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Are listening to these claims by rudy giuliani and by commentators that are horrified that this president believes he has such sweeping absolute power and same with giuliani believing that, again, its just bad law. people need to understand that. it is a fog machine but also rudy giuliani is shamefully spitting out lies that go against history. you can take him saying that the president can pardon himself, weve all seen now the 1974, august 74 opinion by the justice department that echoes hundre...

Most basic values that we try to teach our children when theyre five and six years old. >> the president is not thinking about values or being a role model. he doesnt have a grand vision of the presidency or the country or history. hes thinking about his own survival. ill borrow again the chris matthews term, the fog machine. he has rudy giuliani out there spraying fog, saying the president can pardon himself. that this investigation is unconstitutional. whatever he can put out there to undermin...

Mueller. >> wow. >> this is what chris matthews called on this show the other day the fog machine. just spray the fog out there. there are 13 angry democrats, just corrupt and indict in your own public way what is bob mueller is taking on right now and its not going to work. not to be too dismissive of rudy giuliani, john heilemann, but bob mueller is not watching interviews conducted from tel aviv and then saying to himself, you know, rudy giuliani thinks i should speed this up and end it by se...

>> i wouldnt underestimate the fog machine and the damage hes doing to our institutions and the pillars of our democracy where things can get s broken down he can continue. im just saying its happening, hes doing rnow. chris matthews, the book is "bobby kennedy, a raging spirit." well be catching "hardball" tonight on msnbc. my favorite show. >> thanks, mika. >> your thoughts? >> you ewe geugene robinson, we read your op-ed, "his majesty czar donald the first claims impeer yum." and mat miller, ...

>> i said this last night but i have to say it again. it goes to when your par is in huge trouble and you have to throw the long ball. when ronald reagan had that first debate with walter mondale and he lost badly and the "wall street journal" top of the fold said this guy mayosing it, howard baker said this is the guy we meet in the office, theres something wrong here. lee atwater, the dark prince of this thing said if we lose one more debate this president could be finished so if he loses the ...

Hims behavior, there is an increasing sense of panic setting in. there may be a strategy and there may be tactics and there are things they are trying to do to missouri this out of the legal realm into the political realm and try to make it a politic argument, but everything that trump is doing, just the kind of essence of it suggests not just projection of guilt but that he feels the net is closing in around him. >> thats what i believe. >> on the mueller side and the michael cohen side there a...

And he clearly does president understand how the couldnt institution works. attackth the one engine meant to protect all of us. >> we worked in the white house. the white house doesnt always have different interests than the press that cover them, but they have never wage an asymmetrical war like donald trump has. donald trump lies more in one mornings tweet storm than any news organization, reputable news organization does in two decades. so, the idea that hes attacking news organizations that ...

Tonight that trumps legal team wants a briefing on the classified information shared with lawmakers and may take it to the justice department as part of an effort to scuttle the ongoing special counsel probe. now, "the washington post" fact checker has grifn trumps spy claim four pinocchios pointing out that that narrative is part of a fog machine this president has deployed for months against the probe. lets bring in tonights "hardball" roundtable. what do you make of -- donald trump came out t...

>> well, it seems hes taken -- got his hands on the fog machine that rudy giuliani has been handling. and hes just trying to put smoke out there, and its not going to hold up. i think the briefing today pretty well showed this was standard operating procedure by the fbi, and if anything the fbi was protecting him and not spying on him but rather being cautious in how they proceeded, trying to see if these people even knew they were dealing with potential russian infiltration of some kind. so the...

And theyre all over it, and trump is not going to be able to control that. >> john dean, just curious given that you lived through watergate, what do you make of the presidents efforts to tag this using the term "spygate" clearly having a reference towards watergate and basically saying if its true its the biggest political story ever. >> well, it seems hes taken -- got his hands on the fog machine that rudy giuliani has been handling. and hes just trying to put smoke out there, and its not goin...