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How the trump tower moscow project is relevant to russias election meddling during the 2016 campaign. how damning is that for the president? >> yes, what were seeing is that some of the threads are being connected. and here we knew about this potential trump tower moscow project that the president and some of his folks were working on before donald trump became president. now it seems like there is an implication that that is somehow tied into potential russian meddling in the election. now, tho...

>> president trump taking to twitter this morning to write there was no collusion. he tweeted that these sentencing filings cleared him. that is inaccurate and incomplete. the white house dismissing the implications that jeremy outlined. referring to all these filings. i wanted to refer to cohen and manafort. quote, the governments filings in mr. cohens case tell us nothing of value. mr. cohen has repeatedly lied. mr. cohen is no hero. of course, the question there is whether the white house is ...

>> well, its not clear that theyre going to do anything about it. for a few reasons. number one, there are doj policies that say that whatever the circumstances, the president cant be indicted until after he leaves office, and it seems as if the prosecutors in the southern district and on the mueller team are going likely to follow that rule. the second issue is that because cohen did not go all th way as a cooperator, did not tell the government everything he knew, did not sign a cooperation ag...

So i think, you know, its important to think about michael cohen in the ordinary presidency, the fact that a presidents top lawyer is pleading guilty to all sorts of crimes would be headline stories for weeks. but in the trump presidency, there is always more at stake and today is really puts that pedal to the metal because here you have a circumstance in which the real story tonight is not -- is not michael cohen, who has done all these bad things, but trumps direct implication in all this. you...

Been protected by common interest privilege. instead, hes going out of his way to talk to people in the trump administration about what? like what are they talking about? are they talking about a pardon? are they talking about secrets that they didnt want the attorneys to know? you know, that is the obvious implication to me. so theres a lot of interesting questions raised here as to what hes talking about and why. >> gentlemen, thank you. have a good weekend. i appreciate it. >> you too. fili...

Memo from the southern district of new york tonight. cuomos court is in session. the idea from sara sanders that there is nothing to see here in any of this, none of it is irrelevant to the president, your take? >> are you taking to me? >> always first. >> yes. i mean, there is so many things here that have to do with the president. you have already discussed at length with neal and michael in the last segment about basically a direct implication that the president was conspireing with his lawye...

Implication that he was working with the russians, without there being a definable they are there yet. i dont think the president is in trouble on that, yet. for all of this activity and investigation on russia, there is still nothing that says there is a crime of actually conspiring with the russians to affect the election. the problem, i think, he has is more impeachment. impeachment is whatever the house says it is, right? so the parts about the campaign finance, im a big skeptic of the campa...

All the time that trump during the campaign was telling us he had no dealings in russia, no business in russia, he was actually sitting on top of a deal that was designed to bring in hundreds of millions of dollars according to filings that weve seen this week. the legal implication of that is that this entire story that we see coming forward from cohen, who tried to shift the timeline, tried to make it look as though the deal had been completed before the primaries started, when in reality conv...

You have written a book called "the case for impeachment," i believe its called. this is as close as its gotten. its not new information in that we knew from michael cohens earlier testimony and the information against him that he said he was directed by individual one, but now the sdny seems to be saying they believe that to be the case. >> right. i mean, i think you see something very serious. the real question that comes out is what is the implication of the prosecution, the conviction of mic...

General harry litman, also joins us, and nick akerman is staying with us. nick was a former watergate prosecutor and is an msnbc legal analyst. thanks to all three of you, liz, lets start with you. you have written a book called "the case for impeachment," i believe its called. this is as close as its gotten. its not new information in that we knew from michael cohens earlier testimony and the information against him that he said he was directed by individual one, but now the sdny seems to be sa...