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Handed and the republicans dont get a chance -- >> youre saying that. i dont know that thats the reality. well see how it goes forward. >> it is the reality. >> chris, let me just make one point. no witness the republicans have asked be a part of this process will be on peoples television sets tomorrow. >> but you cant expect to have adam schiff or the bidens put on trial in an impeachment process for this president. >> so its not just the question of hunter bidens potential illegality, its also...

Adam schiff or the bidens put on trial in impeachment process for this president. >> its not just a question of hunter bidens potential illegality. its also the question about the people that schiff talked to and that republicans didnt get a chance to cross examine in private. >> have your own proceedings. let me ask you this. >> theyre not being allowed to testify tomorrow so all your viewers understand. >> i want all my viewers to understand that thats not how the rules are set up and the way ...

Actually a white house counsel, rather the personal attorney of the president. its completely con founding to think that somebody who is aware that although perhaps a sitting president could not be indicted, it is absolutely odd to me he thinks hes somehow immune from the scrutiny or perhaps even an investigation into his own conduct about why he feels entitled to do so and to perpetuate this sort of thing. >> lets not do it in terms of a matching column of potential illegality. lets deal with t...

Campaign got -- essentially put on its doorstep intelligence about the bush campaign. and were not even talking about foreign actors here. somebody ended up in jail for a year about that because the gore campaign did the right thing, which was notify the fbi. >> like right away. >> right away. that is the only proper answer here. and so what were seeing is another instance of the president -- look, we saw it throughout what the president and his relationship with jeff sessions and so on. a numbe...

Go public based on that. or it may be that were going to get something at 11:59, a minute before the filing deadline. although some people have suggested that they dont know if its a 3:00 a.m. eastern standard time, midnight pacific time filing deadline. >> oh, boy. >> thats up to the -- >> i know. but i think, look, the redactions go to ongoing cases. so we know that these cases are -- theyre basically, you know, a case begets a case when it comes to donald trump. up in of these ever end, they ...

Lightly discussed a deal. you are starting to see inconsistencies as it relates to the moscow project, not only by michael cohen. he pled guilty to that. but the president making the statement he did on twitter today. >> a conversation light. a deal with less calories. im assuming. joyce, the president is employing the classic punch back strategy calling the accuser i guess you would say a liar, insisting that trump himself was not hiding anything and then the third leg, even if i was hiding som...

Defend defend, it must be wrong. the balance became so overwhelming. when you get into an issue that involved potential illegality, that was a problem. >> people within the epa and whistle-blower, whats the reaction inside this agency? >> theyre happy to see pruitt go because of the way he was running this office. very much not agreeable to meet any scientists and read backup and follow procedures in place from other epa administrators making big decisions. they are happy at least pruitt is gone...

Personal lawyer and the payments from a u.s. company linked to a russian oligarch or russian billionaire. what are the areas from your per spect -- perspective of potential illegality. >> the areas are possibly bank fraud in false statements that michael cohen made to the banks that were dealing with him and second violations of the foreign lobbying act and registration requirements which may not appear huge in themselves but in combination with other possible violations like money laundering co...

For some time about the need for muellers investigation to be allowed to poe seed without interference from the president. hes been quite critical of president trumps tweets and efforts to influence the investigation, call it a hoax and all that. he sees parallels between that and the attacks on him when he was the whitewater independent counsel from the clinton camp. but the stormy daniels controversy was kind of a new issue for him and theres a certain consistency there when he saw what he per...

He came out today, apologized. he spent two hours talking and taking questions from all kinds of reporters. he looked patient. hes going to investigate this. do democrats run the risk of overreaching on this and looking a little desperate in the process? >> well, look, lets put this in perspective. this has not been a plus for him. >> no. >> even though he might have had a decent day today. this is a tarnish on his image. and my confession to you is that of all the republicans out there, the one...