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Oust him from office. the fact is, treason is not meant for your political opponents. >> no, and this is a case where once again, the founders for all of their sins for all of their omissions for all of their derelictions, the journey they put us on toward a more perfect union is vindicated exactly by this particular moment. the reason treason is the only crime specifically defined in the constitution and the second part of that article of that leapt is that it requires witnesses to an overt act...

A fireable offense, perhaps. but did he break the law? >> i have not been made aware of any evidence that pete violated the law, pete or lisa or anybody else violated the law in that regard with respect to the investigation. i didnt see anything that i thought was politically motivated in terms of actions or omissions on their part. >> lets say the attorney general puts you in charge of an after action report. what would be the legitimate documents you would want to see to make sure you knew thi...

Were going to see now i mean motor is going to testify be today we heard the attorney general say he can do that right im not against that lets say he goes to congress and testifies and then its up to congress to decide what to do i mean the document the report is no longer just a legal document its now a political document right impeachment itself is political not legal right so there are two avenues that the so this is now going to take one is the political avenue which is going to have to do ...

Now. what are the vulnerabilities? >> particularly in light of these continuing questions that will be investigated as to why jared kushner seemingly, through the basis of nepotism, got a national security clear answanc the highest level over the objection of career folks. there is a reason you have career assessments made of vulnerabilities and the trustworthiness granted nationals. it seems that repeatedly over and over and over again, either because foreign officials decided they could exploi...

Where did that leave us? with the fbi investigator michael cohen for some of his curious omissions from the irs? $4 million, he reportedly did not report. or was all about bringing down the president? >> katie: i think it could be a combination of both. clearly, this goes back to us not knowing exactly whats going on with the special counsel investigation. what kind of search warrants they have. theres a lot of details that we will continue to find out that we werent aware of at the time. it fee...

Youre the republican on the panel. what does that tell us about this president? >> he has the ability to nickname people very effectively, as we know, and to characterize in an unflattering way, he could do the same for these white nationalist. he could let everybody know including people in his base that hes against it and it needs to stop and all of us need to be against it, and any president of the united states, democrat or republican, will not stand for this kind of action. he could do that...

The house or if they get it in the house and condition cant c the senate, it would give the president an ability to turn the tables. >> they have asked for a criminal investigation into jared kushners security clearance, how he got top secret security clearance. their logic is its a crime to lie on the security clearance application. do you think thats going anywhere in. >> its unlikely the justice department will take up this issue. we knew jared kushner omitted more than 100 foreign contacts o...

Those omissions in a new light after reports that the president overruled officials and demanded that kushner be granted a security clearance. its going to be difficult to prove kushner intentionally lied, especially if they cant get their hands on documents the white house is going to use executive privilege to try and withhold. where it will get interesting is if they subpoena john kelly who was the chief of staff at the time, wrote a memo with his concerns over the occsecurity. >> just for ex...

Is not entirely surprising in the sense that we have known for a long time that jared kushner had major omissions on his sf 8 o 6. these are the sort of things that generally provoke a problem in getting a security clearance, and he got one anyway. and that did not seem like the regular order. this is despite undisclosed foreign contacts. and to you know, what is breathe taking about the story is the personal intervention from the president over the objections of his white house counsel and his ...

We do know that the potential prison exposure for paul manafort runs as high as 24 years and for somebody of paul manaforts age, thats pretty much tantamount to a live sentence. we wonder whether or not donald trump is still perhaps looking at paul manafort for a possible presidential pardon, but we also know that the new york state attorney generals office just a few days ago announced that it has a contingency plan. its insurance policy is that they are preparing state, tax and other fraud-rel...