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Politically but not the death nel for impeachment. i said it all along. there are disgusting people on many sides. >> you are next to one. >> [laughing]. >> dont talk about jesse that way. >> he is a great american. >> it shows there are people in russia. there are people in the united states who are busy bodies and low hards and do whatever they can. >> we didnt get to talk about kevin hart and the oscars. we didnt do "fan mail friday" either! holding my breath. >> one of the concerning things ...

Reaction to the sentencing memo that muellers office put out. president trump suggested that michael cohen lied to try to get a lenient sentence and that michael cohen deserves a long sentence. it looks like that is what he is going to get. the office of special counsel recommending a modest reduction from the guidelines, 51 to 63 months. its interesting, too, its almost in a mocking tone that the special counsels office goes after michael cohens request for no jail time saying the effect on his...

Areas, you have to think given this is the crux of the investigation and the critical component. if michael cohen had dealings in 4 different areas in regards to russia, he didnt provide a lot of information. perhaps the case involving russia is not very strong. >> we will see. they dont detail all of that evident in this document. going through the southern district of new york and the special counsel papers, the 40 plus pages, it did not jump out. then there was this section on russia which de...

Case may not materialize in the final report. you may get something along the lines, president trump surrounded by a lot of bad guys that did bad things in the past. and it doesnt really rise to the level of high crimes and misdemeanors. >> the truth is we dont know. there is so much that robert mueller has that we are not privy to. there is a legal and a political case. impeachments and investigations are political decisions and not legal ones. this is a bit of the iceberg above the water. ther...

That he has provided is the campaign contribution issue. its a very, very weak case because the president is entitled to pay off women in order to help his family, help his brand. even if it was to help the campaign, remember the timing, he would not have had to file anything until after the election. i think many courts would say no harm, no dowel. -- foul. even if he filed it after the election, it would not have impacted the election. the campaign contribution case is weak. the evident of him...

And the entire case was handled in a thoughtful and responsible way by the doj and the fbi. the notion that fisa was abused is nonsense. >> how do you think robert muellers investigation is going? >> i see it proceeding quickly and professionally. the most important indication if you dont anything about it until he files something in court and thats the way it should be. >> you cant emphasize enough how extraordinary the session was on capitol hill to have a former fbi director under oath for a ...

Be close to a man who gets elected president and who is very, very controversial. everybody who has been close to the president and the candidate is in trouble. the trouble is largely of their own making. they were not always the most honest people. but they would have lived their lives out had they not been close to this president. because special counsel is obviously determined to [inaudible]. not only do these witnesses sometimes sing, sometimes they improve the story to get a better deal. >>...

Was actually goingha on here do you think? >> we know whats going on because judge ellis told us whats going on. that is -- he was the judge in the manafort case. the modus operandi of the special counsel is to get as many people as possible to commit perjury or to lie, and then squeeze them and use pressure on them to have them testify against the major target of the investigation and what judge ellis said,et appropriate, is the risk of that is not only will people sing, they will compose. they...

>> there is the president of the united states. there he is. committing the crime of obstruction of justice in plain sight. he is willfully obstructing robert muellers pursuit of justice in the manafort case. >> robert muellers prosecutors are threatening elderly men with life in prison. the whole thing is a grotesque joke. howie: is the media chatter justified? plus, the legacy of george h.w. bush. in the end, he was celebrated by the media. im howard kurtz and this is "mediabuzz."

Manaforts plea deal blows up. >> there is the president of the united states. there he is. committing the crime of obstruction of justice in plain sight. he is willfully obstructing robert muellers pursuit of justice in the manafort case. >> robert muellers prosecutors are threatening elderly men with life in prison. the whole thing is a grotesque joke. howie: is the media chatter justified? plus, the legacy of george h.w. bush. in the end, he was celebrated by the media. im howard kurtz and thi...