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Unique opportunity to address the problem. >> bret: you received the nobel peace prize for that peace deal with the farc. there are critics in your country. pointing to the metric tons of cocaine, how can you say its working? tickle the -- the fight againsts has changed. the u.s. government is the first want to recognize we are doing extremely well, seizing enormous amounts of tons of cocaine. last year was a record 400-plus tons. this year, even more. we are attacking the problem in a conferenc...

Senior development in the u.s. senate and he said plainlily, wolf, this is what is obstruction looks like. pointing to the "new york times" story saying i faced great pressure because of russia and thats been taken off. the big question is what happens next and this is a very fast-moving story and were already starting to see action on that front elijah cummings, the top government on the house oversight and government committee has will have informed jason chaffetz, the chairman of that panel, ...

>> almost every day theres a blockbuster leak like that coming out. jeffrey toobin, is this closer and closer to the suggestion of obstruction of justice? >> sure looks that way to me and, you know, one of the things that i think is worth pointing out is if youre talking about the statute, the law that prohibits obstruction of justice, its illegal to attempt to obstruct justice. it doesnt matter if you succeed in obstructing justice because one of the points youve often heard in defense of the p...

Will be testifying soon. david. >> mary bruce live on the hill, tonight, thank you. i want to bring in dan abrams, we heard from pierre thomas off the top there. it was quite striking. he said mr. mueller can step in here, and months after this fbi investigation, even before the election, and he could start over. >> thats what an independent prosecutor means, its called a special counsel. it means he can now decide what he wants to do with all that information. and i think its really important...

Unique opportunity to address the problem. >> bret: you received the nobel peace prize for that peace deal with the farc. there are critics in your country. pointing to the metric tons of cocaine, how can you say its working? tickle the -- the fight againsts has changed. the u.s. government is the first want to recognize we are doing extremely well, seizing enormous amounts of tons of cocaine. last year was a record 400-plus tons. this year, even more. we are attacking the problem in a conferenc...

Dry on that earlier decision, and michael isikoff has been so astutely pointing out the loss of control for the white house, which does get it off their plate. but eventually could really come back to haunt them. remind your viewers, remembering how angry the president was when attorney general sessions recused himself. remember that video shot through the window of the oval office, him chewing out steve bannon and other staff members because they felt like the white house had either allowed, en...

Back story, they feel like more than to be there because more than to try to keep the train from going off the tracks. and they become the pinata for the press. but to donald trump to the point of is he a public servient? i cant get inside his mind but i would go on a limb and say i dont think so and the reason is he keeps on pointing to the electoral victories he has made. he almost aktsz like heacts liks a king and he was dethroned this to become president of the yu s united states. >> hes not...

Would not jump to conclusions right now. i just think it is a possibility. >> jon: you say there is some finger-pointing in this story that needs to stop. what do you mean by that? >> industry, silicon valley pointing at their customers about not getting the up-to-date microsoft service, pointing at a government for not sharing all of its secrets on how it deals with cyber events. silicon valley and the government need to work together here. i would argue that certainly the government has a resp...

>> well, thats the recourse we have right now. >> okay. do you get to the point where you use amendments, do you hold up other parts of his legislation until you get confidence on national security? do you wait for recordings? im just -- it seems like talk is talk, but if this is truly a national security crises, whats next? >> well, i think what youre seeing is senators, representatives, members of congress, public officials and the public themselves voicing concerns, and i hope the president l...

Midst of all of this controversy, it will even be more so. >> remarkable detail that you will only hear from andrea mitchell. andrea, i know you have reporting to get back to. thanks so much for joining us. phillip rucker, i want to turn to you and something we just thae heard from andrea about a white house in turmoil. what are you hearing this hour? >> its been the same story for about a week now, which is that the president is very angry, hes upset, hes fuming. he feels like hes been let down...