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Methodical and building a case here if a case is to be had. we cant ignore criminal activity. but remember, this is the first public hearing, the first. it has to be a process. when we look back at watergate, that was almost a two-year process and it worked. it persuaded the american people that the person they put faith in didnt deserve it. >> leading off our discussion now, democratic congressman lloyd doggett of texas, also with us former federal prosecutor, barbara mcquade she is an msnbc le...

Meetings with the russian ambassadors. the russia related context were of particular interest with the special counsel, robert mueller and his team. not just by trump himself but by kushners own lawyer and by his wife, ivanka trump. take a look. >> there were anonymous leaks about there being issues but the president had no involvement pretending to my clearance or my husbands clearance. >> just two months ago, the house oversight committee launched an investigation into the white houses securit...

Mcgahn and white house chief of staff john kelly were so concerned about the president ordering a security clearance for his son-in-law that they each wrote memos in which they clarified their objections to the security clearance for jared kushner. tonight, oversight committee chair elijah cummings sent a letter to the white house saying that they have, quote, stalled, equivocated and failed to produce a single document or witness to the committee about security clearances. today harvard law sch...

Their financial records, who have to follow the rules to keep a security clearance, when the people at the top can abuse that privilege, you know, at will. and so i think theres a lot of people working for this president, working for this administration who really feel that theyre part of an unfair process. >> malcolm, the fact that the president is out there saying i didnt do what sources inside the trump administration are saying he did do, this is not going to come as a surprise to anyone. th...

Word" segment using video from the michael cohen hearing starring congressman jimmy gomez, congresswoman alexandria ocasio-cortez and some additional video starring fictional congressman matt santos as played brilliantly by shimmy smits on the nbc white house series "the west wing". were going to show you something congresswoman ocasio-cortez did in that hearing that has a meaning that nobody seemed to have notice and jimmy smits is going to show presidential candidates how you take on donald tr...

Quote, readying a request for years of president donald trumps personal tax returns that is expected to land at the internal revenue service as early as the next few weeks. nbc news has learned. and democrats are prepared to take all necessary steps, including litigation, in order to obtain them. ways and means committee chairman richard neil of michigan has ask the committees attorneys to prepare the requests, according to two aides involved in the process. neal has also contacted the chairs of...

It will come out because there are two contemporaneous memos from eyewitnesses to this process, he will lean back and will say, well, i had the authority to do that anyway. and this is -- you know, like michael cohen said the other day, its the way he gets people to lie and say things in an open sort of scheme in which he will give them an inference and they will run with it. so by next week when this comes out, the entire republican party will be saying he has the authority to do this. >> and, ...

Attorney for such a long time. they were abusing the witness who came to tell his side of the story. and the republican leadership totally was badgering the witness instead of performing their duty, their obligation, their constitutional obligation of checks and balance and making sure that the executive is kept under check. it is a process that we are going through. and i am certain, i am certain, as i was certain that 2000 elections shown where real america stands. and i am certain that in 201...

Involved. listen. >> who made the decision to restore his security clearance? how did that happen? >> the intelligence community and the fbi. it happened in the normal course. it happened the way it happens for thousands of people. there was nobody in the political process that had anything to do with it. there was nobody who pressured it. it was just done the normal, regular way. >> the normal, regular way, nobody pressured for it. that was last may, abby lowell, jared kushners attorney stating...

Statement than just saying either kushner lied to him or kushner was lied to, but the white house officials lied to abbe lowell about the process. or maybe the president. >> someone was lying. >> someone was lying, yes. >> and whats really important here, anderson, is that this clearance was not normal in any way. the president of the united states personally overruled his security advisers, the intelligence community who had good reason to deny this. >> legally, he can do that, but its just unp...