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What im struck by is we know that trump almost admitted this. i mean, to lester holt, he said, i fired comey to get out from under the russia investigation. that you can argue is an admission that you were feeling -- that -- of obstruction of justice in a way. you know, the argument that some trump defenders on capitol hill have brought up is that well, hes new to this, hes speaking a little loose because hes not a customary politician. being new to something not being a politician, not being aw...

It moved from past campaign practices, possible collusion, to current activities since the president was elected. >> i cant speak to that, as you probably know, i cant speak to if we were briefed or the nature of any briefing. >>. >> what are your concerned about, for instance, a former speaker, snoout ding rich today, this is a speaker that back in may treated robert muler has a s superb joyce. he is the tip of the deep -- so -- >> who cares what he said. obviously they have changed their stun....

Electoral process. >> it does seem that the cover stories keep getting whisked away. "the washington post" came out and reveal that the house intelligence committee which spent a lot of time talking about unmaxing and devin nunes that. >> did it as well. last year the republican-controlled house intelligence committee asked u.s. spy agencies to reveal the names of individuals and organizations containing classified intelligence on russias meddling in the 2016 election. same practice they accused...

Decision. >> pro tip. if you want to exert executive privilege, dont fire the guy, oh, i was going to fire, regardless. >> and breaking tonight, robert mueller, the special counsel running the investigation into possible ties between donald trumps campaign and russia is broadening his mandate. tonight the associated press reports that mueller has assumed oversight of the justice departments ongoing criminal probe involving former trump campaign chairman paul manafort and the investigation. quote...

Joy, what did president trump know and when did he know it? i find it very hard to believe that people like jared kushner and mike flynn are able to carry out these high level back channel communications with the russians without having trump know about it. i suspect he did know about it. and we may find out than in the course of bob muellers investigation. >> i believe i recalled it from last summer when donald trump was not getting his briefings, michael flynn was taking them. thank you very m...

And new tonight, democrats are warning the president do not try to obstruct. >> hackers can be anywhere. >> somebody sitting in a bed some place. >> very skillfully and professionally shifted the blame as we say on to russia. >> they seem strikingly on message with president trump. >> this russia thing with trump and russia is a made-up story. its an excuse by the democrats. >> could you imagine something like that? i can. >> he knows that we know that he did this. okay. lets be clear about that...

Likebstruction of justice or just in the impeachment sense? >> well, those are two separate questions. but certainly what would have to be proven in a criminal sense would be a corrupt intent. in other words, did the president act corruptly in the actions that he took? and that would require a look at all the facts and circumstances of the case, which of course we dont know. but some of those facts might be, for example, asking the ag and the vice president to leave the room when he spoke to -- ...

Departments ongoing criminal probe involving former trump campaign chairman paul manafort and the investigation. quote, may also expand to look into the roles of the attorney general, jeff sessions, and deputy attorney general rod rosenstein in the firing of fbi director james comey. deputy ag rosenstein confirmed to the ap press there is a chance robert mueller could expand the inquiry to include him and jeff session. now here is what makes this even more interesting. guess whose permission rob...

Putins best friend. campaigned for the presidency, never saying a bad word about vladimir putin. russians had a massive hack of targets within the united states to try to tip the election in the assessment of our intelligence agencies toward donald trump. donald trump becomes president, fires the fbi director investigating the interference in the election. and then on his first trip abroad, does precisely what moscow has sought for a long time, which is place strains in the western alliance. thi...

Im sure mr. mueller is going to be looking at a lot of that. i think what would ultimately break open an investigation would be a cooperator like a michael flynn. >> and that would be the question, david frum, who is who might be that person? you have michael flynns businesses being looked at, paul manaforts businesses looked at. very quickly, is there someone you see that could be the flipper here? >> the flipper tends to be the person that w.h.o. is in the greatest legal jeopardy. thats probab...