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Chris Matthews debates hot political issues with politicians, newsmakers and Washington leaders. The fact that trump has prior knowledge of the meeting aligns other. At the same time his son was scheduling that meeting, just two days before the meeting itself, trump promised in his speech that he would soon reveal Something Big about Hillary Clinton. Here he goes. I am going to give a major speech on probably monday of next week and were going to be discussing all of the things that are taking p...

Now, right? >> well, florida lawmakers, many of the florida lawmakers, i can tell you, have statement on programs like in that they werent aware that these special districts had not been reviewed since the 1968 constitutional -- neil: general, do you worry, i understand where youre coming from, but do you fear that a democratic government could come in, he or she is equally adamant about something else a company has done, maybe disney, credit the same thing? could this be a slippery slope? >> we...

City coming out and making a statement and basically smearing florida lawmakers. and, by the way, the media allowed that false narrative to be exacerbate by having guests on and hosts start calling florida lawmakers bullies, communists, comparing them to russians that rape children. it is incredible how -- neil: so, general, if the company -- i understand what youre saying, but if the company then says, all right, forget what we said on this law, well live with it, will this exemption that they ...

The way, a majority of republicans and democrats alike support that. and you had this company come out that has been given so much autonomy and control within the state, come out and specifically in a very fraudulent, false way start to public smear campaign against lawyers. i mean, when they gave -- when the ceo issued the public statement, the public statement itself was inaccurate and wrong. neil: but -- [inaudible] i understand all your concerns on how this law has been misinterpreted. i get...

>> that really was i think a central theme of the public statement released publicly she made today and well find more about what she said behind closed doors. that was the key point i took away. she was really sounding the alarm. from her point on the inside, different than what we are observing outside, she was seeing the lovers of government. foreign diplomacy conducted by the state department or individuals that are representing themselves as doing interest in diplomacy. national security de...

The public statement is that it simply mentioned that you have a detailed report and an executive summa summary. congress goes off the executive summary first. >> there has also been some -- i would call it informed speculation, that many of these legal filings are actually little pieces, the narratives, are the beginnings of the mueller report, itself. if you start putting them all together that you can see the narrative that he will draw. is it possible that the report basically, if he has to,...

Congressional democrats might have to use if they get into this? if they lose the court fight? >> i think there is a question that we should ask before that, which is how is mueller going to write the report. you know he is in the same position as the rest of us. which is to say he read the washington post this morning and knows that the white house is gearing up to fight him on these grounds. he knows everything that we know, and he also knows a whole lot more which is what will be in the repor...

Really conditioned by the star report. he may not see that as the mission here, the regulation under which he is serving doesnt say what kind of report he is supposed to write. maybe it will be a very spare report that says i brought 38 cases, i submitted 800 subpoenas, i talked to this number of witnesses, you can imagine a very restrained report that really doesnt consider it his job to tell us the whole story of what happened. >> all right, let me put out another theory, then, what if the rep...

Of the meeting or whether he had any roll in crafting the public statement and he says he didnt and then he does. this is a president where fact checkers have been cataloging his lies for the duration of his term and they are in the thousands. i dont think they are going to take what he has to say, and they are going to look at the evidence. we are trying to figure out who is the bigger liar, michael cohen or president trump. and that is a tough game to play. for years, cohen lied at trumps behe...

Even tell him about the meeting. and the media has caught the president and his staff in a series of lies as you point out, whether the president was aware of the meeting or whether he had any roll in crafting the public statement and he says he didnt and then he does. this is a president where fact checkers have been cataloging his lies for the duration of his term and they are in the thousands. yong t i dont think they are going to take what he has to say, and they are going to look at the evi...