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Best a frenemy of the united states and perhaps an outright adversa adversary? one is there is a trump file and that putin has considerable leverage. second is the reality that trump has to keep putin close, because as the process proceeds in terms of russian election meddling, the more the russians are perceived to have meddled, the more the president believes the legitimacy of his election is at stake. i think its not just mr. putin, its erdogan, its a number of authoritarians. mr. trump loves...

That. >> john, take all the time you want and come up with a better answer than that. >> right. >> the trump white house doesnt seem to understand that there isnt some other answer that coats could have come up with. >> no. look, given the circumstances, it is not clear to me on the basis of what he said in that interview that he still doesnt know what happened in the meeting with lavrov. what coats learned is one of the things they talked about in that two hours is that whatever vladimir putin ...

Departments belief that he, while serving in that incredibly sensitive job with access to the highest parts of the government, the justice department believed he was at that moment compromised by the russian government. the russian government had leverage over him they could potentially use to comphim to d take your pick. take action against the national security interests of the united states. whatever the russians might want him to do. they had leverage. he was compromised. sale yates goes to ...

Giuliani did because its to distract from the horrible news about putin and trump. >> so heres some horrible news about put enain and trump. >> by bringing back the who he slept with story. >> its so ridiculous. >> and that may not be it, but i want to remind people and this is sort of to your question that cohen is not necessarily separate from the whole russia conspiracy collusion scandal. remember, cohen was working on trumps behalf until much later than anyone had previously thought on getti...

Look, given the circumstances, it is not clear to me on the basis of what he said in that interview that he still doesnt know what happened in the meeting with lavrov. what coats learned is one of the things they talked about in that two hours is that whatever vladimir putin has on donald trump is enough to win him a summit meeting in washington, d.c. after assaulting our democracy, after waging this information war against the united states, while hes still ongoing with those same kind of activ...

What to ask you. >> first of all, jonathan swan, that noise that he made, its very troubling. secondly, you must get ptsd every time the phrase "going rogue" comes up. the phrase with coats. >> that means going the other direction, it doesnt mean going toward responsible governing. heres what happened this week. this is why this week was a good week. it was a good week in america. >> oh, yeah? >> at the beginning of the week because of this guy and some other folks over in helsinki, everybody go...

Campaign denied everything. we dont know anything about the payment. affair never happened. well it turns out that in a conversation taped during the campaign, michael cohn and donald trump discussed possible payments. >> now, matt, lets back this up. who taped this conversation? because this is not the fbi. >> correct. >> michael cohn, the sel self-described fixer, who, for years and years has put donald trump and his well-being first, is the one who taped the conversation with trump? >> yes. s...

Hes got no shame. what could be embarrassing? >> yeah, money maybe. >> money? >> or just something that remains to be seen somehow. >> i dont think the salacious stuff will embarrass him. i think youre right about money. >> i think at the end of the day, he has a lot of leverage over him. hes indebted to a bunch of russian oligarchs. this is my theory when im at home by myself thinking about this stuff. theres no evidence. >> you poor, poor man. >> but i think its really -- because the one thing...

She went in person to the white house. she met with the white house down and she delivered serious concerns about mike flynn related to his contacts with the russian government and most urgently, the jarells belief that he, while serving in that incredibly sensitive job with access to the highest parts of the government, the justice department believed he was at that moment compromised by the russian government. they had leverage that they could potentially use to compel him to do, take your pic...

Own dni and much of the rest of his government made an agreement with vladimir putin to have vladimir putin come to washington in the middle of a mid-term election. that speaks to the extraordinary leverage that vladimir putin has over donald trump. we still dont know exactly why, but an incredible thing. >> well -- it really doesnt matter why at this point. i mean, well find out why either through robert mueller or historians will find out why, but i cant even imagine, john, republicans that ar...