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Good guy and straight shooter. there had to be another reason. well, the reason was this memo which said that one particular case of obstruction was a case that mueller should not make, and it wouldnt stand up and he went into great detail on it, which i think would please the president. >> i also want to bring in former senior justice department counsel carrie cordero. also david urban and democratic strategist paul begala. carrie, im wondering overall what you made of what you heard from barr ...

That mueller should not make, and it wouldnt stand up and he went into great detail on it, which i think would please the president. >> i also want to bring in senior former justice department carrie -- im wondering overall what you made? >> so a couple of things. first i thought that he conveyed hes going to bring back regular order to the department of justice, hes going to follow the rules and norms and he believes in the integrity of the department and the institutional independence. i thoug...

Those indictments are both out there, theyre pending. the big question that mueller is charged with answering from rod rosenstein is whether or not there was a conspiracy or collusion between the campaign or anyone involved with it and russia. and thats the question mueller has yet to answer. >> we look at the extension here, though, ned, politically cuff probably hear the drum beat already beginning. okay, its been extended by six months here. those critical of it will say this is more -- this ...

Protect himself should be impeached. so those are examples of things that are clearly impeachable offenses. what the outer limit is, who knows? >> we dont know. but what about the other piece thats maybe conflimplicating t is the statue of limitations on trumps campaign finance violation. its five years, meaning if this happened in 2016 and you do the math and if trump wins re-election for another four years, by the time he would walk out of the white house in 2024, the statute of limitations wo...

Have the democrats leading here in florida 18. thats a pretty healthy lead with 35% of the vote in. its only 35%. well keep counting. that would be a pickup for the democrats. lets come down here. this is a republican incumbent. another republican incumbent. brian mast won. losing at the moment. trailing at the moment. a much closer race so far. watch this play out. its has been hotly contested. moderate republican at odds with the white house quite frequently. in the neighboring district, thats...

Widen it out a little bit more, but theres plenty of time for it to close up, and were likely to see it close up, widen out again before election day. paul: kevin mccarthy, the house majority leader who wants to be speaker, told us 6 points was his threshold for keeping the house. you keep it below 6 on the generic, all things being equal, that republicans keep the house. is that how you see it? >> i think thats right. i might be a little bit lower than that, lower than 6, but i think 6 is the o...

And the senate intelligence committee has just gotten access to the underlying intelligence this week. >> senator, you told wh h(y) radio that democrats dont want to shut down the government but they might if they have to. what circumstances would democrats consider shutting down the government for? would it be to save obamacare? would it be to force an outside investation into russia? would it be to prevent the confirmation of neil gorsuch? >> lets put it into context. on that interview, i was ...

Talking. that is a surprising valuable bit there. you wonder -- what is your sense what they might be able to get out of this guy? >> to put it mildly he is probably not a mensa candidate. but he did do well for himself in terms of cooperating from the very start. and he has made really booming admissions of his own guilt by mentioning that he supplied the weapons to the shooter -- both shooters, with the full knowledge that they were trying to get around the background check. he admitted to the...

Now today were learning about how he is being referred to the general court-martial. >> so in effect his case is going to trial. and hes going to go. to court-martial on two charges. ones we heard about for some time on desertion. that carries a a maximum sentence of five years. the other one more serious and that is putting his unit in danger, putting his fellow service members in danger. that carries a life sentence. it doesnt mean hes going to be charged with both of those or get that sentenc...

Close and the remnant of flight 370 are far, far away? i want to bring back my panel. michael, to you first. australias prime minister says he is confident. a word he used. so what happens if there is, they cant -- the pings run out? they cant get the black boxes and dont find anything for two weeks? what happens if -- nothing? >> where in a hazy part of the investigation at the moment, where we have been concentrating on hopefully getting some sort of progress through identifying the senate fro...