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Chairman of the house oversight committee elijah cummings and am am schiff said today after michael cohen requested a delay in his appearance before congress, they said this, our nations laws prohibit efforts to discourage, intimidate or otherwise pressure a witness not to provide testimony before congress. the president should make no statement -- including by seeking to discourage any witness from testifying in response to a duly authorized request from congress. joining us our discussion now,...

How do you look at that platform as kind of a test case for a winner against trump? >> look, i think americans have spoken very clearly that they believe that health care should be a right and not just a privilege. when you get to talking about what it looks like thats where folks start to draw blood. so we will have to have a robust primary. i think senator harris came out and shaid she was a progressive prosecutor. im excited about this field of candidates that have already announced and folks...

Of this public credit for supposedly being so hawkish and so realistic on russia. you can thank them all for voting today to give vladimir putins government in russia a huge big economic present and voting to give oleg deripaska the biggest break of his life even while his potential role in the russian attack on our election remains a critical matter that is under ongoing investigation related to multiple criminal cases. last night i said that would be a test case in terms of whether or not the ...

You can thank them all for voting today to give vladimir putins government in russia a huge big economic present and voting to give oleg deripaska the biggest break of his life even while his potential role in the russian attack on our election remains a critical matter that is under ongoing investigation related to multiple criminal cases. last night i said that would be a test case in terms of whether or not the republicans had any compunction about the trump administration and the president a...

Already there are three women in the race and there could be two more. what does this moment mean? >> well, as you point out, its a historic moment. weve never seen a presidential field with multiple women running. hillary clinton was the first and only for a really long time. its really difficult to understand how this is all going to play out, not only because i think the countrys in a different moment in terms of our conversation about gender than america was even back in 2016 but also becaus...

A group of you know votes from our politics department so why has the same message intelligence agency decided to do this now i mean what did the head of the service say. the the president of the office for the protection of the constitution thats the official name of germanys domestic intelligence service thomas hide among he gave a press conference just half an hour ago and what had to say. is a quite a blow for the dean said that there are indications that the represents a policy that contrad...

Were talking about earlier today, if you cant indict a sitting president, why does the president take an oath of office? >> thats a great question. i dont know specifically why the president takes an oath. im not sure i can answer that, but i can tell you this. i read both of those opinions. the older one from 1973 is not all that compelling. it seems to be hastily assemble and not very well reasoned. the more recent from 2000 is a better policy document. thats a key word. its a policy document....

Place. he is barred from entering the united states and sanctioned by the u.s. government, hes the guy to whom the presidents campaign chairman offered private briefings for some reason before that campaign chairman got convicted of multiple felonies. this is a live issue but if he is the test case, that is going to be a very interesting test case. we shall see. it will be a landmark moment if one of the first acts of this new congress is to resend the multibillion-dollar christmas present the t...

A really interesting test case for that. he is barred from entering the united states. hes sanctioned by the u.s. government. hes the guy to whom the presidents campaign chairman offered private briefings during the presidential campaign for some reason before that campaign chairman got convicted of multiple felonies. so, again, this is a live issue, but if oleg deripaskas going to be the test case, thats going to be a very interesting test case. we shall see. it will be a landmark moment if one...

Memory. >> i would say two things, joe. turkey itself, even though its formally an ally, in real life, it is anything but a partner of the united states. we ought to treat turkey can at best as a semi hostile country. we ought to have zero illusions about mr. erdogans turkey. the real test is yet to come. sitting in pennsylvania is fatullah gulan who the turks believe organized a coup. if the united states ever is willing to cough up mr. g aulan that will tell us a lot. so that, to me, is more t...