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He believed the meeting on air force one represented a likely obstruction of justice quit. joining us now, steve is mit, strategist and analyst, natasha bertrand, correspondent at business insider and matt miller, former chief spokesman for the justice department and msnbc justice and security analyst. on monday night, michael wolff will join us on this program in his first prime time cable news interview about this book and so well be able to go over all -- much more of the details in it but, m...

To even answer his phone. later that week, he seen no good outcome and privately confided he believed the meeting on air force one represented a likely obstruction of justice quit. joining us now, steve is mit, strategist and analyst, natasha bertrand, correspondent at business insider and matt miller, former chief spokesman for the justice department and msnbc justice and security analyst. on monday night, michael wolff will join us on this program in his first prime time cable news interview a...

White house to the degree to which hes held the line to make that a nonpartisan investigation. mitch mcconnell said that effort will go on as long as necessary. and on the senate side, too, youve heard, even over the last couple of days, from allies of the president, like lindsey graham, for example, who has become a golfing buddy and somebody who the president listens to, saying we need to make sure robert mueller does his job. we need to do our jobs in the senate to not put artificial timeline...

Russia and trump campaign shows no signs of slowing down. they predicted the investigation would conclude by thanksgiving, thats this thanksgiving, and that has come and gone. and the investigation, quote, makes the country look very bad and puts the country in a very bad position, so the sooner its worked out better it is for the country. he went on to say, quote, have i the absolute right to do what i want to do with the justice department. but for purposes of hopefully thinking im going to be...

Chang. and cnn security analyst, bob. gordon, let me begin with you. the word fs from the president today in his tweet, partly, there will never be a friendly solution if china continues to carry this out. this is nothing new. china is a large reason why north koreas economy can function at all. responsible for 90% of the trade, but youre glad to see the president calling out china. what i wonder though is anything different in terms of action? in that video we saw from "meet the press" 18 years...

The clock is ticking the for the white house to roll out another round of sanctions on russia. this comes as former top intelligence officials say that russia continues its cyber attacks, that it is far from having ended a former cia operative and cnn intelligence and security analyst, bob baer, is with us. nice to have you here, bob. >> good morning, poppy. >> as you know, the president blasted this sanctions bill when he first signed the first round of it in august. he called it, quote, seriou...

The sort of center of a lot of anticlinton work in the 90s. knows a lot of people. there was a security analyst who smith contacted who said look, it sounded like he was in the know on the campaign. he was pretty connected to the campaign. what do you make of this part of the story? >> im concerned. im concerned about it not just because of the potential criminal part of this, but im concerned because you know, the russians were able to acquire hillary clintons e-mails or able to set up a dangle...

Sanctions. >> that was vice president pence in san antonioia yesterday responding to vladimir puttingen after the russian president hit back at the u.s. ordering american embassy staff in russia be cut by 75 a people. putin isry talting to sanctions approved by the senate last week in a veto proof 98-2 vote. tonight the sanctions bill is at the white house. sitting there awaiting a presidential signature. but the president has yet to sign the bill into law. or for that matter address the matter ...

Promised dirt on hillary clinton from the russian government. but theres this other thing that happened with this donor, who said he was close to the campaign, looking for hillarys e-mail from russian hackers and saying hes close to general flynn. what does it say that muellers team is now looking into that? >> it means theyre taking it seriously and it will be interesting. the other interesting aspect of this is that mr. smith committed suicide shortly after talking to "the wall street journal"...

And security analyst and former spokesman for the justice department. >> i have to jump in first. barbara, to you, if robber muer muellers team did something unlawful, why would president trumps transition lawyer write a letter to congress? why wouldnt they have the law on their side and go to the department of justice? >> because i dont think they have the law on their side. obtaining e-mails in an investigation is a very common strategy. according to the spokesman, they followed legal process ...