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Or not his true believes but wider sources at play in this approach to kremlin. it was meeting with kremlin diplomats at white house when trump boasted about firing comey, telling he was nut case. trump famously admitted russia thing was on his mind when he did the firing. and two, trumps reasons for firing comey involved stephen miller who helped to draft a letter about it that never made it to comey because the white house lawyer said it was too problematic. we can tell you tonight that letter...

The president are being questioned and stephen miller is literally being questioned. >> and this tells me that robert mueller is still focused on this investigation into obstruction of justice by president trump. seems that he wants to get to the early draft of this letter explaining the reasons for firing jim comey. if the reasons are because i want you to stop the russia investigation, i think we have further evidence that the president may have been trying to obstruct this investigation by th...

Even argue that at least by president trumps standards he was pretty disciplined. that has only held true for the last few days. the president lashed out on twitter calling critics of the kremlin haters and fools. he blasted crooked hillary and obama and then turned his fire on north koreas leader calling kim jong-un short and fat. this followed an air force one gaggle in which trump suggested that putins denial that he meddled in the 2016 election but later said that he believes that putin beli...

Election where still to this day the president has not said what his own view is. but supports that putin believes that he was not responsible. you laid that out. so, there has been a tension over press access and press rights which is not just about reporters and it is an extension of what free societies have and trying to understand their government and hold it accountable. when youre talking about a leader like rodrigo duterte you have the optics of president trump with a leader that spoelsh ...

Democracy and our whole process, and to try to paint it in any other way is i think astounding and in fact poses a peril to this country. >> a peril to this country. ned, do you agree with that? >> absolutely. look, russian interference is a threat to our democracy. it was a threat to our democracy in 2016 and it will be a threat to our democracy in 2016 and especially 2020, unless we do something about it. theres another important point here, jacob, is that as a country, as when it comes to our...

Perspective here is to try to improve the bill so they can see it yes, or do they want to drive up the negatives of the bill and make it more unpopular than it is quite make >> its friday, i will be honest. they want to drive up the negatives and make sure that donald trump has no accomplishments going into the 2018 election. there are also a lot of problems with both versions of the bill. obviously, we are going to hear more and more with the senate version, there were more people across the id...

Incumbents in 2018 will get a severe primary challenge. a lot of them would probably lose. the base will fracture. the financial contributions. the. otherwise, it will be fine. >> dana: ned, she says she gets all these calls from donors saying, dont bother calling us again if you cannot passed tax reform. her constituents are calling saying, we dont like it. you have a very different perspective than anybody else has had so far. what do you think of it? >> first of all, the whole goal of this, a...

Mike pompeo could take that information, run to the white house, not to speak truth to power but muffle that information, make sure it never sees light of day and make sure especially it never sees the hands of muellers prosecutors. >> which means mueller wouldnt seen know to ask for it to be declassified for use in court setting if he didnt know it existed. ned price, thanks for being with us. weve got a lot more to get to this busy night. stay with us. a healthy helping of delicious gravy. ♪...

To me, the more concerning element of this is this the prospective information that cia could come into contact with if this drags on. now that mike pompeo is the person to whom the head of the counts on intelligence reports directly, theres a concern among current cia officers that mike pompeo could take that information and run to the white house, not in a way to speak truth to power, but to muscle that information , to make sure it never sees light of day and make sure especially it never see...

Above flyover country as the republicans would suggest the rest of the world calls him. what do you make of the president as he heads for asia and is still rambling about the justice department? >> this is pretty much par for the course for this presidency where there are huge consequential decisions, trade policy, domestic policy, foreign policy, that can come from this trip. whether deliberately or that he can control the impulse, the focus is on donna vertebra blbre russian investigation surr...