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Motherlands domestic intelligence service. >> i can imagine that vladimir putin was looking at the fsb as being a very important institution that he understood because he was from that world. >> putin soon had the fsb utilize some old kgb tricks. obtaining compromising material called kompromat on a targeted individual to gain leverage. >> when he became director of the fsb, the prosecutor general in moscow, a man named skoriatov was starting to prosecute a number of crimes around the yeltsin fa...

Of coup against the rule of law. the kind of action you see in a dictatorship >> it gives leverage to the president. it signals to robert mueller, im in charge, tough no control than you do. lets wrap this up >> the man in charge of the investigation offered a blueprint for ending it. >> impeachment is real now >> for a year the president publicly criticized and ridiculed sessions, so it was not very surprisinghow much * rt the choice of matt whitaker outside the white house. president trump: i ...

That matter, do they have the power to simply refuse whitacres orders saying hes been unconstitutional appointed? how old it work if youre saying he is a fact witness that mueller could have this leverage? what is the fact that he could be a fact witness change the dynamic of how mueller interacts with matthew whitaker as an acting attorney general? >> if you look at the concept of obstruction of justice and we look at a very similar situation where muellers already been looking at, whether the ...

Michael cohen as given to the government, former officer prosecutors, as to how you corroborate what he siz the president knew and was involved in. >> thats why this wall street journal story is shocking but not surprising. of course donald trump would know these financial transactions were going on because it was all for his benefit. >> this is something that gives the head of national enquirer great leverage over the president. >> its american kompromat. >> american kompromat, exactly. flori...

Financial transactions were going on. they were from his bank sfwl you talk about russian compromise. this is compromising stuff. that gives the head of the company the head of the national enquirer great leverage over the president if hes the person who wants to use it. >> american compromise. exactly. >> thank you very much. jeff will stay with us. a florida election. two races tightening. legal moves on all sides. questions will we see recounts. at t-mobile, forty bucks gets you an unlimited ...

Fishing expedition, which is very dangerous to the republic. >> jeremy, come back to you for this. that is basically like not just -- not trump friendly. doesnt echo trump. almost as if scripted by trump. talking points, things that trump has said to "the new york times" and others. does that not make it feel very much like those comments were an audition for this job? >> yeah, they were job qualifications exactly right. and of course, the reason theyre concerned about it is because those financ...

Democracy in the world. right? we have figured things out and we do things that no other country can do. why do we have -- why do we disproportionately affected by gun violence? more than any other nation in the world. what is it -- if you cant see that, then there is an issue with you. and the folks who actually really believe that the second amendment, as i say, is sacrosanct to them, those are the folks who should be challenging people like the nra to do better when it comes to what kind of g...

House, right? house democrats will have to vote soon on leadership. that includes picking a speaker. ten democrats have told politico they dont support on nancy pelosis bid. given the size of a democratic majority, she really cant afford to lose too many members. do you support leader pelosis bid? >> well, what ive said from the beginning and this goes back over a year is that i want to see what my options are. i want to see who is running. i want to have conversations with them what their plans...

>> so democrats won back the house, right? house democrats will have to vote soon on leadership. that includes picking a speaker. ten democrats have told politico they dont support on nancy pelosis bid. given the size of a democratic majority, she really cant afford to lose too many members. do you support leader pelosis bid? >> well, what ive said from the beginning and this goes back over a year is that i want to see what my options are. i want to see who is running. i want to have conversatio...

Theres too much political leverage tied up in that. that in and of itself, what i said is an excuse. im just saying at the end of the day theres such a juxtaposition, a contradiction between the emotion that people show in these moments, how much they feelish the empathy. its not empathy. you dont do a damn thing about them. dont say that you care about the people who you see on tv when you wont do anything to help those same people. and i know people dont like that. youre not supposed to judge ...