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Conflicts of interest. the federal code says that even the appearance of a conflict of interest means that you cant be involved in investigations. and so, look, the fact that youve got mueller and rosenstein investigating the very facts that they themselves were involved in when mueller was at the fbi and when rosenstein was a u.s. attorney -- >> but theyre not investigating the uranium one deal. >> but the uranium one deal is tied to the clinton foundation which is tied to the 2016 election and...

Investigations, youve got mueller and two on the hill is it kind of 60, 20, 20? >> i dont know. i mean, essential in terms of our ability as journalists to cover it and the publics and your viewers ability to follow it, we put a lot of to come in the congressional investigations because they tend to leak more. kens crack reporting was an example of the inability of these congressional committees or their lack of desire to keep any of this stuff private. so even if theres aological in the mueller...

Are so many other areas in which the investigation by mueller and even by the congressional committees are really picking up steam and showing some promise from democrats respective to damage trump and the trump sort of inner circle. and this is not really among them, but because it is the most salacious thing, they continue to click to it and obviously schillers testimony here is not going to dissuade them from so doing. >> and julie pace, think of what this does show. number one, that the muel...

Indictments and youve got muellers team who really is following their charge of anything that arises out of the course of thifr investigation, theyre following the money and now theyre following the passports. >> thank you all. appreciate it. when we come back, the president attacking one of his favorite targets. guess who? hillary clinton and clintons own party may be giving him the am mow.

That would have made his team more susceptible to being involved in collusion, so youve got manafort and gates indictments and youve got muellers team who really is following their charge of anything that arises out of the course of their investigation, theyre following the money and now theyre following the passports. >> thank you all. appreciate it. when we come back, the president attacking one of his favorite targets. guess who? hillary clinton and clintons own party may be giving him the am...

Trump is evolving a little bit in understanding how problematic it would be if he did fire him. >> he flatly said in response to that question that there is absolutely no collusion between his campaign and the russians and they ought to get to the end of it very quickly. he wants this over with. >> this actually might have been one of the kleinest responses ive heard from president trump regard this issue, im not going to fire him. there was no collusion. id like for it to be over. just three se...

The white house is almost complete with responding to all of the requests that mueller has asked for on documents and information. next theyre going to interview white house staffers so things should get interesting. >> thank you. when we return, let me finish with trump watch. as i said, youll love it. hell hate it. youre watching "hardball." when youre close to the people you love, does psoriasis ever get in the way of a touching moment? if you have moderate to severe psoriasis, you can embr...

What were doing is were trying to bring together all of the elements. its wha very confusing situati. youve got, you know, cybersecurity, youve got possible money laundering, youve got three investigations in the congress, and then youve got mueller and the fbi. so we tried to give people an overview. plus the history of what the russians have been doing. chris, you know, were the same age. we ducked under desks when we were kids. >> i remember. >> we worried about the a ltom bomb. theres no des...

All of that. whats he bringing order to? who are these people, and youve got mueller looming. whos going to work with congress in the middle of that? >> wheres the political person? >> mitch mcconnell is saying it, were going to go it alone. >> and they should. every time trump weighs in on policy, he derails the debate. its counterproductive. usually a president can crack the whip on their party. theyll say ill work in a way that will be counter to your electoral interest. and thats scary. with...

It is donald trump who has the power to end it. im sure this is a very delicate balance. he doesnt want the saturday night massacre, but he is the only one who can change it since now theyve got mueller in the middle of this. >> trish: hes in a tough spot spot. president trump weighing in on allegations that he had blackmailed a reddit user who created a video showing the president body slamming a mocked up cnn character. mr. trump had to say and what the network may have broken the law -- we di...