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With the russian story and found zero proof, so now they go for Obstruction Of Justice on the phony story. Nice. Thats trump in tweet. Joining me now are three National Security reporters, charlie savage, adam entous and shane harris. Shane, youve got the story which follows up on what we had last night, that the Special Counsel is looking at the president for Obstruction Of Justice. My question is how do you have to add to that . What you have now is you have the president both trying to convin...

The days top stories from around the world, from politics and money, to sports and pop culture. The battle to save lives as President Trump sends a tweet about the fire that baffles even his own staff about the cause of it all. Good afternoon, everyone. Welcome to the lead. Im jake tapper. In the politics lead, rick gates, former number two on the Trump Campaign grilled right now about the plea deal by Defense Attorneys for former Trump Campaign chair Paul Manafort. Gates describing today in viv...

In a lie, they have two choices. they can either fess up to it or they can invent vapid excuses. that is precisely why james comey is doing. you know, carter page sent a letter directly to james comey about three weeks before the first fisa warrant was signed by comey, telling comey, i have been helping the u.s. government and intelligence agencies. that document should have been presented to the fisa court. instead, comey concealed it. it was exculpatory evidence. if the court had known about t...

Dossier, they are embarrassed by it. they havent been able to corroborate it. it actually was the information they had that overtly affirmatively said there was a conspiracy between trump and russia. notice another one of the things that mccabe went back to was the february of 2017 discussion between trump and comey about the mike flynn investigation. where mccabe suggested that he had obstructed that, the president had obstructed their investigation by essentially telling comey to lay off flynn...

Russian collusion, you are in risky political territory and not suggesting you dont follow the law where it leads even to the oval office. i believe you should. however, theres a political risk here that you run when you bring an obstruction case, a case that is just about the invest, not about the underlying facts but just about the investigation to the american public. >> is that what happened with bill clinton? bill clinton committed perjury. >> look what happened. right? huge public backlash...

His red flag area which they said would lead him to fire the investigator. im not sure thats true.hi one of the things that trump might end up having to say to mueller is why did you fire comey? rod rosenstein sent a letter telling comey he was out it listed a bunch of things dating back to the hillary clinton investigation saying it was improper usurpation of the justice departments functions. trump was later askedhe on nbc about the reasons for firing comey, he said he was going to anyway. he ...

That he said would lead him possibly to fire the investigator. im not sure thats true and i think one of the things that trump might end up having to say to muellers why did you fire comey? remember, rod rosenstein sent a letter telling comey he was out and it listed a bunch of things that dated back to the hillary clinton investigation in which he said there was improper use of the justice departments rightful functions. and then trump was later asked on nbc about the reasons for firing comey a...

I have no idea how to speculate on this except that the president keeps going back to it, denying it. he keeps going back and telling comey. is this an attempt to convince comey hes a good guy and wouldnt do something like that because that seems to be what hes trying to do. i wouldnt do anything like that. >> i know most people think if you keep denying it, you must have some guilt youre trying to get around. but trump does have a pattern of latching on to things and repeating them over and ove...

According to memos written by director comey, michael flynns decision to withhold that message influr yated president trump to the point where he questioned h his national security advisers judgment. qu the judgment, and. a month later, flynn would be fired from his white house post. joining me now is season eli stokols. eli, lets pick things up from what we were talking about with carrie johnson a few moments ago. this was a pivotal moment as described in these memos. what did we learn about th...

The fbi under comey gave the dossier so much potential credibility and were looking into it. >> you know, this is as a strange presidency, shannon. in the fact that this kind of allegation sits against the guy. heres a president with three a yasz, david dennison in the nondisclosure thing, john baron where he wants to get on the forbes list and this other guy, jon miller, another name. like dragnet in the old days. aliases. george washington didnt have aliases. thats an who he was. now to have t...