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This discussion. does the white house have any standing to tell the house democrats, take your concerns elsewhere? were not going to participate? >> well, they can say that. i think the question really is, what can the house then do in reaction? first of all, it looks bad, this is a president who as weve been just discussing, how can you say im innocent ive done nothing wrong, this is a witch hunt but im not going to cooperate in anyway. hes been doing that the same way he wouldnt sit down with ...

That before, but i think thats a really intriguing clue as to why trump has not released his tax returns. you know, everybody thinks, you know, there are all sorts of reasons, but if hes been getting refunds from the government, multi-million, if not billionaire, that wouldnt sit well with voters. and that could well explain one of the biggest mysteries of the trump presidency. >> although i think those are the people who most often get the biggest tax refunds. so, look, could there be things th...

>> which i want to bring up. first, the trump foundation. you know, he has this testimony, amazing testimony, about this $60,000 painting that trump wants, a portrait of himself, and he has a fake bidder bid on it at a hampton auction, he uses the foundation to reimburse the fake bidder and he takes it for himself. clear-cut abuse of a tax-exempt charity. the other one is his tax returns. nobodys really talking about that, but there was a nugget in cohens testimony about how cohen -- about how t...

Influencing elections simply by trying to extend the mueller clock all the way to november if trump himself is not on the ballot. but its a combined strategy. i think ultimately, this is a game where donald trump knows that the end result here is a political process, and he cannot run the clock out on the court of public opinion because it does not have deadlines. >> professor dershowitz, at what point would muellers team subpoena the president to appear before a grand jury if the negotiations f...

Mind. >> doing a fantastic job. >> this independent streak could be part of who this mysterious first lady actually is. >> im very strong. people, they dont really know me. people think and talk about me like, oh, melania, oh, poor melania. dont feel sorry for me. i can handle everything. >> jake, our colleague don lemon talking to lebron james, he bonn said he wouldnt sit down across from the president of the united states and the first lady is open to sitting down and visiting the school if th...

Cross and paul butler. all right, table. there are two ways to look at the sort of series of pardons that donald trump has done. so lets go through them. you have dsouza, joe arpaio, his defense is contempt of court, christian saucier. you have scooter libby, of course, who outed valerie plame and jack johnson. so, theyre all over the place a little bit. ill start with you on this, tiffany. theres the thematic reason for it. dsouza is famous for trolling. he trolled t parkland survivors saying t...

See me, im beautiful or something like that. so obviously he has a very big personality. this is -- it is news worthy and it is just absurdity. it is news worthy that he wouldnt sit for the grand jury because of the significance of the investigation, how seriously the investigators are taking it. it is significant that he wa walk -- walked away from the room and after a meeting with the special counsel investigators and said they have something on donald trump. im spoken to other folks who have ...

He doesnt fall into a perjury trap which it seems what mueller and his team want to set for him. >> it might upset other witnesses. the fbi rushes to interview flynn. >> not only that, if youre the president, i wouldnt sit down with mueller unless i had to. theyve gone after flynn on this issue. papadopoulos as well. i would be very careful and take my advice on what i say to robert mueller and his team. if youre the president, this is got to be lot of concern about the back story here. james cl...

Government has back to the states, that might be true, eventually. but theyre just -- you dont really know, until you go through the process, that they are saying that they are going to do what they call regular order. have committee hearings. go through the legislative text with a fine-toothed comb, as one should when youre talking about completely changing the health care system in america. well see if that happens. but they all are connected. as i toss back to you, the idea of working with de...

Appreciated the buzz saw coming. whatever you think of nancy pelosi, thats a group that should be liking her. is it just because of the overtures to donald trump or whats going on? >> thats a really interesting question. really quick, to some degree, maybe they want more than what is currently being discussed. theres another interesting point. i was at dinner last night with some of the leaders and we talked about the daca deal between chuck schumer and nancy pelosi and the fact that were willin...