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Kleptocracies distorting government function. dismissal of the complainants case would help them gain acceptance at home. its one thing to hear some schmuck on tv say that. a person like sarah chase is in a unique position to know of what she speaks. joining us is sarah chase. shes the author of "thieves of state," why corruption threatens global security. sarah, really nice to see you. thank you for being here. >> great to see you. >> i am unnerved by seeing your scholarship and your life exper...

With what kind of candidates theyre going to be able to recruit and will they be candidates that are able to be vetted and can really withstand not only a primary, make it through the primary, but then to a general election? thats something thats hard to do. >> the deeper problem here is just the poison from a bannon. you get to put out there the idea that even if you support trump, you still have to move further right. thats not how youre going to get your constituency any real help. you still ...

Thats what the senator is trying to say. >> instituting more order inside the white house. havent seen the president outside tweeting as much about the investigation, inflaming things. do you think this was a good move as we head into the second week of john kelly at the helm? >> certainly. i think that anything brings some order to the white house is good for the country and good for the white house. regardless of whether or not you support president trump and the republican agenda, we want to ...

Success. thats what the senator is trying to say. >> instituting more order inside the white house. havent seen the president outside tweeting as much about the investigation, inflaming things. do you think this was a good move as we head into the second week of john kelly at the helm? >> certainly. i think that anything brings some order to the white house is good for the country and good for the white house. regardless of whether or not you support president trump and the republican agenda, we...

Gregg jarrett said that is so far from the truth. and geraldo rich vera, you called it preposterous. >> it is preposterous. you have to be at war with the russians in order for treason to kick in. war against the united states, aiding and comforting the enemy. we are not at war. its so stupid for senator tim kaine and others to say it. its just not. they also say collusion. there is no collusion statute except an antitrust. theres one statute that says you cant conspire to disrupt a government f...

Far from the truth.. and geraldo rivera, you called it preposterous. >> it is preposterous. you have to be at war with the russians in order for treason to kick in. war against the united states, aiding and comforting the enemy. we are not at war. its so stupid for senatorst tim kaine and others to say it. its just not. they also say collusion. there is no collusion statute except an antitrust. theres one statute that says you cant conspire to disrupt a government function which would be an elec...

Constitution. it is leveeing war against the united states or aiding and comforting the enemy at a time of war. others have said this is collusion. point a statute that makes it a crime to collude in a foreign government with american political campaigns? doesnt exist. you wont find it there. maybe there should be a crime and maybe congress will some day pass a line and the president will sign it. so far its not a crime. the only possible crime would be conspiracy to defraud the government or ob...

Thats a fairly normal government function. to get them say things that werent true or exonerate the president or things where the facts dont support it yet, thats not really okay. >> can i just say, what im worrying about, do you think it would be staff, then, at the agencies who would know about the white house staff interventions? meaning, their phone calls or their interventions might not be directly to the director, it might have required a couple of staff steps along the way, there by, wide...

Shut down because we cant get our act together and pass these appropriations bills to make the government function. >> do you agree with senator mccain that the presidents budget proposal is dead on arrival? >> its just a proposal. a recommendation. it points to a direction, the things i like about it, theres more money for the military. it doesnt cut veterans or homeland security but does focus on some of the domestic perhaps that are expensive and we are at a point now where we are addicted to...

Jim comey to let go of the michael flynn issue and then, of course this idea that he may have asked coats and rogers to claim that there was no conclusion, the case for obstruction of justice against the president of the united states keeps growing stronger and stronger literally almost by the day. >> and there are reports in the washington post that white house staff, in dition to the president, were making similar efforts to get similar -- to get these kind of statements out of the cia and so ...