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Devin nuness. >> its allegations of fbi abuses tied to the trump russia dossier. here to discuss that and a lot more, democratic congressman jim himes of connecticut. well get to the memo in a moment. you have seen a lot of documents and heard days worth of testimony from so many people, now we know the president will likely be questioned by special counsel bob mueller and maybe it will happen in a few weeks. its going to focus on the firing of comey and flynn. if you were mueller and his team, ...

Own trip to moscow in the summer of 2016 where he met russian officials and we know sessions chaired a meeting attended by george papadopoulos in march 2016 as you can see there on the screen. papadopoulos spoke about his efforts through russian kaks to set up a meeting between donald trump and vladimir putin. sessions later claimed under oath he couldnt remember much about that meeting except, except his own response. >> i pushed back. ill just say it that way. >> did anyone else at that meetin...

Sessions later claimed under oath he couldnt remember much about that meeting except, except his own response. >> i pushed back. ill just say it that way. >> did anyone else at that meeting including then candidate trump react in any way to what about papadopoulos had presented? >> i dont recall. >> okay. so your testimony is that neither donald trump nor anyone else at the meeting expressed any interest in meeting the russian president or had any concerns about communications between the campai...

From january 20th until may 9th when he fired jim comey that really are at the heart of the obstruction of justice piece of this investigation. thats when trump was pressuring comey to back off on mike flynn. calling around the intelligence community trying to find anyone that would irpt ven intervene ae fbi and get them ta back off. its hard to imagine he called all these other people and didnt call his targ aexert his influence. thats a confirmation. and he may be able to get away with that on...

In trouble for lying to his former colleagues in congress and if he simply department answer that question because hes as exposed as he wants to be legally in front of his former colleagues in the house and senate. >> i think jeff sessions -- there are a lot of problems with jeff sessions as attorney general. one thing thats relatively clear on the basis of his behavior is that he wants to keep that job. he doesnt want to go to jail. he doesnt want to perjure himself. i think matt is right about...

I won three debates. we were really riding momentum. and then people had every reason to wonder what does this mean. and i dont know why he did it. i think its very telling that rudy giuliani knew he was going to do it two days before. there was a lot of reporting that giuliani and current and retired members of the fbi were dead set against me and so they were pressuring comey to do even more. the whole thing i think reflects very badly on his judgment and his objectivity. >> more of my one on ...

And his people. we had a great convention. i won three debates. we were really riding momentum. and then people had every reason to wonder what does this mean. and i dont know why he did it. i think its very telling that rudy gruiuliani knew he was goi to do it two days before. there was a lot of reporting that giuliani and current and retired members of the fbi were dead set against me and so they were pressuring comey to do even more. the whole thing i think reflects very badly on his judgment...

Donald trump is asking what can his country do for him, his children, his friends. how much money can i make? where are the profits? there is just no end to where this is going. this is totally unprecedented. >> and the political irony is that one of his selling points to his voters was that he was so independent from financial ties that he was going to do right by his base. its interesting. i want to bring jeremy back to the conversation we started earlier in the show about this news out tonigh...

Donald trump is asking what this country can do for him, his children, his friends. how much money can i make? where are the profits? there is just no end to where this is going. this is totally unprecedented. >> and the political irony is that one of his selling points to his voters was that he was so independent from financial ties that he was going to do right by his base. its interesting. i want to bring jeremy back to the conversation we started earlier in the show about this news out tonig...

The same time that he was saying these things and trying to pressure these senior intelligence fishes to end these investigations pressuring comey, at the same time, he was tweeting about president obama tapping his wires that he got the chair of the lous intelligence committee devin nunes to go around and try to stand up that story and convince the media that the president might be on to something. all of this was happening when they thought they cosort of manufacture their own version of truth...