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Former GOP representative Joe Scarborough and Mika Brezinski interview newsmakers, politicians and pundits about the issues of the day. Was obvious the meeting was to get information from foreign nationals which is a crime. Lawyers running around collusion is not a crime. Anybody knows a low he ranking congressman like i was in my first year understood you cant get an in kind contribution from mullahs in iran or Vladimir Putin in russia. Thats right, joe. The president is concerned. Hes anxious,...

Whole thing, by writing this tweet out of concern for his son, donald trump has made his sons situation worse by effectively going on the record and saying his son, in fact, was doing something that was illegal. i want to ask you in that context what do people around the president think comes next, given one of the things that triggers trump most is the possible jeopardy of the people close to him including his family, what do they anticipate will be the next stages of this, as trump starts to l...

He has shown throughout this investigation that one of the most effective ways for him to put pressure on the principals hes interested in going after is to go after their families, to pressure michael flynns son, for example, to pressure manafort -- paul manaformanafor daughter and son-in-law has come under pressure. it shows you that this is working. this is his name sakes son. those tweets reveal this president has been pushed farther than he has ever before and this is really getting to him....

Fashion, and we are seeing more people close to the president. we now have the deputy campaign chairman who was pleading guilty. thats getting pretty high up in the chain of events. we have someone who could pressure manafort who was the chairman. we have someone who was in the meetings with don junior and kushner, which is manafort, who may be pressured to start cooperating. his case seems really like a lock. and if hes going to be convicted, its in his best interest to start cooperating rather...

But for someone to think that there is nothing else coming is a little bit like calling a ball game after the first inning. there is nothing in this indictment that precludes further charges or different charges by mueller down the road. >> lets talk about rick gates. and the degree -- im not usually on the side of trump, but i just wonder about overaggressiveness here. could mueller be up to basically using rick gates to pressure manafort with a long prison sentence on something that has nothin...

With him either to help pressure manafort or to help pressure other campaign officials we dont yet know are involved. >> i want to get you in on this, i want to read the news so everybody knows what what were talking about. cnn reporting that breaking news tonight rick gates who pled not guilty to multiple counts of money laundering and acting as a foreign agent without registering may be negotiating with robert mueller. how significant is this. >> well its very significant. i mean, first of all...

With him. either to help pressure manafort or to help pressure other campaign officials we dont yet know are involved. >> i want to get you in on this, i want to read the news so everybody knows what what were talking about. cnn reporting that breaking news tonight rick gates who pled not guilty to multiple counts of money laundering and acting as a foreign agent without registering may be negotiating with robert mueller. how significant is this? >> well its very significant. i mean, first of al...

Following the money. every time they do that they found something and they know that george papadopoulos admitted to lying to the fbi. now he squatted with wallerstein. present for the indictments against manafort and gates. i dont see chances of slowing down. >> reports say that the paint plan f somebody who is lying and save in his own skin. >> they will find independent objective evidence to support what hes saying. he will be a major witness. it will come down to his credibility. but the oth...

Bob, theyre talking about an indictment against manafort. explain what that is and what we could expect. >> its not an unusual move. what it is his additional charges they had on to be an original indictment. the superseding indictment adds those on 20 previously had. the probably be adding tax charges at a minimum. the financial crimes case they go about it because theyre trying to put pressure manafort and gates to drive wedges between them and get cooperation moving up the chain of command. >...

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