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Not necessarily illegal but we have certain norms in this country that this president has consistently broken. and this is, that interview with george stephanopoulos is reason 1080, why we know that his counsel would not allow him to sit down with robert mueller. because he cannot help himself. hes saying listen, if they interfere, i dont see what the problem is. his mobster mentality is such that if he can blur the lines of legality and if he can benefit himself, he doesnt fundamentally underst...

Foreign aid during a re-election campaign, president trump displayed the kind of self-preserving lizard brain that one would expect an incumbent president to at least try to hide. >> foreigners, if russia, if china, if someone else offers you information on an opponent. should they accept it or call the fbi. >> i think maybe you do both. i think you might want to listen. theres nothing wrong with listening. >> you cant that kind of interference in our election. >> its not an interference, they h...

Duties to protect us and a president who says i dont see what the problem is because of his mobster mentality and courts who are abdicating themselves to the president, everyone is working for donald trump. this is beyond crisis mode and were seeing a fundamental breakdown of norms of american democracy and were realizing just how tenuous our american democratic system is. >> let me ask you, patrice, what christina just said. should mitch mcconnell and the senate and the congress pass a law that...

There were nearly 30 young children who were killed by a serial killer in atlanta between 1979 and 1981. many people have never even heard of the missing and murdered children. it changed our city and our country forever. so we are re-examining those cases and also creating a lasting memorial to these children because what weve learned is these families in many ways felt like their children didnt matter and had been forgotten. and we are better than that as a city. so we are creating a memorial ...

That the dam is close to breaking. joining me now, patrice lee owuka, senior policy analyst at the independent womens forum. and christina greer, associate professor of political science at fordham university. patrice, is this not going too far for the president to suggest that theres nothing wrong, whether it be legal or not? theres nothing wrong with taking information from a foreign power, even an adversary? >> i think its not a good idea, especially if the information could be dubious or fro...

Answer my question -- should it be a law? yes or no? >> i think its up to congress to decide that. >> im asking you your opinion. >> i think its important for congress to protect our elections. >> it should be a law? >> whatever i think they determine would be the best way to do so. there may be other types of election laws that are needed. >> such as? >> i would leave that up to the members of congress to determine. >> i mean -- either youre going to have a law that says you should -- >> we pro...

We think about the election, the 2016 election cycle and we recognize that russia has always tried to interfere in our elections, they did not successfully do so in 2016. but it is important that i think campaigns recognize you know what, let me be careful about the opposition research that i know im conducting and where its coming from. >> well theres evidence that they did use public media and other things and that they may have influenced the vote. >> but they did not change the results in th...

Why would you suggest in public that its all right to seek information from an adversary? doesnt he in some ways indirectly confirm that in fact they were open to do that? >> well like the hillary clinton campaign, like many campaigns, people do conduct opposition research. >> were not talking about opposition. were talking about an adversarial nation that is giving information directly against your opponent. were not talking about opposition reform, you look up. were talking about russia that s...