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A federal prosecutor and msnbc legal analyst. and matthew dowd mo, friend, former chief strategist for the bush cheney 2004 presidential campaign and an msnbc political analyst. welcome to both. carol, lets start with a possible charges against trump. whats your immediate reaction to the committees possible recommendations on where you also surprised to see insurrection in that list? >> seeing insurrection is a little bit of a surprise because it is such an extreme potential charge to be bogged....

Charge to bring. hadnt been tested very recently in our modern history, not in yours or mine lifetime. and here we had a situation that was literally unprecedented. they convicted someone for using violence to essentially attack a government proceeding that was an attack on our democracy, an attack on our country. that has downstream effects in one respect that i can think of right off the bat alex which is, when you convict someone like stewart rhodes of an organized violent conspiracy, the nex...

Using violence to essentially attack a government proceeding that was an attack on our democracy, an attack on our country. that has downstream effects in one respect that i can think of right off the bat alex which is, when you convict someone like stewart rhodes of an organized violent conspiracy, the next potential charge is, who else was involved in organizing a conspiracy to block the peaceful transfer of power? and if youve won an seditious conspiracy with an individual who used force, you...

Bigger problems. he may have orchestrated this letter with white powder and the threat. even if he knew the powder was only crushed tylenol, if anyone at that facility was put in fear because of the letter that is a separate potential charge of terroristic threat and if he lied to any fbi officials that is also a separate crime so he could face state felony indictment, could face a federal felony indictment, could face consecutive time. heather: lets bring up felony disorderly conduct alone, imp...

One, thats an additional potential charge against stone. but it also goes to this point that weve talked about before with trump and others, consciousness of guilt. if stone, which it seems from the reporting, is trying to get witnesses to adopt his version of the truth to make their story match his, well, why? what is he hiding? he is very good at going on tv and tweeting and making videos of him saying i didnt know anything, and he keeps changing his story, though, and every time something com...

Been telling you for the last three years that this whole system is rife with fraud and now hes making up increasingly kind of absurd versions of that. >> and counselor, you get us of course to roger stone. this will make maybe the 15th conversation you and i have had about roger stone. does this get us where you thought we were headed, especially this aspect that he may be affecting witnesses? >> right. so we have talked a lot about stone. i think whats new here is first of all this idea that -...

Hes going to say, well, ive been telling you for the last three years that this whole system is rife with fraud and now hes making up increasingly kind of absurd versions of that. >> and counselor, you get us of course to roger stone. this will make maybe the 15th conversation you and i have had about roger stone. does this get us where you thought we were headed, especially this aspect that he may be affecting witnesses? >> right. so we have talked a lot about stone. i think whats new here is f...

I hate to have the entire fbi painted without broadbrush and we know that this small inter-circle made up their own rules and do things their own way and broke the rules. very welll established rules. >> mark: just to go to that, we all know that its a crime to lie to the fbi and michael flynn supposedly do that and he would have been looking at several years in jail if they decided to go and prosecute for that. now mccabe did it three times as often as michael flynn. do you think there is any s...

Pointed out, is the focus on what the president did in terms of the situation with director comey. was there any attempt to redirect the investigation? that was a serious potential charge. and again, thats the focus of mr. muellers investigation. also, theres still big questions about the coordination between his campaign and the russians, whether that amounts to something that has a chargeable offense, thats something that the special prosecutor will determine, but these are all very serious al...

Strategy of the mueller investigation or how they ended up where on friday or today theyve charged non-u.s. citizens, the 13 russian nationals, the man today was working at the british offices of an american law firm, reportedly a dutch citizen who speaks russian and is married to a russian woman, the daughter of this oligarch, the increasingly international turn of the investigation. is this happenstance or does this mark the way this is going to go from here on out? >> i think its following th...