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Lays out a number of the instances that were there to be an impeachment inquiry would focus on the entire section of the mueller report. its not clear that going down this tax -- you know, the tax returns root, that this is going to yield more than we dont have already in public. >> fairness, eli williams, hans nichols, jake sherman, thank you all very much. joining me now, ted liu. thank you for being on the show today, i appreciate it. >> thank you, kasie. >> the house speaker, nancy pelosi,...

That option. and doesnt think the business of presidential harassment is the right way for them to go into the 2020 election. its up to the house, well see what happens. >> case closed. that approach is what nancy pelosi is watching. shes said all along she needs republicans in the senate to get on board make an impeachment process worthwhile. >> do you think impeachment proceedings should start now? >> i think were headed down a road where impeachment proceedings become inevitable. and mitchs e...

Investigating the issues mueller laid out his report to which he said he could not indict a sitting president for and he left for congress to decide those issues. >> we caught up earlier today with katie hill, shes a freshman from a swing district. >> what do you think about whether or not democrats should go forward with impeachment? >> i think the court ruling was pretty telling, we dont need impeachment at all to be able to move forward with the investigations. so i think that right now we ha...

Down over issues mueller raised. if you are keeping score, manafort potentially faces a total, all in of three trials. the upcoming d.c. trial, the virginia trial he just had and potentially the third trial in virginia for the outstanding 10 counts that deadlocked. put it all up together and he would be facing just on the conviction so far, up to 80 years in jail, which puts the former trump campaign chief in a position familiar to other accused hustlers. this is a predicament the writer, big ll...

Mueller is subpoenaing the trump organization itself. what more do we know? >> we learned that in recent weeks mueller had sent a subpoena to the organization for documents, some related to russia. they moved the investigation close to the president and it raises questions about why does he subpoena, why not ask for the documents and where is this headed? th is he focused object russia or is he looking at other matters? >> michael, the documents, is it safe to say they are related to the preside...

Supposed to play a role in the campaign and it was not part of obstruction that we know of. those are the two issues mueller is looking at. he sent this subpoena to the trump organization. so the question is what is it about? we know in 2017, last year, it came about trump tower -- moscow. a deal that was being put together for that that the president had signed a term sheet about. >> mr. mueller here apparently not inclined to heed the warning from the president, that red line that president tr...

Why issue the subpoena? >> its hard to glean their strategy, but one reason may be to make it a little more public than a private sort of unofficial phone call to try and get documents, or it may be that muellers team wants to do everything by the book. and so far they really have. when they issue a subpoena such as this, its incumbent upon the recipient to either opposite it or -- this is what defense attorneys do all the time. they pick up the phone, they call the prosecutor and say, what is t...

The president. theyve gone back and forth with mueller trying to find out what questions he has, seeing if theres a different way, if theres time limits they can put on it, if theres a way to narrow the scope of an open-ended interview. the president is someone who likes to talk and will talk for a long time when asked a question. thats sort of this ongoing thing thats going on. >> michael schmidt from the "new york times" with us on the phone with breaking news. the special counsels office issu...

To be over, at least trumps lawyers did. >> breaking news were following at the bottom of the hour, according to michael schmidt at "the new york times," special counsel robert mueller has issued a subpoena for documents about russia from the trump organization. we can tell you that nbc news has reefached out to the white house and they referred us to attorneys for the trump organization. michael, what more do we know about whether the president actually plans to sit down for a conversation with...

It was clear that the russians were playing a big role, paul manaforts connections to russia, pro russia people in the ukraine. all this was an issue at the time and he was trying to deflect from that. the fact he continued to deflect with that, with his security clearance form is one of the issues mueller is looking at and one of the issues he is under investigation. >> and jim, you are talking directly to putins press secretary who test you, this new reality creates a perfect opportunity for m...