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Of roger stone or the trump organization, thats actually outside the mandate of the special counsel. so we dont know what else is being investigated, but thats why i emphasize the narrowness of the mandate. >> right. to be clear, this is not a criticism. its just trying to understand factually what he charged and didnt charge. what do you think of joyces point that if you do the thought experiment that all the results came on a single day at the end and you had six trump advisers indicted, that ...

Was pitching this. a federal job is guaranteed for more of our conversation on the left, something that cory booker has been talking about as well as bernie sanders. im interested to seal the pilot goes as a thought experiment. my guess is that will be very difficult. he is correct in pointing out how many families in this country are missing one paycheck messed away from calamity or one trip to the emergency room or one child with special needs. >> relieving people of any personal responsibilit...

But there is a chance with just the pending charges as they stand that this defendant could be released. amazing as it sounds. >> gene robinson, also amazing again, a plot to decapitate the democratic party and its leadership and not a word from a single republican on capitol hill publicly. >> its astounding and just do the simple thought experiment. imagine if this guy were muslim and imagine what we would be hearing from the republicans on the hill, from president trump who would be, you know,...

Here to talk about that, thiena gupta, the president and ceo of the leadership congress on civil rights. and jamel smith. play out the thought experiment. what with we be looking at if there was a democratic congressional candidate who had engaged in what appears to be flagrantly illegal criminal ballot fraud. >> i mean, there would be no question that we would have seen about 20 tweets from the president. >> yep. >> and the whole cadre of folks who have been peddling these lies for so long real...

Defendant could be released, amazing as it sounds. >> gene robinson, also amazing again, a plot to decapitate the democratic party and its leadership and not a word from a single republican on capitol hill publicly. >> its astounding. and just do the simple thought experiment. imagine if this guy were muslim. imagine what we would be hearing from republicans on the hill, from president trump, who would be, you know, his thumbs would be sore from all the tweets. wed be hearing from the justice de...

President and ceo of the leadership conference and civil and human rights and jamil smith. play out the thought experiment. what would we be looking at if there was a democratic congressional candidate that engaged in what appears to be illegal criminal ballot, you know, ballot fraud. >> i mean, there would be no question that we would have seen about, you know, 20 tweets from the president and the whole package of folks with the lies for so long really to advance policies aimed at shrinking the...

Roger stone, another big piece of this. again, you can do the thought experiment. if an aide to george bush or barack obama was indicted for all this terrible stuff and then basically went and did these really remarkably irresponsible attacks on the judge, and now tomorrow the judge will rule and, to put it in simple terms, he could get a warning. he could get an even more restricted gag order. he could get an ankle bracelet like the rapper rick ross, if you remember his ankle bracelet. he could...

On fox are no longer there. >> right. >> or if theyre still working there, you hardly ever see them. the whole entire network became the trump network because of donald trump. so why does he now feel like theyre in charge of him? i really cant follow the reasoning. >> max, do you agree with that? >> this would be a fascinating experiment. what it points to is the power that rupert murdoch potentially has, because we dont know what would happen. what if fox news actually turned on donald trump? t...

Far from certain because fox news has a very devoted base of their own. so if they turned against them, that could actually imperil his presidency. and clearly he thinks that fox news has leverage because he is very, very eager to propitiate fox news. and that would be fascinating, what would happen if murdoch were actually to turn on him, which i dont necessarily think is going to happen. but if it did, fascinating thought experiment. what would the fallout be? >> max boot, thank you kirsten po...

Countries. he was given the security clearance. those are the kind of questions, what compromise. what are the financial affairs. in what way are the policy decisions kind of affecting not just the bottom line of the united states but the bottom line of these various figures. it is intolerable that the people of the united states dont know. >> that brings us to congressman swalwell. the whole panel stays with me. congressman on the house intelligence committee. i dont know if your ears were burn...