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Really pretty preposterous. but it deserves verification. and the presidents raised the issue. hes opened the door. and only the intelligence committees or the judiciary committee can close it by verifying with a subpoena whether or not those tapes exist. and its our responsibility to do so. its on us. >> president trump addressed that issue of tapes in that early may 12th tweet about tapes in that interview with fox news. watch what he had to say about that today. >> when he found out that i --...

Theres a special prosecutor. robert mueller is respected by everyone in this town. he will get to the facts. he will find out what happened. this is an incredible serious attack by russia on the fundamentals of our democracy and whether or not the trump campaign interfere -- helped with that interference is what he will get to the bottom of. im not going to prejudge that, we shouldnt prejudge that. both intelligence committees in the house and the senate are going to do their jobs tomorrow, they...

Interesting question. bob mueller appears to be investigating obstruction of justice. is congress investigating that, too? we know the intelligence committees are investigating the russia side of this, right? investigating the russia attack, whether the trump campaign colluded in the russia attack just this week trump national security adviser mike flynn, we know, handed over hundreds of pages to the house and senate intelligence committees in response to their subpoenas after initially saying h...

Interesting question. bob mueller appears to be investigating obstruction of justice. is congress investigating that too? we know the intelligence committees are investigating the russia side of this, the russia attack, whether they colluded in the russia attack. mike flynn handed over this week hureds of pas to the house and senate intelligence committees in response to their subpoenas after initially taking the 5th. the intelligence committee as we know theyre looking at russia. is anybody in ...

To investigate potential obstruction of justice. >> lets bring in brian noble, scott, kelly torren, joey jackson, cnn legal analyst and tom. thank you for being with us. ryan, i want to start with you first because the president is taking on that defiant tone we heard, accusing comey of perjury. help us look ahead. what is next in the investigation? >> it seems both intelligence committees on the house and senate side want to get clarification about this game of he said/she said between the pres...

Comey has already spoken privately with special counsel, robert mueller to ensure his testimony does not jeopardize the investigation. "the new york times" is pointing out the president could block his former fbi chief from testifying by invoking executive privilege. what happens if he does that? >> mercedes: then he could not testify. i dont see president trump moving forward on using executive privilege. >> harris: theres no political gain? >> mercedes: it would raise these questions of presid...

That people on the intelligence committees would argue that they are not. but since hes saying this is too broad, i wouldnt be surprised if they started to narrow their requests so they cant be seen as, you know, fishing for anything can hoe co. we know that cohen has helped in setting up the legal team representing the president in this russia investigation. so, you know, you cannot discount the closeness between these two men. they are good friends and one is very, very loyal to the other and ...

Russian officials claim to have had derogatory information about then candidate donald trump and some of his aides during the campaign. your reaction to these developments? >> i wish i could say that i was shocked, but, you know, day after day after day theres something new being revealed, and i think that -- im glad that we now have an independent counsel that will be able to review all of these facts so that the american people will know what happened and who did. i think that the two intellig...

Muslims. police say christian was verbally abusing two women on a train, including one wearing a hijab. three men intervened before christian attacked them, killing two and wounding another. president trump condemned the stabs in a tweet today saying the violent attacks in portland are friday are unacceptable. back to "hardball." welcome back to "hardball." the senate and the house intelligence committees now have sent a letter to president trumps personal lawyer, michael cohen, requesting inf...

And, you know, lawmakers calling for impeachment. it really depends on how -- on how he is received in their districts, how popular he is in their districts. in fact, john boehner said yesterday, reportedly, that, you know, impeachment, which is the way you would hold the president accountable is a political process. this is not a legal process. and so really, it will come down to how constituents feel in these gop districts and, you know, democrats already pretty much calling for this, not offi...