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In the future. thats a really good thing in terms of the checks and balances our system relies on. its a good thing for lying to congress to be a serious matter that results in criminal prosecution and gives teeth back to the oversight power that congress has to regularly. >> and the democrats in control of congress as of january 3rd will be much more interested in running down whether people lied to congress than devin nunes and that house investigating committee were. >> it wouldnt take much f...

Was about the election, but we know that they were coordinating, talking with, you know, about a significant business deal. something that trump wanted from the kremlin, and the kremlin was responding. so if you have that going on at the exact same time that the kremlin is working to help get donald trump elected, that sounds like a pretty big coincidence. and i think were going to see that line between those two things come out through the mueller investigation. and it is shocking enough that w...

Trying to build bridges. >> he was liked, but he wasnt feared. i wonder if he didnt have the leverage during those four years that could have gotten him farther, with even his modest program and his agenda. >> well, if you look, you know, some colleagues have noted, oh, my god, he had so many bipartisan achievements -- >> he didnt have a choice otherwise. >> what was going to do that? which is the epitome of george h.w. bush, which is, look, you work with the people that are there, not the ones ...

Investigation is taking place and i think congressman nadler is getting to that. the involvement of russia in this deal with the president leaning in, do they have leverage over him? and thats a crucial -- once we get so far into the details, we forget about the purpose of this and thats the central question behind all that. certainly something that congressman nadler and other congressional democrats are looking deeply into. >> thank you all. more to come after the break including we take now a...

Removing that leverage. it is dangerous waters, potentially a crime. >> there is a week of on potential developments, the busy week ahead with filings expected e. memos on the alleged crimes and lies, by perhaps tomorrow a new filing on how michael flynn lied to officials, and maybe some new memos on the specifics of tax evasion, and payments to women, et cetera. >> i think were getting near the end, there are some obvious threads that need to be tied up. michael flynn, its been over a year sinc...

It can only be a certain number of people, but it doesnt say that persons name or whether they asked michael cohen to lie on behalf of the president. that brings us to another question, how much did trump know about cohens lies to cover this moscow project? and did that give the kremlin any leverage over trump? >> the fact that he was lying to the american people about doing business in russia and that the kremlin knew he was lying gave the kremlin a hold over him, and one question we have now i...

What they have done is not only continued to hold the ukrainian and the sailors that they seized. vladimir people continue saying the war, he did call it wia war as soon as the government is in kiev. he said the united states, specifically donald trump, has given up any leverage over saudi arabias crown prince, mohamed bin salman over the murder of jamal khashoggi and that means that pressure for a cease-fire of yemen where saudi arabia is a player in that conflict is gone. there is one image th...

I think its in large part because when you heard the president say maybe he did, maybe he didnt, how will we know? essentially hes saying, who cares? >> and david, they are speaking in english, macron and mbs. macron could be heard saying, you know, you never listen to me. what does that say about the potential leverage that the french president might have in any kind of negotiations or talk or admonishments, et cetera, with the saudi crown prince? >> well -- >> you never listen to me says there...

Unravel the relationship over over this. i think the thing is they dont have to unravel the relationship. they can make some kind of punitive measures, use the leverage they have on saudi arabia for areas like yemen or qatar and still maintain the close relationship that they have with saudi arabia, this kind of false choice of all or nothing with saudi arabia is the problem here. >> right. there have been so many who have had ties to the state department who say thats what foreign policy is all...

Talking to the crown prince. i think, again, in the absence of leadership from the united states, which used to set the tone of this, then youre going to have different responses from different western leaders. >> right. and so this was on display because if there was anything untoward or strange, they wouldnt want to have that kind of meeting right out in the open. they knew there was a camera there, even if they werent able to -- you know, even if the audio doesnt pick up everything with clari...