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A healthcare bill out, and we are probably going to get something that looks like a cbo score, although well discuss it on municipal. there are going to be issues with that score as well. when were talking about this russia stuff, its helpful to get perspective from people who devote their least into looking into things like this. joining me now is kathleen clark. shes a legal ethics expert. shes a professor of law at washington university. kathy leap, goot to see you. thank you for joining us. ...

To more than a hundred? >> well, look, the focus has been on donald trump jr. because of his role arranging these meetings, his role in the e-mails, but at the end of the day, he is not a central player. while jared kushner in terms of looking at who has power, you know, thats who does have power. thats whose in the white house and what we do know about jared is that he was informed of a meeting, whose stated purpose ahead of the time he attended, was to advance a russian effort to interfere in ...

That this changes the equation. but the reality is, ally, this is a big development. >> someone gave me really good advice this morning, kristen. they said if you ever ask somebody if theyre a spy and they laugh at you, dont necessarily take that as a no. look, in this white house youve got jared kushner, youve got mike pence has a personal lawyer. youve got donald trump with a permanent lawyer. youve got donald trump jr. with a personal lawyer. all of these people have a job to do with their ow...

Form that he filed on january 18. in the middle of may, this is key, the fbi interviewed him about the form. that is standard. on june 21st jared kushner revised the form again, and on june 23rd, as is standard, the fbi interviewed him about the form again. now, at some point jared kushner went from reporting that he had zero foreign contacts or zero contacts with people associated with a foreign government to more than a hundred. at some point this conversation with the fbi has got to be releva...

Worried about what is in her core, what will her message be, can she find her voice. this womans been finding her voice for 30 years. then we see a foia request, the fact that you have collusion between the fbi, the state department, the department of justice, the state departments being used as a concierge for foreign nations, for favored donors, the 200,000 victims of the haiti earthquake in 2010 have to wait a little bit longer for help because the state departments trying to figure out who t...

So i think hes got to take the ryan approach and try to keep it narrow and kind of say this is about the classified information about hillarys mishandling of it. and say that it smells of a cover-up, but not get too far ahead of it. >> gloria, it also, you know, kind of fits into that overused word, the narrative of the fbi and whether they are in fact, you know, kind of honest brokers in all of this, which now, there are allegations about director comey and whether or not lower-level fbi agents...

♪ savings ♪ oh, yeah well, its a theme donald trump has been hitting for weeks now. washington, he says, is corrupt. he says no one personifies it more than hillary clinton, and nothing he says exemplifies it more than the alleged deal making between the state department and the fbi over changing the classification level on certain clinton e-mails. take a look. >> the undersecretary of state,

Patrick kennedy, illegally pressured the fbi to unclassify e-mails from hillarys illegal server. in other words, the state department was trying to cover up hillarys crimes of sending classified information on a server our enemies could easily access, which is what were talking about. >> problem is, not everyone knows exactly the details of what hes talking about. theres been so much partisan smoke on both sides, its very easy to lose sight of the facts. so before we talk about with the panel, h...

Spokesman john kirby offered this explanation. >> pat kennedy did call the fbi and tried to get a little bit better understanding about why they wanted one particular e-mail classified secret. we didnt see it that way, we didnt think it needed to be classified, but the fbi held firm to their position. there was no bargain rendered. this was simply an interagency conversation about the classification over one particular e-mail. so there was no wrongdoing here. >> so is there disagreement within g...

Clintons a part of the status quo of washington, d.c., which is broken. >> maria? >> well, i think what we need to consider here, and jeffrey, you said that there needs to be an investigation. there was an investigation. the fbi investigated this. these are -- this came out because they are notes from the fbi investigation back and forth. so i think if anything, maybe, the congress needs to bring james comey back up and have him explain this. because there was a reason why the fbi decided not to...