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Frank figliuzzi, staff to joe buysen and al gore gore, rob blaine and with us at the table the former prosecutor for the southern district of new york, which not much is happening these days. kidding. and former aide to the george w. bush white house and state department. frank figliuzzi, let me start with you. this was a day, and sadly, they are few and far between, when law and order won out. >> today we saw, the big takeaway for me, nicolle, we saw our justice system working today. warts and ...

Level, this is what our system of laws is about and its really about checks and balances and no one being above the law. its a good day for justice today. >> ron klain, remarkable though even today with her comments making so clear how far manafort, you know, he was a hardened criminal as the special counsel described him in their sentencing memo. she said he displayed no remorse. she said he was someone who flouted the law even when he was ensnared in it. donald trump singing a very different t...

Sensitive part of the case may be the way in which congress gets the most insight into it. >> ron klain, i have this hunch that the justice department is acutely aware of what frank just described, and that at some level, in some corner s. maybe its a skit somewhere, they understand the reality and not just the politics but national security implications. andrew mccabe opened a counterintelligence investigation into the president after the firing of comey. i hate to be at a bar in this conversat...

Administrations. its a law enforcement and counterintelligence process, not a political process and the attorney general and people around him know that very well. mr. barr was the attorney general in a previous administration. he knows the rules of the game. we dont know what kind of pressure donald trump is putting on the justice department or instructions hes given the justice department. i will say this, i think in the end congress will get this information. i think it will be a fight. i thi...

Since watergate. it has been forbidden sense then. >> when something this shocking happens and you see it happening, you ask if chuck rosenberg might be available. we have known that bob mueller has been been an obstruction of justice. they are taking hold, and it read like a pattern, february 19th in the "new york times," that the president called matthew whittaker, his new acting attorney general and made the same request about the southern district of new york. will his appointee be able to t...