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Issue speeding tickets for blowing through speed limits. this president has done that. hopefully more people in the congress will come together around the rule of law and the principles this country stands for. i think elijah cummings funeral services today remind us all of why we elect people to office, and that is to protect the principles of liberty and independence which come to having an accountable government. >> thank you, kim, susan, frank. always good to have you, especially live here i...

This will be a more thorough and robust investigation. at the heart of this is whether or not there were any kind of misinformation or a bias involved when this probe started. they arent questioning the results of the investigation, theyre just questioning the origins. we know thats something the president has been stuck on for a while. that is why theres a lot of controversy when you hear about an expanded scope of this investigation. >> lets talk about that. julia, thank you. enjoy the weekend...

Nevada and their elected officials to try to get marijuana licenses for dispensaries. foreign money is entangled in all that trump does. and the american people who voted for trump may have said we want somebody from outside washington, we want to break the mold, but there was no vetting process. there was no -- when you have no history in government as an elected official, you have no way of knowing if the person youre voting for is really somebody who wouldnt even pass a background investigati...

Having a contract award for a mul multimillion dollar event gives you a profit gain or advantage. >> yeah. >> and so, we have the quintessential definition of a domestic emolument. and if this isnt it, theres nothing left that would be. >> and i think that is the key, right, is that if this isnt it, then nothing would be. i want to thank you, walter shaub, and of course, for those of you who dont follow him on twitter, he was the former director of the office of government ethics, so he would kn...

Cant do this. we cant come. >> yeah. and you know, john harwood, its hard -- i mean, its not hard to believe anymore republicans dont say anything, but the reality is, thats exactly the point. donald trump has now put these other six nations -- well, we dont know if hes going to try to invite russia, because you know he wants it to be the g-8 again, but hes put these countries in a position where they either have to pay him or not come. >> thats right. and you know, frank made the analogy to tru...

>> frank figlusi, this is the boss saying what he wants, making it clear what he wants. then a couple months later when he gets what he wants, it doesnt sound like this was a free and open process wherein people just, through all of these resorts and places, including camp david, which is the refuge of american presidents out there, and they all said objectively, its got to be doral. your thoughts, frank. >> yeah, joy, this is akin to trump saying russia, if you have the emails, wed like to see ...

U.s. election, and also some sort of a bribery and extortion scheme. but thats a normal world. and we know that bill barrs justice department has declined to open investigation into the whistle-blower complaint. theres no indication that theyre investigating here, although one would like to think that the southern district of new yorks investigation may ultimately bring giuliani in but no official word that this is something thats receiving attention in washington, and so that leaves congress to...

Could never prove it, which seems why it never got anywhere. that could be one explanation, possibly the explanation for why they were giving money to state candidates in florida. perhaps thats why they gave money to friends of ron desantis. through their company, global energy producers, which was named, or at least referenced in the indictment. so, that might be an explanation. but the governor or his team are not discussing the substance of their conversations, so we dont really know what the...