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Presumably roll it into something that can pass. >> hope springs eternal on that one. jay martin? >> its worth emphasizing how powerful jack danforths op-ed was. he looms large on political landscape, mentor for a lot of folks in the gop, including josh holley, the attorney general who may run against claire mccaskill next year. the fact that he has come out and called president trump a hateful man, leading the party to ruin, it puts the current members of the party in missouri in a tough spot. ...

But, you know, its extremely difficult to manage this president, and i think the reason hes picked the legal team that he has is less -- it has less to do with, i think, legal competence or him being smart or not as congressman jolly was suggesting, than the fact that the president prizes loyalty above all else. and marc kasowitz especially has been very loyal to him over the years. >> robert muellers going to meet apparently, according to the reuters report tonight, saying special prosecutor ro...

Senator danforth, in our investigation, one week into the investigation came into my office and said, are we done yet? and i said, no, but i get the point. and we finished that in 14 months with 17 lawyers and 34 postal inspectors full-time. jack danforth kept saying, im no ken starr. i want to be done. i want to get to the end of this. i want to be 100% right and report it to the american people. and thats what he did and what we did. and im sure bob mueller will do the exact same thing, and he...

Youre donald trump and you have a lot of people on your team who have, say, been dealing in post-soviet developing countries for the past 20 years, is that youve had a lot of encounters with some very shady figures, some possibly very shady financial flows, and all these sorts of things can start to emerge once people are opening the books and looking back through their records over the last 10, 20 years. >> ed, senator sheldon whitehouse is a former prosecutor himself has said publicly today th...

The books and looking back through their records over the last 10, 20 years. >> ed, senator sheldon whitehouse is a former prosecutor himself has said publicly today that it appears to him, just by looking at the externals that we know publicly, that michael flynn is probably already cooperating with the fbi and cooperating with this investigation. when does that kind of information become public? who is cooperating and who isnt? >> you never know. a guy like sheldon whitehouse has a great backg...

That. ed dowd, thats standard procedure at this point, isnt it? >> i think it is, and i think its really a good procedure, good thing to do. on the waco investigation, the senate judiciary committee was about to do an investigation of what happened at waco, and jack danforth talked to the head of the senate judiciary committee and they agreed to wait until we completed our investigation. we did not want people interviewed before we had a chance to interview them and maybe take them in front of a...

Lawyers and is hiring more. and they will be a tremendous group of lawyers. bob mueller, of course, you cant have a better person than bob mueller to run this investigation as special counsel with his background and experience. and hell be able to put together the best possible team. they will move fast, im sure. senator danforth, in our investigation, one week into the investigation came into my office and said, are we done yet? and i said, no, but i get the point. and we finished that in 14 mo...

The department of justice, the first time that regulation was used was a 1999 by then attorney general janet reno, who appointed former missouri senator jack danforth to investigate botched federal rate in waco, texas. in this case, attorney general jeff sessions has recused himself from the russian investigation, so, the power to appoint falls to acting attorney general rod rosenstein. it is also rosenstein who decides the initial scope of the special prosecutor, meaning whether or not former f...

The candidates would participate. weve been able to do that. weve been able to do that with the assistance of 14 incredible members of our commission, distinguished leaders who joined me and frank. id like to introduce them now. well give them a round of applause at the end. were delighted to be joined tonight by the chairman of the howard g. buffet foundation. howard buffet. your former united states senator here in missouri, jack danforth. the former anchor of abc -- by the way, guys, stand up...

On donald trump. the party apparatus reports at the rnc, there are people saying were not going to work for the presidential candidate. only for the house and senate and governorships and for this all to happen just on the eve of a crucial debate. if you read about this, you would throw it against the wall because it would seem too improbable. >> thank you very much. i know youre going to watch with us. were going to need your advice and counsel when its over. look at the scene on the right hand...