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House, i think, kind of clamped down on him and got him to back off that, and now they're claiming absolute immunity. absolute immunity is not something recognized by the law. no one has absolute immunity, especially if you're looking at potential crimes that were committed. i think even the ambivalence here looking to cover himself shows that people close to the president are starting to be very nervous about defending the president, i think because they realize the case is very strong. >> julian, thank you very much. we really appreciate it. >> brianna, thanks for having me. the roger ston...

With the reality of his business operations. this isn't the first time he has done this on these disclosures related to his scottish golf courses. he did it in 2017. i wrote about that last year. he did it in 2016. bloomberg news wrote about it then. there's always been this disparity for the last three and a half years with reporting to scottish authorities. >> but, tim, lying to you when you're writing about him in 2005, lying to forbes to get on their rich guy list, there is no legal penalty in that. is there anyone around trump when he, if he wants to lie, on one of these government forms ...

>> you're the man. well, i think the reason he is inflating it in the u.s. is the reason he's always inflated it in the u.s. he wants to appear wealthier than he is because he is very insecure about the fact that he's never been exactly the billionaire he's claimed to be and being among the top billionaires in the united states is very important to his ego even if it doesn't comport with the reality of his business operations. this isn't the first time he has done this on these disclosures related to his scottish golf courses. he did it in 2017. i wrote about that last year. he did it in 2016....

Between a far-left liberal progress passive candidate on the democratic side or president trump, president trump is going to get re-elected. >> joining me now is nbc news political reporter vaughn hillyard, he's in des moines, iowa, and the cofounder of strategies, rick tyler, and moveon.org korearine jean-pierr also an msnbc contributor. howard schultz is trying to live in that middle ground that bloomberg was considering back in 2016. bloomberg cam to the conclusion that that middle ground doesn't really exist. you can't really just buy your way into it. and he chose not to run and does thin...

Contributo contributor, a democratic activist with his money elsewhere from the beginning. >> it's not as if this data hasn't been shared with him already. we all have to assume that schultz has gotten this memo privately from the bloomberg folks and decided not to read it or decided to disregard it, because it's just not a new argument. >> or decided to test in the age of trump if things have changed since 2016. bloomberg looked at it in 2016, he looked at it before 2016, he was talking to arnold schwarzenegger for years. >> he could make it clearer, though, what his path forward is. history ...