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The deck everyone is missing is when you have these channels of contact in the campaign and campaign officials and their team lying about those contacts. heather: that is a process crime. do you think comey or loretta lynch will do that? >> i think he should honor the subpoena but i agree i would like to see a transparent public process. i dont think he will shop and i dont think he is credible as a witness anyway. heather: thank you all very much, good to see you. donald trump and vladimir puti...

Everyone is missing is that when you have all of these channels of contact during the campaign and all of these campaign officials and all of these folks on the team lying about those contacts, it tends to indicate -- >> shannon: thats a different crime. thats a process crime. quickly, i need a "yes" or "no," andy and matt. do you think comey or loretta lynch will show up next week? >> i think he should honor the subpoena. but i must say i agree that i would like to see a transparent public proc...

Understand why he thought he needed to lie. i understand this really is a very political investigation and that makes people nervous, rightly so. but, you know, you should always make sure that when you are under oath you are telling the truth. but, all of these things that we have seen, almost everything related to the mueller probe. process crime which is not the standard that we should be demanding for something like this. or deals with stuff that was well before the campaign, you know, tax e...

Because very soon were going to learn a lot more. >> team trump is all on this. republican lindsey graham backed rudy giuliani up. i want to play that. >> all ive seen thus far are process crimes. ive yet to see anybody indicted for cluolluding with russians. well see. >> hes not the only one that used that process phrase, process crimes. looks like they said from the very beginning and trump said it more than anybody, no collusion, no collusion, no collusion. thats their story and theyre sticki...

Dont have information on that, and the american people have a right to know and have their faith restores, and the sooner the better, the investigation has lingered on way too long and there has been a lot of charges completely unrelated to the campaign and unrelated to any kind of interference. its a process crime. >> are you comfortable with the president of the united states tweeting an image like that? >> i wouldnt do it. >> i mean, this is the assistant attorney general -- >> i wouldnt do i...

Cohen back for more testimony and to examine whether the russians laundered money through the trump organization. mike emanuel reporting. live from capitol hill. >> shep, good afternoon. no surprise from lawmakers are saying this afternoon there must be consequences if someone is found to have lied to a senate committee. >> theres evidence that we can point to that they didnt know the truth and certainly -- but i dont want to say specific to anything right now. yeah, this is not a good developme...

Democrat of the senate intelligence committee who really mattered here because it was their committee that got the original testimony from cohen responded to the plea. >> there seems to be a trend here amongst so many of the presidents closest allies, that they dont tell the truth. >> i havent seen the specific indictment or the plea. but this is a reason people shouldnt lie when theyre in front of a congressional investigation. >> reporter: critics of the mueller probe say the cohen plea is ano...

Things. it is a felony. it has the potential for jail. i think its five years, if i remember correctly. it is fair to call it a process crime. its a situation where witnesses are not giving up the substance of what the investigation is actually focusing on, but instead tripping up on dishonesty. its not a great moment for the mueller investigation to keep racking up false statement charges or maybe even convictions because its getting further away from the core mission. >> dana: true, but what d...

What are your thoughts as we wait to hear these words of the present? >> it looks like another process crime. 18 months into this investigation, which i think we all thought was set up to discover if there was some collusion on behalf of the trump campaign to impact the 2016 election. we have seen no indictments on that. i havent seen any evidence on that charge. how long is this going to take? this is an extraordinarily well-funded organization. if an 18 month you can turn up anything, how long...

October surprise, and it seemed that he knew in advance about the podesta e-mails. >> can you imagine a guy like daniel goldman, you goo through all this education and work and then youre going through jerome corsis e-mails and texts. wacky stuff in there. thats got to make you hate your job. >> you have no idea the stuff prosecutors see what we wish we never had to say. >> what is your real take away of all this? >> this is a process crime which is to say dont mess with bob mueller. if you lie,...