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I dont know if you would technically have a bribery charge, because paul manafort was not a public official. but certainly there is grounds for a bank fraud, a wire fraud, or some other kind of crime that could be a very serious crime. and why do they continue to investigate this? in part because theyve discovered wrongdoing. it also seems an effort to perhaps induce paul manafort at some point to consider whether he might not want to cooperate in hopes of reducing his ultimate criminal exposure...

House counsel, to not vent about robert mueller. and that investigation. to not go against rod rosenstein, deputy attorney general. whos left in the attorney general himself whos had a falling-out with the president, but remains in power. this is the president furious about these ongoing investigations, turning to the attorney general as a target. >> ken, weve never had a situation with an intelligence community from the fbi on up doing their job, despite noise and incoming attacks from the pres...

Another first for president trump who publicly challenged his own attorney general to investigate the obama administration for not doing enough to counter russian interference in the 16 election. here is how he called out jeff session session, whose temporary name change well explain. "question, if all of the russian meddling took place during the bowl administration right up to january 20th, why arent they the subject of the investigation? why didnt obama do something about the meddling? why ar...

>> absolutely. youre not seeing evidence of pushback or bias. jeff sessions is a special case. he clearly loves this job of attorney general, hes not leaving voluntarily. hes remaking the justice department in his image and he appears ready to take whatever abuse his boss is prepared to heap on him and remain in that job. >> robert, mr. muellers going to be talking tomorrow to a former campaign adviser to donald trump. a name not commonly in the news. but something tells me by tomorrow night wel...

The president then sent the chief of staff to go secure jeff sessions resignation. within the justice department, at the fbi, the fbis director was fired after he says the president told him to lay off the investigation. he conveyed the content to a number of fbi senior officials at the time so they could corroborate what comey said about how the president pressured him to lay off the russia investigation before he refused and he was fired. comey says he reported the presidents behavior, the dir...

They went to the white house and warned about the national sec e security advisor, both of those officials that warned the white house are gone. the acting head of the national security division was marry mccord and salary yates is gone. the president fired her. jeff session was confirmed as attorney general. there were intelligence intercepts it turns out that revealed that jeff sessions had conversations with russia that he hadnt disclosed. the president nevertheless forced him to not recuse h...

Was not purely about the russia probe, which comey led. >> the russians interfered in our election. >> reporter: and when the president wanted attorney general jeff sessions to hold the reins of the russia investigation and not recuse himself -- >> which frankly i think is very unfair to the president. >> reporter: whom did he reportedly send to change sessions mind? he failed. but "the new york times" says, again, it was don mcgahn. important to note in all of this, mcgahn and several members o...

What that means is, he probably want the conversation such as it is, maybe partially written unrecorded and certainly not under oath. you pay recall this, the president cited the conditions under which hillary clinton was interviewed during the big e-mail scandal. that his team may want to follow. there is no indication that the special counsel would agree to those term. however, they would certainly like to talk to the president. well have to see if that happens here. i think another interestin...

Point of view on immigration. they are hard liners in the white house. they are -- theyre actually acting out of their own entrets. i think the president hes a hard liner as well. when he gets in this with chuck or nancy. or lindsey graham. he wants people to like them. he likes the idea on a level of helping the daca kids. he gets back and talks to hem and remembers we dont want legal immigration. we want to do away with the diversity the visa lottery. its like hes really not just captive to th...

Pressure from the attorney general jeff sessions. >> a number of things to get to. jim, i want to ask you about this. we have new information also tonight about a classified memo from house intelligence committee chair devin nunes. what can you tell us? >> so this is another case youve got to watch out for the politics here versus the substance behind it. devin nunes has been pushing out this classified memo that he says shows that the fbi acted possibly illegally during the russia investigation...