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themselves as well as on their families, having to withstand the demonstrations and threats of violence of those inspired by the former president who are often quite literally outside their doors. >> some of the most personal and damning testimony heard today came from arizonas republican speaker of the house. rusty bowers is his name. he was one of those officials who was pressured directly by the former presidents legal advisers. he offered more evidence today that they all knew thei...

Biden but theres a demonstrable difference in terms of commitment to democracy. joe biden, whatever you think about him and theres certainly plenty of criticisms to be made, hes not trying to undo elections. >> absolutely. and republicans if we dont get this right, if we dont get democracy right, if we dont convince the right and the middle and the left for that matter that we can control democracy in a way that the constitution spells it out for us, then we have no chance to really do anything ...

Well, heres what we know at this point. when it comes to mueller, so far four people have been sentenced to prison. there are seven guilty pleas. 36 people or entities have been charged. one person, paul manafort, convicted at trial. and 192 criminal counts have been filed overall. lets discuss with cnn political analyst david gregory, jeffrey toobin and garrett graff. the fact that there is more to come, that this is not just, hey, were not going to do this anymore, it is we are cooperating fro...

A certain something there. gary, the other thing that i think you have pointed out that is interesting, you know, we have heard the narrative for so long from president trump, from the folks around him about how they view this investigation. the mueller team, obviously, is keeping quiet. but theyre moving forward with people against whom they have overwhelming evidence. because when you look at it nearly every person targeted has pleaded guilty. that says something. >> it really does. and it sho...

>> we do. >> michael cohen confessed to covering up his clients dirty deeds. the president is having his say. >> let me read you part of what the president quote. quote, i never directed michael cohen to break the law. the president declares many charges to which cohen pleaded guilty are unrelated to me. the president claims cohens claims that are related to the presidents campaign finance violations the president says they are not crimes at all this morning. needles needless to say there is a l...