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This week was pretty devastating. it was one piece of information after another that something seriously wrong might have happened, both in the campaign and then once the president was in office. so while at this point republicans are still standing firm, its not impossible that the scandal takes on its own dynamic, and that once the mueller report is out, if the house conducts hearings, it changes the calculations of republicans in the senate. we just have to see how bad is the information in t...

Yet. we dont know whats going on. >> i dont know if i can counter that. >> theres a lot of countering. we dont know whats many tin t report. theyre not on the same page if theres a counter report happening. rudy giuliani said there wasnt and the president said there was. i think they dont know what their strategy is other than they are trying to undermine the investigation and claim the president is absolved of all liability. whats adbundantly clear is the investigation has gotten closer to peop...

The justice department in the trump administration has done. they have pushed back against republicans -- >> jeff sessions -- there are people within the presidents circle, jeff sessions is awful when it comes to criminal justice. there are people inside the white house, gerald kushner is pushing prison reform. >> but it is going to happen. they have passed part of the bill. what they want. and, by the way, what the hell does he have to lose? cant we even look at unemployment? african-american u...

Worse than manafort and cohen. >> if weisselberg is your take, do we know that hes being granted immunity on just relative to michael cohen and what he alleges happened in term tsz s of the hush money payments? nothing in terms of personal finances luunless you know something different. >> if you think about it, cohen and manafort started this avalanche down the hill. weisselberg is just the latest domino for fall what you it suggests is nobody in the presidents circle is lull i in actually goin...

Cohen as the guy who made problems go away. and they just barely pulled it off. trump winning the electoral college. remarkably, they are not the first felons among the presidents circle. the man charged has surrounded himself with criminals. deputy campaign chairman. campaign foreign policy aide, national security advisor inside the white house. and that may not be the end of it. new york republican chris collins was just indicted for insider trading and today, in a story we dont have time for ...

Perhaps other people around the white house. you have a potential national security problem, where its being reported, he used to like to say that barack obama recorded him at the white house, turns out his its own aides are recording him. >> youre not supposed to have recording s around the most sensitive government space. and number two is the content, what is on those recordings, and did she take them out of the white house on her cell phone, which is also a violation, not only does it breed ...

Government. so just based on what we know which is surely only the tip of the iceberg compared to what mueller has, it looks like the participants in this meeting have a lot of trouble in their hands. >> phil rucker, are we really going to get an answer this week as to whether the president is going to sit down with robert mueller or did rudy giuliani, and forgive the casualness of this, just need a distraction last week to point us in the future? >> thats the big question this week. the preside...

Closer and closer to the oval office, to the people in the presidents circle. thats why you see the president lashing out at twitter, lashing out at the campaign rallies, tweet about the witch hunt more and more, tweeting about robert mueller more and more and more. thats how hes channelling all that frustration and for. >> its important to keep reviewing the facts as the president and others try to muddle them on twitter. "the new yorkers" adam staved son lays out the facts about which theres n...

At least thats the assumption under which michael cohen is operating. he is making peace with the fact that this man who used to have a central, almost defining role in his life, this man he spent years and years working for, defending, even in some ways jeopardizing his reputation to protect, that this relationship, this co-relationship is no longer exsistent. in fact, the president has completely turned on him. the two men are going from being a loyal and committed to pair to being almost out ...

Northwestern school of law. jeremy, what do you make of the latest activity from muellers office. >> these are serious allegations against paul manafort. first he is violating the terms ofis could be thrown behind bars and nothing concentrates the mind in terms of cooperation with the government than spending time behind barses. second is it could be a new offense, a new obstruction of justice offense. its a clear signal from the special counsel theyre taking the obstruction issues very, very se...