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Roll the dice. >> right. look, to the extent that logic can be used as a guide, he said he wants to negotiate with north korea with a guy who he knows is a homicidal actor in his own regime. he doesnt want to talk to iran about this deal. he wants to just pull out. logic is not helpful for him. there is no win for him backing up an obama deal. so just to give you a quick take because you raised it earlier, the supporter of the president are leaning on the federal judge in the manafort case and i...

Underlying problem there. no matter how you look at it, reimbursed, wasnt reimbursed, its a real reach to say this is in-kind contribution in a campaign setting. this is new legal ground. the only other real test case for this theory, it failed in 2011. >> harris: interesting. >> so whoever it turns out paid for this or reimbursed this payment, it really doesnt go to campaign finance violations under a traditional reading of the law. it underlines how far afield this investigation has gotten. >>...

Take that robert swan mueller the third. hes extremely esteemed lawyer and he might be able to do a coherent impeachment defense for trump. giuliani cannot. giulianis is doing immediate strategy media strategy of create chaos that weve seen from so many other trump exponents including anthony scaramucci p. suggestions that giuliani wont be around very long. hes job while we sit here parsing and you did a good job explanation, we try to parse that for logic hes just throwing up more dry ice and s...

[ inaudible ]. >> okay. so, jill, hes talking about blackmail an obstruction of justice. the court says he cannot withhold information that could potentially be relevant in a criminal trial. in your view having gone through the whole watergate thing could donald trump assert that he cannot be forced to testify before that grand jury because this involved potential crimes? >> the simple answer is no, he cannot avoid it. i think that all logic and all legal precedent say that he will have to compl...

We will start holding hearings on the behavior of the administration, on what theyre doing on their adherence to law, on what if any legal changes we should make to, to promote the rule of law. and well see where it goes from there. >> a warning there from the ranking member of the judiciary committee, jerry nadler in an interview on msnbc last night. although stopping short of threatening impeachment. joining me here, akeem jeffreys of new york. we have house intel ranking member, adam schiff w...

Basically, mr. melcher is no longer the focus of this, its now david strickland? >> chris melcher went on to explain that he and strickland were no longer on good terms. he believes strickland had stolen several of his guns so he had strickland arrested. >> the gun robbery put a damper on their relationship. >> strickland pleaded nat guilty to the gun charge and was released soon after. the charges were still pending and vellerman wondered could writing that letter been payback for having him ar...

Drum beat, this sort of trying to muddy the waters about the actual law. >> right. but, i mean, the logical reason for them on the side of the trump side, jill i will come to you is in this case you are not talking about civil damages for a sexual harassment lawsuit, you are talking about potential crimes for which someone could in theory be jailed and you are talking about the president of the united states. one could see the partisan logic on the court to say its a little different. there is a...

Argument, hes saying this is stacked against me. it sounds to me hes determined that at the current moment he doesnt think it is a fair setup. so therefore one would follow his logic to say he wont sit down with mueller. of course, he doesnt want to rule out that possibility and he doesnt want to invite the scrutiny and the potential, you know, ultimate perhaps constitutional crisis, so hes leaning over the possibility. but all his other words indicate hes saying this is not a fair investigation...

Do you think that president trump could refuse it given the fact that the president clearly seems to be -- no matter who you are, man or woman, you not alove t -- above the law. >> but the court have spoken in clinton v jones and nixon and not only is the president not above the law in terms of whether he could commit a crime, he heads the executive branch whose job is to enforce laws as written so to say you are going to thumb your nose at due process and a quest for information in a criminal p...

What he did say here which is simple. im not just a black guy and im not just a hollywood celebrity im an individual with thoughts and feelings and get to formulate my own logic and figure out what i believe. if everyone else thought like this perhaps we should be able to have these conversations we havent been able to have so far. >> good for kanye west for beginning the conversation. steve: apparently the presidents idea is he wants these artists and athletes and to vent to him. brian: before ...