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Also mean a foreign government? >> exactly. and if its a foreign government, it goes right back to this idea of foreign influence in the elections. and that can also, if they had resources monetary helping with this, that could also be another campaign finance violation. and theres also the intriguing aspect of if a mchmi was gettin resources from the saudis or some other government that theyre also acting as an agent for that and we saw that with the manafort and gates situation. thats an area ...

Campaign finance violation. and theres also the intriguing aspect of if ami was getting resources from the saudis or some other government that theyre also acting as an agent for that foreign government, and we saw that go on with the skmarc manafort and gates situation. thats an area that the justice department has become much more rigorous about enforcing. >> carl bernstein, thank you very much. shan wu as well. obviously well be keeping a close eye on this story. appreciate it. much more ahea...

Gates situation. overtook too much to the side. >> something terrible on that though. he said cop -- i dont know anything about the facts but the cop acted stupidly. this is a lawyer who said that and who holds himself out as a constitutional law. he clearly took sides there. i mean, clearly right from the get-go. >> right, i think the point is now they are gun shy. they dont want to do that again. they tried a little bit more with trayvon martin when they said he looked like trayvon. that was s...

Political operatives out there who genuinely believe that not only can they polarize the american communities based upon race, but they can use race as wedge issues for certain investigate opportunities in the fall. >> let me go to cynthia tucker. following that line of argument from professor peterson, is it possible to assume here that people around the president during the last hours as this has gone to fruition now with secretary vilsack apology and him taking the bullet for this that along ...

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