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Past to how he treated you. i mean there are a million things to throw out there to kind of elaborate on that answer at comeys expense. >> dana: you say the next question of yours that you think is interesting is a wolf in sheeps clothing. its what knowledge did you have of any outreach by your campaign, including by paul manafort, about potential assistance to the campaign? that gets to the question of collusion, right? >> its the fundamental question. like the whole probe wrapped up in one que...

Involving the presidents personal attorney michael cohen. he, in court documents, asserted that he would assert his fifth amendment rights in the stormy daniels lawsuit filed against both him and the president. and you may recall that in september of 2017 the president at a campaign rally said the mob takes the fifth. he also says if you are innocent, why are you taking the fifth amendment? do those ideas also apply to michael cohen? does the president stand by those comments? >> i cant speak on...

>> its a question about the white house being involved in it. >> it was specific to the president and thats why im referencing and referring you to the presidents personal attorneys. >> the question about the white house specifically, is the white house concerned as adam schiff as said that so many of the questions point to obstruction of justice? >> we here at the white house try never to be concerned with anything dealing with adam schiff. >> ill point you back to what john started on with the...

Kelly has referred to trump as an idiot multiple times to underscore his report. kelly has pushed back and called it total b.s. the question is here who in the white house has it out for john kelly. im also joined by jim mesina, a white house chief of staff under president barack obama, he is a democratic strategist and a ceo of the mesina group. carol, let me start with you, that has been a lot of the speculation here in terms of who you folks talk to there and why they were talking to you, was...

Busted in -- >> i dont know some. i think theres one, not some. >> whats your response? >> once again, it would be standard procedure for the president newly elected presidents medical records to be in possession by the white house medical unit. that was what was taking place was the records were being transferred as requested. >> if i could ask a second question. theres allies of the president apparently drafting articles of impeachment for rod rosenstein. is it the presidents believe hes commi...

Coordination between the trump campaign and russia. so our big question on this story, who revealed muellers questions and why? we have a great team to help us break there all down, jeff bennett is at the white house, joining us by phone is one of those reporters who broke those mueller questions and also with us kimberly atkins, reporter for the boston herald and msnbc contributor. let me just start with you, the white houses reaction to all of this, its out there right now, do these say it as ...

Follow-up, okay, what did you do about that and who did you talk to and how did that go? these are questions that represent lines of inquiry. its certainly notable that a lot of the attention or speculation about the presidents businesses or his real estate or whos renting hiss chis condos or stuff about dporn money, none of that stuff was in here. maybe bob mueller already has answers to those from documents or whatever, but we dont see any indication that bob mueller has crossed what donald tr...

We know that the presidentively outside the russia question. to the other question, as to whether or not former members of the trump campaign, including paul manafort, now coordinated with russian operatives in the lead up to the 2016 election. >> let me bring in matt, that is interesting the white houses reaction what were hearing from jeff there, in terms of not questioning the accuracy of the questions anything like that, i know you have sources there, can you tell us anything about the motiv...

Strong reservations. where does he stand with the case of eric garner and when i going to make a decision about the police officer and whether they will charge him. >> secretary sanders: i dont have an administration update but i refer you to the department of justice to get further details and ill work on getting an update for you. >> reporter: another question i have -- -- the second question is the president tweeted, james comey illegally classified -- illegally leaked documents to generate a...

Place. they landed a few minutes ago and have not even arrived in the white house, im not going to presume what those conversations will look like. we expect that will be part of the conversation and we will keep you posted if we have any specific details to put out about that. >> reporter: are you still leaning towards the deal when it comes up on may 12? >> secretary sanders: the president has made clear that he thinks its a bad deal, that is not changed. >> reporter: i wanted to ask a questio...