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What i mean by this, he has to -- the story has to be that there was a conspiracy to, you know, have help -- have russia help throw the election to trump. and collusions not a crime. conspiracy is a crime. so if paige says this stupid thing, papadopoulos is caught making false statements, sessions says something bad, none of it adds up to a specific effort, and manafort and gates have their hands dirty with russia and ukraine. none of that adds up to a conspiracy that involves the actual effort ...

For more, im joined by alexander nazarian, senior writer for "newsweek," john poddores, editor of commentary magazine and contributing editor of the weekly standard and betsy woodrow from "the daily beast." >> totally in passing, he said, he got together with a deputy prime minister while in russia. how significant is carter paige going to be to the bob mueller investigation? >> everybody keeps having casual meeting with ambassador kislyak, with deputy prime minister -- >> you might see one on t...

Immediate legal risks for people in the white house isnt just potential allegations of collusion with russia, but rather the possibility that they could say something in interviews with muellers investigators and fbi agents that could cause huge trouble for them. the reason papadopoulos was indicted, as your viewers know was not because of anything that happened during the campaign, it was because he lied to the fbi. we know that mueller has been interviewing numerous senior white house official...

Mandate, either rosenstein could tell him he could prosecute it or it could be handed off to any of the number a federal law enforcement agencies. it could be handed off to a different u.s. attorneys office. >> that doesnt matter. >> my point is -- >> thats a distinction without a difference. im sorry. the problem here, there is jigsaw pieces and theyre not yet assembling into a puzzle. you cannot assume that the things that we have seen suggest that theres a relentless forward march direction i...

Youll remember the last president to embark on a trip this arduous. president george bush h.w. bush in 1992, a trip that gave us this memorable moment. the president getting sick on the japanese prime ministers lap. i want to ask all three of you, start with alexander before we go. do you think in all seriousness, the president has the stamina to pull this trip off? >> they must think he does, given how theyre scheduled it. and he went to hawaii today, obviously to acclimate to the time change. ...

Interviews with white house officials, helping to provide documents to muellers legal team. so that may keep the president for the time being from going after mueller or firing him, but any sort of pr efforts being pushed out by the president and his spokesperson have zero bearing on what mueller is actually doing. and as the indictments from monday indicate, muellers taking a broad view of his probe, looking at crimes committed after the election, crimes unrelated to russia, unrelated to campai...

With knowing intent on the part of trump and his people, as yet. >> and john, thats certainly what the president will say, and in fact, what he did say when he was asked about the investigation during this interview. i want to play part of it now. lets all listen. >> well, i hope hes treating everything fairly, and if he is, im going to be very happy. because when you talk about innocent, i am truly not involved in any form of collusion with russia, believe me. thats the last thing i can think o...