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President told a witness to lie, that would be obstruction of justice. also, because if the president did carry out these actions, then russia would know that he was lying. that gives them massive leverage over the president and the united states. >> you prefaced that all with, if its true, if its true. >> when you were working for loretta lynn much as attorney general, she couldnt decide whether the hillary clinton e-mail should be a matter or an investigation t was almost a semantical debate. ...

Mueller leverage over the president of the united states. >> ellie, do you think thats where its going? >> absolutely. i still think donald trump jr. is right in the sights. a point worth mentioning here, people keep truncating the impeachment clause to high crimes and misdemeanors. thats not what it says. it says you can be impeached for treason, bribery and misdemeanors. this is bribery. >> let me ask you a question before we go. lanny davis who is michael cohens lawyer, is now throwing doubt ...

T-mobile announces this merger april 29th thats going to make it, if the trump administration approves it will make millions for the company. the next day all these folks check into the hotel and come back so often we found their ceo in the lobby last week. so its a sign that people seem to be viewing the trump hotel as another lever to get leverage on the trump administration. >> can you tell me the status of these lawsuits? there are several of them, some by democratic members of congress, the...

Telling a child they cant get what they want. >> im not for a wall. >> i think she has capitalized on his character or his deportment and is making fun of him in a way, in a very classic way that she can pull off and its probably driving him crazy. thats exactly what shes doing. shes treating him like a whield. . >> reporter: barbara knows him well. >> he expected her to cave to him. he has negotiated from a point of extreme power and had leverage over everyone whether it was their money he was ...

>> should we start a countdown clock of when theyre going to start acting like adults, or is that a wasted effort? >> right now it seems like a wasted effort. were in this moment where there is nothing happening on the negotiating front in terms of ending the shutdown, so all you see is nancy pelosi and the president trying to get the upper hand here. but trump is now in a situation where he has an adversary that has real power. he was in negotiations with schumer and pelosi previously, but both...

Because the presidents vision of victory where democrats suddenly capitulate and say you can have border security for nothing aint going to happen. >> joe, why does this make it harder? keeping ner keeping everybody in washington, a forced stay occasion, why doesnt it make them roll up their sleeves and get this done? >> because it isnt about geography. theres a big difference between what nancy pelosi did and donald trump did. nancy pelosi did something that was strategic. she was taking someth...

Democrats are united against the wall more than are in support of it. if youre losing on border security, which is the one thing republicans would argue thats what we got. maybe we dont have the wall, but they trust us more on security at large, now you have zero leverage in this process. >> i want to stop the conversation. forgive me, but we have some breaking news. finally a statement in from rudy giuliani who is the presidents lead counsel on this buzzfeed report that michael cohen was ordere...

Part and well be able to do a deal with her. it was a fundamental misreading of how she viewed this issue. so youre in a position, the conversations i was having last night with sources who have been in contact with the president in a few days, hes as dug in as ever, he believes if he relinquishes slightly, hell alien eig ali alienate the people still with him. some people think theres something darker in the deal, some amnesty description but i dont see it right now. she really involves and see...

Solution to syria comes forward, and i have no idea why we would want to give up that leverage and allow iran, allow vladimir putin to carve up syria as they see fit. >> thank you for your perspective on what certainly is a hard day for the fighting men and women today and it begs perspective. thank you for providing it. all right. lets take on another tough issue right now. the shutdown. you believe the shutdown is a mistake. that thats not the way to leverage a negotiation. the president disag...

Theyve often felt the white house phone system was intrusive because there might be an operator there listening to you and who knows who was taking what notes. when president nixon was in office and he dealt with the russians he asked our general to serve as the interpreter, and walters was show trusted by the russians he was the interpreter for both sides. nobody else was in the room. we dont even know if there are any notes left. i imagine he threw them away. >> we do know the russians have no...