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Doc . About the Stormy Daniels hush money deal. Todd blanche repeating the word lie or lying 35 times so far while questioning cohen. Im chris jansing, alongside my colleague andrea mitchell. Constantly trying to pin the blame on someone else and hes being asked to answer for past statements where he celebrated the idea of seeing his former boss behind bars. I want to bring back our panel, vaughn hillyard, danny cevallos, catherine christian, and jeremy soland. Okay, jeremy, i just got new stati...

say that with the bromine caveat listen, hes hes just a blunt force trauma guy. >> he sees out he sees the absentees and im sure hes looking at an universal absentee. hes just saying this is bad and i think everybody agrees universal absentee is bad. i come from california we have a very successful absentee program, but have also seen the flaws in universe apps and t. i mean, ive gone to the post office where you see ballots in the trash because of voter has changed address. well, thos...

The openings were a tale of two trips to the drug to the gun store. >> explain yeah. >> so it really was its like who was in there and what were they doing, right? prosecutors say its a simple case. hes using drugs, hes an addict. he goes with the gun store, he buys a gun, he lies on the forum case its closed. defenses like wait a minute, you have to prove that he knowingly made those false statements. he had just been in rehab. they dont explain what it means to be an addict or a user uses are ...

Repremisrepresented their histo, and both those cases the judges in washington, d.c., refused to reconsider the verdict. so this is a very important stage to try to filter out these types of jurors. >> sandra: that being said on the case itself and where this all goes, jonathan, this is andrew joo caskey on anr this morning on newsroom on the high burden of proof of the prosecutors in this case, jonathan, lets listen together. >> there are two players of special intent of the prosecutors have to...

Do. it is even more difficult when they dont have direct evidence of it. donald trump expected to testify and said he will do that. certainly deny his own mental intent here and michael cohen. the lawyers will be very resentful of michael cohen and all of the plots and ploys he was using over the years much less his fraud. >> bill: if trumps team is trying to find a diamond in the rough. 12% of the vote in manhattan. as jeanine was pointing out yesterday they come off the voter rolls. it is an o...

I am sure the team were the ones who were scripting those questions, because you heard things about, willful blindness. that is to establish the mental intent. can you say, i had no idea this was going to happen -- you might, but there is a legal instruction that says, you cannot pretend to deliberately ignore the obvious. thats called willful blindness and a jury may use that evidence to draw an inference that the personly did know. we also heard evidence of causation. it was he, donald trump, ...

You want to meet with me? i want the announcement about the bidens. thats not only a quid pro quo, thats an attempted bribe. >> i dont know. thats mens rea. what is the intent behind -- >> the mental intent. you actually have the -- if you look at these things in a vacuum, you might be able to interpret it one way or the other. if you look at the full context, thats what the president has. what was his intent? he wanted to root out corruption in ukraine which everyone agrees is one of the topmos...

That can lead to death. stay together with the lantus $0 copay. ♪ lets stay together talk to your doctor or visit saveonlantus.com. you know, people say donald trumps impulsive, including his critics. but it can be a mistake to use just that lens about all things trump. there is evidence that shows he can also be quite canny and premeditated. bob mueller is certainly probing whether president trumps more than impulsive. because proving the mental intent for obstruction usually require morse ...

Trump. there is evidence that shows he can also be quite canny and premeditated. bob mueller is certainly probing whether president trumps more than impulsive. because proving the mental intent for obstruction usually require morse than impulse. it requires corrupt planning. consider that for ten months, donald trump avoided ever criticizing bob mueller by name or ever impulsively even tweeting his name, until now. after the friday night firing of comey deputy andrew mccabe, trump is now singlin...

And this uncertainty within the west wing and beyond. >> jeremy, whats the toughest task for any lawyer attached to this president, any lawyer charged with defending in president? >> well there are a number of facts very difficult to explain. let me list a few. i think on the obstruction charge when the president cleared the room kicked out the vice president and his other aides to talk to jim comey. that is a very difficult fact to explain. it shows intent, mental intent which the president to ...