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Xfi advanced security. if its connected, its protected. call, click, or visit a store today. . 34 past the hour. a live look at the white house. ken dilanian, you have new reporting in a piece entitled ag barr expands mysterious review into origin of russia investigation. tell us about it. >> yeah, thats right, mika. we started looking closely that the because mick mulvaney in his now famous news conference where he was discussion the quid pro quo he said one of the reasons they were withholdi...

And that is go in and ask the cia to reveal things they shouldnt reveal. >> thats right. you know, people forget that donald trump empowered william barr with his extraordinary authority to demand any classified document he wants in connection with this. and youre absolutely right, theres a lot of unease at the cia and disquiet about the notion of federal prosecutors going over and rooting in their files. not because they think they did anything wrong, but because these are sources and methods. ...

Criminal investigation or not. it is a criminal investigation, whats the allegation of wrongdoing? no one i talked to can answer that, guys. >> i tell you, yes, people are vouching for durham. but people were vouching for barr as well, a guy who i personally believe will be remembered as, perhaps, the most corrupt attorney general in the history of the united states of america. all these assurances mean nothing, especially when hes going around and not only going around the world apparently chas...

And republicans that it is somewhat difficult to see trump or the democrats moving the needle very much. people supportive of trump or they are critical of trump. so the real question i think is for democrats and how are they going -- republicans and how are they going to teal with this in congress. i think i them ma for them is they have been in tacitly endorsing these acts of wrongdoing since almost day one of the administration. so it becomes difficult for them to lay down the hammer and say ...

Time in office. clearly the optics were just too much in this case. >> i certainly agree with you. one interpretation of this decision is that it was such a clear and egregious violation of the emoluments clause that white house counsel told donald trump you have no other option but to change course. this does raise kind of a broader point, which is that a defining characteristic of the trump administration since day one is that it hasnt even tried to conceal the abuses of power and acts of wron...

The united states government. the fact that she took those programs overseas on electronic devices and potentially compromised that, that will be the biggest focus i have on this issue. maria: it just feels like theres never any accountability look at that meeting that you had in the white house last week where nancy pelosi stormed out. theres no focus whatsoever by your colleagues on the left of the true wrongdoing. when you look at the russia investigation, same thing. >> well i agree and goin...

Wrongdoing. if its not okay for a presidents family to be involved in a foreign business, why was it okay for your son when you were vice president? vice president biden? >> look, my son did nothing wrong, i did nothing wrong. my sons statement speaks for itself. he spoke about it today. howard: joining us to analyze the coverage in new york, bob sexton, and here in the washington, marla -- national political reporter for npr. what do you make of anderson cooper declaring in advice that biden an...

Court. thats another variable in this. >> thats another variable but its part of the same narrative in terms of wrongdoing thats been unleashed on the country by president trump. rudy giuliani, failed mayor, failed presidential candidate, failed lawyer on his way to being a convicted felon. >> do you really mean that? in all seriousness, do you think he has criminal exposure right now in. >> absolutely for the reasons you laid out that he was illegally lobbying on behalf of the turkish governmen...

The great state of new york. >> thank you for being here. >> great to be here. we have had some 55 hours of testimony so far in the impeachment inquiry. we the public, the media are only hearing a little bit of what is coming out of those depositions. based on what you know and what you are hearing, how solid is this case? >> the more we learn, the worse it becomes for president trump. at the end of the day we continue to see the evidence of wrong doing is hiding in plain sight. we have the july...

Staff. he added people. and he expanded the time frame to include the time after donald trump took office. the big question, jonathan, that all of my sources are racing, what is the predicate for this. what wrongdoing prompted this? no one has explained that. theyre not even saying whether this is a criminal investigation. but as we know, william barr and john durham have gone overseas and interviewed foreign governments. a western intelligence official told me the kind of questions theyre askin...