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Moving the goalpost. its so important for us to keep all of this in context and see how theyve been moving the goalposts again for three years. i keep going back to donald trump saying that they never had any contact with anybody from russia. that was a lie that they were spitting out before he was sworn in. mike pence lied and said the same thing that, nobody in the campaign had any contact whatsoever with russia. and then of course theres a drip here and a drip there and you find out that the ...

President trump said. now there is this weight of evidence that manafort took this polling data and handed it to russian operatives and we dont know whether that was a strategy on behalf of that campaign or was that just paul manafort trying to protect his own interests to curry favor with some of these oligarchs. that and "the wall street journal" story that is just breaking, well talk about that, theres definite connections here about a level of chaos and confusion in the campaign and people o...

Times from this president and his administration. and now last night the goalposts move again. youre right, this is very significant. >> normalizing it. >> again, trying to normalize abhorrent behavior and at a time, willie, when this president and the presidency is back on its heels like its never been. >> thats right. heres "the wall street journal" report that katty touched on, former trump fixer and attorney michael cohen hired an i.t. firm to rig early drudge polls in favor of donald trump ...

Night. well, good evening once again from our nbc news headquarters here in new york. day 727 of the trump administration. day 26 of our other tally, this government shutdown which will roll into day 27 at the end of this hour. there was a lot of news but no movement on the shutdown today, and well get to all of that in a moment. but first, that sound you may have heard about two hours ago, especially here on the east coast, that was the sign of goalposts being moved. rudy giuliani appeared on...

Irresponsibility and a security violation as we know. however, maybe they shouldnt be flying away to do something else. we have 800,000 people -- >> he may have done her a -- a favor oddly enough. maybe she wouldnt have been overseas right now. >> shes done a great job of staring him down but democrats are the party that likes to govern so i would love to see them step forward with an idea for bringing this to an end. the stare down cannot last. >> and yet, carlos, i understand, hes the one movi...

Campaign guy. >> i think its the most inappropriate investigation ive ever seen conducted on an ethical level thats disgusting. >> i just wish you all could have seen mimi rocahs face while giuliani was talking. with us to talk about all of it mimi rocah here in new york, former assistant u.s. attorney for the southern district of new york, now a distinguished fellow in criminal justice at the pace university school of law. and were also joined by another friend of ours, former u.s. attorney joy...

>> you do when the president of the united states seems to be -- >> so let him -- >> -- a little hyperactive about the probe and it may not be fair and the guy whos at the head of the a.g. at the time is his campaign guy. >> i think its the most inappropriate investigation ive ever seen conducted on an ethical level thats disgusting. >> i just wish you all could have seen mimi rocahs face while giuliani was talking. with us to talk about all of it mimi rocah here in new york, former assistant u....

>> and michael steel here, the president has tweeted hundreds of times -- >> right. >> -- at least that its total hoax, that any talk of collusion, which is not literally a crime, but working with the campaign and the russians is a hoax, a witch hunt, a hoax. so where are we now? >> i think what youre looking at here is the trump team shifting the goalposts because of the new facts that are coming out, because of facts they anticipate coming out as part of the mueller probe and various other inv...

On what barrier might mean and what the numbers might mean? >> right. heres what we do know. we know democrats are okay with voting for some border funding and would have voted in the house for the $1.6 billion that passed through senate unanimously in the last congress. done it had speaker ryan actually brought that bill to the floor. they didnt. not issue of having some border or national security funding, theyre okay with that. not going for $5 billion or $7 billion as the goal posts keep mov...

President declares a emergency. i do not see a legislative off-ramp here. >> mitch mcconnell said the same thing. paul ryan apparently said the same thing, we do not see a win. >> you have to have clarity on what youre agreeing to. every single time theres been an agreement, the president has changed or moved the goalposts. >> which is another problem. >> it will end up with a topgap moving, and no matter what, the president will declare victory. >> because thats what he wants. >> and it all goe...