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Lawyer and traded thousands of texts while having an extramarital affair and the messages used by kritings to argue gnat investigation is biassed against trump. in december 2015, strok texted paige and referred to outside the united states and lures are first to enticing a defendant to leave a foreign country to be arrested and prosecuted in the u.s., a common practice by the fbi. paige said, no, implicated a much bigger policy issue. ill explain later. might even be able to use it as a pretext ...

>> martha: good to see you. >> always a pleasure. happy monday. you dont like the eagles because they beat the patriots. >> martha: exactly. is that a problem? i have other reasons. >> god love your honesty. >> martha: joining me now is a national political reporter for axios. jonathan, great to have you here. thank you for being here. one issue that the judge and i didnt get to is the issue of the dictation by the president of the response to donald juniors meeting at trump tower. why is it pro...

That would require spending time in donald trumps head which i try not to dox the reason that letter is that he says a lot of things in that interview and some of them are very suggestive like the wins just played where he not only says that russia was on his mind at the time, but that he basically said that rod rosensteins memo was a pretext and he was going to do it anyway. on the other hand later in the interview he does also say that he just wants this investigation done right and by the way...

Nypd officer dan bongino has followed that, he joined just now. a question that has arisen in the last 48 hours with some urgency is when did the spying on the trump campaign begin and under what pretext? we know right now about that?d >> we know the timeline and the origin story of how this started has changed multiple times. we were initially told it was the activities of carter page that started to. then when the carter page saga fell apart, then they shifted to the george papadopoulos meetin...

Has followed this investigation from the beginning, all the tangents of it, and joins us now. a question thats arisen in the last 48 hours, with i think urgency, is when did the spying on the trump campaign begin and under what pretext? what do we know right now about that? >> tucker, we know the timeline and the origins story of how this started has changed multiple times. we were initially told it was the activities of carter page that started it. then when the carter page saga fell apart, the...

Has followed this investigation from the beginning, all the tangents of it, and joins us now. a question thats arisen in the last 48 hours, with i think urgency, is when did the spying on the trump campaign begin and under what pretext? what do we know right now about that? >> tucker, we know the timeline and the origins story of how this started has changed multiple times. we were initially told it was the activities of carter page that started it. then when the carter page saga fell apart, the...

>> no, of course not. theres so much to be distressed about what we learned today. here you have the president who is effectively telling the attorney general you should ignore what the ethics lawyers at the justice department are saying. i want you to reinstate yourself in an investigation that implicates either me or my campaign because youre my attorney general. its my justice department and whats more, you can be a hero to conservatives if youll investigate my vanquished rival. when we meet ...

About trumps first wife. during divorce proceedings she had claimed that trump had raped her. she had later clarified she didnt mean it in the criminal sense and trump had said the claim was fools. the rorter didnt get a call back from the campaign. instead from trumps fixer michael cohen. >> youre talking about donald trump, youre talking about the front-runner for the gop, presidential candidate, as well as private individual who never raped anybody and, of course, understand that by the very ...

Reporter tim mak currently with npr, formerly of the daily beast, joins me now. well, you kept your cool admirably. let me just say that. that story that you wrote about that encounter is the first i ever heard of michael cohen actually back in 2015. and partly because he said theres no such thing as spousal rape, which is of course untrue. what was going through your head during that phone call? >> well, i was just surprised that a lawyer would conduct himself in this manner. if you go to npr.o...

>> he realized hes in some legal jeopardy that much of what mueller is looking at involves the issue of obstruction. that goes to his intent. he laid out his intent for millions of viewers on nbc. n that same mainstream media he is now bashing, he told the american people that he had russia on his mind when he did it. of course, the pretext he would now like to us believe that he fired comey over comeys handling of the clinton e-mail investigation doesnt square at all with the fact he had been p...