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Awkwardly. the president didnt ask for an introduction. and then they went in and continued their conversation. but just to get a window into moving in day was really fascinating. >> you cant make this stuff up. our thanks to our front four tonight. donna, brian, nelson, greatly appreciate your help telling this story on a friday night. coming up, budget director nick mulvaney replacing chief of staff john kelly. how does he really feel about the boss? well, a piece of video on that topic has be...

The blow to his wife of the affair he had undertaken. very different with trump, who first finds out about the allegations in 2011 and its not until two weeks before the election that he pays the hush money and to the accounts of both giuliani and cohen and common sense, theres a direct link between the payments and trying to keep the truth from coming out in order to affect the election. so they will try to invoke the edwards case to show its not a crime but its only -- the factual differences ...

Wasnt a biggie. there are lots of crimes, so what, who cares? the former is a weak legal argument, and the latter a dangerous one. with that, lets bring in our front four, or lead-off panel for a busy friday night. donna edwards representing the great state of maryland. brian bennett, senior white house correspondent for "time" magazine. deputy assistant attorney general under president clinton, and nelson cunningham, alumni of the clinton administration where he served as general counsel at the...

Now trump and his acolytes have pointed to an earlier case involving former senator john edwardsed to arguing that what trump did wasnt a crime and they say even if it was a crime, it wasnt a biggie. there are lots of crimes, so what, who cares? the former is a weak legal argument, and the latter a dangerous one. with that, lets bring in our front four, or lead-off panel for a busy friday night. donna edwards representing the great state of maryland. brian bennett, senior white house corresponde...

New york running around and arresting people, your former boss was one rudy giuliani. im going to read you what he wrote today on twitter. the fbi 302s, basically transcripts of interviews with general flynn show comey and strock were not searching for the truth but setting a perjury trap for flynn which included not refreshing his recollection and filing a false statement charge when the fbi thought it wasnt. again, nelson, i would never ask you to take a swing at your former boss, but what is ...

Two of the latest in this russia investigation as we wait for these two court filings from special counsel robert mueller and his team, were getting a new information on paul manafort today. muellers team believes manafort is lying about president trump. this is according to the presidents attorne, rudy giuliani. he said investigators told manafort they do not believe that the president didnt know about the 2016 trump tower meeting. so with me now to discuss, former white house general counsel u...

>> nelson, at one point does trumps ignorance not work as a defense? >> that is a great question. first of all, its remarkable that rex tillerson has kept his mouth shut since being shown the door in march. he was not treated very well by this white house, by this president. this was quite a coming out last night in houston, at a dinner where presumably an awful lot of prominent republicans in texas were there. tillerson might have viewed this for his moment to start coming out with his version ...

Professional prosecutors who are on muellers team could go straight to that prosecutor and pick up right where they left off. >> lastly, before we let you go, lets just say mueller was dismissed, could a deputy prosecutor in that office -- could another prosecutor as a whistle proceeder go to congress and say, this is what we got in. >> yes, they could. muellers people are famously operated under strict ethical guidelines. theyve kept their mouths shut. they have not leaked. it would be a new th...

Investigation may have been shaped by chit i whitaker. that will come when he is ready to close up shop. the person hell tell is the attorney general himself. joining us now is nelson cunningham, a former prosecutor. also a veteran of the clinton house and biden staffer on senate judiciary. its a pleasure to have you here. >> its a pleasure to be here. >> the fact is that donald trumps main beef with his former attorney general, of course, was that jeff sessions recuse himself, presumably stoppi...

Meaning, we do not know if he has any conflict of interest. we also dont know whats going on behind closed doors with regards to whitakers oversight of the mueller investigation. if matt whitaker were hindering the inquiry right now as we speak, would we even know? that is the subject of the latest op-ed of a former prosecutor in the southern district of new york. in it, he writes, there is no real time mechanism of disclosure of interaction between whitaker and mueller. yes, some day under the ...