Things Arent Crime News Today

Democrats are somehow in control. anyone whos covered washington or politics for as long as any of us has knows that typically law enforcement and justice department, if it leans any direction its typically leaned republican but this is an effort to delegitimize the investigations and timelines that law enforcement or special counsel is building by raising questions about things that dont have any direct bearing on the case. >> i dont know, jeffrey. this morning it feels weve reached a level of ...

Money -- >> and rudy giuliani should know that. >> well, he has a new role. >> margaret weve heard the president over months and months and months go after jeff sessions. he did it this morning but the context has changed because it seems to suggest hes upset at jeff sessions for not stopping these other prosecutions that werent in the realm of russia and the president is talking about the criminal justice system saying flipping should be a crime. hes suggesting paul manafort who is a convicted ...

Answer can be certain is not going to be shaken by the next set of testimony or revelations. >> their argument isnt just that there is no crime. the presidents argument is that i didnt order the payments, i didnt order the payments, i did make the payments, i didnt know about them. the new argue system that michael cohen, i didnt even know him. listen to how the president describes his relationship with michael cohen this morning. >> michael cohen. tell me about your relationship with him. >> we...

Alisyn Camerota and John Berman report the latest news and top stories.

Alisyn Camerota and John Berman report the latest news and top stories.

Administration, quinnipiac has a poll out, do you think donald trump is other using the powers of his office, 54% of americans say yes. you go to a fox news poll, a poll favorable to donald trump, what do you think is the real reason president trump fired fbi director comey, 60% now say because comeys investigations were harming the presidency. only 29% say because these investigations were harming the fbi. one more fox news poll, do you think the fbi director should have been fired at all, 53 t...

Involved now that he is named as at least a person that the mueller team is interested in talking to? >> well, lets just examine two ways in which all of this is kind of bizarre. the first way in which it is bizarre is normally in a demonstration, if there is some suspicion, some problem, some ethics accusation and the people in the administration feel theyre innocent of it, they dont set up war rooms. they say lets get this story out. they dont fight the inquiry. they flood the zone with news. ...

Are not criminal -- they dont operate by the usual rules of criminal evidence and they are not always intended to bring about a prosecution because a mole or a disloyal person is not necessarily a criminal. they just someone who should be separated from political power because they are disloyal to the united states and compromised by foreign assets. so, i want people to think, remember, this is a very legalistic country. we are not in a world of two categories, crime, good. were in a world of th...

That the constant iteration of prosecution and crime sets people up to look for what may be the very wrong thing. the things that may have happened here may be extremely serious and not criminal. its not a crime to be financially beholden to the russians. its not a crime to tell them things. its not a crime to coordinate with them in your election effort if you arent involved in the hack. those things arent crime. they are loyalty issues. they are reliability issues. they are security issues. an...

Something. when we talk about criminal, a lot of people assume if its criminal, its bad. if its noncriminal, its okay. but there are a lot of things that are wrong and improper and dangerous that are not criminal. it is not a crime for the president or his family to owe hundreds of millions of dollars to foreign interests. its not a crime for a private citizen or somebody in a transition to meet with representatives of an adversary state and tell them what he knows. its not criminal even -- the ...