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probe into an ex-presidents handling of classified material. new york times notes that it is incredibly rare for even a partial affidavit to be released at all. they add this, quote, the submission by the justice department is a significant legal mile post in an investigations that has swiftly emerged as a major threat to trump, whose lawyers have offered a confused and at times stumbling response, but it is also an inflexion point for attorney general merrick garland who is trying to ...

Assert themselves. Well, and here we are. Guys, i dont even know where to begin. That is all we have for mtp daily tonight. In the midst of the Breaking News, the house is voting right now on the key vote that will apparently tell us more about whether there is a shut down coming and we have this National Security imploegsion. And our Breaking News continues with ari melber. I dont know if i dont know if Breaking News is enough to describe everything that is happening right now, but the Trump Wh...

That memo which was signed by top barr doj officials callahan and steven engel conformed the contract beyond recognition to embolden a then-president who was abusing the powers of his office to protect his political and personal interest. the freedom of information lawsuit prompted the release of this memo reacted this way, quote. the memo supports the chilling conclusion that any president could interfere with any investigation if they believe it could damage them politically. nyu law professor...

Then barr also writes in this newly public memo a president commits criminal corruption potentially by pushing a witness to change testimony. >> tweet storm unleashed this morning. i will never testify against trump. this statement was recently made by roger stone. nice to know that some people still have guts. >> maybe barr didnt know hed be describing something that ends up in the strike zone of criminal obstruction. you have trump there basically encouraging a potential witness not to testify...

Without them i wouldnt be able to speak here today. none of us would. we wouldnt have a functioning democracy where everybody can practice freedom of speech. sadly, these individuals did not conduct their job correctly but i dont think its right that governor rick scott is blaming this. >> your a.p. history teacher watches this show. >> yes, he does. >> hey, jeff. thank you for watching the show. >> thank you. >> david hogg, thank you very much. >> thank you so much. >> thank you. >> thank you f...

This was a dossier approved by four judges. the fbi had important information outside the dossier they supplied to the court. and i thought this was a pretty big deal, that the fbi opened sub-inquiries to a number of trump campaign associates. so while all this was going on, the fbi was also looking at other trump associates in this collusion investigation. >> after the memo was released, president trump lashed out on twitter, calling the democrats memo a, quote, total political and legal bust a...

Welcome back to "hardball." with the release of todays memo fbi director christopher wray now stands at odds with the president who appointed him. trump is now claiming that the leadership in the fbi and the doj, department of justice, are biased against him. he said that today. well, in an op-ed piece in the "new york times," pulitzer prize winning reporter tim weimer calls that memo a cudgel created to attack everyone who obviously has been in charge of the federal investigation of team trump....

Welcome back to "hardball." with the release of todays memo fbi director christopher wray now stands at odds with the president who obviously appointed him. trump is now claiming that the leadership in the fbi and the doj, department of justice, are biased against him. he said that today. well, in an op-ed piece in the "new york times," pulitzer prize winning reporter tim weimer calls that memo a cudgel created to attack everyone who obviously has been in charge of the federal investigation of t...

That he needs to fire the deputy attorney general, rod rosenstein who is overseeing the mueller investigation. thats multiple news reports. i dont know if thats true or not. are you expecting that? >> um, i would certainly hope that wouldnt be the case. this memo is a transparent, political hit job. when it is released, if it is released, people like you and many other journalists and the people who are named, and the institutions that are named like the federal bureau of investigation and the j...

Reports as anticipating that this classified memo release will provide him the pretense that he needs to fire the deputy attorney general, rod rosenstein who is overseeing the mueller investigation. thats multiple news reports. i dont know if thats true or not. are you expecting that? >> um, i would certainly hope that wouldnt be the case. this memo is a transparent, political hit job. when it is released, if it is released, people like you and many other journalists and the people who are named...