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Having a $200,000 allowance like president trump did and really calling president trump to task over some of his policies, but also his personal biography. and were learning more about the presidents personal business now that the democrats are digging in to his finances and taxes and years and years of potential wrongdoing. i think that you will see senator sanders really try to dig into that and look at how different president trump is from the voters who said that they wanted him to look afte...

Anywhere. and the republican congress repeatedly demanded that the doj turnover documents related to the russia and clinton investigation and they ended up getting them, sometimes because president trump insisted on them. so there is a bit of an aspect of them being hoisted on their own pi tar here. >> and that raises an interesting question about what this means for the general public. former acting solicitor general helped write the special counsel regulations way back in 1999. in fact i want ...

>> well, let me first say this. it was a question i was asked a few months ago about what would be the best result of the mueller probe. i had to think about that for a while. i concluded that the best result would be if robert mueller found donald trump completely innocent because i dont want our president to have engaged in collusion with a foreign power. i just dont want that. now, if the report comes out and exonerates donald trump, we move on. if it doesnt, if it says, we would have indicte...

>> well, let me first say this. it was a question i was asked a few months ago about what would be the best result of the mueller probe. i had to think about that for a while. i concluded that the best result would be if robert mueller found donald trump completely innocent because i dont want our president to have engaged in collusion with a foreign power. i just dont want that. now, if the report comes out and exonerates donald trump, we move on. if it doesnt, if it says, we would have indicte...

Seen the last of us. >> reporter: one year later, still fighting to make sure other students never feel their pain. kate snow, nbc news, parkland, florida. our thanks to kate snow for that powerful report. one year after that tragic parkland shooting floridas governor has called for an investigation into potential wrongdoing by the school district. the governor has petitioned for a grand jury to look into how the broward county school district and others in the state have handled student safet...

Revelations come out, i think its possible that republicans will decide it is no longer in their own personal political interests to support trump. i wish i thought they would do it on the merits. i think thats probably unlikely, but i do think its possible they will look at this and say this is a bad deal for us. >> youre describing a couple of different times since weve been talking, describing continued revelations from the mueller investigation from other criminal probes as potentially being...

With bravado broke the rules. and far worse gave hillary clinton all the breaks in the world with just a scolding and setting up secret surveillance of the trump campaign for reasons still unclear. >> bill: i will add on your piece not once -- not once you write did new york state officials display any curiosity about a potential wrongdoing. whatever the clintons did was good enough for them end quote. >> you see that with the foundation and neither the new york state attorney general cared abou...

Star as a judge he wrote a law review article that i found frankly breathtaking in which he said presidents while sitting in office should be excused from some of the ordinary responsibilities of the citizen ship and specifically shouldnt be subject to civil liability. criminal liability. they shouldnt even be bothered with investigations. they should -- the only recourse he said that should be available in the case of potential wrongdoing by a president is impeachment. well, by the way, i dont ...

Frankly breathtaking in which he said presidents while sitting in office should be excused from some of the ordinary responsibilities of the citizen ship and specifically shouldnt be subject to civil liebt abili. they shouldnt even be bothered with investigations. they should -- the only recourse he said that should be available in the case of potential wrongdoing by a president is impeachment. well, by the way, i dont know how you can impeach somebody if youre handcuffed when it comes to invest...

Exists. i think what happens -- >> heres the proof -- >> if i could answer the question. i believe what happened is michael cohen pled to charges that are actually not crimes according to the fec but are an attempt to try to do anything to connect cohens wrongdoing to potential wrongdoing. >> let me challenge you on a couple things. obviously there are campaign finance laws and youre not allowed to make payments in order to mislead the american voter into voting for you, number one. >> this -- >...