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"hardball" round table. the iowa caucuses are only about, wait for it. >> 900 days away give or take. it is no too early to look at the democrat process. the list of names highlights a big potential problem for democrats. quote, old but well-known versus fresh but anonymous. thats how the 2020 democratic presidential field is shaping up so far and it is causing anxiety within a party that is starting to acknowledge that president donald trump could be harder to beat for reelection than the base ...

Grants on localities abiding by that federal statute. >> shannon: lets talk about miami as an example. it had been flagged on this list of potential problem sanctuary city areas. there are about 300 give or take -- after president trump was elected and they knew what was coming they changed some of their policies, brad, they are cooperating on certain things with detentions and notifying the feds. now the doj says great you are in compliance and youll get your money. does the carrot and stick --...

>> absolutely. because it is not a crime or evidence of a crime to make a mistake. a good-faith error. if you say something and it turns out to be wrong, that is certainly not evidence of any sort of criminal intent. what makes it a potential problem is, if its determined by a grand jury or by other fact finders that the president intentionally put out a false statement and thats a factual question that mueller will want to interview a lot of witnesses to determine where the truth lies. >> does ...

Is the big news and just if i may say this, i think were going to see trump testify under oath about a minute after we see his tax returns. he would be just so wrong to put himself under that kind of potential problem. >> matt, do you agree? >> yeah, i agree with everything jeff said. i think, number one, the media does hype stuff, obviously. when you have 24 hours to fill, and youre competing, you know, vigorously for ratings against other networks, you end up hyping things. pretty bad for demo...

Kushner held himself out as representing the government of the united states of america. extremely unlikely. kislyak is no drop. that is a potential crime. if he held himself out and if the russians took action in response to what he said. that would be the eequivalent of a private person conducting his own foreign policy. the other potential problem and im really, really looking between the lines here is when the fbi did their background check on jared kushner, they asked him, did you meet with...

About president trump possibly having revealed classified information to the russians at the white house last week. >> good evening. more on the hunt for the new fbi director in just a moment but first of all, a report in "the washington post" that when he met with sergey lavrov and sergey kislyak, president trump revealed classified information regarding isis that, according to the report in "the washington post," wasnt exactly his to share. it was intelligence that have been developed by u.s. ...

About president trump possibly having revealed classified information to the russians at the white house last week. >> good evening. more on the hunt for the new fbi director in just a moment but first of all, a report in "the washington post" that when he met with sergey lavrov and sergey kislyak, president trump revealed classified information regarding isis that, according to the report in "the washington post," wasnt exactly his to share. it was intelligence that have been developed by u.s. ...

Details but director clapper has certainly seen the intelligence and echos wha heard from others in the national security and counter terrorist space we have to slam the door today. thats a very different analysis than what youre hearing from the president. >> and again just from a fact analysis perspective we do have to remember that the president did say i know something about these russian hacks. turned out to be i think julian assange, such a different take from clapper and that segways us i...

To me given the fact that they helped run the political campaign. and if you talk to people inside, they will say, he is president-elect, he is not president of the united states yet, so theyre making that division, but i do think its something that they are aware of, that they have a real potential problem here. and the way they decide to solve this problem is going to be of great interest to people like your last guest and everybody in the united states congress and people in government. >> we...

Advisers, not only during the transition but the campaign before that. and jared kushner, his son-in-law, also has his own real estate business that we would be talking about and thinking about. thats not even being discussed as part of this arrangement with the trump organization. so im sure those questions and concerns that people have will remain, and its funny, because this is something that donald trump and republicans during the campaign raised as a problem with the clinton foundation. hil...