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Significant for a lot of members of the trump team. it sort of is the slam dunk weve talked over the course of the week about whether or not it was clear that michael flynn was cooperating or not at this point. this really does kind of put the nail in the coffin that he is probably cooperating because hes only pleading to a single count of lying to the fbi twice. one of the things thats most significant in the charging documents that doj has released is the revelation that he did, in fact, ask r...

Stuff. and for the president to talk about this as if, you know, the fake news began and ends with -- begins and ends with cnn and other news agencies in this country just because he doesnt like the reporting of him and his administration, is so disturbing its beyond words. i mean, russia has made attempts to upset democracies all across the world. we know this for a fact. he until is the only person in this country who will not acknowledge the interference by russia in the 2016 elections. and i...

Some of its luster over the controversies this president has had to face? >> its interesting. this is not the first building, trump organization building that has suffered in the last year or so. you know we also saw a trump international hotel in toronto dropping the trump name. we saw owners of three residential buildings in new york also deciding to drop the trump name. and mar-a-lago, of course, where the president is spending thanksgiving that property has also struggled with about 19 chari...

Of a sudden he had been named as a foreign -- you know, out of like from heaven for him as a foreign policy adviser for president trump, though he had never met president trump and according to what he has said punly in interviews never actually did meet president trump. >> if you look at these pieces as part of a larger mosaic here, putting the jeff sessions stuff aside, you have george papadopoulos, you have carter page. theyre both volunteers but theyre advisers on a foreign policy advisory b...

Presented with an opportunity to get dirt from a foreign .er about the political opponent, they dont run from it. theyre thrilled by it. done jr. says i love it. that was his quote when he got that e-mail. another campaign might say, i dont want to go anywhere near thisio exhibit to touch this i know the implication of having a foreign power meddling in this election. >> lets stop for one time and say every campaign that any of us have ever known about worked on reported for would have all said,...

Your chance to cooperate. >> and briefly michael, based on your reporting, do you think he is likely to cooperate and flynn and tony podesta, democratic powerhouse, are exposed on the foreign power issue? mueller is willing to charge on it. >> if you look at indictment against manafort and gates there is potential exposure of tony podesta, democratic fundraiser and brother to john podesta and the -- republican -- both hired to do this for yanukovych and both didnt file under the foreign -- didnt...

Gates under house arrest with $15 million in bail between them. this is harsh. >> bernie madoff had a 10 million dollar bail agreement when he was arrested. this gives you a sense how harsh theyre going after manafort and gates. and the charges you described in these 31 pages. they allege conspiracy against the united states. conspiracy to launder money. false and misleading u.s. foreign agents -- failing to register as an agent of ukraine, then when they did misleading the government and seven ...

Continue to report. >> also, jeffrey toobin, phil mattingly just tweeted out something not from this indictment. different indictment against papadopolous. what weve learned now about this guy who was a foreign -- who was a consultant at least with the trump campaign on foreign affairs. was apparently arrested july 27th of this year. upon his arrival at dulles international airport following his arrest the defendant, papadopolous, met with government officials on numerous occasions to provide in...

And germany is a country that should be concerned about developments in the baltic states and east of polands borders so so we need to stay very close ok initially when some took over the presidency of the united states or grave concerns that he would be reducing the american commitment to nato do you think that fears over you know considering the american troops in poland now that you can depend on america as an ally he did not cancel any of the obama era deployments which he could have vetoed ...

Branches of government need to do, not only to stay more informed but to focus on why we are there. we have a lot of work to do. >> what do you make of the intention that this was inevitable that congress has weighed in on military strategy. it has been happening president after president. they are happy for you to punt the ball to them. this is what happens when you dont debate aumf. you have people in places you dont know about, that you dont understand. when you find out, its too late. >> its...