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News headline, there was no such plot to undermine trump. he could have come out with news about the russian investigation, he didnt do it. >> no, no, no. >> go ahead. >> people say this, i think its actually incorrect. hillary clinton was under a criminal investigation because there was enough evidence of potential wrongdoing to have a criminal investigation by the fbi. the russia investigation was a counter intelligence investigation, largely looking at a foreign power, potentially involved, o...

Allegations of potential wrongdoing. scott pruitt. the daily beast doesnt expose any actual wrongdoing it seems but it does talk about pruitt in that headline. trying to go after people, former aides, that he felt were not portraying himself in the best light. aides he felt betrayed him. pruitt demands loyalty, the daily beast said hes not reciprocated to his aides. and what might that say about how pruitt operates if true? >> again, part of a trend of government officials and cabinet officials ...

Thoughtful they are being in connection with this. this is not some messy investigation thats just been thrown together overnight. they are crossing ts not once, not twice, but three times. these are very serious lawyers, very accomplished lawyers, very smart lawyers, and they are doing it by the book. >> i will ask you one more then, this was referred from the special counsels office, how long do you think they were in receipt of knowledge of potential wrongdoing from mr. cohen? >> i cant specu...

They violate public policy or are unethical. in this case, the contracts clearly violate the public policy. paying people off to be silent about potential wrongdoing by somebody running for president of the united states days before an election reeks of a public policy violation. if it came after threats, it may have been entered into under duress. but ndas should be banned. california and new jersey have laws pending to ban them. we know in the me too movement that ndas are how we keep serial s...

>> im assuming so, yeah. >> the white house has denied the claims of the affair. the enquirers parent company told the times it decided not to print her story because it could not verify details. acknowledged discussing the allegations with cohen as part of its reporting process. nancy, i want to go to you on this theme of non-disclosure agreements is a very important one in trumps -- president trumps life, mr. trumps life as a businessman. what are the potential ramifications for the way these ...

Sustained for it to come from staffers or even from these menace individuals. this is a republican party leadership effort, and i cant say who exactly. but this kind of pressure, this kind of coordinated campaign has to come from on high. enormous pressure from the president im sure from the white house itself. the idea of course, theyre coordinating. thats been a question. are they coordinating? president always coordinate with loyalists in congress. right now president trump cares most about p...

-- that looks like you might want to prosecute it. thats happened in serious ethics cases for members of congress. ethics committee is doing intense investigation of a member of congress accused of some ethics violation, in the course of the investigation they turn up serious evidence of potential wrongdoing by that member of congress, that was not otherwise known to or being pursued by the relevant law enforcement agency. in cases like that, the ethics committee would finish their report on t...

Computer through unsecured networks. thats all new information that just relatively recently came out. so saying that its all been looked at before is not entirely true. >> it surfaced to the public. it is not necessarily new information. >> hillary clinton is not president of the united states in part because of how she handled her responsibilities as secretary of state. the clinton foundation was a big part of that. they should never have -- i can say that. the fact she kept emails -- >> she i...

Dollars on his corrupt, crooked investigation that hasas now turned into this political fishing expedition. remember, this all started as a probe into possible trump-russia collusion. there has been zero evidence, so far, none, zero. its been almost a year that this happened and the media, russia, russia, russia. now mueller and his political lackeys, they are trying to dig up any kind of potential wrongdoing to justify their existence. this is a massive waste of money and you, the american peop...

Night, the cleric living in pennsylvania and getting him back to turkey. that was during the campaign. whats significant about this is that this was after flynn was named national security adviser and was act ing in that role an then potentially brought that into the white house, which is a totally different level of potential wrongdoing. >> and nick, weve all been certainly noting the strange, to put it mildly, strange relationship between the new administration and erdogan. no criticism of his...