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Mueller affirmed pretty much every fact of the case that the democrats have been making that the president welcomed the attack of russia to the democracy and that he tried to obstruct the investigation. let me go now to congressman sean patrick maloney. he is one of the folks that questioned the former special counsel yesterday. and hes somebody that is not yet ready to say, you know what, time for an impeachment inquiry, congressman. good to see you. and i want to get, because you were one of t...

House judiciary chairman jerry nadler will be on "hardball" with chris matthews tonight. will he open this inquiry without pelosis blessing? up ahead, the growing threat of russia growing in the 2020 election. plus, why im obsessed with a symbol that is not what it seems to be. for effective, non-addictive relief. salonpas lidocaine. patch, roll-on or cream. hisamitsu. so, every day, we put our latest technology and unrivaled network to work. the united states postal service makes more e-com...

Between the trump organization and russians. >> mike mcfaul, im going to leave it there. as always, thank you. >> thanks for having me. >> stanford still looking good behind you. well be back tomorrow with more "meet the press" daily. its "the beat" with ari meller that begins right this second. >> thank you very much. tonight were one day out from the mueller hearings and in the middle of several big stories right now. we have a special report on some of the moments from the mule ter hearing yo...

With the russian hackers. we didnt see any of that yesterday. an impeachment inquiry we would. >> well, if your point is, is that were not doing everything we can to get out those facts to the american public, i guess i disagree. if your point is that that would be more effective in an impeachment inquiry, which, by the way, equally likely to become a partisan circus more akin to the brett kavanaugh hearings than a fact-finding exercise, i think thats worth examining as well. bottom line is that...

Russia did? >> i agree with you that senator burr has been really very serious and that warner -- >> they have. >> i dont even want to limit this to russia. we cannot downplay the threat to our electoral systems to our democratic processes from russia, from china, from iran, from north korea. >> wait, look at the presidents actions with turkey, with rush dwrar a. and sometimes youre like why is he trying to make it easier for russia to screw with americas foreign policy like this turkey decision...

Is supposed in be in latin and say e pluribus unum. the two-headed bird sure looks a lot like the russian code of arms. a lot like the russian coat of amps. just saying. the organization behind the event calls it an audio visual mix-up and theres says there was zero malicious intent. it was carrying golf clubs, one person was fired though. im left with two lingering questions, what image does it project about this white house if the advance team can get spoofed like that? but more importantly, w...

Considering on how more animated that mueller was on russia. >> ill remind you obstruction was a crime. so i think the judiciary committee began because were the committee that has jurisdiction over impeachment so i think it made sense for mr. mueller first to come to the judiciary committee. he spoke about the presidents conduct. so im not sure the order mattered. i think we had an opportunity to hear from the special counsel and him walk through all the contents of the report. so im not sure i...

Actor. >> russia, if youre listening? >> he said it himself. right? im, i dont need to put words into his mouth. he said if they got something interesting, he would take a look. what hes not remembering, two things. one, putin doesnt care about trump. putin wants to weaken us. he thought it was instrumental to his favor to support trump to weaken us, and i think putin has achieved that objective. number two, even bigger, putin is not the only one that can do this to you. do you think the iranian...

Earlier in the show and it has to do with the president basically not wanting to pub nish turkey for working with the russians. and i sit here and it comes in the same week as we have the mueller report. why the shouldnt we tie those two things together? >> you know, the high mow poe thesis is still there. you heard mueller say yesterday he did not investigate financial fipz weve been speculating about that for a long time as to why. he said it was not in his purview. i do think it is one of the...

Mike, when we booked you this morning, we only were going to talk about what mueller said and in between we get the first of what is going to be a series of bipartisan reports from the senate intel committee. you know, like all of these things, we knew it was extensive, but oh, my, it was more extensive. your initial reaction. >> well, chuck, ive been at work all day and havent read the report. i knew it was coming. i testified before that committee. we knew it was extensive. theres now widespre...