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Significant problem for president trump. >> chris, i was reminded tonight, you came to washington to cover this investigation, and im curious where you put the balance of power right about now because to a lot of us, it seems right now, advantage feds like this is something less than a fair fight. >> i would say absolutely. i mean, right now, president trump faces more legal exposure than any other time in these investigations. federal prosecutors in manhattan have directly implicated him in a f...

Be a mistake for the president to fire mueller. what about rod rosenstein? >> rod rosenstein should be recused. he cannot be both a witness and a prosecutor in the same case. >> hes a witness because he was involved in the comey firing? >> involved -- he wrote the m o memo. if you are trumps lawyer, the first person you call as a witness is rod rosenstein. you wrote the memo. did you obstruct justice? did you think this was an obstruction of justice? >> would it be a mistake for the president to...

That we speak fact about paul ryan, the speaker of the house. his legacy, his career, his reputation, that it was once was a year, year and a half ago, two years ago, that is over, that is over. he is married the nonfacts of this story. and frank berluzzi, one of the things that stands out to a lot of people is the rhetoric surrounding the release of this memo from the chairman of the committee, define nunes. if you track the rhetoric and match it to the definition of obstruction of justice, whi...

To be humiliated that badly so hes frantically doing everything he can to avoid testifying, despite the fact that that the overwhelming majority of americans believe that donald trump should agree to an interview with robert mueller. but, again, donald trump knows that robert mueller is just a lot smarter than him, a lot shrewder than him, and so hes doing all of these things, americans just need to keep in context, our viewers need to keep in context, if its not robert mueller getting all these...

Look at 2017, look at the special elections, look at this election we just had in wisconsin it will be a very sizable tsunami and the american people will set the correction here so that there be some oversight over this administration. >> jonathan lemire joins us, he covers the white house for the associated press. theres reporting this morning that the president made up his mind from the moment he heard about this memo that it would be made public during the shut down a couple weeks ago. theyv...

Going to release, essentially in the form of a press release it clearly goes toward his intent and his intent appears to be obstruction. >> most importantly, willie, he is coordinating with the white house. he coordinated with the white house on the unmasking information and hes clearly coordinating with the white house here. thats not oversight. thats actually being in a conspiracy to obstruct an investigation against a president of the united states. pretty cut and dry. >> wont show it even to...

And the fbi. or will he quietly accept what it is and behind the scenes start working to poke holes in it? thirdly are we going to see the democrats release their version that theyve not been allowed to release? that interprets the memo quite differently. things to watch today. >> well and of course, frank, i want to go back to the conspiracy of justice. you look at what has happened with devin nunes. and you look not only whats happened here. where obstructing, obstructing justice. you look not...

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Memo, its been very explicit against both mueller and rod rosenstein. i think that theres a backlash building in the united states senate. weve seen it in a number of my colleagues who have been explicit on this topic. john thune, who has urged caution. others who have talked privately about it. and its such a violation of the norms of the intelligence community and the intelligence committees for this kind of gutter partisan politics, to drag down the fbi and the c.i.a. methods and sources. the...

Politically it seems like one of the stupidest things, willie, they could do. >> i think in the case of president trump hes not thinking about politics or even the american people. hes thinking about his own hide. he thinks if this can somehow suggest that the investigation into potential ties with the russian government during the campaign is flawed, that its corrupt, that its biased, hell take it at the end of the state of the union, 100%, im going to release the memo, he said. a senior white ...