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Trump organization for comment but has not received one. lets bring in the experts. joining me now, jill former assistant watergate special prosecutor and msnbc contributor barbara mcquade former district attorney for the eastern district of michigan and also an msnbc contributor. barbara, let me start with you. what do crow make of this latest depu development? it cant be underscored that the didnt you u country didnt know the name of weisselberg, first got familiar with that name when the reco...

Knowledge of what the president has done over the past year and a half is it relates to the russia investigation than the white house council don mcgahn. according to "the new york times" report, weve known that he sat down, but we didnt know about the 30 hours of conversation between mcgahn and the special counsel robert mueller and his legal team. whats interesting about this "times" report is they say it was actually trumps criminal lawyers who initially suggested that mcgahn cooperate with t...

That youve got knowledge of, for the benefit of the government, sometimes, youve got to walk into a sensitive, compartmented facility. to do that, you have to have the clearance, just to talk about things in your head, not even to look at particular documents. having key people maintaining their clearances, there is value to the government long term, kristen. >> malcolm, let me read what jeremy bash told axios earlier today. he is, of course, an msnbc contributor, as well. my concern this mornin...

Lack of press briefings. you know, the president himself still hasnt directly answered questions about why his campaign lied about their involvement in trying to buy karen mcdougals rights -- the rights to her story from a.m.i., which the campaign claim they had no knowledge of, they knew nothing about the deal, nor has he answered any questions about your reporting that he allegedly knew about the trump tower meeting in advance. >> this president and this presidency and this white house has no ...

Reported that are inconvenient to him, he can dismiss them as political in nature. and that to me is a very insidious thing. thats really, you know -- that is the stuff of autocratic states. and so while i agree with carl that the reporting has been aggressive, its been thorough, its been critical, there is still concern about a president who doesnt really believe in a free press. >> and carl, it is not just the lack of press briefings. you know, the president himself still hasnt directly answer...

To -- owe finances, knows how to organize it the way i like. he has been with the family for many years. its not just stormy daniels and karen mcdougal. this is a guy thinking early on how the trump organization can get into russia in the first place in terms of the deals he has knowledge of. >> what this tape does, it puts him in the middle of playoffs and russia deals and shows this guy was involved with everything. >> in president trumps mind, michael cohen was the fixer. he associated cohen ...

This tape, you hear the president talking about this deal to buy this information. this is something they denied having any knowledge of, but clearly the president knew about this, does this raise any questions at all for you about his honesty? >> there was no surprise. there is no expectation that that wasnt the case as far as i was concerned. so once again, look, in dask right now when we talk about what the issues are, the senate is focused on policy. were in the middle of a couple days befor...

>> because from a legal standpoint, a wife isnt going to be called in to testify against her husband. >> right. she is -- she has privilege with anything that he might have said to her and her opinion about whether or not this affair took place would certainly not be legally relevant, other than any communications that she may have had. so thats just an argument of no substance. but this is a pattern with giuliani. he keeps making things up and representing subjects that he has no knowledge of. ...

Whether or not this affair took place would certainly not be legally relevant, other than any communications that she may have had. so thats just an argument of no substance. but this is a pattern with giuliani. he keeps making things up and representing subjects that he has no knowledge of. the same day, secretary of state pompeo slapped giuliani down, because giuliani said, you know, kim jong-un came begging and crawling back to the summit. and pompeo said, well, he doesnt speak for us in fore...

He had no knowledge of. theres nothing innocuous about discussing adoption policy. thats related to u.s. sanctions on russia. that looks like potentially evidence o quid pro quo. >> when the president dictated that statement, t statement said that that meeting was not a campaign issue at the time. even though the meeting was set up as an opportunity for the russians to hand over, quote, dirt on hillary clinton. >> our reporting shows that there was another version of this statement that had been...