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Back. Overnight weve seen the president evolve his thinking to now advocate for the Death Penalty and, regardless, both of these statements are somewhat inappropriate and unprecedented just in terms of what a president traditionally would say, which is to restrain from offering this sort of commentary. It is in keep with the kind of public persona that donald trump has cultivated over many, many years in public life of trying to show himself to be strong and tough and have this steely resolve. B...

>> i forgot when you mentioned in the oval office. then they had that will dinner date together. >> the loyalty dinner. >> so there was more than one interaction there. what does this tell us how mueller is approaching the rest of this investigation, juliette? >> i think we can get clues in all of this. and just i want to combine it with the week that were having. this week its tuesday. this week will end with further filings. >> thanks for rileding us. >> on manafort, ill see you friday night a...

Post" drops an article that says no, sally yates was here 18 days ago warning you your national security adviser was a walking time bomb and then they let him go. it looked so terrible. they tried to make it go away. >> i forgot when you mentioned in the oval office. then they had that will dinner date together. >> the loyalty dinner. >> so there was more than one interaction there. what does this tell us how mueller is approaching the rest of this investigation, juliette? >> i think we can get ...

Should be called upon to testify only where he is evidence is essential to the investigation and where it cant be gathered from other sources. >> but they are investigating his case. it seems like hed be essential. i want to get to jim in the e sense of time here. it seems ab sired that theyd want to do this. its so much to look at after the election while hes in office. >> this seems to be the category, and jack knows better as a lawyer, defense lawyer wishful thinking. looking at the list of r...

Account, that he had a conversation at some point. we know he had recently spoken to putin, because he got a congratulatory phone call to him. we dont know if there were previous phone calls when he was a private citizen. but the president seems to be claiming to jim comey that in one of his conversations with vladimir putin there was this discussion that took place. we now have television evidence that shows vladimir putin talking in a news conference about the fact that russia has the best hoo...

He had reopened it and she had been elected that would have been an immense scandal he concealed the fact it was reopened. he didnt know what would be on wieners computer. im not sure the way the republicans and rnc is handling this is a good idea. >> bill: they have a president is punching back and maybe the rnc is taking their cue from him. a lot of focus on the loyalty dinner. where is the focus on russian collusion? was that addressed in the stephanopoulos interview or not? >> no, i dont thi...

Comeys book about the loyalty dinner. the thing is that there is plausible denyability on both sides. the president asked for honest loyalty. this dinner took place after lots and lots of leaks were coming out from the f.b.i. and intelligence community. maybe by loyalty the president is saying hey, i dont like these leaks and this stuff is very damaging. on the other hand, you know, maybe comey has a point when he thinks wait a minute, i am loyal to the constitution and to the law. the president...

Versus the more relaxed setting from the others. its this quite interesting style of writing which is they unusual for public officials. >> he know you have some reporting on new details about that loyalty dinner with he all know about that president trump was asking jim comey for his loyalty at the time. what details do you have on that that you can provide? >> well, again, this was just james comey takes us really in very microscopic detail inside that dinner which he interpreted almost as tru...

Sit here and compare the president to a mob boss? >> this sunday night on abc. >> are there things that you know but havent said that could damage president trump? >> james comey. >> thats going to be an interview that airs on sunday. the question there is are there things that you know but havent said that could damage president trump. >> yeah. you know, look, everybodys waiting for that interview on sunday and for comeys book which is coming out next tuesday. its his memoir. i think he is expe...

Of this administration. and it puts us all at severe risk, national security risk. and sally yates going to the white house again, that was right around the time of the comey loyalty dinner. so i think when steve schmidt said, when we put this in a time lapse, its all going to make a lot more sense when more facts are known. >> and when you go back in time, theres a reason why we had michael flynn even in this conversation, because we had no one else. there are no major foreign policy minds want...