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Toxic cocktail. kyle, trump is trying to claim absolute immunity because he wants these lawsuits against him dismissed. anything tying him to january 6. does his argument have any leg to stand on? >> i mean, its an extremely broad interpretation of the laws about his culpability for things he did while he was president. thats really what this is about. he says as president i could have said essentially anything i wanted in any context and i cant be sued for that, i cant be held financially liabl...

Holding all optimism at this point, but we await the president at 1:30 p.m. eastern just moments from now. power panel. ford oconnell, republican strategist. david burstein, progressive commentator. ford, are you optimistic at this point? the president has already moved a couple of times. >> president trump wants to negotiate a deal. im pretty optimistic that we may see an end to the shutdown in the very near future, but president trump also understands its his primary responsibility, the safety...

Philadelphia by the time i touched back here in long island city last night. he hasnt. bishop gainer from harrisburg just came forward, 71 names, she so sorry, it is all about the victims, he didnt say he is the head of the pennsylvania catholic conference of bishops, which is paying the lobbying effort against the victims for the statute of limitations. so he is saying he is working with the attorney generals office while simultaneously fighting the recommendations that the grand jury just put ...

But that little video clip you ran makes the press look bad also. >> willie, while were talking about whats going on on the hill, you, of course, had the people doing back and forth yesterday who won, the partisans who won. this "washington post" headline, the president once again pushing for health care before recess. >> this is the scarborough hot stove rule. if you burn your hand, pick it up, watch it blister and ooze a little bit and then do it again. >> no one knows that rule. >> what donal...

Republicans and democrats have d in previous administrations. make sure you have filled out the ethics files. make sure the fbi has done background checks. if the committee requires tax returns, as they have in the past, do exactly the same process and procedure. some of the nominees, like mike pompeo who will be up for cia director, they have complied. another number of nominees have not complied at all. i frankly think it would be extraordinary if we were to suddenly start taking votes before ...

The new sanctions that president obama put forth yesterday are indefinitely going to prevent oil and gas exploration in the arctic. vladimir putin cannot be happy about that. what does it do for u.s./russia relations? >> well, ill tell you what i think is happening. i think the russian leadership and president putin is cautiously hopeful that theres going to be an improvement in relations between russia and the united states and thats basically why both the leadership and the majority of people ...

The country doesnt trust them any more, they trust me. >> is there any republican hesitation, you and i have watched this game for a long time, hesitation about beating the hell out of an african-american woman again. dont they feel hesitance on the gender and the ethnic front. here they are, old white guys, kicking the hell out of another african-american candidate. doesnt this look good for republicans? >> mostly that doesnt occur to them. it might possibly have occurred to john mccain, whose ...

Getting sick of the ads already and that kind of thing and they kind of laugh and they say, you can never have too much money. but there was an interesting article that they wrote in the "national journal" about the strategy on the obama side, which apparently is this. which is they decided they were going to spend and now i guess its close to half a billion dollars. in these months in the summer when we usually think people arent paying attention because they believe they could define mitt romn...

charged with. sent tensing will come sometime in the next 90 days. this man will likely die in prison, sentencing will be within 90 days. we have a number of legal analysts who are joining us, mark geragos, jeff toobin, sunny hostin, marcia clark, susan candiotti, but there you see jerry sandusky about to be taken off to local jail where the rest of his life, as we said, his new life has begun, his new life in confinement. momentarily we expect to speak to an attorney for at least one ...

they convicted on sandusky on almost every one, 45 of the 48 counts he was charged, sentencing could come anytime in the next 90 days. if the verdict stands, this man who burned and betrayed the trust of so many children, he will likely die in prison. as we said, sentencing will be within 90 days. we have a number of legal analyst joining us. mark geragos, jeffrey toobin, sunni hostin as well. marcia clark as well. jason carroll and susan candiotti, all of whom have been covering this ...