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Shouldnt take, and that is to undertake a swap in this case. to swap a private american businessman for a russian agent would send a terrible signal. it would send a signal that the russians can arrest any american whos there on tourism or legitimate business purposes and secure the release of someone who is doing the bidding of moscow, contrary to our national security interests. what gives me pause about this, steve, is the fact that vladimir putin and donald trump once again have aligned inte...

This. i never visited a u.s. citizen in a jail. so that was a big symbolic step. i think at the end of the day president trump claims he has a special relationship with president putin. so he should call up president putin and say what are you doing with our guy and you should release him. now, i dont expect that to happen. but for years we have been told by the president weve had a theory about foreign policy that developing these personal relationships can be good for american outcomes. well, ...

Lets say, and it wasnt successful, what other avenues are there? >> well, theres one avenue they shouldnt take, and that is to undertake a swap in this case. to swap a private american businessman for a russian agent would send a terrible signal. it would send a signal that the russians can arrest any american whos there on tourism or legitimate business purposes and secure the release of someone who is doing the bidding of moscow, contrary to our national security interests. what gives me pause...

Of influencing the investigation. thats what materiality means. it has to matter, and it has to matter to the investigation. and i guess the main point here is that this is not the southern district of new york charging michael cohen with making false statements about trump tower. its bob mueller whos investigating the campaign. so somehow these two things have to connect. and were waiting to see how mueller will connect them. >> and joyce, do you see that connection as involving money? >> you k...

Crack. when you bring my name up to the judge, just tell him facts. the idea that his factual defense that his money is good now, he made it from music is enough. do you think that kind of defense will work for the trump family members here? >> i dont know if the defense really works, but i think meek has a good point, which is that the government always has the burden of proof. you cant just assume that because theres smoke theres fire. you cant assume that because there are deals in russia tha...

Describing here which would make this compromise it would seem to be primarily is the lying and conduct of trump and cohen, not the fact that at some point in time someone who is in business sought more business. >> thats correct. and it isnt a traditional compromise in the sense that russians often carry this out which is usually through doctored videos and so forth and so on. it comes about when you end up taking something you shouldnt take, information, sex, money, those are classic russian c...

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Malcolm, we went through some of the theories according to experts. what does the information do to your working theory? >> well, i think number five, six and seven are all a sequence of events which have led donald trump to be not an agent, which is a term of art where you actually are paid and work for a foreign government, but i think hes a witting asset to where he knows where the money is coming from. he knows they have kompromat on him and he knows they came into his campaign, and he worke...

Were talking in your election about your dealings with us, you know that wasnt true. that would not be something he would want to come out. >> how do you distinguish, though, between what we might call conventional kompromat where something is undeniably bad and someone has it on, and versus what you describe here, the lying and conduct of trump and cohen, not the fact that someone in some point in time who was in business sought more business. >> thats correct. and it isnt traditional kompromat...

That president clinton was accused of, lying about an affair. obstructing justice in a civil rights lawsuit filed against him. those are serious issues. were talking about president trump potentially even more serious, if there was a finding by robert mueller if there was any kind of collaboration or collusion or conspiracy. there are other issues that will come that up democrats will latch onto. if he an impeachment inquiry is raised. the hush money paids to stormy daniels before the election. ...