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Coincidences, all of these things happening in plain sight, but what we dont know is how deep this investigation has gone, what sort of investigation it was. we know it was a counterintelligence investigation. we dont know -- we know it was handed over to robert mueller. we dont know where its gone from then. which obviously makes your work on the house intel committee all that much more important now. now democrats control that committee. when republicans controlled that committee, no disrespec...

Against the campaign or against president trump specifically. you know, one of the ways that intelligence operatives work is to try to obtain leverage on someone, in some way. whether its money, personally embarrassing stories, anything that can be used to blackmail someone, i think those would be the kind of things i would want to probe to see if they had leverage over anyone relating to the trump campaign, whether thats president trump or others. >> were you asked by the grand jury or the sena...

Betraying russia or ukrain but theyre trying to get into the trump administration. manafort is trying to use his leverage to make good deals with these guys and what is this doing prior to the inauguration? hes sending a signal that he and the trump camp, they want a deal. trump wants to deal with putin, wants to deal with russia. if are russias going to attack, thats all good for them and then you come to the inauguration and theyre funneling money in through pass throughs and one thing that we...

Circumstances, not on our backs. >> i dont see a paycheck before the first of february, and where is my rent going to come from? >> my husband is making homemade bread because its cheaper than buying it at the store. >> i have one more car payment and then i have to go to carmax and sell my car. >> the government says, lets reopen the government, mr. president, and then well negotiate. the president says, no way, because thats my only leverage. right? is it any more complicated than that? >> tha...

Square one as you said. no clear path away. sources are telling me and my colleague that the white house is actively looking at other places to get money, like the civil forfeiture fund. we talked about disaster relief funding. looking at whether they can take funding there. the president has backed himself into a corner here where there are no good options at this point. frankly, he does own the shutdown. he is on record saying it. he may not want to. he may want to put it on the dpdp democrats...

Federal workers, tsa agents and coast guard people as pawns in a political game. >> well, thats a question i asked sarah sanders sunday. she said the president is holding them hostage. theres no obvious connection between a tsa worker and a border wall no obvious connection between and irs agent or an fbi investigator and the wall. the only reason that they want this broad government shut down is only 25% of the government, but still hundreds of thousands of workers is because it gives the presi...

Also what role, what leverage does russia hold financially over president trump. president trump is reported to have wanted to build a trump tower in moscow. and really thats what congress wants to get to the bottom of. you have an oversight committee that will have the first go. house intelligence committee wants to hear from cohen as does the injuries committee in the house. even the senate intelligence committee wants to hear from michael cohen again because keep in mind michael cohen pleaded...

For the wall, i didnt think they would write a check for $20 billion or $10 billion or $5 billion or two cents. >> not true. heres a document from the trump campaign website which said that it could use trade as leverage to compel mexico to quote make a one time payment of $5 to $10 billion and heres what the president said in april of 2016. >> watch this. watch this. you guys ready for it? whos going to pay for the wall? by the way, by the way, 100%. you know the politicians say they will never...

Debate. i think he went into it because he has been talked out of it so many times before when he threatened to do this and now hes in a situation where hes basically trying to salvage something that could wiped up being very embarrassing for him if he has to back down. >> one other point on the national emergency, making the declaration, this whole week has been about laying the ground work trying to convince people theres a big problem on the border but when you have the president sitting ther...

Nobody is winning in this. maybe question get a short-term reprieve. lets do a short term cr to allow us to process this, but lets not keep the government shut down while do thwe do this. we can figure these things out, everyone is talking about leverage. it is all political leverage. well tell that to the people who are really worried. >> she is used to bowing alone in opposing president trump these days. there is a silent growing morality against the president. >> she was alone in opposing jus...