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December 22, 2018
What are at the stakes here? >> excellent question. as friday turned to saturday last night, one quarter of the federal government did in fact turn into a pumpkin. when i woke up the next morning, people are still out there doing their christmas shopping. wrapping christmas gift and getting ready to travel to see their families. so as far as theyre concerned i think life is going on as normal. but down in washington, there fighting, not over the funding of the federal government per se, that is ...
December 19, 2018
Hoping things will get simpler within you know so he can keep his specialists and employ new ones thats about. right lets bring back our political correspondent hans from you know hans i want to ask you about fear us we saw just there in our report does this legislation mean that people like him will find it easier to stay here in the future the answer is basically yes although we dont know exact details yet what the regulations are going to be to make it possible for someone like him to stay th...
December 19, 2018
>> laura: byron. [laughs] this whole thing has been a complete and utter fraud and pretext, whatever you want to call it. set this in motion to surveil trump, to get into his finances and tried to go to town. insurance policy on them. >> cant be proven untrue is kind of turning the normal standards on its head. while its important that michael isikoff is saying this now, its kind of clear the handwriting is on the wall because of events. for example, one of the big parts of the dossier has micha...
December 19, 2018
[laughs] this whole thing has been a complete and utter fraud and pretext,nd whatever you want to call it. set this in motion to surveil trump, to get into his finances and try to go to town. insurance policy on them. >> cant be proven untrue is kind of turning the normal standards on its head. while its important that michael isikoff is saying this now, its kind of clear the handwriting is on the wall because ofs events. for example, one of the big parts of the dossier has michael cohen, very c...
December 17, 2018
Life around. >> its a very good marriage. shes terrific, very smart, very lively, very creative. >> he entered the army as an intelligence officer specializing in electronic warfare. in the early 1980s, ronald reagan is president. the cold war is still raging between the united states and the soviet union. a communist cue prompts an invasion. on the pretext of the rescues medical students. >> it may have been one of the last gasps. of the war between the united states and the soviet union. >> it...
December 16, 2018
Someones will. in other words if someone resists committing a crime you persuade them and giving somebody the opportunity to commit a crime that is otherwise inclined to commit is not entrapment. even if it sounds or looks unfair. maria: what happened here? what did he lie to the fbi? >> that is an excellent question. i think that the truth would have been fine. he, at the time he spoke to kislyak he talked about sanctions and apparently the resolution condemning israel for expanding its settlem...
December 15, 2018
>> that is literally a check list for how a campaign finance violation becomes criminal. >> trump is in real trouble for a variety of reasons. >> we learn more information to show just how involved he was end of this conspiracy which i think prosecutors believe ultimately led to a felony. >> jason: the media is also going crazy over reports of an investigation into illegal donation into president trumps inauguration, but where was the collective meltdown over obamas second inauguration being dom...
December 15, 2018
>> that is literally a check list for how a campaign finance violation becomes criminal. >> trump is in real trouble for a variety of reasons. >> we learn more information to show just how involved he was end of this conspiracy which i think prosecutors believe ultimately led to a felony. >> jason: the media is also going crazy over reports of an investigation into illegal donation into president trumps inauguration, but where was the collective meltdown over obamas second inauguration being dom...
December 15, 2018
Would even go talk to flynn even of the administration had been in office for hours. >> these are the documents filed today and in them we learned that the fbi had a transcript of a perfectly legal conversation between michael flynn and ambassador sergey kislyak. they use that as a pretext to lie to flynn to entice him into granting an interview, to ensnare him in the crime of making a false statement even though fbi agents determined at the end of the interview that he didnt make a false statem...
December 15, 2018
Would even go talk to flynn even of the administration had been in office for hours. >> these are the documents filed today and in them we learned that the fbi had a transcript of a perfectly legal conversation between michael flynn and ambassador sergey kislyak. they use that as a pretext to lie to flynn to entice him into granting an interview, to ensnare him in the crime of making a false statement even though fbi agents determined at the end of the interview that he didnt make a false statem...