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lets start with the twice-impeached pathologically duplicitous former president on the truth social platform that his passports were seized by the fbi. theres one caveat to that, nbc has not independently claimed if it is true and it could be a significant detail in whats become a stream of revelations. "the washington post" out with new details on the early stages of the probe when officials at the national archives suggested that trump had documents in his possession even after they ...

Kevin mccarthy and steve scalise, theoretically, are going to have to contend with in the next eight months or so. i mean, i know its just a fund-raising ploy at the moment, but i notice beau heinz, a republican whos likely to be a member of congress from north carolina, said we need to defund the fbi. you remember in 2010/2012, the republicans took the idea of defunding the healthcare law, something that could not happen when barack obama was in the white house. this caused government shutdowns...

This week former president trump announced he is suing facebook, twitter and youtube for suspending him from their platforms. it is clearly a fund-raising ploy because they sent out fund-raising messages the minute the lawsuit was filed. most legal experts say this is questionable as well. now trump is defending the legal action in a new op-ed in the washington journal. one of the greatest threats to our democracy is powerful companies that have teamed up to censor the free speech of the america...

>> this case is dead on arrival and donald trump and his lawyers know it. this is a pr stunt more than a legal case. >> as a former us district attorney, ms. mcquaid thinks the lawsuit has no legs. >> for somebody who just found out about it a few hours ago, i wish i was that smart. we worked day and night for 3 months to put together but shes much smarter than i am probably you are too, who knows. laura: one thing they immediately came out with and this wasnt surprising, person after person, do...

Sources." harris isnt the only person for criticizing president trump, adam kinzinger is criticizing him, but is twitter saying anything? >> no twitter is pointedly not saying anything. they do have an abusive conduct policy, and we could argue that some of his tweets may constitute harassment. theres also a world leader exception, or at least a world leader policy that says some tweets can be kept up if theyre in the public interest. so twitter not not taken action, but i think kamala harris is...

About. >> greg: this guy should sue the moon because he keeps howling at it. he should sue anthony weiner. he caused comey to do the honorable thing and sound the alarm about the classified info on his filthy laptop. the person who helped elect donald trump wasnt russia. it was anthony weiner. thank god for anthony weiner. >> kimberly: he was like a sleeper cell. >> katie: juan, whats your response? do you support the lawsuit? >> juan: i think its a good idea. president trump isnt doing anything...

Is this -- if this is true, is this lawsuit the only way to get to the bottom of it? >> well, right. so first of all we have a mueller investigation that this steps on and totally ignores. i think youre right, don, that this now makes it look partisan, right? the whole premise of the mueller investigation its independent, not partisan. now we have -- there are actually aides that are saying this is partisan witch hunt, a political vendetta. its taking politics and turning it into litigation. so ...

To win the presidency. is this -- if this is true, is this lawsuit the only way to get to the bottom of it? >> well, right. so first of all we have a mueller investigation that this steps on and totally ignores. i think youre right, don, that this now makes it look partisan, right? the whole premise of the mueller investigation its independent, not partisan. now we have -- there are actually aides that are saying this is partisan witch hunt, a political vendetta. its taking politics and turning ...

By the dnc? >> its thin as a wafer. bernie sanders suing the dnc for conspiring to give her the lawsui lawsuit -- election. that would be an interesting lawsuit. there is no evidence of collusion. if they want to sue russia thats fine: i would prefer those indictments. if they are upset with wiki-leaks so am i. there is no evidence of collusion. this is either a fund-raising ploy or an effort to get people in sicivil court to depose them. >> bret: were you surprised that rod rosenstein told the ...

Distraction. >> rebecca, there could be some isolated incidents, but millions of voters that voted illegally? >> sure. and i think the tell here, wolf, is his team wouldnt address this on the call this morning, they didnt say whether he would urge the justice department to the take action, but his campaigns attorneys arent taking action. theyre not calling for recounts and they dismissed jill steins recount in wisconsin as completely frivolous, as a fund-raising ploy. so i doubt im skeptical tha...