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>> its certainly true that lying to the public is not a crime. and putting out an inaccurate press release is not a crime. so, i dont think anyones suggests that in and of itself youve got a case based on false statements made in a press release, but, step back. if youre a prosecutor and looking at an obstruction of justice case, youre thinking in your mind a narrative. the youre thinking literally already about what an opening argument would make, what would sound like in your own head if you g...

It does point out the devastating effect that the general impression, not the specific little items that were addressing. thats what we do for a living. the general impression of director come kwraoes testimony was very very negative for the president. they have to get their narrative out there before the news cycle turns or this general impression will fill in, sit in with the public unrebutted. >> harris: this is an tune for mark kasowitz to step up and not just give his statement, but if he t...

Witnesss statement "it was a dark and stormy night," as i stood by the grandfather clock, i saw in front of me a swirl of emotions. >> kind of a serious time. >> comey cannot only write, but when you read that -- >> its incredible. >> the opening argument to a jury, a prosecutors opening argument where he spells out a story with a beginning, a middle, and the end, that was the last time i spoke with the president. >> we have co-founder of axios, jim vandehei with us and columnist from "the washi...

Something like, hey, you know, i love rachel maddow, watch her show. theres no difference. >> well, i understand as a lawyer, shes making her opening argument. and in this argument, as blame is being pointed around almost in circular fire about how you can have the white house, you can have the senate, you can have the house in control and still let this fall by the wayside. but do you think that the direct fire at speaker ryan is something that he should really be worried about, as we know ther...

Will depend on what is in the in the ynew ban. judges will say we will keep it blocked while this case goes to trial. if its different from the leaks we have heard about green card or affected classes or it doesnt have the havoc we saw at the airports it is possible that judges may take more kindly to it and say a good faith effort to fix the legal problems and separate what you think about the policy and we are letting it play out differently. i think the biggest problem for the administration ...

What weve heard so far, what can you tell us about that? >> on whats going to happen out of the travel ban? >> yes. >> this is the fascinating part. people remember the airports and remember the crowds and the chaos, they remember president trumps own dhs director saying we should have done this differently, our bad. so there has been a lot of movement on this and last night steven miller gets up on another channel on fox news last night and says listen, the new ban is going to be exactly like t...

Office. we know that 420,000 people used the d.c. metro public transit yesterday. this was the largest audience to ever witness an inauguration, period, both in person and around the globe, even "the new york times" printed a photograph showing a misrepresentation of the crowd in the original tweet and the paper which showed the support of the crowd that existed. these are shameful and wrong. >> nbc kelly odonnell was the at that briefing. >> that had the quality of being an opening argument in ...

To talk about a peaceful transfer that these two candidates cannot shake hands and show that moment. >> it would have been nice to do that and there is no doubt about it. ino/ terms of the overall str you can structure of the debate and the ability for her to get her points across making sure shes reaching out and her closing arguments even though it is an impromptu closing, her opening argument where she said she wanted to appointi justice for all people. it would have been nice to shake hands....

Though? hes not just the insurgent candidate, but he can actually go the distance. >> and in talk, his advisers, they very much see this debate as sort of the opening argument in terms of arguing that he is, in fact, an electable candidate. if you look at what he was able to do in vermont, all sorts of questions about his electability there, hes a socialist and eventually he was able to climb to become a u.s. senator. i think they have to sort of start to frame bernie sanders as less of a sort o...