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Deep-seated people, drain the swamp, that are coming up with all sorts of phony charges against me, and theyre not bringing up real charges against the other side. so we have a phony deal going on, and its a cloud over my head. >> does it make you want to talk to mueller and put an end to it? does it make you want to talk to him? >> well, i can. >> it went on from there. lets turn to our leadoff panel. jennifer rodgers back with us, former u.s. attorney for the southern district of new york, now...

Stand behind him -- >> oh, i would definitely stand behind him. hes a fine man. ill always stand behind him. if i were him, actually, in many ways, id love to be him. but the fact is i wouldnt do it. i wouldnt do it. what does he need it for? i really dont think personally he should do it, but its totally his. i would stand behind him. totally his decision. >> well, for more on this we turn to our leadoff panel tonight. peter baker, chief white house correspondent for "the new york times" and an...

He should do it, but its totally his. i would stand behind him. totally his decision. >> well, for more on this we turn to our leadoff panel tonight. peter baker, chief white house correspondent for "the new york times" and an msnbc political analyst. and anita kumar, white house correspondent for mcclatchy newspapers. good evening to you both. peter, senator tester tonight said 20 people have come forward. what do they all have in common? they are all active duty military. they have all taken t...

Special counsel robert muellers investigation. the white houses response to questions about that possibility also emphasized the word "intention." >> when hes going to fire rosenstein? whens hes going to fire mueller? >> he never says definitively. why not. >> right now he has no intention of firing him. >> as weve said many times before, we have no intention of firing the special counsel. weve been beyond cooperative with him. we continue to repeat that we think that the idea that the trump cam...

So hes clearly one of the key witnesses here, and thats why mueller is probably holding his breath a little bit as he sees these interviews going on. >> our thanks to our leadoff panel tonight. phil rucker, ashley parker, i dont know if i mentioned earlier, both of them were awarded the pulitzer prize earlier today, and we couldnt be prouder to know them. chuck rosenberg, jennifer rodgers, of counsel to us, thank you both. coming up, you dont see it often, but it happened today. out loud and i...

For his lawyer or whether hes going to really be thinking about the foreign policy challenges that he as the president and commander in chief is responsible for managing. >> to our viewers, our leadoff panel made up entirely of veteran lawyers and pulitzer prize winners has agreed to stick around over a break. coming up, the man lifting rent-free in donald trumps mind right now, and thats james comey. then later, while the phrase mission accomplished crashed and burned for the last republica...

Trump took office and really sees the u.s. alliance with japan as critical in solving the problems with north korea and east asia right now. so hes coming to florida. hes hoping to get some time, some focused time from president trump to help get on the same page really heading into these potential north korea talks. and the question i think we all have is whether president trump is going to have that focus, whether hes going to be distracted by, you know, jim comeys continuing book tour and the...

Why he did it. >> jennifer, as a veteran of the storied southern district, something comey once ran, if youre mueller looking down your witness list, how big a whale is that name, james comey? >> well, hes a huge witness. hes central to all of this. its the firing of jim comey that brings you the strongest obstruction of justice charge if thats where this is headed. he tells about the conversation that he had with trump about the personal loyalty and the conversation about laying off of michael ...

Challenges that he as the president and commander in chief is responsible for managing. >> to our viewers, our leadoff panel made up entirely of veteran lawyers and pulitzer prize winners has agreed to stick around over a break. coming up, the man lifting rent-free in donald trumps mind right now, and thats james comey. then later, while the phrase mission accomplished crashed and burned for the last republican president, the current president says he meant to use it. also tonight, that so...

Stephanopoulos in this abc interview, do you say to yourself, well, he cant answer that fully? well, hes holding back on that answer. mueller will get to hear his actual answer. is there a lot of that as you watch something like this? >> not that much, brian. i think its right that there arent a lot of revelations with respect to the investigation that came out of the stephanopoulos interview. that said, ive read the book cover to cover, and i need to give it some context. jim is an old and dear...