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Exposed based on testimony of others. rick gates, mietz and michael c. no wrongdoing leveled against him. a campaign official that he was in june of 2016 when he had the meeting at trump tower with a group of russian lawyers and officials. some people on this committee are saying that is the kind of conduct that going forward should require some more guard rails, laws that would say, if youre a part of a committee, of a campaign, youre working behind the scenes on a campaign and youre approached...

Congressman eric swalwell, a 2020 presidential candidate. good morning, congressman. >> good morning. thanks for having me back. >> be honest, on a scale of one to ten, ten being best, how successful do you feel john deans appearance was in terms of accomplishing your main goal of highlighting what you think president trumps wrongdoing is? >> it goes to 11. >> you think it was that effective and that successful yesterday? >> i do. and you know, it is said often that history doesnt repeat itself,...

Who may be getting advances from foreign contacts like the trump campaign did to report that. we saw more than a hundred contacts laid out in the mueller report and in some of the reporting around the mueller report between the trump campaign and russian officials that were never reported to the fbi. even if they dont get these witnesses immediately, the strategy by house leadership is to go ahead and still hold these hearings highlighting the wrongdoing. >> there are hearings under way about ob...

Are they changing strategy? >> they are not changing strategy? what theyre doing is finding a way to hold hearings at the same time that they come up with creative ways to compel witnesses, to compel testimony, and to get the documents that they need to hold those hearings. right now they dont have any of those things. hopefully this is a big breakthrough in terms of their getting this information in their hands and being able to review this within the committee. however, theyre very much lackin...

That it can be prosecuted when it is discovered even if the person who did it is the president of the united states at the time that you discover the wrongdoing. it has to be. >> based on your reporting, do you believe these hearings -- jill points out the importance of why so many people need to listen and learn. do you believe that democrats are sort of setting the table to an audience that already believes this? is anything happening in the coming days that will have republicans tuning in, mo...

But if the chairman jerry nadler is satisfied with it, i think its probably a good agreement. now, bear in mind that the trump administration strategy this whole time has been to dodge and delay and try to not turn over witnesses or turn over documents, so im glad that theyre finally starting to do that. >> what specific information are you hoping the justice department grants access to? >> well, the things related to obstruction of justice, because i think thats whats most relevant to congress ...

Mr. president. back to you in new york. steve: no kidding. it was quiet when he was over in europe. >> semi quiet. steve: doug mckelway, thank you so much. brian: some ways to go we know in the next two weeks boomerang will be in full effect. michael horowitz report. forensics what led to this whole mueller report. what led to the investigation of the president and see if there is any wrongdoing. a lot of people seem to be covering themselves right now. ainsley: a lot of people sick of talking a...

Lying, financial wrongdoing and that mueller didnt clear trump on obstruction. >> dagen: he didnt but if they got you know what downtown they would bring impeachment proceedings. if they think president trump obstructed justice, bring it but theyve got their finger in the air trying to figure out which way the wind is blowing and trying to change the american perception about president trump and its not happening because the economy is still in good shape. ill say this. i was watching john dean ...

Had 9, 12 indictments. >> none had anything to do with underlying investigation. >> thats not true, flynn -- how are you saying this? flynn had something to do with the underlying investigation. >> they didnt find indictments on the conspiracy with russia. >> they found indictments -- >> why is the standard exoneration on one side and simply finding evidence of wrongdoing on the other? >> youre asking career prosecutor to switch standard of justice and not to find whether to prosecute, exonerate...

What they are going to do is to choreograph some of these hearings not only pulling in people like john dean and expert witnesses, but also crafting actual legislation that addresses some of the wrongdoing that we saw outlined in the mueller report. like weve seen only 3% of americans have actually read the report. so democrats believe that if they can pull out those specific instances such as obstruction, such as the contacts with russia and craft legislation around it maybe they can keep a sus...