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Comey isnt the target but he is the victim, to the extent that the crime of obstruction of justice, as jeffrey argued, includes the firing of comey by the president. one can easily understand how upset mueller would be by the way his friend was treated, understandably. his friend was treated terribly. so the perception of bias can affect at least the way the public sees this investigation. he can avoid this if he simply does the right thing and says that the firing by the president of comey is n...

Investigation. then the issue is done. >> well, i mean, this goes back to the argument allweve been having. >> sure. >> at a minimum, mueller has to determine what the facts are and not throw up his hands and say, this is not a crime. that will involve interviewing comey. i dont think he is going to bend over backwards to help his friend. but it does provide an avenue of attack, which the president will use. but, you know, if it is not that, itll be something else. and theres nothing that can be...

This as they start a new week. according to a new nbc news/"wall street journal" poll, 29% of the decision to remove comey and 38% disapprove and 32% at the moment, no opinion. when asked my president trump fired james comey theyre saying that 46% agree that the president did it to slow down the russia investigation. 38% saying its because of comeys handling of the clinton e-mail investigation. which is what the president has been saying. but has it hurt the presidents approval rating? it now st...

Director. the presidents mentioning russia in that interview including the firing, but what defines a constitutional crisis? fivethirtyeight.com says five ways that a scandal can reach being called that. number one if the constitution does not say what to do. if the constitutions meaning is in question. third, if it says what to do but thats not politically feasible. or finally, if the institutions themselves fail along the way. it says comeys firing can fall loosely into three of those four cat...

Richard nixon acted either at the beginning, middle or end of watergate and what we know about donald trumps state of mind? >> i do see similarities in the personality. it is complex. the similarity theyre both authoritarian personalities. nixon much more so in private. and trump very open and clearly ran on his autocratic instirvegts and powerful strong man stances. the differences is and what frightens me most about trumpcy was frightened about nixon. i always thought he would obey the law. im...

This has been reported by a white house that frank dod has a leaking problem they continue to leak so that we get this information. he might have literally just had a spur of the moment thought to say that there were tapes and then 30 seconds later thats out there on twitter. >> right. francesca, wanlt to play something for that you would be the biggest story today if there werent so much else going on. adam shift, a fairly understated member of the intelligence committee, pretty careful guy, wa...

The nra leadership, the president down, theres an honest effort to kind of bring new people into the fold. but many say when they go to gun shows, when they go to gun shops, to the ranges theyll see confederate flags hanging on the wall. theyll see targets with colin kaepernicks face on it as a target. so its still a group that wants to be embraced. they say theyre as american as everyone else, they hold their second amendment rights dearly and still a long way to. >> i want to get to this becau...

Setting if necessary. and they should do it soon. >> tonight on the point we can report schumer is making some progress. rosenstein expected to brief the senate this week. the senate requested comey testified. he refused a date in this coming week but could testify when the details are worked out. theyre also picking up support from some republicans. any secret tapes that trump may have recorded be submitted to congress. >> they call the fbi director and explain what happened at that dinner f th...

Ari. there are people investigating him. sally yates, the acting attorney general who tried to warn the white house about mike flynn. lets not forget about the former united states attorney here in new york was also doing an investigation. then you have fbi director comey. so that is three people that he has xplis isexplicitly fired th been doing some kind of investigation into this administration and the previous campaigns relationship with russia. often where there is smoke we know there is fi...

You pointed out there, we talked to the people from the watergate and the valerie plame and whitewater investigations and people end up getting indicted because they made a mistake. they forget about a meeting that they were supposed to have or they destroy a document they werent supposed to destroy. thats why you need, you know, some legal counsel to advise you what to say, what not to play. >> plan early is what youre saying. >> exactly. >> to you, max, if that does happen, if that is the sugg...