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Is whats corrupt. corrupt means you know its illegal. they there the evidence is more incriminating. smoking gun, trump asks sessions and the vice president to leave that meeting. sessions is the boss of the fbi director. he says if youre talking to comey, i want to be there. trump says get out. so lawyers think of that as consciousness of guilt. that might meet the corruption element of that statute. >> i also heard today that comey was known to be a prolific note taker, not like dear diary, he...

With a denial like that and go back and talk to the president or senior people who may know what happened, they need to be a little bit more measured and of course that makes for a much sort of more muddled message and particularly as they go abroad, they would like to be on the offensive. they would like to be able to be setting the agenda and setting the conversation for what the president wants to talk about and theyre in a position now where they really cant do that. >> all right. thank you ...

Lets just say for the sake of the argument thats true, the thing to do, there were only three people from the administration in that room, the secretary of state, the national security advisor and someone from the nfc staff. then we see in this "washington post" story, in the very first line, it talks about current and former administration officials knowing this. how does that happen? >> les ask dr. rosenberg from the "new york times" whos reporting on this. matthew, what do you say? >> in hill...

That was supposed to the public. >> more than one. >> came from an lie i exposed to the public or that it went to the a foreign government never mind an adversarial foreign government number one. number two, there was a note taker in the room. there were notes in this meeting disseminated throughout the government. these things get around. its never just one or two people in a room when youre sit wg russian frnlts and the russian ambassador. there is naurm a number of sources that get around im ...

Where he would sit and start listening and eventually taking questions. he introduced his family. hes not yet been formally sworn in. for several of the democrats, that means using this time to revisit their objections that president obamas nominee judge garland never got to this point. >> unfortunately, due to unprecedented treatment, judge garland was denied a hearing and his vacancy has been in place for well over a year. i just want to say i am deeply disappointed that its under these circum...

Are there moments of authenticity between you? >> there is. theres always moments when you can connect with your counterpart, which i did. you also have to be very careful. when i was commanding forces in europe and before then, i spent the last ten years of my career either in europe, iraq or afghanistan and dealt with the leaders, not only in the military, but some of the government leaders of 49 different countries in those two areas. what i found was, first of all, you always have a note tak...

The president has been receiving calls without the state department being involved, either in translation or having the government official on the line to take notes and to be able to brief him before and after. is that true? >> im not in the middle of these phone calls, fareed, so i cant independently verify that. ive seen the same reports you have. and if it were the case, that would be not the typical approach. >> has president obama ever talked to a foreign leader without having a note taker...

>> the reports that we are getting that president-elect trump had been calling foreign leaders or receiving calls without the state department being involved in translation or having government officials on the line to take notes or be able to brief him before/after, is that true? >> i am not in the middle of these phone calls fareed, i cannot verify that. i have seen the same reports you have. if it were the case, it would not be the typical approach. >> has president obama ever talked to a for...

Respectful and a note taker. he asks the right questions. he is exactly what you expect in a ceo. its unfortunate the country didnt see the behind the scenes mr. trump that i saw and others. look at his family as an indicator of who he really is. what a wonderful family he has. that didnt happen by accident. for the americans that are concerned, they do not need to be concerned. mr. trump does respect women and understands we are a nation of immigrants. thats not mr. trump you saw him and the re...

The age of 18. at one point during the jury selection process, judge nelson and bernie de la rionda, they were talking to this juror and one of them asked her do you belong to any organizations? and the womans response was, when you have eight kids, your house itself is an organization. that elicited a great deal of laughter from the courtroom. so we know a little bit about the make-up. we also know that juror e-6 is probably the juror that we have paid the most attention to because she has sort...