good fight. they have a tactical question they have to make for themselves which is, if they decide to filibuster gorsuch. if they decide to set that 60 vote threshold, in that case they are going to lose that filibuster on the supreme court nominee. there is no doubt in my mind that if they go there, that mitch...