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Levels of hypocrisy this administration goes to are truly unbelievable. i know your reporters went through it, but the parallels actually do exactly what they had attacked hillary clinton for, for years. its unbelievable what the parallels are, even considering the fact that ivanka said she didnt know, she wasnt sure if she had been briefed on the security, and then continued to use it. a place that there are actually differences is this was a new e-mail account they had set up going to transiti...

Protect the mueller investigation. the most important thing that the senate can do is pass our bipartisan bill that will preserve the investigation, making sure documents cant be destroyed. making sure if hes fired, hes fired for cause. if its not for cause have mueller be restored. thats first for our work. then in the house they can do their oversight. weve heard from three or four committee chairman they plan to do oversight and accountability on a whole host of concerns whether its the self-...

Of bringing down the coast of health care and prescription drug prices and working on roads and bridges and americans. and then lastly, while i am standing in this beautiful capital right now, its beautiful here, but when you get outside and on the ground, weve got some self dealing that is going on. we have this money in politics that has just corrupt the system and we need to address that as well. >> walk us through, can you, the work with republicans to get to these things, to help the people...

Country from real threats, instead he was minimizing them. he puts bomb in quotes while talking up a caravan thats far away. >> think about this when we talk about trump. think about the fact that he is the 1/10 of 1%. a guy whoa inherited $400 million, and yet his presidency is a continuing expression of this feeling of emptiness inside, that he needs to fill from outside. he wants the love, he wants to do the self-dealing, so he adds more money. and it isnt working. it doesnt work. thats why i...

Strikes everyone as kind of a little weird, like youre going to oversee the recount. >> yeah, if kris kobach is besting you in this area youve got a problem. he really should commit ahead of the election to assure voters to instill some sense of security and integrity in the process. if there is a recount, i will recuse myself. frankly, we demanded the legal defend fund send a letter last week demanding he step away voluntarily from supervising the elections. doesnt mean he has to necessarily ab...

If there were a recount. he had no plans to recuse himself from a recount. strikes everyone as kind of a little weird, like youre going to oversee the recount. >> yeah, if kris kobach is besting you in this area youve got a problem. he really should commit ahead of the election to assure voters to instill some sense of security and integrity in the process. if there is a recount, i will recuse myself. frankly, we demanded the legal defend fund send a letter last week demanding he step away volun...

Self-dealing, money in politics. we will do that as soon as we win back the majority. we have to make sure we continue do what we can to earn back the trust of the american public again. >> what will you do if you cant win back the senate? >> im staying focused on the house because thats where i serve. i think the senate, its tough, but we have some tremendous candidates. kiersten cinema in arizona, jackie rosen in nevada. i love beto orourke in texas. its a tough one. look at the campaign hes r...

Provide a benefit to the president for his business, that kind of obvious self-dealing and corruption feels like a criminal matter. it doesnt feel like just something that presidents and politicians ought to be ashamed about. and youve described the potential penalties here for the gsa administrator. but in what sense does the president have to answer for this? how could he potentially be on the hook here, if at all? >> well, he would be on the hook if -- well, several things. one, if we look at...

Be when the democrats take over, hopefully, in january, that well have hearing and then well goat the bottom line. but clearly, mr. murphy was not honest with us. and to be frank with you, im very disappointed. and by the way, lying to congress is a crime. here is the deal. this was a bad deal for the american people what president trump did. keeping that facility there will cost taxpayers literally hundreds of millions of dollars, rachel. but the other piece is that they will only be able to ac...

In d.c., that as you describe it, that it may be charging the taxpayers hundreds of millions of dollars essentially to provide a benefit to the president for his business, that kind of obvious self-dealing and corruption feels like a criminal matter. it doesnt feel like something that presidents and politicians ought to be ashamed about. and you described the potential penalties here for the gsa administrator, but in what sense does the president have to answer for this? how could he potentially...