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Story. you started itti years ago. the fact is bobby had good intentions. he wanted to convince the russians that his brother wasnt that weak. im reading from your book on this. they didnt want the russians to think we were weak after the bay of pigs because they might go for berlin. >> look, i think presidents often feel frustrated by their bureaucracy, right, and the people around them and look for other ways to do it. that can be a terrible idea, but it can also be a good idea. you can see wh...

Its travel, better connected. were back with the "hardball" roundtable. howard, tell me something i dont know. >> this is going to sound strak but its true. this thing about global warming is about the arctic with the russians. the russians are in favor of global warming. they want it to melt because they want to drill and ship. >> a new alliance is being forged between the european union and china as other countries expect trump to withdraw from the climate agreement. so the question is who i...

Former fbi director comey used it as justification for coming out and outlining his investigation into the clinton campaign. it is still being used within the fbi. theres a lot of questions that raises about how good the intelligence was, what kind of intelligence theyre using and how this investigation goes forward. >> we know a lot of this circles around paul manafort, general flynn. how is the process of attempting to compel them for more cooperation progress ing? >> a lot of that process is ...

Remember just like your prom or your wedding. concerts is something we remember the first time we went to. there were a lot of people in this arena that went to the concert for the first time and, unfortunately, had to suffer through this terrible, terrible ordeal. poppy? >> so true. mohammed lila outside the hospital. we are learning the identities of the victims through the schoolses who have to tell the other students there -- >> principals, middle schools. >> why there are students now missi...

People >> the answer is, from my reporting and glorias great reporting as well, yes, hes blaming everybody and anybody, no question. but the open question is whether or not there will be any changes made. it doesnt seem that theres anything afoot right now, but that could change in five minutes. one white house official was joking, not joking with me the other day that all these intrigue stories and who would have thought the first person to go wouldnt be sean spicer or reince priebus but james ...

>> right. an aide to vice president pence told me today that he stands by those comments that you just heard, that he first heard the news in that interview about general flynn and his ties to turkey. so that begs the question -- so hes basically claiming ignorance. >> right. >> if he were a normal vice president, okay, he didnt know about it. but he was head of the transition. and the report by "the new york times" is that general flynn -- >> they knew. >> -- informed the transition. now, the r...

Word, its going to the "i" word most of us want to say is an honest investigation and thats threat understand. >> no matter what happens with the congressional investigation in either house, there is no prosecutorial consequence of that. any prosecuting decisions, any criminal behavior that was undertaken, thats something that would have to be prosecuted by the department of justice. it seems to me, congressman swalwell, an open question whether or not the attorney general is actually recused fr...

President trumps apparently false claim via tweet that president obama had his wires tapped in trump tower before the election. >> with respect to the presidents tweets about alleged wiretapping directed at him by the prior administration, i have no information that support those tweets and we have looked carefully inside the fbi. >> reporter: also upsetting to trump, comeys surprise announcement at that same hearing that the fbi had been investigating the presidents associates since july. >> th...

Swalwell, an open question whether or not the attorney general is actually recused from overseeing department of justice matters, including fbi investigations of the trump campaign, including the trump russia investigation. he was directly involved in the decision to fire james comey, which if theyre admitting its about the russia investigation or if theyre saying its about the hillary clinton e-mail investigation, in either case, he is supposed to be recused from these matters. i wonder if ther...

Organizations including those two and others it seems obvious as a prima facia level theyre trying to cover up the truth of what happened in i instance, more warrantly whimportantly wh trying to cover up by removing comey, donald trump is trying to cover up whatever is at the heart of the russia story. its still a huge open question what that is does it touch the president or only his associates? does it touch his businesses? does it touch his family? is it personal? is it financial? is it sexua...