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Question that maybe to sort of self-examining for you. why isnt the media making a bigger deal out this? an affair with an adult porn star, i have other things to cover. >> i have an answer, not a very satisfying one, but news coverage is driven by news and the "wall street journal" had a great scoop today showing the money trail. but aside from that, whats left to feast on is the taudry part, the things sheetz saying in the interviews. there is a lot going on now. it does seem crazy, i get it, ...

Some of these interviews have had happened or have happened behind closed doors. the question of under oath or not doesnt really matter. what matters is that the president gives frank responses to whatevers questions mueller wants to ask and more importantly, i had to chuckle as your white house guest was saying how cooperative the white house has been with this investigation, boy, thats a different definition of cooperation than the one that i have. when youre out there threatening to fire your...

If you take bethany 65s word for it. shes not the most reliable narrator, she has her own motivations. but there really is no reason to doubt this would have happened given donald trump jr.s response to those e-mails. >> a written question submitted by one of the congressional committees which nbc news obtained. all accounts of that meeting, the way all parties make it sound is a very bad blind date where people were extremely excited to be there then it went bust. maybe that happened, maybe not...

He went to the meeting and he asked, please give me dirt on hillary clinton, give me dirt on whether or not there were illicit donations made to the clinton foundation. that is a really significant development because it indicates his state of mind, it indicates intent beyond a reasonable doubt. if you take bethany 65s word for it. shes not the most reliable narrator, she has her own motivations. but there really is no reason to doubt this would have happened given donald trump jr.s response to ...

The president cannot obstruct justice because hes the chief law enforcement officer under the constitutions article two and has every right to express his view of any case. in a moment our legal panel will weigh in. we have other breaking russia related stories in addition to this on paul manafort and striking behavior for someone out on bail. also an item already being used by the president as ammunition to attack the fbi and robert mueller. theres yet more breaking news on all of this, late re...

Happened in congressional testimony. man ewe rambling ewe is on capitol hill with more >> kay tee mcfarland was nominated to be the singapore ambassador. during the confirmation hearings before the senate foreign relations committee is she was asked about conversations she may have had michael flynn related to sergei kizlyak. ill read you exactly what was sent in a written question from senator cory booker. he said did you ever discuss any of general flynns contacts with russian ambassador serge...

New? >> a little bit. so sessions is trying very hard to defend the answer he gave in the confirmation answer, and i think we can give him the benefit of the doubt, it was a long confirmation hearing, and say that he did misunderstand the question and is giving it differently. today the question hes hearing is confronted with two comments he made at the confirmation hearing. he then got a follow-up question, a written question, where he gave the same answer. then later when it came out he had ta...

Russian government in the course of this campaign, what will you do? >> senator frank en, ien, im n aware of any of those activities. ive been called a surrogate a time or two in that campaign and i did not have communication was the russians. >> he said he didnt have communications with the russians. then when asked in a written question whether he had been in contact with anyone connected to any part of the russian government about the 2016 election, either before or after the election day, se...

Sessions said during his confirmation hearing back in january. >> if there is any evidence that anyone affiliated with the trump campaign communicated with the russian government in the course of this campaign, what will you do? >> senator franken, im not aware of any of those activities. i have been called a surrogate at a time or two in that campaign, and i did not have communications with the russians. >> so that was january. when asked in a written question whether he had by in contact with ...

Election. there has been a lot of smoke around the trump campaign and its possible ties, it does have some ties to russia, some of the people who were on part of the campaign. but the smoke doesnt necessarily mean fire, right? >> smoke doesnt necessarily mean fire. but it is very suspicious. lets not forget that michael flynn, the national security adviser, resigns within one month because he lies about the nature of his conversation with the russian ambassador, furthermore it was revealed that ...