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he has relationship with some of these world leaders for decades and he never thought that he would hear that and so you hear him say that, you hear him talk about it. another part of it too how unprecedented, how unprecedented that moment was on january 6th when a mob of 2000-person mob went to the capitol because they were lied to about the results of the election. because they wanted to overturn the election. so, just really want to make sure that we get that, that we understand why...

>> all right, good evening from new york, im chris hayes. we are watching right now debate wrap up at this hour, as the house gets ready to vote on the crucial debt ceiling deal. thats the speaker of the house speaking right there. earlier today, the republican proposal passed a key procedural vote, but it only passed with the help from democrats. it did not have the votes to pass it on their own, after 29 republicans defected. as of now, the bill is being discussed on the floor. its e...

its 4:00. weve got news we have a behind the scenes legal battle with potentially major consequences for the justice departments investigation into the ex-presidents handling of classified documents at mar-a-lago the washington post is reporting this quote, a federal judge has at least partially granted a request from u.s. prosecutors to force an attorney for donald trump to testify before a grand jury about the former presidents possession of classified documents after leaving office ...

You would have to ordinarily put trump at the stand to say, he had the system and he was doing something different. otherwise, you cant get that evidence in and i think this makes it very, very difficult for them to do that. really has to give smith a lot of confidence, when hes recommending charges. >> yeah, also seems like there are two tracks here, right? adjusting the facts around this case, which is the actual classified materials and whether thats a charge about national security informati...

It struck me from the first day, the report came out when we got to look at it and people rightly, naturally focussed on the obstruction stuff in volume two because it was the question, was he exonerated? all these examples of obstruction. people i think took their eye off the ball on volume one, you started here today pointing us back to russia in a way that i think mueller today did in his way, in the way mueller does. i talked before about how purposeful he is. the fact he opened with talking...

People and we cant depend on the mueller investigation for this. the mueller investigation, number one we dont know when its ending despite lots of rumors. number two, is focused on specific crimes. >> bret: does it sound to you, jim, that they have a feeling that muellers not going to deliver what they want? >> everyone on both sides is deciding what the mueller report is going to say and it isnt out. when we sit back and let the mueller report come out and then figure out what to do next. the ...

Go the fact that it was today and the president wanted to humiliate him by him leaving told as opposed to the end of the week, its just wednesday -- it shows how angry the president was and the fact that he installed mr. whitaker suggests that this is the first step in trying to eliminate robert mueller. >> what does this mean whitaker effectively, assuming he doesnt recuse himself, overseeing mueller in the probe? >> its a significant move by the president. its clear why the president did it. l...

I want you as my client to answer in writing. you know why? so i can control it. >> i think its fairly common sense, especially -- >> i dont trust you in the chair. i want it in writing. and theyre going to give it to him with collusion, but not with the obstruction stuff. >> this president, in terms of this investigation, has been exceedingly transparent. his lawyers, i think, made a very bad error by turning over documents that any other president would have exerted executive privilege on. and...

Not let him do this. >> this is a tweet that came out in the past minute -- three from the president. this is not a game. you are screwing with the work of the president of the united states. china, the middle east, so much more, there is note much time to think about this especially since there was no russian conclusion. bottom line, is he going to sit down? >> i think it would be insane for his lawyers to let him do it, just -- whether the thesis on this or simply that the recall issues alone ...

Might again think of some of his approaches as unconventional, but i think you have to give credit where its due. theres a certain genius at work. >> i just dont see it as mutually exclusive. i think you can say -- ive never said the president is anything less than intelligent. i think that because he is intelligent hes making very definite choices. >> im not sure your view is held by many, many of the people at cnn. >> im only -- i only control one person. youre looking at him in the ugly suit....