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This hour, looming questions, lingering questions and a lot of ugly in-fighting at the pentagon about the national guard response. whether any of that is in any white house records. whether the white house counsel worried about the presidents criminal exposure. we know from some of the books that have been written that white house counsel pat sip lenny was essentially waiting for trump to be arrested that day. as a white house staffer, every email you sends or receive is sent to the archives. if...

But the committee says its finances were audited and it was in full compliance with the law. lets bring in now evan perez, ann milligram and john dean. thank you for joining us. ann, im going to start with you. what is this reporting about the trump inaugural committee under investigation, southern district, not mueller. what does this mean for the president? >> the fact that its southern district and not muellers team means it cant be as directly influenced by someone like matt whitaker which m...

Trump inauguration spending under criminal investigation, southern district of new yorking right? not by mueller. southern district of new york. what does this mean for president trump? >> i think it means a couple things, the fact its southern district, moeans it is an independent investigation that will go on. the second piece is we know already that gates cooperated, who is manaforts deputy on the campaign, and then he became the deputy of the inauguration, and that theres even been conversat...

Was around the crucial moments the special counsel was looking at. whether its to urge sessions to take control or fire mueller or james comey. he has been at the center of all these important discussions. he knows what the president was thinking. he knows how the president was reacting. he has such insider information that it just seems like a invaluable treasure trove for the special counsels office. >> kevin, when you were reading through it, how many wows did you -- this is a space that you ...

Back and forth. there was back stabbing. very public comments from the president on people who very recently served in very senior roles. is that a threat to u.s. national security for outsiders to see this very public display of dysfunction? >> look, our adversaries who collect information, who collect intelligence on the united states look at an administration like this as divided against itself, an administration where theres all this infighting, all this distrust. its a treasure-trove of pot...

This. but it wouldnt surprise me at all if rudolph giuliani learned from manaforts lawyers a little bit about what rick gates is going to say about collusion. and theyre now trying to get out in front of this by not denying there is collusion but by saying it is not a crime. >> that is a fascinating theory that would explain the chain of potential information. given what he is charged with, why would the trump tower meeting come up at all? >> it will likely not come up at the trial. because of t...

Gates was at that meeting and it would not surprise me, this is pure conjecture and there may be limitations on whether manaforts lawyers can disclose this. but it wouldnt surprise me at all if rudolph giuliani learned from manaforts lawyers a little bit about what rick gates is going to say about collusion. and theyre now trying to get out in front of this by not denying there is collusion but by saying it is not a crime. >> that is a fascinating theory that would plane is the chain of potentia...

Device to initiate by lifting or opening a box. even the -- the uni bomber used a plunger type device when the box was lifted off the ground it set off the device. so right now i think what we have is a wealth of potential information. because one device that didnt initiate. depending how the bomb techs had to rsp the device render it safe, once they can do that they can do forensics on pennsylvania device thats intact. >>y he. >> looking at fingerprinting looking at dpa and also looking at comp...

Thats the kind of stuff they ee in the "anarchist cookbook" victim-activated stuff. >> exactly a victim act waited in the device. >> they are living or opening the box, very simple circuits can be conducted to cause a device to initiate by lifting or opening a box. the unabomber used a plunger type device when the box was lifted off the ground it set off the device. so right now i think what we have is a wealth of potential information. because one device that didnt initiate. depending how the b...

Federal investigators. so whether or not jared kushner has told the entire truth about why he wanted to set up that back channel. there has been talk that there was perhaps an effort to coordinate more with russia and terrorism and kushners spin on it. flynn may have more perspective. then, of course, she probably going to tell the truth about whether or not trump knew or even directed him to talk to sergei kislyak about the sanctions issue. >> so are you certain as you look at mueller, that he ...