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Lot. and this would not surprise anybody to find out that, yeah, maybe he knew about it. but we are going to just then move on to whatever comes next. to me the question is what this is going to say or what michael cohen has to say about stuff that is much more problematic to the president himself. this does seem very problematic if mueller already has this information about don junior and his peril going forward. >> dan, im curious if you just view watching the president this week and rudy giul...

That i met with the white house, the state department and justice department. >> all that happened today and yesterday? >> the last couple days. this is not just about me. the united states government needs to stand up and to protect all americans. >> do you get the sense they are going to do this or that they paid you lip service? >> you need to go ask them that question. >> im going to end it there. michael mcfaul, former ambassador to russia, thanks for coming in. thanks for being here. stay ...

Than we do about. >> well, you brought up the denials a couple of times. let me bring the panel in on here. first let me play for everybody trump juniors original denials to sean hannity about what he did or didnt tell his father. >> do you tell your father anything about this? >> no. it was such a nothing, there was nothing to tell. >> did you know at the time that they had the meeting? >> no, i didnt know anything about the meeting. >> but as sol just pointed out, guys, this is from the congre...

Facts. >> we were having this debate about whether we think the economy -- the good economy is already baked in, the question is, lets assume that trumps at 45%, two ways to look at that 45. because of the great economy, it should be at 55, and everythings holding him back to 45, or he should be at 35. >> i dont know where i fit on that, that it should be lower. he would be here -- opinions of the president are totally disconnected from things that would normally color the way that you think abo...

I think they are taxes and there are better tools we can use to hold abusers of trade laws and people -- countries that perpetuate unfair trade practices. i think there are better tools to get them to play fairly. >> that brings us to todays sources say with ann in a aa an. >> i think republican and democratic operatives are trying to figure out what impact they will have on the election. one thing this he agree on are its not helpful for republicans. they are worried people in agricultural indu...

Now she says in fact the parties that were involved said, you know what, weve got no privilege designation here and so they have already been turned over to the government. they were turned over late on friday. so now federal investigators, the fbi and prosecutors in the southern district of new york will have access to these tapes to be able to listen to them themselves and decide whether or not it has any value in a criminal case. >> who gets to say we dont want to assert privilege over it? >>...

Security clearance, when youre the person that holds the nations deepest, most sake rhett se -- sacred secrets in your hands and make false accusations against the president of the united states, he thinks that is something to be very concerned with and were exploring what those options are and what it looks like. >> sanders was asked about when the president would make this decision, if this was just something he is ruminating about or if he is close to actually, if you will, dropping the hamme...

Fairly expected from this white house given the presidents tweets is this idea the president is looking into revoking security clearances for several former obama administration officials that had received those clearances. this was -- that was news. that didnt -- a lot of folks in the room did not expect to hear that one coming out of sarah sanders today. there were several questions to sanders on this, including her stance that the president was doing this because these people in the white hou...

Whole thing? how relevant is he? >> thats a great question and actually a weird one that is maddeningly difficult to answer. >> youve tried many times. >> we know someone like paul manafort was the campaign chairman so hes pretty central to what that campaign did. george papadopoulos, another figure who similarly like carter page, in the periphery. it was his conversation with an australian diplomat that essentially is the initial thing that kicks off the whole investigation. page just keeps pop...

I heard the press secretary also get into a little back-and-forth about free speech. dont these folks have a right to speak out and make their views and voices heard? in the white houses view, the threat to national security in their perspective overrides some of that, and im paraphrasing sanders comments. its certainly -- the question that i think about is why now? why is this happening now? its likely because over the last week you have heard the increasing drumbeat from people like john brenn...