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Benefited himself to self-deal, use his executive power to help himself keep in power for another term. >> as i watch them make their way. to the jail, as they make their way to the jail, theyre there because a couple of republicans in the state of georgia who were enthusiastic trump backers who worked for his re-election and supported what he was for and because he was popular in georgia and they supported him in his campaign to be president. theyre the reason hes there and without raffensperge...

Youre my lawyer. what are you doing? get back home. did the president direct rudy to go to europe? i dont know. and by the way, what i find so astounding about this conversation, i think theres plenty of evidence here. lots of evidence. its not just about rudy. in fact, i would argue that the white house doesnt realize that theyre doing things wrong. take doral. when they were going to, you know, self-deal. not only did they realize they were not doing anything wrong, they thought they were doin...

Be so corrupt as to self-deal or so corrupt as to abuse his office or her office or would invite the foreign interference by another country into our elections. those are some of the things that our founders were worried about and so this will be a chance for us and for america to be schooled again and what is it that impeachment actually entails. i think about it, i mean im old enough to remember both nixon and clinton, but there are a whole host of young people who dont. im happy to say we don...

And that is, were just as venal, were just as lacking in principle, were just as ready to self-deal, were just as transactional as you are and we welcome you back into your club, the g7, which will become the g8 at trumps hotel in doral next june. i think thats a safe prediction on this day as can be made. >> and, you know, jay, could have seen it coming years ago on our show in december, 2015, donald trump when confronted with the fact that vladimir putin killed political opponents and journali...

Strong arming a foreign leader to dig up dirt on his rival, which reminded everybody -- >> as president of the united states we should say. >> an actor in the middle of it. it is not minions. its not people in the campaign. it is the president himself using the powers of his office to self-deal, which is exactly what the framers were concerned about about an unfettered presidency. one of the difficulties trump presents is the public, to the media, to the congress is people are looking at him as ...

And this is right where donald trump lives. he is a profoundly lawless individual. and if any opening is given to him where he can self-deal, hell self deal. you put up the op ed earlier by neal and george that was in the "washington post" and one of the graphs in there i thought was most striking is they rightly pointed out that the framers were worried about self-dealing. and a president that self-deals to such an extent that it undermines the national interests. you now have a clear example o...

Facebook launched in 2004. back in massachusetts. with two of mark zuckerbergs college classmates. >> we first learned about facebook and mark zuckerberg launching by reading the harvard student newspaper. we were shocked. we were totally blind sided. >> blind sided they say because they initially hired mark months earlier to build their social network. they claimed mark agreed to work with them but stalled their project while he built his. >> we were in a partnership and then he used his skill ...

Was getting at, all of this takes a sledge hammer to the image the president has carefully crafted of being a self-made billionaire. >> it makes you wonder if he should have called his book the art of the self-deal. this story portrays the trump family as practically a criminal enterprise and it was not just tax fraud, but people were getting hurt. i mean, people in the their buildings were having their rents increased because within the company, they were artificially inflating the cost of capi...

Swirling around donald trump, this tax plan proves that like autocrats across the world, donald trump has perfected the art of the self deal. >> like elementings. are they going to back him on the firing mueller? >> theres a difference between giving to the corporations and hoping the corporations pay it down and the difference of the tax cuts for the middle class and not just the wealthy or the corporation. >> the effects of the tax bill started to reverberate today as the wealthiest people and...

Autocrat across the world. donald trump has perfected the art of the self-deal. >> look at them like lem mention, are they going to back him on firing mueller? look at them. looks like a north korean parade. >> there is a difference between giving it to the corporations and hoping that the corporations hand them out and we will see who else decides to do. this and giving it directly to the american people. in the form of larger tax cuts for the individuals, for the middle class and not just the ...