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Capitol hill to investigate the humanitarian crisis at the border? >> this gets to your lead-in, which is why are corporate boycotts so significant. they reflect the inability of politicians to actually do anything to counteract whats happening. the ineffectual neness of congr is on full display. what theyre decide sergio garcia should we tuck this into a larger immigration bill that certainly wont pass or should we do one thing we know the president can do on his own administratively and that j...

We have learned. now, lets review todays report with our topnotch panel of experts, shall was a deputy independent counsel, retired fbi agent. i want to get to so much with all of you. john solomon, of all the things we learned in this report, to you, what is the most shocking? >> we have been reporting this>> for month. >> laura: thats a great lead-in. >> but there is a consequencal. thing. he wasas fired because he wasru incompetent. if you are the presidents lawyer, you have a get out of jail...

>> so last fall, there was some reporting that deutsche bank had received a subpoena for records related to kushner and his companies. so were reading tea leaves here, but the fact that theyre saying bob mueller focused solely on the mandate of collusion and obstruction doesnt necessarily mean that no one is focusing on diaer are ed kushners finances. and similar to the michael cohen case which was referred to the southern district of new york, its possible -- and we dont know yet -- its possibl...

You made eye contact with him today. apparently you were in court for todays proceeding. what else did you pick up about him? >> well, i picked up that, as you said in the lead-in, brian, the manafort team was arguing to have a number of pieces of evidence thrown out, arguing the warrant when they searched his house and the storage locker were overly broad or they didnt have the authority to conduct the search. my read having sat through that argument is the judge was not entirely having it. she...

Here, but the fact that abbe lowell is saying that bob mueller focussed solely on the mandate of collusion and obstruction doesnt necessarily mean that no one is focusing on jared kushners finances. and similar to the michael cohen case which was referred to the southern district of new york, its possible -- and we dont know yet -- its possible the brooklyn u.s. attorneys office, the eastern district of new york, may have an investigation into kushner outside of bob muellers mandate. >> i though...

>> melissa: and we right now as you say this, the president has just landed in dallas. no doubt well see him soon. thank you, kevin cork. joining me for more on this, democratic congressman ted joich represents parkland, florida. thank you for joining us. do you think the president should go down and make this speech at this time? >> well, if hes going to make the speech i hope theres a few things he keeps in mind. one, there are a lot of nra members who arent there because theyre wholly alienat...

Encounter with donald trump. donald trump denies it. yesterday stephanie clifford, thats her real name, and her lawyer released the sketch of a man they claim threatened her to keep quiet about mr. trump. the white house has denied that an affair took place. president himself has avoided weighing in. until this morning when he tweeted a sketch years later about a nonexistent man, a total con job playing the fake news media for fools. but they know it. anthony scaramucci is a former white house c...

>> that is all that the republican party cares about. >> the goal is to win. to the extent men judge themselves, i dont have a lot to show for the last seven years. >> or take republican florida senator announcing his retirement. >> weve gone off the rails and now just a political forum for people to leak information to drive the days news. >> and far from the only lawmakers to say what they really think after making the decision not to run for re-election so what does this say about the state o...

For major law firms, absolutely, the major whole life known white shoe law firms, that would be difficult because theres so many major cooperate lightens. on the other hand, smaller outfits, firms that exist around a personality, one excellent litigator might have less of a problem with the conflict. >> that is a great lead-in for the next topic, which is tonight and stormy daniels taking center stage for her long anticipated interview on "60 minutes." the big question is what new information wi...

Justice department would go along with it. and as a result, the chances of something like that happening, the idea that donald trump is going to fire justice department officials until they find someone who will fire mueller, i think thats a very unlikely scenario. so theres no reason to go out and prod the president and prod his supporters by doing something like that preemptively if the chances of that happening are pretty small. >> no reason to prod the supporters. youre saying its a politica...