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Federal judge that rick gates cooperation is ongoing. they dont want another status report until mid november. mike flynn was also a cooperating witness for the government for a time. this week, that seems to have gone off the rails now that he has dumped his legal team and hired a new team full of anti-robert mueller crusaders. the prosecutors told the judge that flynns cooperation has ended. flynns defense team told the judge this week that they want the prosecutors in the flynn case disciplin...

Thank you for it. we did not know this existed before we saw this last night. i should note that paul manaforts wife ended up having the lighter of the two purses at the end of the game which meant the other contestant ended up taking the pie to the face. which was a win for team manafort. life comes at you. one minute you are in the studio audience during a taping of a game show while the host is teasing you about my god, how many american express cards do you have, the next you are the preside...

Today in this newfound quest to get grand jury material for the mueller case. there are notable similarities here as well as some differences and here to help us understand them is a member of the s.w.a.t team that got that watergate road map ultimately unsealed, joined by law fair ben wittis and joyce vance, former u.s. attorney. good to see you both. >> good to see you. >> hey, ari. >> hey, there. so ben, lets start with you, you were responsible for getting the road map unsealed for the publi...

Who helped write that report, saw it as a road map because several sections made the case that the evidence showed the president committed crimes in office. to use the language of the mueller report, as you know, joyce, substantial evidence in five or more case of obstruction. so is it better to have a road map if congress wants to do something about it? >> you know, its better to have both, and i think congress is now entitled to have both. what were talking about here is the grand jury materia...

This prize internal polling data with the russian operative, and perhaps why, because you see there, we know what was alluded to. it is redacted. the reason it was redacted is because of grand jury material. now, in the court filing today, the house judiciary committee argues there are several episodes that have this kind of information redacted and the committee needs it. they need it because the doj will not allow prosecution of a sitting president and they explained the house is the only inst...

Hardball of holding mr. barr in contempt, and for the legal case. democrats pressing they must get the material so they can properly carry out their investigations of the president and his campaign. >> you also described in your report that the then trump campaign chairman paul manafort shared with a russian operative, kilimnik, the campaign strategy for winning democratic votes in mid western states, an internal polling data of the campaign, isnt that correct? >> correct. >> did your investigat...

Adding, i know roger stone he was in the olive oil business with my father but that was a long long time ago so i told them roger stone this, roger stone that. now, prosecutors are calling stone on his drama here, saying since he brought this up as the foundation of what he told a witness to do, they intend to show jurors exactly what stone is referring to, adding to not show the clip at trial would deprive jurors of significant context for understanding critical messages in this case. and the g...

The white house had been blocked from using any of that money from a smack down by a lower court that said this 2 1/2 billion pentagon dollars could not just be moved, that only congress can appropriate and make that kind of decision. now, in appealing the ruling, the administration first said they needed the money by early july. then they found a work around which said the supreme court could go to july 26th. the doj asked the supreme court to rule today. and late this evening, the conservative...

Believe that the government should not win on the merits of the underlying lawsuit, mainly because they need to show that congress had not already denied funding for the purpose for which theyre seeking the funding, in this case, a border wall. in the january/february time frame, we had the longest partial government shut down in history, and it was very clear coming out of that that congress did not want to provide funding for the border wall. they only appropriated a fraction for certain borde...

Hes not going to be able to hamstring the u.s. congress in the same way. were going to get to the bottom of all of it. >> do you think theres a high crime that the president obstruction justice? >> certainly. multiple times. each one of those episodes described -- >> if thats the case, let me press you on that. everything you just laid out viewers would say, yeah, that sounds bad and certainly in the congresss ambit to do something about it, but why would that require any further delay? there is...