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It is just one more data point about what was the reason that they were trying to hard to keep this russia meeting and this russia relationship so secret. but this is serious. its not only the sworn testimony of michael cohen but documentary evidence to support it. if thats true, its a grave threat to the trump presidency. >> you said grave and i heard the word impeachable. in august, when president trump was all but named as an unindicted coconspirator, when the southern district said the presi...

Lying to the congress, its a kind of threshold that has a psychological aspect that we have not perhaps encountered in terms of what it might do with the sensibility of republicans on the hill. the great question thus far is why havent republicans thus far except for self-interest and very little interest in the national what is really good for the country been more demanding of lets get to the bottom of donald trump and the russians. remember, all of the line, all of the presidents line, the mo...

Obligation to come out sooner than this report and at least present that portion of this finding. >> having worked directly for bob mueller and learned in part how to be a federal prosecutor from bob mueller, i would not presume to tell bob mueller how to do his job. it does seem like theres a certain urgency involved if the mueller investigation has strong evidence that michael cohen lied to congress, not about something minor, but about something like potential lies by the president, russian c...

Weve been covering an effort over this past week to block the trump administration from dropping sanctions against companies associated with a putin allied russian oligarch. deripaska has been sanctioned over russias interference in our election. when the effort to stop the lifting of those sanctions came up for a vote in the senate yesterday, 1 1 republicans brok ranks with the leadership and white house and voted with the democrats that the trump administrations plan to lift those sanctions sh...

We have been covering unexpectedly suspenseful effort over this past week to try to prevent the trump administration from dropping sanctions against companies associated with a putin allying russian oligarch named oleg deripaska. sanctioned over interference in our election. when the effort to stop the lifting of those sanctions came up for a vote in the senate yesterday, 11 republicans broke ranks with republican leadership and the trump white house and voted with the democrats that the trump a...

Cross that threshold indicated in the constitution committed high crimes and misdemeanors, i do sacry credible evidence. >> it absolutely does. so then you look at presidents with bill clinton who was impeached and richard nixon who was about to be impeached encouraged people to lie. so again you dont start planning anything on the basis of a news report. if mueller indicates that if the president committed serious crimes, we are going to have a tough time in congress. if there is real evidence ...

His son set up a meeting at trump tower with russians. there is circumstantial evidence being built carefully i think by mueller. >> if there is a world in which the president knew none of the things you just laid out, never knew about the meeting at trump tower, et cetera, legally, is there any threshold where you should have known? >> its hard to make out a criminal case on should have known. circumstantial evidence sometimes makes out a very strong case. i will say that in this case we have s...

Leader chuck schumer told rachel maddow hes optimistic. >> i know that there are a whole bunch of republicans who wanted to vote yes and mcconnell and some of his leadership put a lot of pressure on them to vote no. but now that i think theyve seen that 11 others have voted this way, yeah, i think we have a real shot. >> ultimately, only those 11 republicans broke ranks and sided with the democrats on this bill. not enough to reach the 60-vote threshold to advance the bill. with us to talk about...

Short of that 60 vote threshold to advance the measure to keep the sanctions in place. "washington post" columnist wrote, very disappointing to see mitt romney did not vote to maintain sanctions on a russian oligarch, so close to paul manafort. joining me now reporter for "the washington post," eugene scott live in washington, d.c. lets talk a little bit about the government shutdown and efforts to end. it. we have some democrats and republicans going for a bipartisan effort to bring to it an ...

In a heterogeneous bunch of republican senators who broke ranks with mitch mcconnell and sided with the democrats to stop the trump administration from lifting these deripaska-related sanctions. thats a big number of republican senators breaking ranks, especially after the trump administration lobbied the senate and the house really aggressively on this issue. well, today, this afternoon, despite those 11 republican senators breaking ranks and being willing to side with the democrats on this, it...