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Republican strategist, mo elleithee, the founding director of georgetown institute of -- chris stirewalt, let me start with you. the question is, was the immediate too quick to call out president trump as being false with his claim. >> sure, in the sense that, remember, the key of the controversy here is trumps implicit accusation that barack obama as president ordered it wiretapped to listen to the phone calls that donald trump was making. that was the clear implication. and there aint no evide...

Dollars to groups associated with the womens march and they work stoppage yesterday. here now, truth serum correspondence eric shawn and shannon bream. >> he has been supportive of a number of these groups that have had big marches against the president, essentially. the media research center cracked these numbers down, $246 million over the last 14 years. report an estimated $25 million into hillary clintons election campaign, but this much yesterday, many of these groups are directly linked to...

Intelligence committee that theyre going to subpoena say michael flynn and paul manafort to testify under oath. >> i think its very significant, i think the optics of it look very terrible. and i think what theyre trying to do is to find out whether in fact, and this would be the issue here, if there was any collusion between people who were in donald trumps orbit and the russians, who wanted to influence the election, in their favor. >> that is right. >> you know, this doesnt mean that donald t...

Republican strategist, mo elleithee, the founding director of georgetown institute of -- chris stirewalt, let me start with you. the question is, was the immediate too quick to call out president trump as being false with his claim. >> sure, in the sense that, remember, the key of the controversy here is trumps implicit accusation that barack obama as president ordered it wiretapped to listen to the phone calls that donald trump was making. that was the clear implication. and there aint no evide...

Sense is he in any danger, right? in no sense is he looking at person liability in this matter, even if he did what he is alleged to have done but theres another implication, theres one clear advantage. if this guy had a key role in running this operation against our presidential election, as long as hes in moscow, hes outside the grasp of u.s. investigators. its not just that you cant extradite him, you cant subpoena him, you cant ask him to come to congress. hes out of the way. hes in moscow. ...

Liability, protecting him in no sense is he in any danger, right? in no sense is he looking at person liability in this matter, even if he did what he is alleged to have done but theres another implication, theres one clear advantage. if this guy had a key role in running this operation against our presidential election, as long as hes in moscow, hes outside the grasp of u.s. investigators. its not just that you cant extradite him, you cant subpoena him, you cant ask him to come to congress. hes...

In no sense is he looking at person liability in this matter, even if he did what he is alleged to have done but theres another implication, theres one clear advantage. if this guy had a key role in running this operation against our presidential election, as long as hes in moscow, hes outside the grasp of u.s. investigators. its not just that you cant extradite him, you cant subpoena him, you cant ask him to come to congress. hes out of the way. hes in moscow. hes out of reach. and that may be ...

Weve got to be careful here, sensitive to ongoing investigations. >> final question here. i thought this was such a fascinating -- two details. one is bannon and miller attempt to cheer the president up by going over his revised executive order, which i thought was an interesting window into that relationship. and also this. reince priebus interrupted his friday afternoon schedule to dedicate more than an hour to calling reporters off the record to deny the outburst the one that you reported tha...

They are not going to get in business with someone who is corrupt and has relationships with the revolutionary guard. >> not out of the goodness of their heart, but because its illegal under american law to do so. >> the fines are way disproportionate to the money you make. so trump stood to make $3 million a year. he could have easily been fined hundreds of millions of dollars for this deal. for all we know, he will be. >> the red flags here, one of the red flags is doing business in a country ...

Hundreds of millions of dollars for this deal. for all we know, he will be. >> the red flags here, one of the red flags is doing business in a country thats known to have a corruption problem. the other is doing with a government official, which can be a marker. >> and the transportation minister and his brother, who was a member of parliament. >> and in this case this is a government minister whose salary in the case of the transportation minister has apparently become a billionaire. >> hes ver...