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Hes been tweeting about nfl players protesting. most of those people protesting are black. he is playing on racial issues and he is playing to his base before the november elections. and its not very pretty, i have to say. it crosses a line most presidents havent crossed. and to say hes against all sorts of racism, well thats good. one would like to hear that more often. >> steven live for us in brussels. thank you for the perspective today. >> thank, george. >> it would be nice if he said it no...

Steven. were not talking about right and left here. as a journalist you dont take a side. were talking about right and wrong and nazis who were defeated, the world did he feeted them years ago they were wrong. but they feel unapologetic as the world rallies today. whats your view of this? >> well, my view is we have a very divided country that we know. we have a republican party that is entrald with a president that plays on division. thats how he won the election and thats how hes ruling. he is...

>> its possible. >> he sounded confused at times. >> quite possibly. >> he didnt know what was up and down. i dont know, just watching it. >> i dont know about that. >> my thought is, he had a million things going on in his head at that time. >> fassbender resists charges that he and his partner inappropriately planted ideas in dasseys head, like in that exchange about the hood latch. >> what did he do under the hood, if thats what he did? >> what did brendan say? >> he agreed that steven had go...

Things is, when you talk to veterans of the doj and lawyers ive asked them about this special counsel thing. really, the only reason you appoint a special counsel is because you dont believe that the doj can independently investigate these things. i dont necessarily think that jeff sessions and the doj need a special counsel. >> bringing in former law professor of the university of memphis, steven, thanks for being with us. is there a chance for the president voluntarily interviews with robert m...

That case or a family member is involved. but the mere fact that we might suspect political bias because they are in a sense ruling over the very president that had just appointed them. thats not necessarily grounds for recusal. it does give one concern about whether they can put politics aside? bought they could choose that, right? >> oh, yes. >> steven, lets go that far, it does make it to the supreme court. we now have brett kavanaugh as the ninth justice, what do you think the vote would be?...

Didnt admit to having done it and heard from gates, e-mails showed where manafort was recommending to him that they put steven koch, a banker who helped manafort get an improper loan according to the government and saw an e-mail of manafort recommending that steven named to the economic advisers committee and he was and nominated to secretary of the army which he was not and also manafort rtrying to get him tickets to the inauguration and saw the nexus of the campaign and the inauguration. >> it...

Opponent, totally legal and done all the time in politics. hes saying he did not know about it, but in this tweet hes saying he does now know about it. your thought about legal jeopardy, steven? >> collusion is not a legal term and it may be that collusion by itself is not necessarily a crime, but the conduct thats contemplated in that trump tower meeting from the summer of 2016 potentially exposes them to liability in a number of different ways. there is conspiracy to assist in the computer hac...

The state department in hiding the fact that there were these foreign agents actively interfering in the campaign and assisting in the trump campaign, any of those things could lead to double jeopardy. >> what was stated in that tweet? >> as a former federal prosecutor, steven laid out probably his favorite statute, the conspiracy statute. because conspiracy law is so broad that it can cover many, many kinds of conduct. so even in the trumps team mind, they will have incredible dirt on hillary c...

Workers. it sounds at least reportedly that that continues with russia. the missile program is with the separate u.n. sanctions but never a part of the american deal, not that we understand it. so there is a long way to go. >> with north korea, its four stems forward, five stems back. >> with a missile thrown in. >> two a missile thrown in, thank you so much. always appreciate your insight. thanks, steven. >> thanks. all right a federal judge slammed the u.s. government for failing to reunite ch...

>> went in large measure to her intent. demonstrated deep content and hatred she had for the father of her great grand baby to offer money to kill him. >> the trial lasted less than four days. the state made its case that shirley killed steven to eliminate a family problem. prosecution had no physical evidence to prove she was the shoot err. no dna. no fingerprints. no gunshot residue. no blood spatter. no photos of the scrapes on shirleys hands. all they had were descriptions of the hand and st...