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It seems theres a conspiracy of some sort going on. the pred said there was nothing going on. he must have known clearly that there were a lot of contacts with the russians going on. >> conspiracy is a good word. trumps main defense, one of his defenses to collusion was, look, the treasury department, my treasury department, imposed these harsh sanctions on russia. that shows how tough we are. those sanctions were imposted last april. he wasnt tough very long. if you want to talk about an arc of...

He goes but hed like to stay as long as he can, as long as theres still heavy lifting to do for mueller. >> speaking of bill barr. hes meeting -- having these meetings on the hill ahead of his confirmation hearing next week. hes meeting with dianne feinstein today but senator amy klobuchar said she tried to get a meeting with him and was told he couldnt do it until after because of the shutdown. can you explain whats going on here, what youve heard from doj? >> the people hes going to meet with,...

That the chief quid pro quo for all of the help from the russians is the lifting of sanctions. they wanted to do that from day one and now the president of course tries to delay the imposition of sanctions voted and congress forced to impose them and now hes trying to lift sanctions without the russians doing anything to remove from crimeaor stopping aggressions on ukrain. so why you would thrilift the sanctions, except for a quid pro quo, i wouldnt know >> and the treasury secretary perhaps wil...

Yet. >> rick gates shows up because hes manaforts deputy. charged, pled, cooperating and was involved, according to the "new york times" story, in this passing of the data. >> thats right and theres no other reason to pass it other than to be part of the conspiracy to micro target voters to keep the hillary clinton voters from going out and voting for her. >> the part of this, natasha, the other part he lied about, which can also strikes me as important is the idea of some deal that lifts sancti...

Agreed to give a classified briefing tomorrow. is that correct? and whats the nature of that? >> i dont know what the nature is. its a classified briefing to all members of the house. as to why hes proposing to remove the sanctions. the santcions were imposed on dare pauskau and other russian oligarchs close to putin because of the invasion of crimea and invasion of ukrain and of course we know from everything youve talked about, the testimony about the trump tower meeting that the chief quid pr...

Issue that they voted absolutely overwhelmingly to defy the president specifically on this issue of russian sanctions. that vote in 2017 was 98-2 in the senate. it was 419-3 in the house. so, yes, we are going to see treasury secretary steven mnuchin dragged before the house tomorrow to try to explain what they just did by lifting these russian sanctions. and yes, the house is now controlled by democrats, but that doesnt mean that the republican-controlled senate might not object to the lifting ...

Which can also strikes me as important is the idea of some deal that lifts sanctions on russia. its very clear -- in the extent theres a quid pro quo, they have an tangible and and demand, its the lifting of sanctions. this seems to be yet another data point supporteding that. >> and they were apparently discussing this plan for ukrain that would lift sanctions on russia in exchange for russia essentially withdrawing from ukrain. what weve been trying to report out is if this was the same peace ...

Bone in their body on any other subject. they have done this. i mean, trump objected vehemently in 2017 when congress first voted to create this structure for russian sanctions, which allows congress to object and reverse the administrations decisions on these sorts of things within 30 days. the white house complained about it. they said they didnt want it. but at the time, congress, both houses of congress, democrats and republicans were sufficiently freaked out by the trump administration on t...

Writear in response to a decemb 19th notification indicating thatif the treasury department intends to terminate sanctions on these three russian companies as part t of a deal with oleg deripaska, a russian oligarch who embedded the putin regimes activity against the united states." "as chairs of committees with oversight jurisdictionmm over t u.s. response in russias attempt toin interfere in our elections andt other hostile actions, with e hae have number concerns about the agreement the u.s. ...

Explanation how the treasury arrived at this decision and they want a meeting between steven mnuchin and, quote, all interested members on this subject and they want that meeting soon before the sanctions are withdrawn. again, the clock is ticking. congress has 30 days to object to the lifting of these sanctions. the trump administration announced just before christmas that that clock had started ticking because they announced that theyd be lifted. and then as we were absorbing that information,...