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He has a pattern. What the pattern we have from donald trump is a lot of times hell lie about something that happens and hell do what he wants to do. All of this im convinced symone ive convinced her. I think you made a lot of progress with symone. All that matters, what will this mean if the president does meet with Special Counsel and asked about this . If he gives answers hes been giving to the media and others, it may not go well. Our coverage continues right now, cnn tonight with don lemon....

Conspire. but this is serious stuff, don. and its a remarkable breaking story because it does show and complete the pattern that weve been seeing. >> carl, ive got to ask you and i ask in the tease before the break, did he learn nothing? did he learn nothing from the blowback from firing james comey? has he learned anything over past year? >> actually, hes been very successful in his own terms, which is to say, he acts as if nothing sticks to him. and in fact, very little has. and he -- if you t...

>> well, actually, hes been very successful in his own terms, which is to say he acts as if nothing sticks to him. and in fact, very little has. and he, if you talk to the people around him, they will tell you, this is his operating presumption. that if he can get his base riled up about a witch-hunt, that is more important than the lying we just saw, more important than firing mueller or giving pardons. he believes on some level im told he can get away with just about anything. and in fact, he ...

Precedent are eroded or if the factual circumstances that were critical to why the precedent -- to the original decision, if those change. but unless one can sort of point to one of those reasons for reversing a precedent, the operating presumption of our legal system is that a judge respects precedent, and i think thats an enormously important principle of the legal system, that one defers to prior justices or prior judges who have decided something and that its not enough, even if you think so...