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The president im sure is going to use this to his advantage. republicans will use it to their advantage to say that democrats are ahead of their skis and doing the wrong thing. >> i think its gotten a lot of attention, understandably so, but it may be an outlier. the president wants people to focus on this one case but this is a lawmaker who stood to lose his own primary on the democratic side. that was clearly part of his thinking here. i think perhaps more representative is what you played in ...

Been the end of it. incredibly unusual and aberrant for the attorney general then to come out and contradict that statement. whats the point of having an inspector general if thats whats going to happen? >> and theres the process of process in that. you wrote in an op-ed here, harry, barr allegedly wanted to avoid public confusion. but he caused more. that was your "washington post" op-ed. and lets go over to tom on this. because if youre -- youre an everyday american, like myself, and you look ...

Did -- did the attorney general to horowitz. horowitz didnt change his mind. that really, really shouldve been the end of it. incredibly unusual and aberrant for the attorney general then to come out and contradict that statement. whats the point of having an inspector general if thats whats going to happen? and theres the process of process. in that, you wrote in an op-ed here, harry, barr allegedly wanted to avoid public confusion. but he caused more. that was your "washington post" op-ed. and...

Healthy discussion. >> what youre saying is should the fisa court have known this about carter page. >> absolutely, yes, to make a full, informed decision on approving it, yes. >> so who dropped the ball on that? >> see, we need details. i hope we dont get finger-pointing at each other, but we need to know who knew what when, who disclosed was. i know the cia is very reticent to have their sources exposed, and understandably so. but this is the healthy discussion im hoping happens today, but i f...

Understandably so. well continue to dig into what exactly happened in those hours before that shooting with the reporting were getting here. blayne alexander for us from pensacola. thank you. that deadly violence at the hands of a visiting saudi national is raising plenty of questions about the relationship between the united states and saudi arabia. joining me right now, bloomberg opinion eder and columnist bobby ghosh. thank you for being here. your reaction to that startling new development...

And so i think she leads by listening and following. im not going to say women do that, but following her caucus. >> wait. what are you saying, gloria! >> and i think you hear that in the way she has risen to the gravity of the moment. >> i think, mark, shes saying, i dont need directions, i know where im going. >> she certainly does. whats interesting about nancy pelosi, to pick up on what gloria is saying, if you go back to day one, she was never pushing for impeachment. >> not at all. >> she ...

There was no discussion of ukraine. fast forward a few months. go back a few months. august 2016 i was on the congressional allegation. to ukraine. i arrived a day or two after it was revealed that paul manafort had been working for the russian sympathetic leader in ukraine. and i have to tell you, ukrainians reacted viscerally to that. they could not believe that a republican presidential candidate would have a guy whos doing putins bidding. running his campaign. i bet the members think the ukr...

Of robert mueller or if you agree with the findings of inspector general horowitz, then, okay, fine, this is great, see, it proves our point. but if you disagree with them, then you get another bite at the apple and say theyre totally wrong and i disagree with them about that. so lets see what happens. but this is just really disappointing behavior on the part of the attorney general. >> well, ruth, lets talk about your book. "supreme ambition" and where impeachment feels a lot like kavanaugh 2....

Hearing. you know, it mattered in the nixon case that the president nixon was represented because the hearings were closed hearings so the president needed someone in the room who could also select witnesses. one of the things president trump has to consider is whether to accept the second deadline which is the end of next week and allow his lawyer or lawyers to request a set of witnesses who could provide information in his defense. i do hope the president says yes to that, because i think its ...

Possible. >> reporter: when she finished telling her story, cosbys lawyers went after her. >> the defense painted a picture, andrea, of you giving inconsistent statements to different police agencies, saying different things at different times. >> well, thats fair. and understandably so. going through that kind of traumatic situation is very difficult. and the one thing that ive remained consistent of is what he did to me that night. it will never go away. its stuck in my brain for the rest of m...