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The union address tomorrow night, trump capitulated to house speaker nancy pelosis demand to postpone it to the following week, and trump watched as roger stone got hauled away in handcuffs this week. stone is the sixth member of trumps inner circle who has been arrested by robert mueller. any one of those headlines would normally be enough to stymie any president. for trump, he has to face them all at the same time. im joined by historian jon meacham, author of "the soul of america." i think no...

>> well, if it was, in fact, something that he felt that he shouldnt have been doing because it was engaging with the russians in a manner that was inappropriate during the period of time before the inauguration -- and i dont know the circumstances under which mike had interacted with folks. i know some things, but who knows what was behind michaels decision to lie to investigators. >> what do you make of trumps behavior, the president -- now the president where he goes to certain witnesses and ...

>> this is a serious step by the president. i just want to underscore what mr. laufman said in terms of relying on people within the justice department, essentially to squawk, to allow it to be known whats going on there. if, in fact, we have a crisis of ethics in the justice department, and if, in fact, this move was done to obstruct justice, to shut down the investigation that is lawfully pursuing these matters. and that hasnt come to its conclusions. all right, weve got more to come tonight. ...

>> david laufman, chief counterintelligence section at the justice department, which meant that he happen an oversight in the russian investigation before special counsel robert mueller was appointed. mr. laufman, i know speaking publicly on these matters is not your favorite thing in the world. thank you, sir. >> thank you, rachel. this is a serious step by the president. i just want to undermore what mr. laufman said in terms of relying on people within the justice department, essentially to...

The president of course has called moo called mueller and his whole team a bunch of closet democrats. you go into the department of justice, career prosecutors, to tap these folks. certainly seems to undermine the presidents argument. >> of course it does. and its right out of the same nixon playbook. he did the same thing with the watergate staff, with no evidence of any political bias. its just one of the things they do. another thing they will do is squawk about the amount of money that has b...

Official action as president to try to thwart the russia investigation. the first was a year ago when he fired james comey. the president later explaining that it was the russia investigation that was on his mind when he made the decision to do that. so, that was the first time. he didnt just complain or sort of squawk about the investigation, he actually did something. that was a year ago. now, a year later, for a second time, he has acted. this time, he ordered a justice department investigati...

Could be cooked up, your life could be turned upside down and it was nothing really there with the impetus to start with. if thats true, i want to know about it and what the congressman said yesterday was the only thing that would be revealed in their will or really poor practices that we shouldnt be doing. that was a compelling point. the practices in there should not be going on. >> kennedy: heres my issue with that though because thats a really good point. the practices in there and the abuse...

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Governor. let the peasants "squawk" about whatever it is thats bothering them. it doesnt matter to you, you can afford to be utterly impervious to their need. so it went on for a year-and-a-half the people of that city poisoned every day before finally the activists and the angry moms and the pediatricians and the outside researchers blew the lid off and flint went into a state of emergency. before today, nine people have been indicted on criminal charges in conjunction of the people of flint by...

They thought ought to be in charge of these things, immediately. thats the beauty of being an mortgages manager. nobody answers to you. its not a democracy. you are appointed by one man the governor. you answer to one man, the governor. let the peasants "squawk" about whatever it is thats bothering them. it doesnt matter to you, you can afford to be utterly impervious to their need. so it went on for a year-and-a-half the people of that city poisoned every day before finally the activists and th...