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With us now, our legal panel here to talk about it tonight. jill wine-banks, ken did he laneian. so, ken, youll get the first one tonight. what was your take-away from soup to nuts, all of the sessions testimony, including some of the nonanswers? >> well, brian, i was first struck that jeff sessions story seems to have evolved once again about whether he had substantive conversations with any russians with particularly russian ambassador kislyak. he started out saying to the senate committee tha...

Sense. we had no reason to expect this was before july and in june. even if donald junior should have known you dont sit down with russians who say they have bad information about your opponent, nothing came from it anyway. the woman lawyer had nothing. i did nothing afterwards. there was no follow-up. nothing matters. do you buy that defense? >> i cant buy that specially in the context of what we witnessed over the last year including the sessions testimony where he forgot his meetings. clear, ...

Jeff sessions struggled to do that and would not commit to answering questions behind closed doors, so after the hearing democrats very frustrated, did not get their answers to some key questions, republicans trying to move on to other areas of the investigation. thank you. democrats fumed over sessions testimony, republicans used lighter touch. heres senator tom cotton down playing these allegations while nodding at sessions taste for espionage thrillers. >> do you like spy fiction? daniel si...

Executive privilege that was claimed by the white house. instead saying there was some sort of department of justice policy that prohibited him from discussing this matter with the committee. democrats will point to that provision within the department of justice guidelines. jeff sessions struggled to do that and also would not commit to answering questions behind closed doors, so after the hearing democrats very frustrated he did not get their answers to some key questions. republicans trying t...

Other areas of the investigation. >> while democrats fumed over sessions testimony, republicans used a lighter touch. heres senator tom cotton down playing the collusion allegations while nodding to sessions taste for espionage thrillers. >> do you like spy fiction? daniel silva, jason matthews. >> yeah. david ignatius. >> do you like jason bourne or james bond movies? >> no. yes, i do. >> have you ever in these fantastic situations heard of a plot line so ridiculous that a sitting united states...

From the sessions testimony, the more questions youre left with. as kasie hunt pointed out, somebody is lying. weve already got conflicts between him and comey. we kind of have to wait and there are more hearings ahead and more questions to be answered and they will be answered. well talk about this more coming up. we want to get to the breaking news this morning out of london. a massive fire tore through a large apartment building in the middle of the night when many of the buildings residents ...

Questions about which the president and attorney general are incurious. thats going to give the country some absences. >> along with jeffrey goldberg we have fbi special agent clint watts and msnbc contributor. also on capitol hill we have national security and legal reporter at the "new york times" charlie savidge and also the finance anchor at yahoo!. from your perspective, you had some choice thoughts about not only sessions testimony but the presidents lovely cabinet meeting as it pertains t...

Would listen, how shocked he was. it was very obvious at that time, we said it on the air, that nobody in the white house had told him that the first executive order had been a calamity. no one told him the missteps about crowd size. nobody told him that lying about 3 million votes. nobody inside that white house tells him the truth. >> talk about the lack of diversity in the white house, let me just say there are no real men in the inner circle of the white house, none atall. joining us now a m...

Clearly only just beginning. only been on the job for a few weeks. senator chris murphy, thanks very much. >> all right, thanks. john king, this is a moment right now that a lot of people are going to wonder, does it go in one direction or another direction, because a lot of people are going to emerge from the sessions testimony and say, you know, he did a pretty good job defending himself. himself, especially on the issue of collusion and as attorney general unless other facts surface on the ...

Political contributor david gregory is with us as well. mark preston is a cnn senior political analyst and margaret t talla is the white house correspondent. david, what is your title? >> why did you think i can be -- im very close to lawyers. >> all right. so youre not our legal analyst. laura is our legal analyst. i want everybody to go through and tell me two things you are especially going to be looking toward in the upcoming sessions testimony. >> two things im looking for, wolf, one is doe...