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Politically are associate would pro-russia policies. >> theyre guys betraying their country in the interest of russia. >> im not sure whether theyre betraying russia or ukrain but theyre trying to get into the trump administration. manafort is trying to use his leverage inside the trump organization to make goods deals with these guys. what is this doing prior to the inauguration? manafort is sending a signal that he and the trump camp, they want a deal. trump wants to deal with putin, wants to ...

Describing how trump described details of meetings with vladimir putin, kept them from his senior advisers. raising a red flag whether the president of the united states is being manipulated by the russian government. and joined by author of "house of trump, house of putin." and back with us now, natasha. fill this in for us now. when we look at these two pieces of reporting coming out over the weekend the next question might be how might a president of the united states become an agent of anoth...

Course whs course, when it comes to donald trump of potentially salacious videotape. of, you know, certain things that could put him in a compromising position as the leader of the free world essentially. another point of leverage that co-have has to do with his real estate career and as we know, he hid his desire to pursue a real estate deal in moscow during the election. why did he hide that? if it was such a nothing burger, as hes led us to believe, why didnt he just come out and tell the ame...

Oval office. weve got a president who is abusing power and shutting down government and then trying to use that as leverage to fund a wall that experts say is not only ineffective but everyone says is too expensive and just impractical. so weve got a crisis and its at 1600 pennsylvania avenue. >> well, congressman, on that point, youre both a member of the majority party now in the house. also, we mentioned your military service. what is your view, for people watching at home who may think the g...

Information. there are still very important questions that we have relating to what kind of leverage russia or russian oligarchs who are close to vladimir putin may have on donald trump. because the committee under devin nunes basically foreclosed any way to subpoena information, either from witnesses or from third parties, travel records, bank records, phone records, because they didnt allow us that, it was very hard for our committee to get to the bottom of some of these fundamental questions....

Workers in the u.s. illegally. it is not clear if the president can really do that. day two of the plan, mexico would immediately protest, the president wrote, because so many people rely on those remittances as theyre known. now it is day three of the plan. the u.s. would tell mexico if the mexican government will contribute blank billion dollars to pay for the wall, the regulation will not go into effect. simple. day one, day two, day three. it is day 27 for the trump administration and it has...

Allow us to figure out, for example, whether russia has leverage over donald trump. a lot of that would have to do with money laundering or the infusion of cash into the trump operation. we couldnt figure any of that out. but im pretty sure bob mueller has a lot of that information. so now that we have the majority, were going to go back and answer some critical questions, call in probably some witnesses that we have already visited with, and try to find out the information that we couldnt get t...

Government will contribute blank billion dollars to pay for the wall, the regulation would not go into ecsbointo effect. simple, three-day plan. its day 722 of the trump administration, and it hasnt happened yet. in a memo to "the post" trump also proposed cancel visas. and in the memo it says the u.s. has the moral high ground here and all of the leverage. the president has not executed that plan. mexico has said empathically its not paying for the wall. so the president is demanding that you, ...

Their safe guard is to hope that theyre able to get the american public on side to place pressure on particularly the president and also congress to form some sort of agreement because they dont have that ability, themselves, to withdraw their labor as a part of some kind of strike action. >> this goes to my second to last question here, very quickly, the "wall street journal" reporting the white house office of management and budget is preparing for the possibility this could go through the end...

I remember my grandmother say dont mess with peoples money. some of the people affected may have voted for this president. do you think this leaves a lasting mark in the minds of these every day americans, these people getting checks that are worthless? >> i think its very concerning and the federal workers are in a fairly weak bargaining position. since the taft-hartley act of 1947, federal workers havent been allowed to go on strike. there have been incidents where federal workers have effecti...