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Exploring issues that affect leaders in the U. S. And around the globe. Exploring issues that affect leaders in the U. S. And around the globe. Or distorted what happened in the election campaign. But what is Donald Trumps core point that he wants to say even more than no collusion, no collusion, no collusion . It didnt change a vote. So this is a problem. So if they had stepped up their game in 2016 and the Obama Administration was asleep at the switch, maybe they did change some votes. Trump i...

Reason, trump will declare a victory. i think at that point he could really be unleashed. this thing has gone on too long, it is a witch hunti, im firing them witch hunt. on the other hand, if manafort is convicted, then suddenly its hard to say if the campaign chairman was convicted of serious crimes, that the whole thing a witch hunt and then manafort could flip after conviction if he doesnt like the idea of this real serious jail sentence. then youre really, with cohen flipping and manafort, ...

As they say or do they not like each other. i would like to offer a different view on whether donald trump is -- i think he was really embarrassed by this double screen. hes been saying he doesnt trust american intelligence officers, he doesnt trust the doj, he doesnt trust robert mueller, so for him it is absolutely a possibility that this kind of indictment would only take him closer into the arms of vladimir putin. >> what is at risk if he goes down and sits down with vladimir putin and there...

Someone he talks to fairly regularly is joining the legal team he confirmed this week. now, this latest edition comes after a slew of departures and false starts when it comes to the president and his lawyers but it also represents a change of strategy here. giuliani says hes joining the team in part to bring this mueller investigation to a more rapid close and hes going to start by asking the special counsel what they want in terms of documents and trying to provide them to them as soon as poss...

Why they have to wrap this up and interview him. whether he has something of substance, based on what we have seen, it looks unlikely. and i assume mr. mueller feels the same. but youd never know. >> right. and thats an interesting point, right? this is what donald trump calls a witch hunti. the fact robert mueller is asking all these people. the president is saying this is a witch hunt. if i ask for all communications with everybody else youll find something incriminating. >> you can understand...

Supporters of the president who say this is just an attempt to take down the president. is it a witch hunti like the president says? >> obstruction of justice is different than the underlying investigation. at this point it doesnt even matter what the russian investigation shows. its clear that the president committed the federal crime of trying to obstruct or even influence the investigation. im not trying to take down the president, i just want the rule of law to be followed. and theres been a...

In political history. sad. witch hunti has been a phrase te trump administration has used, the president has for a very long time. this gets very close to the family with the presidents son and son-in-law as a part of this meeting thats getting all this attention. chris. >> kelly odonnell, thanks. i want to bring in robert traynham, hes currently an msnbc analyst, debbie hines is a trial attorney and former baltimore prosecutor, phil and with me howard dean, former dnc chairman and msnbc contrib...