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They even helped him keep it secret. in a call with reporters, the senior kremlin official, who is apparently managing this project for the russian government, he put out a statement denying any kremlin involvement. he said we dont respond to such business topics. it is not our job. asked specifically about reports that michael cohen had e-mailed the officials office in the kremlin about the project, this russian official, dimitri peskov responded, quote, we tlaeft without a response. well, from...

Some leverage, simply holding an e-mail in which donald trump, jr. had said, yes, id love to have dirt on hillary clinton in the middle of a campaign, that too, would have been a card they could have played had it never come out. >> you said had this been a normal administration. are you saying this is not a normal administration? >> well, i think you know what i mean. just follow the last week or two. its not a normal administration in the sense that theres so much corruption. theres the muelle...

And msnbc national security analyst for us as well. im joined as well by malcolm nance, and ruth marcus, deputy editorial page editor and columnist at "the washington post" and contributor for us as well. good evening, to each of you. john, this looks like a national security problem even if it is not itself illegal the business dealings, which is yet to be investigated. >> thats right. i think by lying to the american public as he did and by the fact that the russians knew he was lying, had thi...

To deal with donald trump making money and donald trump advancing the trump family organization. that being said, this is -- its very clear, and john mclaughlin made this very well in his tweet, what we have here is not just the edge of blackmail. were 2 1/2 years into blackmail here because as we see it the person who has kompromat on him, has leverage from a former kgb case officer, the person whose job was to exploit this, was the president of the united states. which means we dont know wheth...

January 2017. russia has never tried to use leverage over me. i have no deals with russia, no deals, no loans, nothing. did russia try to use the kind of leverage that might come from saying the president of the united states was less than forthcoming about his business dealings or attempted business dealings in moskow? today robert mueller crossed that line. he also now as the presidents written answers. the question was the president being truthful in those written answers. his lawyer says he ...

And they know what is happening to this president. i think you have to look at sort of the totality of what we have found out today, which is essentially how much leverage the russians had over trump as a candidate and over trump as the president. as a candidate he clear will i wanted the financial dealings for his real estate to go through in russia. that meant that the russians had something on him. then he lies about it, which means that the russians had something on him. and they wanted chan...

Unfortunately, it probably does undermine our relationship with russia. however, the reason for our cancelled meeting is ukraine. hopefully that will be resolved soon, so that productive conversations can begin. the president is in full damage control mode after his former personal attorney, michael cohen, pleaded guilty to lying to congress about a moscow real estate project. discussions with then candidate about the deal extended well into the 2016 race. just before signing a new trade deal wi...

Back punches. on russia, i just dont get it. i just dont get it whatsoever. he seems to have no backbone to confront vladimir putin. someone who only understands strength. >> whatever the facts may be, senator, the russian government presumably knows exactly who was involved and to what extent in those various trump organization business efforts with the russians. does that give vladimir putin -- do you believe, does that give him leverage over president trump? >> well, look. if putin wanted to ...

Potentially become president of the united states. >> and that is the crucial question we have tonight, right? because the question is, how much leverage and has he used it? and that is the crucial question we all have, the quid pro quo, and this huge development tonight, putting it front and center. thank you all and our breaking news coverage continues. president trump is trashing cohen. so, you know, and he had been for a little while here. so why did he keep him around for so long? >> beca...

Mueller has such a long -- hes got the long game plan here that it may have been just a that tt of -- two things here. one is, trump absolutely needed to cancel the meeting with putin only because he could not afford another helsinki, a post meeting hel sink kill type press conference. that could not sustain itself in terms of what they discuss. were now in the full financial part of this investigation, right? were looking at the levering and and blackmail and the real estate and. lets not forge...