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Nobody else was involved. but then several democratic lawmakers wrote to the head of the gsa and essentially said, hold on here. first of all, here is a photo of you meeting with the president about this project. thats the gsa director sitting there in the middle there, the one woman in the photo. and second of all, those democratic lawmakers got ahold of the actual e-mails that were sent by the gsa -- by the head of the agency and her staff recounting what happened at that meeting and putting t...

Decisions that is not the tea leaf people are reading. most folks expect to get something fairly spartan and maybe just a recounting of who mueller decides to indict and not to indict that. wont satisfy the needs of the american people. >> there is also going to be a number of places from which the mueller investigation has gleaned its information and it is often said and i heard and read that cant be disclosed. its the same issue, right? if congress determines or there is determination that tha...

See a primary challenger. because larry hogan is very popular as a blue state republican governor in maryland, many dissident republicans, combine that with his family history are leaning on him to get bo this race. i have to tell you, i ran into former defense secretary and republican senator cohen of maine here at nbc the other day, and he was recounting to me how dramatic it was when larry hogan senior broke with trump. bill cohen was actually the second to call for trumps impeachment. he sai...

Laid out by the special counsel, it may not be clear that well find out what those offenses are even if they may rise to the level of high crimes and misdemeano misdemeanors. there are different bars for congress than the criminal courthouse. is this the way for congress to get it done even if they are not having impeachment hearing? is this the way for them to air it out in public in order to get this information out there? >> yes, both to air it out but also to do their duty and find out what ...

Has to. the overall intent of the regulations is public confidence in the administration of justice. and any sort of suppressed report about presidential wrongdoing will flunk that test. >> so i guess the question becomes how do you reconcile those two words that he used there, the ddiscretion william will have and ultimately this is whether or not it is in the public interests. >> there is no doubt that broad public disclosure of muellers findings is in the public interests. i think that the mo...

Out of sheer sortof -- you wrote something about the investigation about the sort of nexus between obstruction and collusion and the moment that comey is fired. one of the things i think has come into view with mccabes recounting is just what that connection is. what is it to your mind? >> right. i think one of the things that interested me about mccabes interview is the extent to which it validated that analysis that i did back when that "new york times" story about the obstruction and collusio...

Would have been fine as head of the russia investigation. >> yes. out of sheer sortof -- you wrote something about the investigation about the sort of nexus between obstruction and collusion and the moment that comey is fired. one of the things i think has come into view with mccabes recounting is just what that connection is. what is it to your mind? >> right. i think one of the things that interested me about mccabes interview is the extent to which it validated that analysis that i did back w...

Wasnt in the room for it. he was recounting what another fbi official who returned from the white house briefing told him. its part and parcel of the larger context of how fbi officials were trying to figure out whether trump was acting at the be hhest of putin. >> how would investigators into the question of collusion react when they hear this? >> laura raises a good point about the context of the conversation. fbi had been under j. edgar hoover for so many years, was given total deference by t...

A reason but i do scribe to the right that we have the right and the responsibility to make something meaningful out of the things that happen to us, good and bad. >> thats a powerful recounting of a terrible situation if indeed it happened. however it is a class four felony to knowingly file a false police report. >> the chicago fox station is reporting that the two brothers, nigerian men, they told cops that the star paid them to orchestrate the attack. we dont know. its been fishy at the begi...

One of the things that comes out, scott pely has a conversation with andrew mccabe. there were conversations about the 25th amendment -- replacing the president. ways to replace the president. i want to pay for you scott pelly recounting the conversation with mccabe about how serious the discussions were. listen. >> there were meetings at the justice department in which it was discussed whether the vice president and a majority of the cabinet could be brought together to remove the president of ...