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Back. Overnight weve seen the president evolve his thinking to now advocate for the Death Penalty and, regardless, both of these statements are somewhat inappropriate and unprecedented just in terms of what a president traditionally would say, which is to restrain from offering this sort of commentary. It is in keep with the kind of public persona that donald trump has cultivated over many, many years in public life of trying to show himself to be strong and tough and have this steely resolve. B...

Yates goes to the white house, tells don mcgahn again, michael flynn is compromised. thats also the day papadopoulos first spoke to the fbi. thats also the night that comey goes to the white house and has the loyalty dinner. so that when you put everything on the timeline, the fact pattern that is presented in the papadopoulos document is the road map for collusion. >> steve schmidt, she just did a superb job laying out the timeline. we know bob muellers timeline looks like the homeland version ...

The manafort and gates indictments were, as mark suggested, they didnt have anything to do with donald trump. now granted he had done all these things before donald trump named him the chairman of his campaign and he was obviously engaged in all of this allegedly criminal activity over the course of their decades long personal relationship but can you speak to sort of the difference between the third rail with papadopoulos. obviously it did insight deep passions among the people around our table...

Rid of the sanctions that are hurting vladimir putin and some of his cronies and really keeping them from some of the bank accounts, frozen some of their bank accounts around the world. so what you see here in the papadopoulos document is a bit of an outline of what looks like collusion. i mean, again, weve talked so many times, don, about the fact that collusion in itself is not a crime, but certainly illegal coordination with a foreign spy service would certainly add up to a crime. and then wi...

These interviews done of people in the white house. and we didnt know that this papadopoulos document existed. so theres a lot of people who have now been able to provide interviews to the special counsel without the benefit of knowing what was in here. >> yeah. all right. thank you both. i appreciate it. i need to get to some more analysis now. i want to bring in john dean, also marriotti and john flannery. im so glad to have all of you great minds on this evening to talk about this. john flann...

To be able to use people that they thought were amenable to their views, to try to improve relations with the united states and also, you know, the top of their list is they wanted to get rid of the sanctions that are hurting vladimir putin and some of his krone i didnt see and really keeping them from some of the bank accounts, frozen some of their bank accounts around the world. so what you see here in the papadopoulos document is a bit of an outline of what looks like collusion. i mean, again...

>> to nicks point, there are three individuals that are mentioned in the papadopoulos document. campaign supervisor senior policy adviser, high-ranking campaign official. we dont have definitive -- we have some source saying one of those campaign supervisor might be paul manafort. >> right. >> we dont definitively know who the others are. >> some are done in the plural too. so there is a number of people. >> there is also, carrie, i want to come back to this timeline issue. this really strikes m...

Nia mallika henderson. and john dean, president nixons white house council during watergate. homo men to us is today. >> i thought it was a pretty big day. >> the manafort timing was interesting, in that they let that go out with the papadopoulos document or the guilty plea they had there, right after the white house said, theres nothing to look at here, i think it was a big day, and it was well orchestrated by the special council. and certainly -- to me, thats just the tip of the iceberg we saw...

Trump, that news ultimately will not be as widespread significant as this russia news. >> could this, barbara, be just the beginning? how do you see this? is this the first step here in terms of paul manafort, for example? where do you see -- what does today tell you and what are the questions that you still have? >> i do think in is just the first step. i agree with ari the more significant case today we learned about are the charges against george papadopoulos. and i think the timing of unseal...

Fbi, being subpoenaed, what do i tell them, what do i do? and ill bet anything that theyve got a whole array of tapes that have already been made, and there are a lot of other people in muellers sights. >> to nicks point, there are three individuals that are mentioned in the papadopoulos document. campaign supervisor, senior policy adviser, high-ranking campaign official. we dont have definitive -- we have some source saying one of those campaign supervisors might be paul manafort. >> right. >> ...