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Testimony before congressional investigators, they say he told the Senate Judiciary committee that he personally had not had any contact with wikileaks during the campaign. He also said he could not recall anyone else on the campaign having contact with wikileaks. The Senate Judiciary Committee Earlier this week published a letter in which they say specifically that Jared Kushner not only received an email detailing his contact with wikileaks, but then forwarded that as well. That letter signed ...

Chris Matthews debates hot political issues with politicians, newsmakers and Washington leaders. Comes from giuliani, who attempted to downplay the criminal aspect of collusion with the russians. Rather than deny that collusion took place, he now today argued that collusion isnt illegal. Lets watch. Ive been sitting here looking in the federal code trying to find collusion as a crime. Its not. Collusion is not a crime. I dont even know if thats a crime, colluding about russians. You start analyz...

Analysis and discussion of the days top stories and compelling issues from Lawrence ODonnell. Presidency took a giant step toward impeachment. It happened in a courtroom in manhattan when these words were spoken. At the direction of, meaning at the direction of the president of the United States. And when a defendant is Pleading Guilty in court, it is very difficult for the defendant to Say Something more important than the word guilty. Thats usually the most important word a defendant speaks du...

Sentence in this case and you agree to cooperate. And i think from Robert Muellers perspective it would be worth it because even if Paul Manafort doesnt have anything incriminating i think Robert Muellers quest is to get to the truth and Paul Manafort certainly knows a lot of what happened. He was present at that june 2016 meeting at trump tower. He has all the connections with the russians and the ukrainians and so it seems that hes in a position to know a lot of what was happening with regard ...

Right now the judge is reading the charges after mr. Cohen told the court, i am truly sorry and i promises to do better. He Apologize Nod country. And the defense team is asking for full consideration of mercy and telling the judge that the client came forward to offer evidence against the most p powerful man in the country not knowing the result. The prosecutors are responding forcefully and saying that powerful and privileged individuals cannot violate laws without impunity, and back with me, ...

He knew i worked with lyndon johnson on the memoirs. he said when nixon first came into power, he asked kendall to go to the ranch to talk to johnson about some sensitive matter. johnson is working on the memoir. he says, how can i remember what happened ten years ago, five years ago? the only chapters that are good, i had a tape machine in the oval office, i had verbatim conversations, and those chapters are very good. tell nixon nothing is better than a taping system, and there it begins. you ...

Obscure white house official named alexander butterfield appeared as a surprise witness before the senate watergate committee. >> are you aware of the installation of any listening devices in the oval office of the president? >> i was aware of listening devices, yes, sir. >> when i got the confirmation that there was a taping system, i was elated. they would tell much more than i would remember in those conversations. >> my mind is not tape recorder. it does recall impressions of conversations v...

Devices in so many different areas. >> nixon installed the taping system so he could write the greatest memoirs of any president of the united states. and nixon was fascinated by the memoirs of people like de gaulle and others and wanted to show himself as a great world leader. >> the president did tell me at one point, along with haldeman, that no one was to ever learn about this taping system. >> alex butterfield had indeed confirmed my suspicion that i had been recorded. but more than my conv...

Once we learn about the existence of a taping system, we had the obligation to try to get them. >> without the prosecutors getting possession of key tapes, it would be my word against everyone else. and i had no doubt these people were going to lie. >> after months of talks, the president and the congress tonight are actually on a collision course. the issue is executive privilege, which mr. nixon today invoked when he told both the ervin committee and prosecutor archibald cox that he will not g...

Devices, yes, sir. >> did he say there were tapes? what? >> yeah. talk about a bombshell. >> in february of 1971, the president told bob haldeman, his chief of staff, that he wanted to install some listening devices around the white house. haldeman said it was up to me to decide who should install these devices. i chose the secret service. >> the system was designed only to tape conversations in which nixon participated. and so when he would enter a room where there was a taping system, they wou...