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Confirmation battles as bulwarks against extreme conservative picks, theyre not going to have the leverage that they had before. and if president trump wants to nominate somebody who is like farr, its going to take a lot more republican senators now to block him. >> thats the thought that gives every liberal chills. and kelsey, as an offshoot of that, will a bill that protects mueller ever get sent over to the white house for the presidents signature? if not, why not? >> this is one of the issue...

There was a big public event people found out about. those two lawsuits could dive into those relationships and customers. we may learn a lot from them. >> what could congress do to dig that information out if the court cases dont proceed accordingly? >> congress has a lot of leverage in this case. the constitution says presidents may not accept emoluments from foreign governments unless congress says yes. says they can. so it gives congress a lot of leeway to investigate. obviously theres been ...

Interests? this i think only underscores the importance of our brangiing mr. cohen back before the committee but looking into the issue of whether the russians possess financial leverage over the president of the united states. >> today cohen officially named the president in court. this is key, because it ties trump to the trump tower/moscow discussions, well past the time that the president claims those business negotiations ended. of course, the president had something to say about it. >> hes...

Congressional affairs. greg, ill start with you on this because we were talking to mike about what this means to terms of the congress. this is a crime lying to congress that is pretty rarely prosecuted what do you read into muellers decision to choose this as how hes going to go forward with this plea deal? is he setting the stage for other things? >> i think hes doing two things. hes signaling to other witnesses that lying to whether its kr its congress or the special counsel team is a serious...

Oh, lets go to adam schiff on capitol hill. >> truthful in real time as they were pursuing this deal. what does it mean now about how much we can rely on what the president is saying about any continuing russian financial interests? this, i think, only underscores the importance of bringing back mr. cohen before our committee but also looking into this issue of whether the russians possess financial leverage over the president of the united states. very significant, obviously, in terms of the ru...

Corps it have ran todd young of indiana. senator young was elected as the chairman of the national senatorial committee. you are not new to yemen. you pointed to the famine and civilian casualties. and you believe the united states should pull back from its role there. there is a point of leverage from people like you, who have been looking for this in the relationship with saudi arabia. what ought to be done from the point of view of the trump administration? >> so i think you correctly charact...

He has been cooperating, points forwards in telling us that theyve got leverage to secure his additional cooperation. what we dont know is whether his statement and what he has told the investigators for mueller about the business deal has anything to do with russian election meddling. you may remember that the president said he had nothing to do with russia. he said that during the campaign. does this put that statement in a different light given the fact that michael cohen, the presidents very...

Build a big trump development there, trump tower, which would include a hotel, office space, condominium, that kind of thing, which fell through -- he told congress that the work on it stopped before the presidential campaign got under way in earnest. and it was over by the time of the iowa caucuses. thats the statement that he now says is incorrect, that the work went on afterwards. the fact that he has made this statement suggests that muellers team is aware of what the facts were and that the...

Quote, conflicted prosecutor gone rogue and claiming that the, quote, $30 million witch hunt is doing nothing but ruin lives. to be clear, this is the same investigation that brought indictments for more than a dozen russian nationalists for attempting to influence the 2016 election. why shouldnt we be up in arms about that? why does that warrant a tweet from the president? many tweets. trying to go after special counsel. >> reporter: and trying to use leverage, senator jeff flake has vowed to w...

So called 12 angry democrats and demeaning and ridiculing him in every way to be about the chances of him being fired is falling for us i believe. >> and attempting to use a little bit of leverage he has vowed to with hold his vote on judicial nominations. as of now no vote scheduled and no indication from senate leadership they will move to have one. >> all right. thank you. coming up ill take with a republican senator, was he convinced by what pompeo and mattis had to say in the wake of the ...