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Chairman, and we appreciate here at the beginning of this assessment you coming on to set the table for us. thank you very much. >> el with, thawell, thank you. its my pleasure. i always watch you at home. >> hopefully youll be on the show more and watching from home less. youll be pivotal in this pros process so congressman eliot engel, thank you. >> congressman engel is the old guard. congresswoman alexandria ocasio-cortez is the new guard. shes been waiting for speaker pelosi to come around. ...

Wed like to do this in another jurisdiction so that no one finds out about it. i mean, if everything that prosecutors were doing was above board, then why did they try to keep it secret? i mean, thats one thing that alex acosta -- no one has really answered. they say, well, this was approved at all levels of the justice department. if thats true, why did they keep is secret? >> and what would be alex a acostas incentive to do this? what was in it for him? why would he behave this way as a u.s. a...

On it. if they force the issue, what happened? claudia is here with us what do you think happens? >> el with, neil, its going to be -- what theyre trying to do, what the u.s. maneuvering is to do is move in impasse the direction of the dictator maduro steps down. thats the game. i think its risky and juan guaido has been willing to take the risk. this could bad a very big weekend. this is taking us what has been an impasse for the past month now since he became interim president. >> neil: what w...

Doing this now to fulfill a campaign promise? >> elwith, i think he actually could have allowed all this to happen and fulfill the campaign promise. he could have said i got my wall and let the democrats say, no, you didnt. and also i think the thing really frustrating to a lot of republicans is we know the leeway the trump base gives hill. and its broader anything than barack obamas base had or bushs base had in their respective presidencies. he can cut the deal on immigration that say a presid...

That the investigation has entered any kind of new phase? did anything change effectively today or this week? >> el with,well, the difference barr and whitaker in terms of overseeing the investigations are not terribly misleading. once it left rosensteins hand, thats a bigger change. barr, presumably has more authority and more cloud in making a decision like the one we are talking about right now. i think bob muellers office had been aware of whats been hanging over them quite a wile. i imagine...

Scenario where he gets the majority of the pop larp vote but is there a scenario where he replicates what he did in 2016? thats an open question. >> certainly. >> and there are those seeking to elevate the new members of congress and making them the face of the democratic party for foils of donald trump, and were going to get rid of airplanes in tn years, to make it an extreme leftist party that president trump can run against. >> el with, republicans have always in some way been looking for a b...

Youre tracking? >> the one big thing is republicans acting like theyre losing. if you look at the kavanaugh jump, theyre starting to change their behaviors in the way they spend money and showing theyre expect to go lose the house. were seeing that in races in virginia and nevada where the national is trying to poll back funding. the big thing you can tell they start attacking each other. president trump is on the campaign trail saying it wont be my fault. dont blame me. >> thats interesting, ni...

Organization, then weisselberg would be absolutely devastated. >> also, i think you told me, carrie, many months ago, its amazing how much stuff im forgetting these days, but that -- hey, stop assuming that just because they can indict a sitting president means that they cant hand down an indictment or prepare charges and use them after hes gone. >> el with -- well, thats right, you cant charge a sitting president, according to the presumptive legal opinions from the justice department. i think ...

>> also, i think you told me, carrie, many months ago, its amazing how much stuff im forgetting these days, but that -- hey, stop assuming that just because they can indict a sitting president means that they cant hand down an indictment or prepare charges and use them after hes gone. >> el with -- well, thats right, you cant charge a sitting president, according to the presumptive legal opinions from the justice department. i think theres wide agreement, even of those who might disagree on the ...

>> you didnt lie. that would be it. you didnt cheat. >> good night, stars. >> good night, stars. >> good night popo. >> good night,popo. >> at the time, hbo was in about 33 million homes. fx was going to 110 million homes. thats a lot of people who would like programming like this who do not have hbo. and they be we just said, el with, theres got to be a different version of toe any soprano, and then we found that with vic mackey, who was a cop. >> im a different kind of cop. >> the pilot of "th...