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Immunity from congress where parnas would make a deal with capitol hill that he wouldnt face criminal liability for the particular matters that he discussed before the house intelligence committee. now, its unclear to me whether such a deal will be cut, whether the house intelligence committee would think it was important enough to them to bring in parnas to make that kind of agreement. but those agreements have been made in the past, and its clear that parnas at the very least had significant v...

One avenue they could look at is getting a specific type of immunity where pa are, nas will make a deal that he wouldnt face criminal liability for the particular matters that he discussed before the house intelligence committee. its unclear whether such a deal will be cut. whether the house intelligence committee would think important eto bring in parnas to make that kind of agreement. its clear parnas, at the very least has clear visibility. >> so put your prosecutor hat on now. if such a deal...

Potential new documents, andy, devin nunes making news. did he have conversations prior to what we knew yesterday and this week with those who may have been involved in this ukraine strategy? >> i certainly think thats an interesting question. it will be interesting if that is something that house democrats decide that they want to look at over the course of the coming weeks and as the impeachment investigation continues. if they do hear from parnas, i think its probably unlikely, though, that g...

But also has information thats interesting to congress, one avenue they could look at is trying to get a specific type of immunity from congress where parnas would make a deal with capitol hill that he wouldnt face criminal liability for the particular matters that he discussed before the house intelligence committee. now, its unclear to me whether such a deal will be cut, whether the house intelligence committee would think it was important enough to them to bring in parnas to make that kind of...

A good prosecutor and with little emotion as possible. jim jordan, in the past, has acted very well in that role. recently, hes been very emotional defending the president. i think he has to lock up some of that emotion and put the prosecutor hat back on if hes going to take apart what democrats -- >> harris: or, kennedy, what we know is going to happen is predominately, guy, you will see staff lawyers during this period which is really going to shift that possibility of the emotion -- >> guy: t...

They could try to -- what they would do is refer this to the united states attorney in the district of columbia and that person is part of the justice department. ultimately that office could decide not to act on it. i would say, though, that he could -- hes already testified. and that prior testimony, if its false, is a problem for him. now, i suppose what hes going to say is i was mistaken or i forgot something. you know, hell try to say it wasnt a purposeful false statement. that statement wo...

The president, president putin. theyve been together for a long, long time. he sees putin in a way every day in a way most others dont. he is a senior person. somebody obviously gave mr. cohen the advice hes the guy you need to contact to get to putin. sick imagine somebody telling him that. but that he would respond i think is very unusual and maybe it suggests that you know, they no longer think that president trump is useful to them and theyre not concerned about undermining him. >> paul butl...

Theres no journalist asking him to respond. and lets be clear who did dmitry peskov is. i know him. i worked with him. hes not just a press spokesperson. he is a very close confidante of the president, president putin. theyve been together for a long, long time. he sees putin every day in a way most others dont. he is a senior person. somebody obviously gave mr. cohen the advice hes the guy you need to contact to get to putin. i can imagine somebody telling him that. but that he would respond i ...

It details him reaching out directly to putins adviser to his spokesperson in the government. >> nick, put your prosecutor hat on here. michael cohen, like all of donald trumps lawyers, tend to dismiss and poopoo these things, in fact, i think he said something along the lines of, it shouldnt surprise anyone that the trump organization has business dealings all over the world. the job of mueller here is to figure out what interference russia had in the election. if you were robert mueller right ...

Thats almost certainly going to drive the interest of robert mueller. i imagine it will give the mueller team an excuse to dig deeper into the trump organization, to scrutinize the finances, find out if there were any other meetings, perhaps even go back earlier in the calendar before the campaign to look at earlier efforts to do business in russia. this is all going to become part of the investigation and that makes the president very nervous. but the importance of the new reporting out today i...