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Campaign for the presidency. i think the public would like to know and i think michael cohen has been very clear in his efforts of wanting to come clean on everything, and i credit lanny davis with helping him through that decision making. >> do you think that the hearings we have been hearing about basically this week that are wider than the legal process, financial leverage, other things that may be perfectly legal but problematic, what is the time line for that? what are we going to learn fro...

Holds financial or other leverage over the president is has sought to compromise him. four, whether the president or anyone in his orbit has been vulnerable to foreign pressure or tried to shape u.s. policy in service of foreign interests, and, five, whether any actors, foreign or domestic, have tried to influence investigations into these matters, including those in the congress. again, when the president went after investigations in his speech last night, an extraordinary moment. this is the k...

That committees russia probe. today schiff laid out frooiv areas of investigation. russias ongoing efforts to influence u.s. blitical process, any links or coordination between russia and trump associates. three, whether any foreign actors holds leverage -- four, whether trump or associates have vulnerable to foreign pressure and five whether theyve tried to impede in these matters. the president was asked about the plan. >> adam schiff says he was going to launch a deep investigation -- >> you ...

Presidents warning, the new chairman, adam schiff announced he is restarting and expanding that committees russia probe. today schiff laid out frooiv areas of investigation. russias ongoing efforts to influence u.s. blitical process, any links or coordination between russia and trump associates. three, whether any foreign actors holds leverage -- four, whether trump or associates have vulnerable to foreign pressure and five whether theyve tried to impede in these matters. the president was asked...

Is to say we shouldnt do our constitutional duty. its to assert an executive pre-eminence that one would think he might be a dictator. he cannot escape nor should any president escape congressional oversight. >> well, you heard him earlier, the new chairman of house intel adam schiff made his big move today. he announced he is starting and broadening the committees russia investigation, which had been effectively put to bed by trump-friendly republican devin nunez of california. schiff laid out ...

Overseas financial connections. theyre not okay if you are running the government and the president of the united states. if you dont want to give up those connections, you should not be running the government, and he was unwilling to give up those connections, so it is completely reasonable for congress to be looking into the leverage that foreign countries may have over the most senior decision maker our country has. >> you, too, harry, are a man of the law. help us understand this. folks who ...

Has sought to compromise or holds level, financial or otherwise, over donald trump, his family, his business, or his associates. this means theyre now officially and with subpoena power investigating directly the thing that you shout out in the dark in the middle of the night when you wake up sweating and you thought it was a dream and you didnt realize you said it out loud. you know how you wake up in the night drenched in sweat saying what if the president is a foreign agent? thats point numbe...

Preeminence that one would think he might be a dictator. he cannot escape nor should any president escape congressional oversight. >> well, heard him earlier, the new chairman of house intel adam schif made his big move today. he announced he is starting and broadening the committees russia investigation, which had been effectively put to bed by trump-friendly republican devin nunez of california. schiff laid out five key areas of inquiry. these are big and broad. one, the russian governments on...

The scope and scale of kremlin operations. and the u.s. response to them. links with trumps campaign, transition administration or businesses or attempts to compromise or leverage trump and his family and associates. long list there. the potential vulnerabilities of trump and associates to be pilot issed to influence u.s. policy and any important rent or domestic attempts to obstruct investigations. with the news of the restarted investigation president trump abandoned tuesday nights call for ...

We have no idea where its coming from. >> and mieke, for you, the question that i asked earlier, which is that there are some disagreements within the democratic party. do we just do this? we know we want to do this. we know we believe its important to our oversight role. were going to go after these tax returns but theres another part of the party that says, look, including the chairman. maybe we wait. we make sure we have all our ducks in a row. we know that a challenge is coming. lets prepare...