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News, analysis and interviews with politicians and observers. Hill for the president and his party. A republican loss might tell us more. If the gop cant hold this district, which last elected a democrat back in 1980, then its a pretty safe bet democrats will recapture the house in november. That would not only stall any trump legislative agenda but also put investigations, possibly impeachment, on the table. There are longer term questions too. If republicans keep losing in the suburbs s th, is...

Nothing to see here. now, this week a new report from investigators with the house oversight committee finds tom barrick lefrpged close ties to president trump and the administration to promote his own interests, including by pushing mike flynns cockamamie saudi nuclear plant. elijah cummings wrote, quote, the trump administration has virtually obliterated line separating government policy making from foreign and corporate interests. as an example, the report says [ text notification now that yo...

Federal defendant didnt get 25 years in prison tonight. but i would like to see -- i would like to see paul manaforts sentencing bring federal sentencing into a new phase and have everyone elses sentence reduced in proportion to paul manaforts sentence because this is a country where oversentencing is our biggest problem. >> and thats what sentencing guidelines are about. barbara mcquade was just very eloquent about that. the sentencing guidelines exist. theyre not binding. but they exist essent...

Federal sentencing into a new phase and have everyone elses sentence reduced in proportion to paul manaforts sentence because this is a country where oversentencing is our biggest problem. >> and thats what sentencing guidelines are about. barbara mcquade was just very eloquent aboute that. the sentencing guidelines exist. theyre not binding. but they exist essentially to give statistically sound guidance to judges who are looking at trying to make sure that people get sentenced in like ways for...

Russia and uncertainty in europe. all those things could have gone haywire at any point. the restraint, the caution, the lack of spiking the football that they showed was, i think,en enormous achievement. this could be a busy week for special counsel robert mueller and the ongoing russia investigation. mueller is considering bringing new charges against president trumps former campaign chairman paul manafort for allegedly violating his plea agreement. at a hearing on friday, the special counse...

That from manaforts end its an obstruction of justice impeding the investigation and from trumps end its a witness tampering or obstruction or both. the intermediaries here are lawyers who clearly know better and whose licenses as well as liberty are at stake and really ive been scratching my head since yesterday trying to figure out what could they have possibly been thinking? >> its possible -- its interesting what you said. is it possible that muellers team or the department of justice could ...

Here in washington, well come to "mtp daily." we begin with obstruction in plain sight. why would paul manafort break his plea deal by lying to muellers team? why they would do something highly unusual by it being possibly illegal? why would manafort basically risk spending the rest of his life in prison unless there was a presidential pardon on the table? well, the president basically just confirmed it for us. theres a pardon on the table. thats what he told "the new york post." he told them th...

Counsel robert mueller in writing that he was not told beforehand about the 2016 meeting with don jr. and ronald stone did not tell him about the killings. we have a panel with us. mr. litman, let me start with you. welcome, all, by the way. why is what manafort did with the president or what the presidents legal team did with manaforts legal team -- how is it not a form of obstructing justice or witness tampering? >> yeah, i mean, it sort of beats me. its certainly a classic double cross and i ...

System -- >> by the way, everything donald trump touches ends up with something saying what youre saying. in the 30 years of x -- >> it isnt just the legal world, its the political world, its the diplomatic world. anyway. i apologize. >> its so true. giuliani has presented it as a sort of routine thing. yeah, we were -- we were just discussing things. look, manafort had a cooperation agreement, a great reduction in sentence and to be this double agent and funnel this information to a criminal su...