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These are potential criminal felonies. That is why the Mueller Investigation needs to proceed. There is always a striking thing that happened on the house side in these investigations in these matters, which is they never got their hands on the Phone Records. Never subpoenaed the Phone Records placed to an unknown meeting. Is that something you would like to see as a member of congress. I am a former prosecutor and if there was an allegation and i did not subpoena those records, i would have bee...

Chris Hayes discusses the days top news. There is always a striking thing that happened on the house side in these investigations in these matters, which is they never got their hands on the Phone Records. Never subpoenaed the Phone Records placed to an unknown meeting. Is that something you would like to see as a member of congress. I am a former prosecutor and if there was an allegation and i did not subpoena those records, i would have been fired. It was clear that they were not interested in...

Is being dragged through the mud, they want to fight back publicly. the attorney in that case is saying no, dont do that. take your time. you will have your time to tell the prosecutors. and we will tell our story eventually. not his lawyer, his lawyer spokesman is telling him something else or maybe michael cohen is doing it on his own. >> michael cohen does show up in the dossier, the infamous dossier as the person who takes over russian collusion portfolio, there is too much heat on manafort ...

Publicly. the attorney in that case is saying no, dont do that. take your time. you will have your time to tell the prosecutors. and we will tell our story eventually. not his lawyer, his lawyer spokesman is telling him something else or maybe michael cohen is doing it on his own. >> michael cohen does show up in the dossier, the infamous dossier as the person who takes over russian collusion portfolio, there is too much heat on manafort and flies to prague. he denies this. and later, mcclatchy ...

Worked under kremlin direction against the clinton campaign. cohen and trump have denied this trip ever took place. we have not confirmed this detail as well as many aspects of the dossier. but here is what is going on. michael cohen in court under criminal investigation. mcclatchy reporting the feds looking at this part of the dossier and that probe, yes, moving back up towards the white house. im joined by david from the corruption of the american republic. david, what does this mean? >> im ne...

Mcclatchy, make it onto overseas broadcast. they bring that with them. then to have this break while theyre there and lets be honest, i dont think anyone thinks that no story is going to break in the next week and a half while the president is gone. it is very likely there will be continued disclosures about this investigation that will disrupt press conferences that the president has with heads of state when hes trying to send a message and instead hes asked about the newest developments of thi...

Like this and it isnt even over yet. an afternoon of major breaking news. the "new york times" reporting that president trump told the russians last week during a meeting at the white house that the firing of fbi director james comey eased pressure from the russia investigation. i just fired head of the fbi. he was crazy, a real nut job. mr. trump said. i faced great pressure because of russia. thats taken off. >> the white house notably is not will disputing that account. and the "washington po...

Probe has reached a senior white house adviser. somebody close to the president. given that, do you still believe that a special counsel was not necessary? >> i think as long as it is an intelligence issue and the issues being talked about pertain to classified documents is that who has the right to receive them, who should be their names disclosed, yeah, i think they should keep the jurisdiction. >> if a white house senior adviser, somebody close to the president is being investigated, do you t...

The questions, whether he met with the president, his view of the comey memo, all of that now is in the purview of the special counsel with respect to potential obstruction of justice. i should point out that in order to appoint a special counsel, under the regulation, rod rosenstein had to make a finding, a derrell atiterminatia criminal investigation was warranted. at some point, clearly, something tipped the balance from the decisions not to appoint a special counsel to appointing one. >> but...

Comey memo where trump told him not to pursue the investigation into michael flynn who clearly is over his head with respect to his this quconnection with the russians. >> the "washington post" is reporting that the law enforcement investigation now reaches as high as the white house. saying that a current white house official is a person of interest. any idea who that could be? >> i do not have any idea who it could be. it tells me that in addition to the counter intelligence investigation that...