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Spoke to today, what mike and ashley have alluded to, the president is seemingly trying to soften the ground or perhaps give us a window into something hes been cautioned might be a possibility that on the obstruction front, on the obstruction channel, if you will, there could be conduct that is clearly in the vain of trying to obstruct the investigation to himself and his campaign. >> were now getting more than a glimpse of what this defense strategys going to be, particularly with regard to ob...

>> tom nichols wrote for "usa today" that it actually would have been surprising given all of the strange behavior exhibited by the president during his campaign on this show actually in december of 2015, moving forward, and through the first couple of years of his presidency he actually said that it would have been strange had the fbi not made an inquiry into whether there was any connection between russia and donald trump that might impact americas national security. can you tell me what sort ...

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Discussed but i think it was april/may what he was telling you the last time it had been at all discussed. but harry littman, possible pardon? what are you thinking? >> well, we are in a different place, as shimon says, but its no place trump should feel comfortable in. the complication in the last 24 hours with manaforts plea agreement having imploded almost celts the table with a circumstantial case of obstructi obstruction. any pardon now would look like a reward to manafort for an extraordin...

On a letter from the presidents outside counl. i direct you to them to answer it. >> you said he did not dictate. but you said he did. what is it? >> i am not going to respond to a letter from the presidents ounce counsel. i refer you to them for comment. >> joining me natasha bertrand and jim sugerman who argued the letter from trumps lawyers amount to admission of obstructi obstruction. significance of this lie now being exposed. what do you think it is? >> i mean, its always been fairly obvio...

Within a day "the washington post" reporting that trump was being investigated for obstructi obstruction. we now know trump tried to oust mueller in june when all of these things were going south and all the questions to have authorities say he was not under investigation but lew up in his face with authorities saying he was. a man with firsthand experience on these types of challenges, he worked on ken starrs team of investigators as associate independent counsel. do the "new york times" report...

Office. what is your assessment of where this is right now? >> i think what makes sense now is this is a russian intelligence operation on all fronts. my colleague and i are watching it in social media. i think the most startling part is exceeded wilder success than they imagined. they vice president gotten all of their foreign policy objectives. it has put our country into chaos. they want us americans fighting each other. i think what this is not so much about the collusion aspect but obstruct...

Testified that was his intentions in leaking the memos detailing communications with the president. it is what we learned is actually at this decision to open this file if you will on trump was made actually before the special counsel was actually named which was just a few days later. >> for president trump, the irony is his own actions in firing comey actually led to then this evolution, ultimately led to this special counsel and led to the special counsel according to your reporting and inves...

Criminal case for obstruction. on the counter-intel case, thats going to continue to run forward. those stepptend to run two, thr four years. they tend to be a long run. the american public saying when are we going to see this. every time pushes a new variable in the investigations, it extends out counter-intelligence investigations. so i think this is really about how was russia influencing the u.s. and then you look at all the connects to the trump campaign, each one of those is an investigati...

We dont believe anything trump has to say and comey has this impeccable reputation. at the end of the day, you say even if its true, would this be obstruction? im afraid it would be hard to make that case. >> lets go up to capitol hill now where we go to house committee jim himes of connecticut. good to have you with us this morning. you and your democratic colleagues said jim comey needs to come and appear on capitol hill in a public hearing. do you believe based on the contents of that memo ja...