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It. thats exactly what dictators and authoritarians have done in history. >> the same tactic with the fbi, same with bob muellers investigation, he wants to dee legitimatize institution so their word means nothing. >> it is interesting how there has been some, you know, diminution of the power of the press, a little bit here. the reason i say that is when i was growing up in follow ticks, people said, you will and i never get in the fight with someone who buys ink by the barrel who can wage war ...

Knowledge of, if it emsee seems hes making it up out of thin air, im more prone to call it a lie. i think we as journalists need to be cautious to sticking to what we know for sure. zblft i think trump fans will say, what do you mean too quick to tell a lie? all a yall are calling him out for lying every single day. >> he is lying every single day. >> i was struck by something that don lemon said on sunday night, he said this is an extreme crisis, i like the framing of that because we sometimes ...

Reporters and i say i will tell you own the record. they say we have sources who are close to the meeting that have knowledge of. its egregious. the first ladys surgery, the president was mocked and derided because we couldnt find our secretary of state when he was in north korea. we knew where he was. the "new york times" said we didnt know where he was. he was bringing people that are citizens of this country back to this country. howie: i try to check everything, sometimes someone says someth...

Reporters and i say i will tell you own the record. they say we have sources who are close to the meeting that have knowledge of. its egregious. the first ladys surgery, the president was mocked and derided because we couldnt find our secretary of state when he was in north korea. we knew where he was. the "new york times" said we didnt know where he was. he was bringing people that are citizens of this country back to this country. howie: i try to check everything, sometimes someone says someth...

For people who are mike pences friends from congress and to steer the president away from some of his own instincts about which candidates to back for speaker of the house, governor of states. we didnt see this with dick cheney. >> hes really sort of marshalling the troops on the congressional fields. people he has direct knowledge of. he is playing some favorites as alex points out. he is doing some things that a president might typically do, leading the party, really paying attention to the mi...

Vaughn, in that interview with andrea mitchell, vice president pence said he did not have any knowledge of the presidents personal attorney michael cohen having so in corporate contracts. this is a familiar refrain from vice president mike pence that he gaves that reaganesque head shake and says i didnt know, i didnt have knowledge of. its a pattern for pence, isnt it? >> welly, vice president pence says the investigation should shut down but over the last year what have we heard from him? essen...

That he isnt still a figure, a witness potentially a subject. we dont have any indication hes a target in the collusion or obstruction investigation. there are things that pertain to what cohen has firsthand knowledge of, right? >> the thing about cohen in this whole thing, everyone thinks just because parts of it are in new york doesnt mean parts of it are not down here with bob mueller. but there are significant questions about cohen on the russia investigation. hes in the dossier we know the ...

Of his associates. >> felipe, last question to you. were hearing a lot about inspectors general these days in the context of hud, secretary carson and the dining set that he allegedly approved. we await this report from the inspector general. how much is their autonomy, nonpartisan stature threatened by all of this. >> you know, they dont have much of a nonpartisan stature to begin w theres a misnomer about inspectors general which i have firsthand knowledge of. not just of our e-mail investigat...

Election. >> most people were understand the understanding this was supposed to be looking at potential collusion between the trump campaign and russia. >> it is. >> and the only people that have been indicted are russians themselves. we know that hillary clinton -- >> theyre not coming here. >> hillary clinton and her team 24 hours after losing came together and said lets look at russia and blame it on russia. they funded the dossier that helped fuel this narrative about russia. all the media c...

I really wanted the president to lose with blinding out my feelings about hillary clinton up until the "access hollywood" tape was released and i thought that was too much for me, for the tape to be released, not what he said, for them to release that tape. that was a bridge too far for me and i thought about the supreme court and i thought about other issues. >> so do you have a sense based on the questioning how large a role obstruction of justice may be playing in the mueller investigation? >...