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Pushed back on this idea that this letter was problematic at all in fact he said there was little or no pushback in the white house when trump was drafting it. at the same time "the new york times" reported that mcgann took the letter, made heavy edits and gave it back to miller. and then it was given to the doj. its hard to believe that there was really no problem with this letter. >> again, julia, there can be no question that the presidents instinct and what his intent was was to fire comey b...

It aloud to others. later rod rosenstein was give an copy of the original letter and agreed to write a separate memo for trump about why comey should be fired. that focussed on the handling of the hillary clinton e-mail investigation. joining us michael schmidt, julia ioffi. michael, let me start with you. mueller has this letter in his possession. what do we know about what the president said originally in the draft letter? >> basically the president was at med minister the weekend before. he w...

The relationship tweeb washington and the kremlin. russia claims the u.s. is planning inspections of diplomatic building in the united states calling it, quote, illegal, and unprecedented, aggressive action. however, there are reportedly no indications that the u.s. was planning any such searches. it comes after the u.s. state department announced last week that it is forcing russia to close three diplomatic buildings located in washington new york, and san francisco, and that it is planning to ...

This -- the transatlantic alliance peeling apart. >> thank you so much for the kind words about my father. lovely. >> so, julia, let me ask you this. we, of course, are getting these reports this morning. cnn had another report that the russians thought they were passing information around in their intel community, that they thought they had financial information they could use to leverage trump in his inner circle. i want to ask you, when you hear these reports from russian intel agencies back ...

Kellyanne conway was on fox news. she said im not going to comment objen any of this, beca there isnt any reason to. the president himself has commented on twitter, tweeting russian officials must be laughing at the u.s. and how a lame excuse for why the democrats lost the election has taken over the fake news. nbc news first to report that 36-year-old political newcomer is under fbi scrutiny right now on collusion because of the campaign and russia. aides concede right now, as i spoke to them o...

Seized at any time for any reason. you know, he has connections that probably were valuable to them at one point for a different reason, so they could spy on their own people. and why theyre stashing money abroad and trying to find leverage that way. now theyre trying to see if they can use it in the reverse, if it can be leveraged again the current administration. theyre trying to find ways into this. >> richard? >> julia, there were all sorts of protest ace few weeks ago in russia. what sort o...

Put it this way, when you look back at the gingrich contract for america and the kind of agenda of the tea party congress, in fact there was actual social policy they wanted to implement, much of it i think terrible, a lot of those things we still live with today, but there was an agenda, and there is no agenda now. >> this is just no, no, no, no. >> this is no, no, this is destruction, destruction, destruction, and that really comes, that transformation comes across beautifully in the piece. ju...