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Throwing stuff in the air trying to get people to believe bad things were going to happen to the clinton campaign. that could be true. however, it could also be true that he did have this inside information and he was lying about it. >> and mueller may have documents. he may have sources to refute what roger stone said to congress. if, if the mueller team is able to go after stone for lying to congress, they did that with michael cohen. they used it as leverage. do you ever think, based on what ...

The russians and given to wikileaks? thats according to the indictments from robert muellers team over the summer. did stone know about that. the "washington post" notes, this is interesting, that the mueller team somehow got an unofficial transcript of the report. perhaps through director of national intelligence. so they know, they know what roger stone told you already. theyve seen the notes already. the reason to get the official transcript the "post" says is because you need the official tr...

This investigation. >> if he did have contact with assange or wikileaks and know about the e-mails and take the trump e-mails, they said theres your collusion right there. now hes going to say i was just making an educated guess about what was going to happen but he has a credibility problem here and i think thats the perjury part of it. the question is did he purger himself before congress? if he did purger himself, it gives mueller some leverage over stone, whether he will respond is a differe...

Side said they would support such a motion so if such a motion were made, presumably, it would pass. it is interesting, lets imagine that mueller does get his hands on that transcript. i for one, again, i cant confirm the specifics of whats been requested, but i for one would put roger stone at the top of my list of people that i would be concerned had not been truthful with the committee when he testified to us. and obviously, you know, if that is true, as we saw in the michael cohen case just ...

Leverage in the house majority, and they are not going to get it done with nancy pelosi as speaker of the house. they lose their leverage when we go from majority to minority. >> thank you very much, panel. the man poised to over see the mueller probe had harsh words we know for the investigation just a few months ago. theres a newly surfaced memo and it puts bill barrs possible attorney general nomination in jeopardy. we will read that to you.

>> it is going to be such a beautiful wall. it is going to be so big. it is going to be so powerful. it is going to be as beautiful as a wall can be. and who is going to pay for the wall? >> mexico! >> who is going to pay for the wall? >> mexico! >> who? mexico is going to pay for the wall, and they understand that. >> and we need security. we need the wall. were going to have it all. >> rachel bay, does the president risk losing his base if he cant deliver on this? >> i mean, the base is going ...

Of washington. >> id like to lean on adrienne at times like this not because youre from the other side but just to talk generically about how the process works. so lame duck, speaker of the house negotiating the deal with the president in the white house. how does it work out? >> it doesnt. the point that everyone on the couch has been making, this is president trumps last-ditch effort to get that $5 billion wall that hes been talking about. he talked about it during the campaign trail, on the s...

Senate what it might looks like, the funding, the spending bill. whats going on on the hill? >> i cant answer for the house or the president. clearly the president was in the room when the deal was made with schumer, pelosi, ryan. he was in the room. folks will do it. the deal is short term. it only goes into february. so therefore there will be an opportunity to get that money. we have to secure the border. we have to secure the border. there will be that opportunity early in the next term to g...

Russia and assad. >> they already were there. >> they have been there before and they will be there afterwards. >> syria has been americas enemy in the middle east since forever. its never bothered us. its not about syria. its about keeping the problems in syria from making everything worse. as long as the president is planning to do that, we should all be fine with it. >> laura: this is what "national review" wrote. the military intervention syria represents one of the most successful cost-effe...

Being on the ground causes danger and we had not figured out how to turn that presence into a resolution of the war. i like the way it gave us some leverage and defeating isis, limiting irans influence and protecting the kurds. >> shepard: headline in "the new york times," kurdish fighters talking about releasing superior is fighters and expecting a turkish attack. the syrian democratic forces are considering monitoring. how quickly could isis reconstitute using cell phones and instant messages ...