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>> you know, maria teresa, as e.j. was just saying, were probably in for a tumultuous december, but next week promises to be super tumultuous. on or before december 4th, which i believe is tuesday -- >> thats right. >> prosecutors are to file a sentencing memo related to michael flynn, and then on december 7th, a factual filing due on paul manaforts alleged crimes and lies, which in both of these instances, we are going to get, for the first time, i think, the clear outlines of what the lies are...

Manaforts case, theyre going to submit their detailed accounting of how exactly manafort had bes been lying to , how he breached his cooperation agreement with them. this week, between the manafort explosion and the michael cohen guilty plea about trump tower moscow yesterday, we have already had quite the rollout this week from the special counsels office about what theyve got and who else should be worried about the evidence that robert mueller and his team have assembled. well, now we know, a...

>> there is no chance id testify against the president. id have to bear false witness. id have to make things up and im not going to do that. ive had no discussion regarding a pardon. >> e.j., i have another question for you. i want maria-teresa kumar to take that one. clearly, im not going to do that. ive had no discussions regarding a pardon. doth the lady protest too much? >> whats so interesting is if folks join me in going back to the future in june where he was basically saying, well, muel...

Russia. because its part of their deal. because sanctions and a huge financial deal for trump and lying publicly about the deal for trump and lying about contacts with the russian government, its all one thing. and it may have even all been run by the same guy, dmitry peskov, in the russian government. and so, on tuesday, mike flynn will be in court, and we will learn what robert mueller has come to know in his dealings with mike flynn since flynn pled guilty to lying to the fbi about sanctions ...

Are you a smart man? i have nothing to do with russia. i have nothing to do with russia. >> donald trump insisted that he had no deals in russia over the last two years, but after michael cohens plea agreement with the special counsel this week, we know that his company was secretly pushing a deal for a trump tower in moscow as late as june of 2016. and as more information comes to light, trump continues to move the goalpost. joining me now, e.j. dionne, "washington post" columnist and co-author...

We know that more shoes are going to drop, we know were going to get a bunch more information from the special counsels office in the next few days. focus in on this flynn thing just for a second. mike flynn had some unusual russia ties during the campaign, right? he had visited russia, at the russian governments behest, just as trump was declaring his run for president. soon after he got back from russia, he signed up to join trumps campaign, which was a surprise. mike flynn had been a register...

The family. i think flying over i figured out that assange had podestas e-mails. i told roger in this e-mail and subsequently i thought it was podestas e-mail. >> so you gave that to feds to muellers prosecutors. >> its actually the truth. >> its also a defense. >> it is a defense. >> its a defense. you said that to them. how did they take that? >> they didnt believe it. >> conspiracy theorist and friend of roger stone jerome corsi flatly denies having any information about the wikileaks dumps b...

Testimony are going to mueller as soon as the democrats are sworn in, but if there was anybody who coach ordinaed or orchestrated that cover-up so they would all say the same thing, well, thats a heck of a lot worse, right? who was in a position to do that? well, now heres how this whole thing all fits together, which is bad. in the criminal information filed alongside michael cohens guilty plea yesterday, the special counsels office says that the trump tower moscow project involved direct conta...

Its must-watch television, and if you missed it, here it is, in its entirety. >> after what has just been a remarkable week in the courts this week, which started with prosecutors in the special counsels office declaring that paul manafort had been lying to them, saying he was in breach of his cooperation agreement, the presidents lawyers then bragging publicly that theyd been using paul manafort as a way to gather intelligence on what the special counsel was up to in the russia investigation. m...

This is congressman adam schiff reacting to roger stones interview on abc. take a listen. >> those exchanges with corsi, which i think he provided to the press, the substance of those e-mails are inconsistent with the committee, the mere testimony was delivered with the same conviction that he 345ids to you this morning. that testimony needs to be provided to the special counsel for consideration of whether perjury charges are warranted. >> and so, e.j., thats what roger stone faces, the possibi...