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The days biggest political and news stories, with interviews and reporting from around the nation. Special coverage and handle her own mafia cases. And from the washington post, an allstar panel, if i may compliment you all. What was your view of rick gates taking the stand . Is this a testimonial Turning Point in the trial . What did you see with your own eye, the tension in the room. It was absolutely riveting, ari. I do think it was a Turning Point. Up until now the jury heard from witnesses ...

Impeachment. pelosi and senior democrats, they dont want to have to focus on impeachment because they know that would be bad for 2020 and their chances for november if they have to defend the position that most americans do not support just yet. >> what do you think? >> yes. the august recess will be a big break. all of these members will separate and go back to their town halls. there will not be the mounting pressure to really force them to bring out more proimpeachment democrats. another thin...

Was this all about? sound bite number three. rush limbaugh had a similar feeling yesterday on radio. >> robert mueller made it clear as a bell today that he wants to nail donald trump and he wants donald trump out of office. he just doesnt have the evidence. and so he has asked congress to take over the job. so what was the purpose of this? why do this investigation at all if from the very beginning you could not nail the president? >> bill: who has an answer for that. >> i have an answer for th...

As for what happened today in the sentencing, i know a lot of criticism has been leveled at the judges because the sentencing could have been more severe. a lot of people think it should have been more severe. the reason this sentencing today was capped at ten years was because the special prosecutors office manipulated the conspiracy statutes. manafort should have been looking at a 20 year conspiracy count for money laundering and a 20 year conspiracy count for witness tampering. mueller capped...

To trump and manafort. i think that is outrageous. is for what happened in the sentencing i know a lot of criticism has been leveled at the judges because the sentencing could have been more severe. a lot of people think it should have been more severe. the reason this sentencing today was kept at 10 years is because muellers special prosecutors office manipulated the conspiracy statutes. manafort should have been looking at a 20 year conspiracy count for money laundering and a 20 year conspirac...

Wrong. new york state follows what is known as equitable double jeopardy. what that means is, if someone has already been prosecuted out of something that arises out of the same facts, youre not supposed to prosecute them in new york a second time. in this instance, i know your earlier reports of the cases are unrelated, they actually are not unrelated. the bank fraud in new york that was charged today arises out of the same transactions that were involved in muellers prosecution in virginia. th...

Years in new york, its a whole different ball game. thats why this is such a fascinating turn. stay with me. lets look at how this fits into the building behind you. people sometimes forget. bob mueller works for the justice department. he reports into the trump attorney general bill barr. there would look like a big mueller victory. well put it on the screen for your analysis. this case started with papadopoulos getting a couple of weeks. cohen was handed off three years in new york. the seven ...

The coming days, what impact will that have if any on all of the rest of these investigations including these individuals being asked to turn over this documentation? >> looks like there is overlap. the public will have a problem with that. if mueller has done this investigation with millions and millions of dollars the country has put into that and now we have other committees, judiciary, oversight, intel, three committees right there looking at the same thing mueller has looked at, it its -- h...

Campaign in august of 2016. the most interesting thing about those contacts, that is the part most blacked out in the filing. what does that tell you? it tells you that unlike some other pieces where the special counsel told us what manafort lied about, here hes not willing to do so because thats a live part of the investigation. it tells you that those contacts with kilimnik are very relevant to the core thing mueller is investigating, and that is russian interference with the election. >> just...

Names. you can name different individuals, but this is all one giant conspiracy. but now were looking at their attack on the 2018 elections. and so i think mueller appropriately decided thats sort of out of his, you know, bandwidth, not something that he should appropriately be doing. >> right. >> and, you know, again, i think this points to people who like to attack mueller, this is exactly the kind of thing mueller takes seriously, he takes his mandate seriously, interprets it as narrowly as h...