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Hunt, and a made up story." the presidents attorney have started researching impeachment. they dont think it is in the cards but they want to be prepared just in case no matter mary you distant the possibility is. joining us more on what this could mean, our analyst and professor and a historian, our juli julian selzer. at what point do we look back at history of nixons impeachment. what point did their counsels start researching on how to deal with the process? >> very early. both cases the pro...

Things about donald trump that people learn when he ran for president is that he does have this long-standing kind of affinity for all things russia. hes done a lot of business there. his son bragged about a lot of their business coming from russia, a lot of their con does were brought by russian llcs or russian humans. his $90 million sale of a house in florida. but there is this sense in which he kind of seems to if not at least admire but emulate russian oligarchs. is this happenstance and co...

Many lawyers. he has the role of the white house counsel which really. >> how about a war-time counsel hearing. >> well, hes got the white house counsel that should be looking at his role institutionally and from what weve seen publicly he certainly doesnt shy away from hiring personal attorneys spot i would expect him to be consultion with legal counsel which seems consistent with what hes done throughout his career. but on the point of special counsel, it is important to note that the special ...

Election, whats going to come up in germany and the uk, how worried are you about democracy? >> im very worried about that. look, i think there was a time in probably the first bush administration when you talked to russian officials they would say, look, president putin knows that his legacy is to bring russia closer to the west, and they would talk about a democratic future. they dont talk that way, and if you listen to what putin says, hes really just trying to discredit democracy at home and...

Sanctions with the russian ambassador. press reports later revealed that to be untrue. so either pence is consistently out of the loop or hes got a very, very serious credibility issue. im joined by mckay coppins and betsy woodruff, political reporter for "the daily beast." betsy, let me start with you. i think pence has managed to convince people that hes out of the loop on all this, but at a certain point theres only so out of the loop that you can be before people start asking questions. >> i...

That wasnt just pence. >> thats a fair point. >> that said, though, obviously you expect the president and the vice president to be on the same page about these decisions of enormous consequence. yeah, it does raise really serious credibility questions. what does the vice president know about the basic processes that the president goes through when he makes decisions that have significant impact on federal law enforcement? its a challenge. its going to be a big challenge for him if he wants repo...

How will he respond? >> i think it -- i dont think it will faze him one bit. he has the courage of his convictions to do his job. independent of what the politicians want him to do. i think you will do his job, issue his report, there are indictments, he will indict. if there are no indictments, he will issue his report to rosenstein and say this is why we are not going forward. >> tucker: seems like the ideal guy. >> i think both sides benefit. democrats get their guy. they can calm down a litt...

How will he respond? >> i think it -- i dont think it will faze him one bit. he has the courage of his convictions to do his job. independent of what the politicians want him to do. i think you will do his job, issue his report, there are indictments, he will indict. if there are no indictments, he will issue his report to rosenstein and say this is why we are not going forward. >> tucker: seems like the ideal guy. >> i think both sides benefit. democrats get their guy. they can calm down a litt...

How will he respond? >> i think it -- i dont think it will faze him one bit. he has the courage of his convictions to do his job. independent of what the politicians want him to do. i think you will do his job, issue his report, there are indictments, he will indict. if there are no indictments, he will issue his report to rosenstein and say this is why we are not going forward. >> tucker: seems like the ideal guy. >> i think both sides benefit. democrats get their guy. they can calm down a litt...

Hes a good guy. so you say its an impeachable offense -- >> it could be. it certainly falls within what we found to be an impeachable offense with nixon. trying to stop an fbi investigation and abusing his power by firing the special prosecutor. >> if you were in to advice -- >> by bringing the processes of justes to work, it brought it country together. first you have to have a special prosecutor. since there are elements of possibility criminality by the president. we need an independent inves...