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Solve another problem for the justice department. it seemed to have a problem with truth and the abuses of power. in the case against the oligarch, behind the scenes, weissmanns team knew that there was about to be some very ugly discoveries for the justice department. wrongdoing, admission of evidence that was miscast, and other things like that. and extraordinarily, he tries to solve both problems with a single outcome, which is trying to get a deal with the oligarch and it did not work. >> se...

>> there is no current pilot program? it is dead in the water. >> they follow this complaint with government investigators, special counsel said it supports these whistleblowers and says there is likelihood of wrongdoing based on a variety of factors homeland security said, quote, there are no plans to change this. dhs using forward on a dna testing pilot to verify familial relationships. the other response is other agencies are picking up the slack when it comes to dna. >> far from collecting d...

Where it describes one of trumps lawyers calling one of michael flynns lawyers and in this my mouthed way and hemming and hawing and suggesting flynn might get a pardon. i spoke with a doj official upwards of two years about the relationship trump had with lawyers and had person based on their knowledge of his history and having a sense early on, said look, trump view lawyers like theyre tools and sledgehammers that he can use to get his way. >> some lawyers are tools. >> eleanor, you wanted to ...

Solve another problem for the justice department. it seemed to have a problem with truth and the abuses of power. in the case against the oligarchs, behind the scenes, weissmanns team knew that there was about to be some very ugly discoveries for the justice department. wrongdoing. admission of evidence that was miscast. and other things like that. and extraordinarily, he tries to solve both problems with a single outcome, which is trying to get a deal with the oligarch and it did not work. >> s...

Degree. whatever happened there to establish that relationship, black trusted him enough that he kept him on and off for more than a decade and he also added him as a director, which is well known at this point, to leons own family foundation board around the year 2000. >> many of these relationships stayed with jeffrey epstein through his prison sentence and after. glen dubin is one of them. could it possibly be these people didnt actually know the extent of what he had done? if he went to jail...

>> wiped this area inside their cheek six times, close the cover, drop it into this envelope, it would be sealed, placed into a box and that would be shipped to the fbi that night for processing. >> we are talking 15, 30, 45 seconds? >> yes, maam. >> last spring then-homeland security secretary kiersten nielsen was peppered with questions about the programs status. >> we are working on the pilot right now. >> the pilot is occurring right now? >> we are in the planning stages. >> there is no curr...

Going to conduct hearings when hes already stated the report is his testimony and has nothing further to add? >> i would echo that sentiment and have the same question myself. i question why he ever gave a press conference in the first place. we now his office was shutting down by the fact the report had been turned in. you had attorney general barr and rod rosenstein make the decision not to move forward on obstruction of justice. he also contradicted himself by originally saying he would have ...

That he was cleared of wrongdoing and that would embolden him to do worse or to have his successors do the same. i think we have to be very careful. i think right now were still gathering evidence. and i really want to hear what he has to say because hes a special figure. >> we put the numbers up earlier, we can show them again though maybe, the question of impeachment, asking americans -- this is an abc "the washington post" poll, do you think proceedings should begin now or not, 37% yes, 59% n...

The president -- im trying to remember the words but saying that if we had found out no wrongdoing we would have said so. and i think that the task for the democrats is to try to get him -- get direct -- direct mueller to be as expansive as possible on that very subject. thats really the whole game. >> lets remember that the north carolina rally last week was meant to be a mueller rebuttal. it was scheduled the day of muellers original testimony. of course it got postponed a week and he doesnt h...

Most ard ant voices. others plan to go full throttle with the claims of a corrupt investigation. reportedly planning to ask whether mueller knew there was, quote, no coordination and no conspiracy by the president. reporting that the evidence found insafishent evidence of any wrongdoing. and instead give credence to the claim of an unlawful presidency. jerry nadler had this to say on fox news yesterday. >> the report presents substantial evidence that the president is guilty of high crimes and m...