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Operation. >> before you go, give us a sense as we follow this story what are the questions were looking at going into today? >> first of all, look for other news organizations to match the story. you know, one of the sure signs of when a story is going to pan out and when its not is when multiple news organizations get it. when you have one hanging out here like that, it always causes you to raise the question, hey, are we sure this is right? i have a lot of confidence in these two reporters, b...

Investigation. but, look, i agree with you. if this story is true, it is a very, very serious matter and it would take this whole story to a different level. and the other this evening ng i story is true, you have to ask the question what else is true. one of the questions weve all been struggling with the past year and a half is how the collusion story relates to the obstruction story, right? and if mueller believes that the president and his family were intima intimately involved in the trump ...

Independent counsel investigations. whats happened here that does involve the new democratic congress is the russian collusion story is very complicated, hard to follow. theres always a question whether collusion is conspiracy and what happened, what was in the presidents head. none of that matters here. this is a very simple question. did the president suborn perjury or didnt he? if he suborn perjury -- one of

>> well, the question is how much pain do the american people have to endure before the president of the united states recognizes it. we -- i come from florida where were used to natural disasters. we have hurricanes. and when a hurricane comes through, its inconceivable to cause 800,000 people to be out of work but if that happened, what would happen is the president of the united states would make the federal governments resources available to them and in this case its the president thats resp...

>> let me ask you the roger mudd question. whats your best answer for why you want to be president of the united states? >> i want to be president because i believe that we need new leadership and new energy and because have i a very strong vision for our countrys future. i announced we need to be the healthiest, fairest and most prosperous country on earth. >> great resumé, super smart guy, a lot of experience, dedicated public servant, good guy. >> just stop right there. its all great. >> her...

The key details was mueller approved the cooperation through indemnification of attorney weiselberg and if theres independent from another trump lawyer that they were getting all this information and somehow trump knew that cohen shouldnt share it, thats open and shut. theres no question at that point and he will be impeached. thats not to say hell be removed by the senate because then you have this political question of whether or not 17 or 15 republican senators join the democrats in removing ...

Committed a felony in order to win the white house, well, this is more evidence the house j judiciary committee is fully ready to start holding hearings to explore these issues. mueller has a head start on this but we have an obligation to do our job to determine exactly what happened here. >> you say its as serious as it gets. does that mean impeachable? >> if the president violated the oath of office and obstructed justice, ultimately the question is what is congress going to do about it? we h...

We will do whats necessary to find out if its true." >> and john, how can they act at this point. when schiff says well do what we can to find out if its true, do they have new powers to do that? what do they mean by acting now? and a third question, if anyone on the set has the answer, raise your hand. is cohen able to talk about this on february 7th? go. >> he may well not. one of the problems with congress investigating at the same time theres an independent counsel, theres also a traffic jam...

>> part of the problem from somebody who is not looking to tear trump apart. there were two problems with the preceding stories. the stormy daniels thing appears to be a campaign finance violation. comey fired the preside, the pr within his constitutional authority to fire officials of the exit have branch. subornation of perjury on a question of whether or not he was having conversations about an office building in moscow does not rise to the level of the president exercising his constitutional...

Strategists worried where the republican debate has gone that they look like -- the republicans are protecting wall streets interests too much. what do you say to that? >> i dont know. i think probably romney is a little closer to that charge than gingrich. gingrich doesnt really have any wall street ties. hasnt raised much money down there. mitt romney has raised a lot of wall street money. frankly by wall streeters who have been disenchanted with barack obama who many of them supported in 2008...